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Tag Archives: Economy
Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.: Using social media to realize his vision of economic equality
January 16, 2012
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I’m sharing the epilogue to We First in which I reference famous words from his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech that still ring true today. Economic equality was an important part of …
Posted in Capitalism, Causes, Community, Consumers, Economy, Future, Purpose, Values, We First
Tagged Economy, Future, MLK Jr., racial equality
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Top ten ways to get the best, not the most, from your employees
I’ve had the chance in the last year of visiting three exceptional places that are famous for their degree of creativity and marketplace dominance, and I wanted to share come common traits that seemed to factor into their success. The …
Posted in Brands, Community, Creativity, Economy, Facebook, Future, Leadership, Thought leadership, Values, We First
Tagged Brands, Community, Creativity, Economy, Facebook, Future, Values, We First
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Will social media tear the top down or lift the bottom up?
Over the last eighteen months we have seen a remarkable series of events that have been driven in part by social media. Protests during the Arab Spring revolutions in Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, as well as those that continue today in …
Posted in Brands, Capitalism, Causes, Community, Consumers, Economy, Future, Leadership, Optimism, Philanthropy, Purpose, Social media, Social Networking
Tagged Brands, Capitalism, Causes, Community, Consumers, Economy, Future, Social change, Social media, Values, We First
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Why America’s Triple A rating remains unchanged
The Standard & Poor’s credit rating downgrade of the U.S. currency has already begun to have its effects on stock markets at home and around the world and much is being written about what this means for the future of …
Posted in Brands, Capitalism, Causes, Community, Consumers, CSR, Economy, Future, Non-profits, Optimism, Social Entrepreneurship, Social media, Values
Tagged Capitalism, Community, Economy, Future
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Lessons from BP and bankers: The need for a more sustainable future
I woke up this morning and read this post by Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post. I think his opening points are spot on. He tells us that Wall Street and BP demonstrate the same problem. In both cases, a powerful, …
Posted in Brands, Capitalism, Consumers, Economy, Future, Globalization, Social media, Thought leadership
Tagged Brands, Consumers, Economy, Future
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Why Capitalism is Irrational: ‘First as Tragedy, Then as Farce’ by Slavoj Zizek
Is your brand on its best behavior? Ask BrandKarma
Craig Davis, Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Mojo and a fellow Aussie, just launched a wonderful site to help people distinguish between good (karma) brands and bad (karma) brands. It’s called BrandKarma and it’s the first brand-centric social media platform. …
Posted in Brands, Community, Social media
Tagged Brands, Community, Economy, Social media
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Who’s Sorry Now? CEO’s that do more harm than good
This week something extraordinary happened. Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor, apologized. Actually, he did far more than that. Here’s what he did: 1. He came clean. Akio admitted Toyota was shamefully unprepared for the global economic crisis and is …
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Tagged Akio Toyoda, Community, Economy, Social change, Toyota
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