Permit herein, one more addition to the pantheon of paeans from personal experience on this day, the 100th Birthday of one of America’s great presidents. There are a lot of people – a number I count as friends – with the enviable first-hand experience of working directly for President Reagan. Then there is a multitude who…
Serious events eventually lead to serious consequences. It’s still too early to tell how things will shake out in Egypt. But one collateral impact has been a reminder of what’s at stake in energy markets. Not because of Egypt’s de minimis oil production, but because of geopolitics. There are already renewed calls for doing something about America’s…
Job creation continues to be the seminal issue of our time. The scale of the requirement is daunting. We need an economy that can not only keep employed the 155 million working today, but can find jobs for another 15 million over the next decade. How both can happen is obvious if we just look…
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was abuzz with wireless broadband – the unfettered Internet, released from the bondage of desktop computing. Most of the news focus and appetite for devices and bandwidth is driven by social networking and video-everywhere. Hot, hot, hot. Maybe the next Big Thing. Big enough to inspire Qualcomm’s [NASDAQ: QCOM]…
A century ago cars were manufactured using essentially five materials: wood, rubber, steel, glass, and brass. Today a car is built from 39 different nonfuel minerals. For a hybrid, that mineral mélange includes some particularly critical elements, especially dysprosium.
For business wonks, Tom Peters — of the iconic 1982 best-selling book In Search of Excellence and his derivative franchise — is amongst the most respected observers of the great American business enterprise. So it is of some moment when Peters recently proclaimed that “kindness is free” and furthermore, is central to business profitability. This Christmas Carol-esq conclusion emerges…
