Archive for June, 2010

Why Raising Wages Won’t Work as a Long Term Solution For Foxconn. Or Apple

Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:06 9 Comments

A few weeks back I was asked to speak at the BMW Europe Asian Young Leaders Forum on “How do cities organize communal life and maintain social harmony? What can business contribute to these processes?”  It was the week after EXPO, and everyone was in Harmonious society mode, but in developing what I thought were [...]

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If You Don’t LOVE being in China. Go Home.

Thursday, June 10, 2010 3:22 3 Comments

While taking a break from live the other day, I caught up on a few Youtube, BigThink, and TED clips. Sites that provided high value, entertaining, brain food.. and when I came across the clip of Gary Vaynerchuk’s presentation at the 2008 Web 2.0 EXPO, I knew I had an All Roads post. It is [...]

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Different Motives Require Different Business Models

Thursday, June 3, 2010 9:23 No Comments

Quality vs. Price. One of the seemingly core fundamental decision of business leaders who are bringing products and services to market.  Any market. It is a decision, a trade off, that will guide corporate strategies reaching into the core of the company and dictate brand, spend, investment, HR, communications, etc at nearly every level of [...]

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