Monthly Archives: December 2011
It’s been a long slide from greatness for US manufacturing. It’s been downhill since the 70s – a multi-decade slide. Lately there’s a lot of hype about a manufacturing renaissance in the US – re-shoring, on-shoring, right-shoring. But the celebration is misguided. A real, sustainable return to greatness will take decades, decades of single-minded focus, coordination, alignment and hard work – industry, government, and academia in it together for the long haul. Continue reading
For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. We lost Steve Jobs, stupid Internet legislation reared its ugly head yet again in the form of SOPA, Internet IPOs came back in a big way (but didn’t perform as well as most would have liked), and the world woke up to the implications of programmatic buying and Big Data, in a Very Big Way. As I look back on my predictions of twelve months ago, I think I did a pretty good job, but left plenty of room for improvement. Here’s a rundown of how I did, with some supporting citations, where appropriate: Prediction #1: We’ll see the rise of a … Continue reading
Would that Santa could bring us a few more Bill Strickland’s! Or the “1%” might take a page out of his book. But in life’s great art of individual uniqueness, there is only one of this special man. The entrepreneurial leadership he has demonstrated over many decades is one heck of a Solving-Big-Problems role model. Continue reading
I hope you all get tons of monitors. This is how I keep on top of everything going on on social networks. The Windows on my iMac are, from the left… Continue reading
My attention of late has been focused on how to be more action-oriented, and I realized I’ve been poorly equipped with tools (techniques, processes, frameworks, and technologies) for Getting Shit Done [GSD].
So I have been experimenting with different ways of holding myself accountable and moving towards more integrity in thought :: word :: action.
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The official 2011 social media timeline: highlighting historical moments, notable achievements and alarming statistics. Continue reading
