Monthly Archives: June 2012
Huddling Together For Warmth
There’s something familiar about Nokia and Microsoft huddling together for warmth in their losing battle against Apple, Google, and Samsung in the smart phone wars. Both Nokia and Microsoft suffer from bad strategy and weak implementation, yet somehow they think …
Navigating the Future
An admiring biographer once claimed that proof of how far-sighted Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was could be found in the fact that none of his predictions had yet come true. An aptitude for seeing well into the future is essential …
When Will They Ever Learn?
How many tulip crazes, housing crashes, and flimsy internet stocks will it take before the inevitability of bubbles bursting occupies a more prominent place in human consciousness? A prime current example of a soon-to-be-burst bubble is college tuition. Year after …
Focusing on the Future
Reflecting on America’s lack of coherent national economic strategy since 9/11, Thomas Friedman astutely observed that we’ve been devoting our attention to competing with the losers from globalization (economically-backward terrorist regimes and organizations) rather than globalization’s winners (China, Brazil, and …
