Business & Economics Editor's Pick Money & Finance Football Finance And Pandemic March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked In March 2020, the last of the European football leagues decided to stop operations indefinitely after a series of players tested positive for COVID-19. The last top-flight match played in front of a full crowd was the UEFA Champions League tie between Atlético Madrid and Liverpool, played at Anfield, Liverpool, on the 11 March 2020. […]
Politics The Nth Degree March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Animals used to roam the planet. Now, they sit yoked and broken, until they’re ready to harvest for parts. We used to catch seasonal rainfall. Now, we empty the world’s aquifers to eat strawberries in February. We used to pray for ten fingers and toes. We increasingly purchase engineered outcomes. We used to dress for […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Steve Jobs’s Definition of “Smart” Will Change Your Idea of Intelligence October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked I know plenty of highly intelligent people. Some of them can recite classic literature. Others will surprise you with their knowledge of current events. Many of them offer amazing advice. And yet, most of them still struggle to make a dent in the world. Why is that? Why do they fail to get their careers […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews Christina Ioannidis, CEO of Aquitude International July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Christina Can Help You Redefine Your Customer Engagement Strategies What’s your story?I am a Greek Venezuelan with a very International mindset and education. Whilst my career ambition was to become the CEO of a large business, the 2000 dotcom bustled me to double redundancy. I was completely lost, yet, somehow, I decided I wanted to […]
Callum Connects Entrepreneurship Interviews David Daoud, Managing Director at eLearn2grow July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked David Delivers Digital Learning to Start-ups and Enterprises Of All Sizes What’s your story?I feel like a citizen of the world, having been born in Lebanon, growing up in France and now living in Hong Kong since 2014. I started my career 20 years ago as a kebab cooker, warehouseman and tie seller before joining […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology Influence Marketing: A Phony Industry? September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked There’s never been a better time for a debate about influencer marketing: Google says searches for the term “influencer” are through the roof; there are supposed influencers with millions of followers unable to sell 36 t-shirts , while others sell even their bath water. All this would suggest to brands that advertising as they knew is dead, and that from […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Startups Strategy Technology Looking East: Lessons from Chinese Tech March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Recently, Silicon Valley has been abuzz with an article penned by legendary Sequoia Capital VC Mike Moritz. Titled “Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s Lead,” Moritz details how a recent trip to China highlighted the differences between Mainland Chinese tech culture and Silicon Valley — and ultimately why the former contains elements for success that […]
Business & Economics Editor's Pick Entrepreneurship Money & Finance Startups Strategy Technology The Entrepreneurial Impact of Open Data November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked The impact of open data on entrepreneurship has been touted for years. Almost five years ago, McKinsey estimated that the economic value of such data in the United States is worth as much as $3 trillion annually. Similarly, Omidyar Network has estimated that open data could increase the value of G20 countries by $13 trillion […]
Startups Strategy Top Social Media Mistakes that Companies Make January 3, 2018January 3, 2018 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Studies show that most people are using social media nowadays and 44% of small to medium-sized business decision makers use social media but are businesses using it the right way to build their online presence strategically? In many cases, they’re not. Here are the top 10 mistakes that companies make when using social media. 1. Not […]
Startups Strategy What is Design Thinking, Really? November 20, 2017November 20, 2017 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked If you’re a businessperson or someone interested in understanding how to facilitate innovation, you’ve probably heard of “design thinking” by now. Coined by IDEO’s David Kelley, the term refers to a set of principles, from mindset to process, that can be applied to solve complex problems. I’ve seen articles lately ranging from those that highlight […]
The Politics Of Intellectual Property Introduction: This Article argues that we need a politics, or perhaps a political economy, of intellectual property. Using the controversy over copyright on the Net as a case-study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, it offers a couple of modest proposals about what such a politics might look like — what theoretical […] Written by James Boyle March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Football Finance And Pandemic In March 2020, the last of the European football leagues decided to stop operations indefinitely after a series of players tested positive for COVID-19. The last top-flight match played in front of a full crowd was the UEFA Champions League tie between Atlético Madrid and Liverpool, played at Anfield, Liverpool, on the 11 March 2020. […] Written by Research Blog University of Edinburgh March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Conservation In The Time Of Pandemic As I write, we don’t yet know the full socioeconomic impact of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on people and places around the world. But we know from conversations we’ve had with colleagues and partners globally that cultural heritage places and the many people who rely on them for their livelihoods have been, and continue to […] Written by Getty's Blog March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Platforms Are The Future Of Intelligence As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work and […] Written by Gideon Rosenblatt March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How Progress Made Us Weak Until the majority of humans fell to the transformative impacts of the Machine Age some hundred or so years ago, when power generation, electricity, the automobile, factories, and telecommunications all conspired to dramatically alter how we lived and interacted, a common set of governing principles underpinned life on Earth for more than ten thousand years. […] Written by Anthony Fieldman March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How China Is Transforming Its Economy Through Learning I highly recommend reading the McKinsey Global Institute’s new report, “Reskilling China: Transforming The World’s Largest Workforce Into Lifelong Learners”, which focuses on the country’s biggest employment challenge, re-training its workforce and the adoption of practices such as lifelong learning to address the growing digital transformation of its productive fabric. How to transform the country […] Written by Enrique Dans February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Why You’re Not Seeing Success With Influencer Marketing With the new year around the corner, now is a good time to re-evaluate your past marketing strategies and gear up for the year ahead. For some businesses, influencer marketing has simply not seemed to live up to its lofty promises of genuine engagement, credibility, and transparency. Some have claimed that it has been failing […] Written by Michael Tan January 14, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
