Globalization

January 30, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nWKaCZBjQ Visit www.wefirstbook.com Hi, I’m Simon Mainwaring. Thanks for your time and your support of my blog. Over the last two years we’ve been looking at a few really important questions. How does the economy recover? How does your company keep growing? How do we improve the lives of millions of people suffering around the […]

January 18, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

The need to scale positive social change is immediate and pressing. Too many men, women and children around the world are suffering, often needlessly, because they’re not getting the help they need. At the other end of the prosperity equation, donations to worthy causes suffer from the high costs of marketing, donor fatigue and successive …

January 6, 2011 by Simon Mainwaring

Nike is famous for taking a leadership position on the field and in the marketplace. But what it’s just done for the entire apparel industry is both surprising and enlightening. At the turn of the year Nike released their open-source Environmental Apparel Design Tool. Developed over 7 years, the $6 million technology, by their estimates, …

December 16, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

It is customary at this time of year to look back and reflect on the year that was. But this year is different. Not only was it the end of the first decade of the new Millennium, but it represents the full point at the end of a decade whose crie de coeur must be …

August 6, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

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, politically protected industry invented something that could not easily be repaired when it broke. We …