Don Tapscott

What nature teaches us about building better human organizations

Aug 13, 2010 | Writing

Here’s a book that’s just out in hardcover (and Kindle) and deserves reading: The Smart Swarm: How Understanding Flocks, Schools, and Colonies Can Make Us Better at Communicating, Decision Making, and Getting Things Done. The author is Peter Miller, a senior editor at...

We need world-wide corporate reporting standards

Aug 12, 2010 | Writing

It was many years ago that I first heard the optimistic adage, “you do well by doing good.”  Back then, advocates of so-called Corporate Social Responsibility were trying to make a business case for good corporate behavior.  Few were persuaded. The main reason for...

MacroWikinomics in running for Business Book of the Year Award

Aug 10, 2010 | Writing

The Financial Times has announced that MacroWikinomics is one of sixteen books on the longlist of competitors for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. More than 200 books were submitted for the competition.  MacroWikinomics won...

Negroponte offers good advice to India’s $35 computer project

Aug 4, 2010 | Writing

Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chair of the One Laptop per Child Foundation, just posted an open letter to the Indian government, offering to share his hard-earned expertise and help the government achieve its recently announced goal to distribute a $35 tablet...

Privacy worries continue to grow

Jul 20, 2010 | Writing

Two interesting items re privacy.  A poll released last week by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion revealed that fully half of Americans who have a profile on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are worried about their privacy.  And the...
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