If you are in one of those dips – and who doesn’t from time to time – I’d like to recommend you some “power-reading”. It’s better than zapping in front of your television, or better than (re)tweeting 140 characters. It’s definitely better than booze or drugs. And it has some element of “depth” that you [...]
Archive for the ‘Corporate Values’ Category
The holy fire
Posted in Corporate Values, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Personal Values on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Web Wide World
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Semantic Web, Singularity, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The web is transforming society”
“Web Squared: how the web transforms the world”
“Web Wide World” transforming “World Wide Web”
Several very interesting publications and postings over the last couple of weeks, all confirming that something very profound is happening with our core systems, our core values, and how the collective intelligence of the web [...]
No Belgian University in WW Top-100
Posted in Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Personal Values, Think Tank, Transhumanism on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Academic Ranking of World Universities just got published.
Not a single Belgian University in the Top-100. Leuven comes in at 102 and Ghent at 106.
I found this resource via Eric Drexler’s blog, which was focusing on Asian Universities.
The “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (ARWU) is widely regarded as the best objective, international measure of [...]
The Future by Chris Anderson
Posted in Cloud, Corporate Values, Leading by Being, Think Tank, WebTrends on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Big Think Interview with Chris Anderson
CHRIS ANDERSON
Editor-in-Chief, Wired
A conversation with the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine and author of The Long Tail and Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
October 29, 2009 | In Business & Economics, Science & Tech, Media & Internet
You can see the 36 min video here.
The full transcript is also available. [...]
Failure is NOT an option (you don’t know until you try)
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, i was attending the Web 2.0 Summit. Actually, it is the Web² Summit (read as Web Squared).
If you want to stay up-to-date a little bit, a must read is the Web Squared Whitepaper. You can read it online here or download it here.
One morning, i was taking the elevator to [...]
Google and Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Google Wave, Innotribe, Leading by Being, Think Tank on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Umair Haque has written an Open Letter to Google titled “Can Google take on Wall Street – and Win ?”
It starts with: “Dear Google,…”
and goes on with:
Every day, you handle more searches than the NYSE handles trades — and that difference, I’m guessing, is about to hit an order of magnitude more. Every day, [...]
New Money and Payments
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Mobile, Money, WebTrends on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The last couple of days there have been several blogs reporting on new types of money and payments.
First there was the great interview of Steve Boyd with Jamais Cascio.
Some highlights of the highlights:
You have to get a critical mass of people to agree in a new fantasy.
Groups with shared purposes could in fact [...]
Re-Inventing Wall Street: Finance 2.0
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Money, Think Tank on October 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Umair Hague posts something on his blog, i always take some extra quality time to read.
Umair Haque is Director of the Havas Media Lab, a new kind of strategic advisor that helps investors, entrepreneurs, and firms experiment with, craft, and drive radical management, business model, and strategic innovation.
Always sharp, and always in [...]
Peter Thiel and the Singularity
Posted in Banks, Corporate Values, Generation-M, Leading by Being, Singularity, Think Tank on October 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I am just back from the Singularity Summit that took place in NY during the week-end of 3-4 Oct 2009.
I will make a separate report on the rest of the event, but i was completely blown away by the 30 min speech by Peter Thiel and following panel discussion with Venture Capitalists.
Peter Thiel [...]
