Don Tapscott

ClimateSpark – a new venture capital contest

Nov 3, 2010 | Writing

Mark Twain famously said about the weather that “Everyone’s talking about it but no one’s doing anything about it.” Now that’s changing. Thanks to Web 2.0, the entire world is beginning to collaborate-for the first time ever-around a...

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...

Capitalist crisis – what should be done?

Apr 25, 2010 | Writing

Last week’s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs were a wake-up call that trouble still lies ahead for Wall Street. With the global economy remaining stalled, the deepening jobs crisis, a looming commercial real-estate meltdown and other storm warnings of...