thought leader

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
Published 27 Aug 2018

The culture was full of instruction, if you were open to it, about how to become more hearable as a thinker—how to move toward the thought-leader end of the critic/thought-leader continuum. This becomes apparent when you consider some of Cuddy’s contemporaries who have also gone the thought-leader way. You start to see a few basic dance steps in common—what we may call the thought-leader three-step. “Focus on the victim, not the perpetrator” is the first of these steps. The phrase itself comes from Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist who has surged to the highest altitudes of thought leadership in recent years—“one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders,” as his own book jacket declares.

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The ascendant type is the thought leader, who is more congenial to the plutocrats who sponsor so much intellectual production today. Thought leaders tend, Drezner says, to “know one big thing and believe that their important idea will change the world”; they are not skeptics but “true believers”; they are optimists, telling uplifting stories; they reason inductively from their own experiences more than deductively from authority. They go easy on the powerful. Susan Sontag, William F. Buckley Jr., and Gore Vidal were public intellectuals; Thomas L. Friedman, Niall Ferguson, and Parag Khanna are thought leaders. Public intellectuals argue with each other in the pages of books and magazines; thought leaders give TED talks that leave little space for criticism or rebuttal, and emphasize hopeful solutions over systemic change.

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Public intellectuals argue with each other in the pages of books and magazines; thought leaders give TED talks that leave little space for criticism or rebuttal, and emphasize hopeful solutions over systemic change. Public intellectuals pose a genuine threat to winners; thought leaders promote the winners’ values, talking up “disruption, self-empowerment, and entrepreneurial ability.” Three factors explain the decline of the public intellectual and the rise of the thought leader, according to Drezner. One is political polarization: As American politics has grown more tribal, people have become more interested in hearing confirmation of their views, by whoever will offer it, than in being challenged by interesting, intellectually meandering thinkers.

SUPERHUBS: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World
by Sandra Navidi
Published 24 Jan 2017

The study concludes that the benefits for connected firms were temporary and a result of the crisis atmosphere: “Once policy discretion declines and the speed with which important decisions have to be taken slows down, these connections become less important.”23 Thought Leaders—Superhubs of Valuable Information Thought leaders are their own individual think tanks. They provide analyses on various aspects of finance and the economy and, as a result, influence the way we view the world. What exactly do they do, how great is their influence, and why have they become so popular? I had the privilege of working with such a thought leader during the height of the financial crisis: Nouriel Roubini, a noted economics professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business and chairman of the consultancy firm that bears his name.

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Governments, institutions, and corporations take their views into account when making decisions. Meanwhile, the thought leaders’ market value increases, enabling them to bill top dollars for their services. Their centrality affords them superhub status. For U.S. thought leaders, the rate for a one-hour speech usually starts at $75,000 in addition to first-class tickets and five-star hotel accommodations. An overseas speech can exceed $150,000 depending on the remoteness of the location. Thought leaders typically challenge conventional thinking. Economic, financial, and political developments in the last few years have invalidated many existing paradigms.

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Roubini agrees that possessing emotional intelligence is helpful but argues that the power of his ideas is what established him as a thought leader. His business consultancy has likely benefited from both his intellectual and social skills. Consulting is a competitive field as research is generally considered a cost and not a profit center, and the market is flooded with gratuitous high-quality analyses. There are no barriers to entry as it is not a licensed profession, and anyone can call him- or herself a consultant. Therefore, having top academic credentials, policy experience, and access to high-caliber networks provide thought leaders with distinct competitive advantages that propel them into the league of superhubs.

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein
Published 13 Nov 2014

The prejudice, which is held consistently by our environmental thought leaders and inconsistently by the culture at large is the idea that nonimpact on nature is the standard of value. It is better known by a single color: Green. UNDERSTANDING THE ANTI–FOSSIL FUEL MOVEMENT In this book, I have quoted extensively from certain environmental thought leaders—Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Amory Lovins, John Holdren—precisely because they are thought leaders: They have had tremendous influence throughout the culture. We’ve seen that these thought leaders not only come to certain deadly conclusions and policies, but also keep using the same faulty method of thinking: they exaggerate the negatives of fossil fuels and ignore or greatly understate the positives.

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They claim to care about abundant resources, but are indifferent to the fact that the fossil fuel industry is itself producing new resources and helping every other industry produce new resources—and that restricting fossil fuel use would bring us that much closer to the resource poverty that has been mankind’s condition for all but a recent sliver of history. Thought leaders are usually extremely bright men and women, and all of these thought leaders are bright. At the same time, all of them have been confronted, in one way or another, with the data I have presented in this book. Yet they still say fossil fuels are catastrophic and seem to have absolutely zero fear of the nearly infinite risk of not using fossil fuels at this stage of history. Why? It goes back to the issue of standard of value. The environmental thought leaders’ opposition to fossil fuels is not a mistaken attempt at pursuing human life as their standard of value.

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But to the extent that we hold human nonimpact as our standard of value, we are going against what our survival requires. And our culture has accepted this toxic standard in large doses under the friendly label “Green.” OUR PREJUDICED CULTURE In the last section, about the thought leaders, I observed that on every single issue pertaining to fossil fuels they would greatly exaggerate the negatives of fossil fuels and ignore or greatly understate the positives. But let’s focus now on our culture. How different are we from the thought leaders who influence our culture? I think our motives are much better, but we have adopted many of their same bad thinking methods, and we partially share their nonimpact standard of value.

Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction
by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes
Published 1 Oct 2010

The difficulty with FSD was that no one was really certain exactly what the condition was, and some people even questioned whether it existed at all. So part of Vivus’s role, Darby Stephens explained, was to sit down with the experts, the ‘thought leaders’ in the field, and work with them directly on developing this new dysfunction in order to be clearer about what it was. During her frank interview, she revealed that in the ‘process of defining the disease, we’ve been able to get thought leaders involved in female sexual dysfunction, and really work closely with them to develop this disease entity, so that it makes sense’. Her comments were made at a time when drugs for male sexual dysfunction had already been approved, and billions of dollars’ worth were set to sell every year.

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Discussions at that meeting would help inform a whole new scientific agenda, ultimately sparking new research projects, surveys, questionnaires and educational programs—the very building blocks of the science of this new dysfunction. Most immediately it would lead to more meetings of sex researchers, many of which would be heavily sponsored by industry. The following year, a group of ‘thought leaders’, including Ray Rosen, would meet in Boston in a closed session to revise the definitions of female sexual dysfunction, or FSD. The vast majority of the nineteen ‘thought leaders’ would disclose that they had some sort of relationship with industry.31 As in many areas of medicine, the drug companies weren’t writing the definitions, but the panels of experts who did included many with financial ties to those companies.

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Before long, it wasn’t just Pfizer in the race: numerous drug companies were looking to develop their own experimental medicines, including the Californian outfit Vivus, which had high hopes its genital cream could sexually arouse millions of women. The industry was looking to make links with ‘thought leaders’ to help guide its drug development and raise awareness of FSD. Like health professionals across all areas of medicine, Ray Rosen embraced the chance to collaborate with industry— as would many others. The sort of the collaboration he had in mind was spelled out very clearly in an email he sent to one of his colleagues around this time, his old friend Leonore Tiefer.

The Jobs to Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs
by Jim Kalbach
Published 6 Apr 2020

Support agents could use JTBD to solve customer issues in a consistent way. There are few parts of an organization that wouldn’t benefit from JTBD thinking. This book is ultimately for change makers and transformation agents inside of companies looking to shift focus toward a customer-centric perspective. It’s suited for managers and thought leaders seeking internal alignment around solving customer problems and addressing unmet needs. More specifically, this book is for people who have limited resources and would like to use JTBD in a lightweight manner. You don’t have to hire expensive consultants or execute lengthy, costly projects to benefit from jobs thinking.

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It wasn’t until Clayton Christensen popularized the term in The Innovator’s Solution, the follow-up to his landmark work, The Innovator’s Dilemma, that the concept became widespread. Although modern references of JTBD point back to Christensen, definitions of JTBD vary in practice. Table 1.1 at the end of this chapter presents how a “job” is defined by thought leaders in the field. Comparing them side-by-side shows variation in approach, but also reveals commonalities. Overall, JTBD is about understanding the goals that people want to accomplish, and achieving those goals amounts to progress in their lives. Jobs are also the motivators and drivers of behavior: they predict why people behave the way they do.

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TABLE 2.3 EXAMPLE NEED STATEMENT FORMULATIONS DIRECTION MEASURE OBJECT CLARIFIER Increase the likelihood of getting permission from a boss to attend Maximize the ability to remember relevant content from conference presentations Minimize the time it takes to summarize conference insights for sharing with colleagues Maximize the likelihood of networking with thought leaders in the field A strength of the JTBD approach is that it separates goals from needs. Consider the job as the target that someone wants to get done, and the need as the measure of success or the expected outcome. For instance, the statement “speed up the next big promotion at work” mixes goals and needs.

What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption Is Changing the Way We Live
by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
Published 2 Jan 2010

It would have not been possible to write a book ten thousand miles apart without this miraculous technology! Finally, we are grateful to the thought leaders, the entrepreneurs, and the community pioneers that we have had the privilege to write about. They are each acknowledged on pages 231–233. We regard this book as just the beginning of a phenomenon pointing toward a better collective future. We hope it sparks conversation, debate, and a swarm of positive endeavors. From Rachel Botsman For me, this is a book about the possibilities and powerful reconnections that can help reshape our future for the better. I am indebted to the brilliant thought leaders whose ideas have inspired me to think in this way.

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Not only was the likelihood of a match low, but the time and effort required were likely to be too high to make it worthwhile. Your best solution was to hire a van to haul it off to the dump, while someone else out there who would have been delighted with your desk went out and bought one. We have grown attuned to leaping across indissoluble social boundaries by living in an age of what thought leader Peter Kaminsky refers to as “ridiculously easy group forming.”4 “It’s so easy,” he explains, to self-assemble groups, packs, pods, tribes, bands, mobs, crowds, or whatever you want to call them that “it happens without even thinking about it.” Whether it is a “reply all” function in an e-mail; an open community notice board such as craigslist; a global auction system such as eBay; a “swaptrading” marketplace such as SwapTree; or an online resistry network such as Freecycle, there is now a boundless marketplace for connecting pre-owned or secondary goods from where they are not needed to somewhere or someone where they are.

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Even if the reused goods have to be shipped or picked up by car, this transfer creates less impact than the materials and transportation required in the production of every new product or its eventual disposal into a landfill. William McDonough, coauthor of Cradle to Cradle, calculated that a product itself contains only 5 percent of the raw materials used to produce it. And environmental thought leader Paul Hawken estimates that for every 100 pounds of product made, 3,200 pounds of waste are produced, a 32-to-1 ratio.5 If you passed an old sofa to someone else, not only would you be keeping approximately 100 pounds out of a landfill, but you’d also be saving the 3,200 pounds of waste that would have gone into making a new sofa.

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
by Jim Whitehurst
Published 1 Jun 2015

The challenge for most companies, though, is that while everyone knows who the thermostats are, it’s very rare that anyone takes real advantage of his or her potential influence. The challenge and the opportunity for companies and organizations, therefore, are to find ways to not just openly recognize the thought leaders, but also to leverage the thermostats to drive innovation and decision making forward. When it’s time to make big decisions or get people on board with new initiatives, you need to find ways to get the thermostats involved in the action as early as possible. That’s how you can help ensure your best chances at success.

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In other words, projects and organizations work best in the context of a meritocracy. How, then, does this principle manifest itself at Red Hat? Who decides who leads and who follows? To answer these questions, we’ve taken a page from the open source manual and allowed a meritocracy to grow. Building a Culture of Thought Leaders While most company hierarchies dictate who gets heard, the most influential voices at Red Hat aren’t necessarily tied to someone’s title or even his or her longevity within the company. Instead, the most respected individuals tend to be those who have a track record of being consistent and selfless.

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When you add all that up, it’s easy to recognize why it’s a powerful force that works from the bottom up and reinforces everything the open organization is built on—connection, trust, transparency, collaboration, and meritocracy. The Leader’s Role: Empower Your Rock Stars to Follow Their Passions Freeing up the thought leaders and rock stars can jumpstart innovation, something every company and business is trying to bottle. Companies try many things to drive innovation. One example is Google’s approach. Ever since Google became more of a household name starting around 2004, business leaders and thinkers have been digging to find out the company’s secret sauce in an effort to replicate its spectacular success.

Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation
by Sebastien Page
Published 4 Nov 2020

It represents an authoritative survey of a broad range of recent research on related topics of asset allocation, risk measurement, and return forecasting, with an emphasis on its practical application in asset management. It is thoughtful, well written, and surprisingly entertaining. The author is a thought leader in this area, and his book is a very important contribution. —Stephen Brown Professor Emeritus of Finance, Department of Banking and Finance, NYU Stern School of Business; Executive Editor Financial Analysts Journal Sébastien Page has masterfully woven threads from academia and practice, combining insights from rigorous research and high-bandwidth anecdotes, to provide an amazingly entertaining and informative tapestry of state of the art asset-allocation techniques.

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Finally, Sébastien and our asset allocation team are grounded in a durable, rigorous process. If you fail to establish a process, you will inevitably succumb to fear or greed. Sébastien’s process ensures our asset allocation team balances judgment with data and analysis in a disciplined, respectable way. Sébastien is a thought leader on asset allocation. He is also an avid (and quite fast) runner, likes the occasional glass of wine, and tells a good story. As to this last point, I think you’ll agree as you learn more about him, his story, and multi-asset investing in the pages to come. Rob Sharps Head of Investments & Group CIO, T.

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There is validity to this critique in that portfolio optimization models often give a false sense of precision. And ultimately, there’s no such thing as financial alchemy—a calculator can’t turn bad inputs into the right answer (portfolio optimization models are, broadly speaking, sophisticated calculators). The presenter was Dr. Bernd Scherer, a highly regarded thought leader who has straddled the worlds of academia and investment practice for many years. Dr. Scherer was jet-lagged. He had just flown in from overseas, and he was not in the mood for a philosophical discussion on the GIGO critique. In one short sentence, he gave the most remarkable rebuttal of the critique I had ever heard.

How I Invest My Money: Finance Experts Reveal How They Save, Spend, and Invest
by Brian Portnoy and Joshua Brown
Published 17 Nov 2020

Murray, Zócalo Public Square, November 30, 2011. 3 B. Pisani, CNBC, March 15, 2019. Christine Benz Christine Benz is Director of Personal Finance for Morningstar and senior columnist for Morningstar.com. She also co-hosts a podcast, The Long View, which features in-depth interviews with thought leaders in investing and personal finance. In 2020, Barron’s named her to its inaugural list of the 100 Most Influential Women in Finance. Crain’s Chicago Business named her a Notable Woman in Finance in 2019. Benz is author of 30-Minute Money Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Finances; co-author of Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success, a national bestseller; and author of the book’s second edition.

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Benz is author of 30-Minute Money Solutions: A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Finances; co-author of Morningstar Guide to Mutual Funds: 5-Star Strategies for Success, a national bestseller; and author of the book’s second edition. She is a board member of the John C. Bogle Center for Financial Literacy. Benz is also a member of The Alpha Group, a group of thought leaders from the wealth management industry. She works with underprivileged women to improve their understanding of personal finance concepts. I’ll never be passionate about investments. That’s not a comfortable admission, given that I’ve spent my career in a job where investments are central, and I work amid people who are deeply, truly, genuinely into investments.

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I guess I can sum up my investing history with: failure pays the best interest. Dasarte Yarnway Dasarte Yarnway is the Founder & Managing Director of Berknell Financial Group, an innovative independent wealth management firm focused on helping millennials and seasoned investors design their best lives. Dasarte was named as a Financial Thought Leader and Guru by Nerd Wallet and Financial Planning Magazine. He offers advice and insight through his weekly podcast, The Young Money Podcast, his three books—Dating Benji (2016), Young Money (2018), Pay Me In Equity (2019)—and his weekly blog. Money, and how we invest it, is just an extension of who we are.

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5
by Taylor Pearson
Published 27 Jun 2015

I believe that the opportunity in technology (mainly that the internet has brought) is that it has distributed power to the individuals in a way no one ever imagined was possible, and once people realize that and see how to seize it, we can realize the entrepreneurial economy. I think the book can help push that forward. I want to create freedom and opportunity for myself to invest more in my writing. I want to shape a generational conversation around entrepreneurship and be respected as a thought leader. I want to launch a product and better understand running a product as opposed to a consulting business. The How—How do I get there? (This is where I’m bridging the gap and starting to get into what the details that really need to get taken care of are.)What dangers do you have now that need to be eliminated?

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I believe that the opportunity in technology (mainly that the internet has brought) is that it has distributed power to the individuals in a way no one ever imagined was possible, and once people realize that and see how to seize it, we can realize the entrepreneurial economy. I think the book can help push that forward. I want to create freedom and opportunity for myself to invest more in my writing. I want to shape a generational conversation around entrepreneurship and be respected as a thought leader. I want to launch a product and better understand running a product as opposed to a consulting business. How (copied from question 6 and converted into phrases that start action verbs):Launch new opt-inIntroduction Toolkit Review and update draft of book based on exclusive early reader feedback Execute book marketingReach Out To People in Network with Book Marketing Experience to finalize marketing plan Aggressively schedule guest posts and podcast interview Actively Prioritize “Done” over “Good” and Distribution over Product Result/KPIs (copied from question 4 and something I look at daily):Books Sold/Product Revenue Email Subscribers April Big Initiatives Now that you’ve got the quarter roughly planned out, take the major quarterly goals and break them down into smaller action steps for the next month.

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I believe that the opportunity in technology (mainly that the internet has brought) is that it has distributed power to the individuals in a way no one ever imagined was possible, and once people realize that and see how to seize it, we can realize the entrepreneurial economy. I think the book can help push that forward. I want to create freedom and opportunity for myself to invest more in my writing. I want to shape a generational conversation around entrepreneurship and be respected as a thought leader. I want to launch a product and better understand running a product as opposed to a consulting business. How (What actions would make everything else easier or unnecessary? What actions need to get done first?):Publish and Promote two Blog Posts. Get pre-launch group into a Facebook group and set-up a plan to consistently add value to group.

Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
by Brittany Kaiser
Published 21 Oct 2019

With special recognition to Caitlin Long, Representative Tyler Lindholm, Senator Ogden-Driskill, Rob Jennings, Steven Lupien, and the rest of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force, the Wyoming Blockchain Coalition, and the forward-thinking legislators that have voted to pass all thirteen of these new laws that protect your citizens and residents. I am proud to call this beautiful place my new home! The U.S. Congress and its top thought leaders, for pushing forward with the regulation of big tech and the protection of the digital assets of the citizens and residents of the United States. With special thanks to Senator Mark Warner, Senator Ed Markey, and Senator Elizabeth Warren. You are a guiding light for others to see how important this is to the future of our country. Matt McKibbin, for being an incredible friend, partner, and thought leader. Your love and support have kept me sane and helped me become more open-minded, effective, and thoughtful.

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“So, what do you want to do?” In my early grassroots work, I had been surrounded by others who looked like me and thought the way I did—young, progressive activists on a shoestring budget. I first encountered people unlike me when I began working in human rights. In that arena, I met members of Parliament, top thought leaders, and successful businesspeople across the globe. Some were wealthy, but all had power. I was face-to-face with those on “the other side,” and I was always ambivalent about how I felt about them and what it meant to engage with them. I remember the moment I realized I had to find some way to marry my grassroots beliefs with an efficacy in the wider world.

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Our appointment was at eight o’clock the next morning. I’d never been to Trump Tower, so Alexander instructed me to meet him at the front entrance. I’d hardly slept the night before. Alexander’s revelation had unnerved me. I had also learned that the money behind Trump TV was the Mercers’, and that Steve Bannon was the project’s impresario, its thought leader and champion. During the so-called campaign, the Trump organization would be gathering data that would feed directly into an enterprise that would serve as a megaphone for Steve and Bob and Bekah’s political agenda. Getting the contract would be Alexander’s greatest coup. At the same time, CA would do no harm to the Cruz campaign.

The Compound Effect
by Darren Hardy
Published 1 Jan 2010

We think Darren knows a lot about achieving success, and even more important, he wants people to achieve it for the right reasons!” —Richard and Linda Eyre, authors of the New York Times No. 1 best-selling Teaching Your Children Values “Daren Hardy’s The Compound Effect is a culmination of success principles that is relevant to anyone who needs it! As a thought leader, he is making a significant contribution to our industry. A wonderful book!” —Stedman Graham, author, speaker, entrepreneur “From time to time, you get the opportunity to make the leap from where you now are to where you’ve always wanted to be. This book is that opportunity. And now is your time.

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He’s used himself as a guinea pig, testing thousands of different ideas, resources, and tools, and through his failings and his triumphs, he’s figured out which ideas and strategies have merit, and which ones are just plain BS. For sixteen years, I have crossed paths with Darren, who as a leader in the personal-development industry, has worked closely with hundreds of top writers, speakers, and thought leaders. He has trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, advised many large companies, and personally mentored dozens of top CEOs and high-performance achievers, extracting from them what really matters and really works, and what doesn’t. In his role as publisher of SUCCESS magazine, Darren sits at the center of the personal development industry.

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My personal experience has proven that, no matter what you learn or what strategy or tactic you employ, success comes as the result of the operating system of the Compound Effect. Secondly, for the past sixteen years I have been a leader in the personal-development industry. I’ve worked with respected thought leaders, speakers and authors. As a speaker and consultant, I’ve trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs. I’ve mentored business leaders, corporate executives and countless high-achievers. From thousands of case studies I have extracted what works—and what doesn’t. Thirdly, as publisher of SUCCESS magazine, I sift through thousands of article submissions and books, help choose the experts we feature in the magazine, and review all of their material.

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni
Published 22 Feb 2022

“We are a bank”: “Virtual Banker,” Forbes, June 15, 1998, https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1998/0615/6112127a.html?sh=3fa9fe86432b. “The tradeoff is”: Author interview with Ed Ho, August 8, 2019. “What can be very frustrating”: Elon Musk presentation to Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, October 8, 2003, https://spacenews.com/video-elon-musks-2003-stanford-university-entrepreneurial-thought-leaders-lecture/. “We shouldn’t be afraid”: Author interview with Chris Payne, September 13, 2019. “When approached with”: Author interview with early X.com employee. Commentary on background. “You have capital requirements”: Author interview with Chris Payne, September 13, 2019.

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And then if the first theory is true, then he would have been in Anguilla.” “It is hard to understate”: Peter Thiel commentary at Stanford eCorner Entrepreneurial Thought Leader session, “Beating Competitors—and the Conventional Wisdom,” January 21, 2004. “He said, ‘We’ve looked at’ ”: Author interview with Mark Richardson, September 6, 2019. “an excruciating”: Peter Thiel commentary at Stanford eCorner Entrepreneurial Thought Leader session, “Selling Employees, Selling Investors, and Selling Customers,” January 21, 2004. “You just didn’t do”… “so stood out”: Author interview with John Malloy, July 25, 2018.

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“[His boss Paul Tuckfield]”… “smart people”: Author interview with Santosh Janardhan, June 15, 2021. “We had to recruit”: “A Fireside Chat with David Sacks ’98,” University of Chicago Law School, May 16, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KX920RJTp0. “It was a challenge”: Peter Thiel commentary at Stanford eCorner Entrepreneurial Thought Leader session, “Selling Employees, Selling Investors, and Selling Customers,” January 21, 2004. “We can do it”: Author interview with Vince Sollito, April 25, 2019. “If you had a pulse”: Author interview with Santosh Janardhan, June 15, 2021. “I did have a lot”… “from then on”: Author interview with Tom Pytel, December 4, 2020.

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
by Sharon Beder
Published 30 Sep 2006

These businessmen became the ‘missionaries’ for free enterprise, going to meetings such as the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the Rotary, Exchange and parent–teacher associations, women’s groups and church groups to spread the word. In the process they also increased their own influence in the community.35 NAM also targeted what it termed ‘thought leaders’ who were influential in shaping community opinion and encouraged local business people to do the same. These ‘thought leaders’ included educators, clergy, professionals, local officials and women’s leaders. It produced publications aimed at particular groups, such as teachers or women’s club leaders. Each publication was distributed to tens of thousands of people.

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Each publication was distributed to tens of thousands of people. Information packages, with speeches, sample news releases and advice on public speaking, were distributed to club directors. NAM held town meetings to which hundreds of clergy, educators, youth leaders and other ‘thought leaders’ came to be re-energized with the ‘traditional concepts of American liberty’.36 In 1949 the US Chamber of Commerce launched programmes to provide training and resources to local chambers, and in 1954 it introduced Economic Discussion Groups with similar goals to NAM’s Industry Leaders Conferences. Some 1500 groups of businessmen met weekly for 18 weeks to discuss materials supplied by the chamber.37 More moderate business organizations joined NAM and the Chamber of Commerce in their campaign.

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As part of this strategy they provided facilities to local communities and sponsored sports and other community activities.40 Individual companies encouraged employees at all levels to become involved in community organizations of all types and in some companies, such as General Electric, ‘leadership of community organizations was seen as a prerequisite for professional advancement’. In this way, not only would the company have a voice in many community forums, but their personnel would become friendly with community ‘thought leaders’ and win some as supporters of business. Of particular importance was membership of policy-making boards such as school boards, where business interests could be protected and promoted.41 Individual companies also advertised the free market message. For example, Warner & Swasey (manufacturer of machine tools) advertised in Newsweek, Business Week and United States News in January 1947 that ‘If you want a larger piece, bake a bigger pie’: The workmen already get by far the largest slice – 61% of all American corporations’ production.

Curation Nation
by Rosenbaum, Steven
Published 27 Jan 2011

“I think brands have a great chance to be a thought leader, should they choose that opportunity.” In fact, having just bought his first fancy-pants car—a shiny new black Camaro SS—he suggests that he’s a prime target for marketers to engage him with curated content. “I’d love to read all kinds of curated information about Camaros and especially by other owners, and by people who make accessories for the car,” Brogan says. “Think about it. I’m fresh meat for buying accessories and aftermarket parts.” So what about the brand that says, “Nah, I don’t need to be the thought leader in my space”? Can it afford to sit this one out?

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The contemporary marketplace of infinite choices and instant access to resources has bred a generation of educated, skeptical, and resourceful consumers.” The idea is that brands, both old and new, need to stop ignoring the emergence of consumer power and instead embrace it and accept it. They must channel it, and in turn change how they think about customers. Humans, formerly known as either consumers or couch potatoes, are now creators and thought leaders, passive no more. “Finding and cultivating consumer trust in this economy of abundance means businesses need to understand, embrace, and harness the shift to become a curator brand—a brand that engenders such a level of trust and advocacy that it rises to the level of a peer,” Addis says. So, with the water now boiling and the ad agency frog still able to hop, are agency creatives and ad wisemen finally taking Garfield’s message to heart?

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That is now considered a bit of what we call ‘rot,’—or redundant, outdated or trivial content—because, again, you’re expected to reflect your activities as an organization on the Web, particularly on your Web presence.” And so, if the future of content requires a strategy, the question is, whose rules apply? There’s no consensus among thought leaders. Erin Scime, of HUGE design, starts from her background in library sciences. “I obviously come from free content,” she says. “Free access to content coming from libraries. But I know that there is the argument the press have about the stealing all of the articles from the New York Times. Their situation is that they gave away their content for free initially.

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest
Published 17 Oct 2014

DIY Drones blueprints were open sourced and available from day one, which was fine, but it turned out that the members really wanted DIY Drone Kits. So Anderson provided them. (The same DIY kit demand is occurring in the DIY biotech community). Smart move. “Unlike digital marketing, where ROI is sustained almost as soon as spending happens, communities are a long-term investment that is significantly more strategic,” says social business thought leader Dion Hinchcliffe. “Additionally, communities with CxO participation are far more likely to be best-in-class.” Create a platform to automate peer-to-peer engagement. GitHub, for example, has its members rate and review other members’ code. Airbnb hosts and users fill out evaluation forms; taxi disrupters Uber, Lyft and Sidecar encourage clients and drivers to rate one another; and the news platform Reddit invites users to vote on stories.

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Advised by industry icons Jeff Jarvis and Nicco Mele (who describes the Guardian’s model in his recent book, The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath), the Guardian has been audacious in its efforts to reinvent journalism. Here are some of the paper’s initiatives: In 2007, the Guardian offered a free blogging platform for thought leaders and created online forums and discussion groups [Community and Crowd]. Developers offered an open API to the paper’s website so they could leverage content on the site [Algorithms]. Investigative reporting for the millions of WikiLeaks cables fully crowdsourced [Community & Crowd]. The Guardian has institutionalized the crowdsourcing of investigative reporting and has successfully used that approach on several occasions, including after obtaining public documents from Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor of Alaska.

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CMO – Chief Marketing Officer Marketing roles have seen considerable disruption over the past decade thanks to the global phenomenon of mobile and social media. Over the next few years, that disruption will take on a number of new and different forms. Todd Defren, CEO of Shift Communications, a public relations firm based in San Francisco, and a thought leader in the PR space, has described a bifurcation in his industry where agencies are either becoming creative visual storytellers working on logos, games and branding or they are becoming analytics firms helping to manage their clients’ sales funnels. Key Opportunity Implications and Actions Product personalization Complete personalization of products and services based upon individual customers (right size, taste, language, behavioral data, contextual data, sensor data, transactional data and, possibly, DNA or neuroprofile).

Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries
by Peter Sims
Published 18 Apr 2011

Johansson brings to life research from Amy Edmondson and Teresa Amabile, among others. Lafley, A. G., and Ram Charam. The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation. New York: Crown, 1988. This book, written by former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, and Ram Charam, a consultant and thought leader, provides a comprehensive overview of Lafley’s innovation philosophy and initiatives while CEO of P&G. This book is very useful for managers and executives in terms of the philosophy and set of frameworks it lays out. McGrath, Rita Gunther, and Ian C. MacMillan. Discovery-Driven Growth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School, 2009.

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cntn_id=100660. Stanford University President and Google Director John Hennessy relates the connection between the Digital Library Project algorithm and Google’s core algorithm in a February 19, 2009 lecture entitled, “Innovation as the Crux of Entrepreneurship,” as part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Series, which can be found at: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2111. Google AdWords business model evolution derived from Inside Larry and Sergey’s Brain by Richard L. Brandt, Portfolio (2009), 96–100. Amazon: Fifteen discussions with current or former Amazon employees and industry analysts.

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Sarasvathy uses the Starbucks case as an example of how it’s often impossible to predict the future based on current or past information, in Starbucks’ case, the growth of the U.S. coffee market. Abductive and deductive thinking: American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, a logic theorist, originally developed the distinctions between deduction, abduction, and induction. Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Business, and a design thinking and business thought leader, does a very good job of explaining the differences between these modes of thought in The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage, Harvard Business School Press, 2009. See Introduction and chapter 1. Right brain, left brain analogies: Although these analogies have become a popular way to delineate different types of thinking, neuroscientists and brain science practitioners are quick to point out that the creative functions of the brain occur throughout the brain, particularly in the frontal lobes.

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
by Xiaowei Wang
Published 12 Oct 2020

Investors and venture capitalists sit at the very front, their neatly pressed clothing and stylish haircuts alluding to wealthy ease. Thin, fit thought leaders in T-shirts are behind them, along with some of the guest speakers at the conference—business development execs from Ant Financial and Alibaba, Bayer Crop Science and academics. They have undergone schooling at top universities such as Tsinghua and Peking University, or have degrees from places abroad like Australia, England, and the United States. Behind the thought leaders and guests are one or two engineers who work at XAG and, of course, the press. Two young women from CCTV Channel 7, the national military and agricultural channel, sit looking despondently bored, trying to stay awake.

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It includes an abundance of meat and seafood, prepared in a myriad of ways, from braised beef and fried chicken to coarse chunks of sushi, crudely cut. The buffet lunch requires a strategy for how much you can possibly eat while getting your money’s worth. Meat and seafood rank at the top of getting the best value, fruit and vegetables at the bottom. The thought leaders and venture capitalists (VCs) at the conference are unfazed by the display of plenty, having access to luxuries at any time. I see a few of them at a corner table, sipping tea, picking at the edges of a bowl of rice, frenetically talking about business yields and the next quarter. Anne and I are wedged into a corner of the lobby.

Advertisers at Work
by Tracy Tuten
Published 28 May 2012

Now it is split for the most part with maybe a little heavier focus on the clients. Tuten: Are you enjoying having more client focus than you did in your role in business development? Has the work at Mullen been positive so far? Cavallo: Oh yes. Absolutely. Mullen really has a sweet spot with thought-leader brands. By thought-leader brands I mean brands that tend to be outspent, brands that tend to not be the market share leader in that category. Thought-leader brands must challenge the product category and do business differently. These are brands that have to think their way out of a problem because they don’t have the luxury of throwing money at it. Market share leaders tend to have the lion’s share of money and customers.

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Sometimes, determining which agencies should be considered depends on a recommendation by a third-party consultant. 7QR code is short for Quick Response code, a two-dimensional bar code used to house data that can be read with a reader using a smartphone or tablet. CHAPTER 2 Kristen Cavallo Chief Strategy Officer Mullen * * * As chief strategy officer, Kristen Cavallo leads planning, analytics and business development for Mullen (www.mullen.com), an agency built to work with ambitious thought leaders like JetBlue, Google, NOOK by Barnes & Noble, Zappos, iRobot, and LivingSocial. In 2011, Mullen was named an Advertising Age A-List agency, as well as a Fast Company Most Innovative Company. A strategic storyteller, Cavallo spent 15 years planning strategy for Volkswagen, NASCAR, Coca-Cola, Hanes, Kohler, Charles Schwab, and Miller Brewing.

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But when you look back, they will make sense to you. And what’s even better, you’ll have fun with your career. That’s the best way to describe what’s next for me. I’m open to the opportunities and I plan on enjoying every moment. * * * 1TED is a non-profit organization that supports the spread of ideas through presentations by thought leaders. Learn more at www.ted.com. 2TED, “Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders,” www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few_women_leaders.html, December 2010. 3TED, “Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat,” www.ted.com/talks/madeleine_albright_on_being_a_woman_and_a_diplomat.html, February 2011. 4The Volkswagen “Milky Way” spot aired in 1999 and was thought to be Volkswagen’s best advertising until its 2011 spot, “The Force.”

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race
by Tim Fernholz
Published 20 Mar 2018

tell Congress in 2003: “The Future of Human Space Flight,” hearing before Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, 108th Cong., October 16, 2003 (statement by Mike Griffin). “Russian kitchen appliances”: Elon Musk, remarks at Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, October 8, 2003. “shuts the thing down”: Vance, Elon Musk, 109 year after SpaceX’s inception: Musk, remarks at Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. “enormous nature preserve”: Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (New York: Little, Brown, 2014), 153. “lottery winning for me”: Jeff Bezos, remarks at Satellite 2017 conference, March 8, 2017. 6.

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“dumbest thing I’d ever seen”: Rebecca Wright, “Interview with Michael Griffin,” NASA Oral History Project, September 10, 2007. 94 percent propellant by mass: Don Pettit, “The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation,” NASA, May 1, 2012, accessed August 22, 2017, https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html. “more progress since Apollo”: Elon Musk, remarks at Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, October 8, 2003. “we did new stuff”: Rebecca Hackler, “Interview with Hans Koenigsmann,” NASA Oral History Project, January 15, 2003. “made of magic”: Musk, remarks at Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders. “doesn’t feel good”: Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 132. “the cost of a part”: Rebecca Hackler, “Interview with Mike Horkachuck,” NASA Oral History Project, November 6, 2012.

The Caryatids
by Bruce Sterling
Published 24 Feb 2009

Feininger’s enthusiasm for his toys reminded her of John. She had Feininger tagged by now: he was what they called an Acquis “thought leader.” As a postgovernmental organization, the Acquis was peppered all over with radical, crazy extremists, but pompous, netcentric blowhards like this guy were the organization’s meat and bread. Nothing ever made pious, politically correct Acquis geeks happier than some dully public “frank exchange of views.” Radmila had met so many of them, at so many tiresome, life-draining political events, that she could literally smell Acquis thought leaders. Dr. Feininger smelled of cologne. “What city is your own home base, Dr.

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John—there must be Acquis strategists chuckling over that tactic, behind a network screen someplace. “Dr. Feininger, I’m only a pop star. While you are a moralist. A thought leader. You’re a global techno-social philosopher.” Feininger laughed. “If it’s any help, we go through vogues just like you do.” “I know about the Acquis. We Americans have a lot of Acquis people. In Boston, San Francisco, Seattle … Still, they can’t compare to the truly global Acquis thought leaders. The American Acquis don’t think as creatively as you do.” “I didn’t expect to hear this from you,” Feininger allowed. “This might be significant.”

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar
Published 19 Oct 2017

Miller Career Development Professor at MIT and assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT Cryptoassets is a must-read for all financial services executives and investors who want to understand the fundamentals and future directions of this burgeoning new asset class. Delivered by two of the foremost authorities in the nascent, multibillion-dollar space, this is the most extensive guide on cryptoassets currently available. —SANDRA RO, former head of digitization at CME Group As renowned industry thought leaders, it’s no surprise that Chris and Jack have delivered what is likely the most thoughtful and in-depth framework for evaluating cryptoassets. Within this book, they’ve rolled up their sleeves to provide helpful historical context and a valuation framework that readers will find intellectually stimulating and illuminating for understanding this rapidly emerging world of cryptoassets.

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Many times, an investor and even a financial advisor will depend on analysts to crunch these numbers to provide insights into relevant assets. In the traditional capital markets, an entire industry is based on this process, known as sell-side research. Currently, there is no such thing as sell-side research for cryptoassets, and this will require innovative investors to scour through the details on their own or rely on recognized thought leaders in the space. We’ll do our best to arm investors with the resources to do this analysis so they aren’t scared away from the effort. As it pertains to evaluating cryptoassets, the process of conducting fundamental analysis is different from stocks because cryptoassets are not companies. The assets may have been created by a company or group of individuals, and an understanding of that company or those individuals is vital, but the cryptoassets themselves should be valued more as commodities, with markets priced by the balance of supply and demand.

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WHERE TO START: THE WHITE PAPER Since cryptoassets are supported by open-source code, with transparent and accessible communities, there is typically an abundance of information available on an asset. Any cryptoasset worth its mustard has an origination white paper. A white paper is a document that’s often used in business to outline a proposal, typically written by a thought leader or someone knowledgeable on a topic. As it relates to cryptoassets, a white paper is the stake in the ground, outlining the problem the asset addresses, where the asset stands in the competitive landscape, and what the technical details are. Satoshi outlined Bitcoin in his white paper, and since then most creators of cryptoassets have followed the same process.

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by Cathy O'Neil
Published 15 Mar 2022

These were some of the most privileged players in the industries of words—journalism, books, theater, and television. Like Stephens, they had enviable platforms. And like him they claimed they were launching their campaign in defense of the broader public. Their own interests, though, were front and center. They were thought leaders who could publish broadly and promote their brands on TV shows, podcasts, and radio interviews. The voices rising against them, exposing their foibles or prejudices, were becoming a huge inconvenience. They had to be dealt with. Take J. K. Rowling, one of the signers. A year earlier she had gotten into an ugly row over gender, specifically her quibbles about accepting trans women as women.

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Researchers compared the language used and sentiments expressed by incels to a random selection of communications in other chat rooms and discovered that incel postings were about three times more likely to feature “toxic, highly toxic, insulting, profane or sexually explicit” content—and, not surprisingly, to be severely lacking in joy. To sustain and defend its lonely bastion, the community looks to high priests. These are thought leaders whose words bolster their grievances. One shining star in their universe is Jordan Peterson. The Canadian psychologist commands a massive following for his speeches, books, and YouTube videos, by advocating, with an academic air, against political correctness and in defense of the primacy of men.

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It is the purest expression of their mastery. And to drown rice in soy sauce is a desecration and an insult to the chef. *3 You might notice that this is the only chapter that doesn’t point, at least primarily, to a profit motive, at least beyond the plastic surgeons, the hikidashiya, and thought leaders such as Jordan Peterson. People who are essentially removed from society represent less of a commercial opportunity than those who are willing to spend anything to fit in. PART III HEALTHY SHAME Chapter 8 THE COMMON GOOD Giddy with excitement, a small crowd streamed into a Target store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for an act of civil disobedience.

Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
by Jenny Blake
Published 14 Jul 2016

Write a One-Year Vision Statement Draw upon your values and the vision exercises you have completed so far to write a cohesive one-year vision statement, written as if it is already happening, that will guide your Pivot strategy and brainstorming. Part one: Imagine that it is one year from today and you have achieved wild success. Describe in the present tense what you are doing, how you are feeling, and what you are proud of. Be as detailed and creative as you can. In 2012, my big, hairy, scary dream was to be a thought leader—an author and speaker—like Daniel Pink and Malcolm Gladwell. I wrote this one-year vision statement at the time: I am contributing innovative ideas and frameworks to society by bringing disparate fields together in a unique way. I am earning a healthy living through speaking, writing, and coaching.

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This inner circle will become your best advocates, supporters, connectors, and someday, perhaps, customers and clients. Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, suggests aiming for “1,000 True Fans,” or people who will purchase “anything and everything you produce.” Building a community and becoming a thought leader should not be about a selfish aim for fame. As Dorie Clark, author of Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, wrote, “It’s about solving real problems and making a difference in a way that creates value for yourself and others. It’s a willingness to be brave, open up, and share yourself.

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It’s a willingness to risk having your ideas shot down, because you genuinely believe they can help others.” Not everyone has to become an entrepreneur, blogger, or “personal brand.” Nowadays, with social media, many people feel that they must “live their lives at the same time they brand the shit out of it,” as my friend Stacy Sims puts it. Branding, and becoming a thought leader in some area of expertise, is not going to be every impacter’s passion, nor does it have to be. But becoming an expert in your desired field—not just technically the best, but recognized and publicly known for it by generously sharing that expertise with others—will become your most powerful generator of new opportunities.

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You
by Sangeet Paul Choudary , Marshall W. van Alstyne and Geoffrey G. Parker
Published 27 Mar 2016

However, there are other forms of value, and therefore other ways in which consumers “pay” producers in the world of platforms. Video viewers on YouTube or followers on Twitter pay the producer with attention, which adds value to the producer in a variety of ways. (If the producer is a political pundit or business leader, for example, he gains value in the form of growing influence as a thought leader; if she is a singer, actor, or athlete, she gains value in the form of a growing fan base.) Community members on sites like TripAdvisor, Dribbble, and 500px pay by enhancing the reputation of producers whose work they like. Thus, attention, fame, influence, reputation, and other intangible forms of value can play the role of “currency” on a platform.

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This basic rule about the primacy of the core interaction applies despite the fact that many platforms involve a wide range of participants who may interact in a variety of ways. LinkedIn, for example, enables multiple interactions. Professionals exchange ideas about career and business strategy; recruiters exchange information about job listings with potential applicants; human resource managers exchange news about labor market conditions; and thought leaders offer their views about global trends. These various forms of interaction were built into the platform over time, each designed to meet a particular platform goal and to help users create a new form of value. The multisided LinkedIn platform we see today was first designed around a single core interaction: professionals connecting with other professionals.

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Given the self-promotional behavior that a professional network encourages, the loudest users in the groups were often also the most obnoxious. So LinkedIn went on to add a further interaction, partly driven by the quest to monetize the platform: it allowed recruiters to use the site to target candidates, and advertisers to target ads to relevant professionals. Later still, LinkedIn created another interaction when it allowed thought leaders, and subsequently all users, to publish posts on LinkedIn for others to read, effectively turning the site into a publishing platform. This combination of many forms of interaction gives users more reasons to visit LinkedIn. The evolution of Uber, Lyft, and LinkedIn illustrates several of the ways that new interactions may be layered on top of the core interaction in a given platform: • By changing the value unit exchanged between existing users (as when LinkedIn shifted the basis of information exchange from user profiles to discussion posts) • By introducing a new category of users as either producers or consumers (as when LinkedIn invited recruiters and advertisers to join the platform as producers) • By allowing users to exchange new kinds of value units (as when Uber and Lyft made it possible for riders to share rides as well as arranging solo pickups) • By curating members of an existing user group to create a new category of users (as when LinkedIn designated certain participants as “thought leaders” and invited them to become producers of informational posts) Of course, not every new interaction is successful.

Slide:ology: the art and science of creating great presentations
by Nancy Duarte
Published 15 Nov 2008

It will change you as a presenter if you take to heart the principles contained within. slide:ology is destined to become the desk reference for building effective presentations and is a must read for all who present. I’m immensely proud of what Nancy has accomplished. She has taken her expertise and many years of experience working with some of the best brands and thought leaders in the world, and compiled it as a masterly work of art and science. Get ready to be inspired! Mark Duarte Founder/ CFO, Duarte xii xiii xiv Cave Paintings 15000 bce 950 Before the printing press, the Roman Catholic Church conveyed stories of saints and biblical characters to a mostly illiterate public through the colorful medium of stained glass.

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Constraining your presentation’s length forces you to be concise and remove anything superfluous to the message. Proof in point is the recent release of TED videos online (www.ted.com). TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design), an annual conference in California featuring some of the greatest thought leaders and innovators in the world, helps spread ideas and shape our culture and future. We see how each of these phenomenal presenters communicates his or her ideas in 18 minutes or less. So, if some of the most influential people in the world can deliver powerful content in 18 minutes, can you, too.

The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things
by Daniel Kellmereit and Daniel Obodovski
Published 19 Sep 2013

We wanted to build upon these sources, but also go further and deeper in our examination, to answer these fundamental questions: What is the Internet of Things? How is it coming about? What are the key trends? What is the potential? What needs to be done to succeed in this space? Our goal was to first make sense of this vast topic for ourselves, by analyzing the mentioned sources, considering our own experience, and talking to the industry thought-leaders and subject-matter experts. Then we wanted to share what we were discovering with our readers. Our hope is that this book will help you better understand this space, realize the potential, and recognize the challenges and complexity. Finally, we want to share our views on how to overcome obstacles and identify the most promising areas for investment and job creation.

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Finally, in chapter 7 we analyze the investment attractiveness and opportunities of the M2M space, based on expert views and our own conclusions. This chapter answers the question: Where would and should you invest in M2M if you were an entrepreneur, individual, institutional investor, or a corporation willing to get involved in the M2M space? In the process of writing this book, we interviewed many industry experts and thought leaders: Steve Pazol of nPhase and Qualcomm, Bill Davidson of Qualcomm, Glenn Lurie of AT&T, Glen Allmendinger of Harbor Research, Mark Wells of Procon, Steve Hudson of Omnilink, Kevin Ashton of Belkin, Dr. Sanjay Sarma of MIT, Assaf Biderman of MIT’s SENSEable City Lab, Astro Teller of BodyMedia and Google, Bill Toone of ECOLIFE Foundation, Christian Busch of SAP, Ioannis Fikouras of Ericsson, Ivo Stivoric of BodyMedia, John Elliott of Accenture, John Major of MTSG, Peggy Smedley of Connected World, Ari Silkey of Best Buy and Zubie, Dermot O’Shea of Taoglas, Dr.

The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small
by Steve Sammartino
Published 25 Jun 2014

The best example of self-hacking in the marketplace is what’s occurring in our most esteemed learning institutions, our universities. Anyone can learn anything online these days. We can learn in any field of study through a variety of sources: written articles, blogs, live streamed lectures, industry journals. We can even tap into the global thought leaders of any subject. Most thought leaders in every field have a solid digital footprint these days and they’re willing to share with their followers their ideas on a daily basis. A better time has never existed for learning, as anyone can tap into the best minds from around the world in any area of study. You’d think this would have the universities shaking in their boots for fear of an impending battle of relevance.

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There’s barely an Ivy League University in the US that hasn’t become involved in the MOOC revolution. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton — almost every university is now involved, and there’s no sign of this innovation ever going away. Enrolment rates are staggering. The first MOOC to be released by Stanford was ‘An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’, launched by global thought leaders Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. More than 160 000 people enrolled in this course alone. It’s almost hard to believe that anyone on the internet can enrol in a course taught by the world’s most respected educators from the most respected institutions and not have the thousands in fees that normally accompany such learning.

The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Published 14 Sep 2020

Voter-data suppliers linked to the duopoly, such as NGP VAN for the Democrats, and i360 for the Republicans, have amassed the most extensive proprietary voter databases, analytics, and likely voter lists—and they keep tight control on the data they gather with agreements that ensure it all flows back to them. Partisans decide to whom such voter data is made available and at what cost. Party-supported candidates reap substantial advantages. IDEA SUPPLIERS: These thought leaders develop and advocate for the policy ideas that are incorporated into party platforms, candidate policies, and legislation. Key idea suppliers include academics as well as an estimated 1,835 think tanks, with total budgets in the billions of dollars.25 Idea suppliers were once independent and a significant strength of our political system, creating vigorous competition on ideas generated from diverse voices.

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Washington State Republican Party, 147 wasted vote argument, 52, 126, 130 Watergate, 35, 71 water safety, ranking of, 82 Ways and Means Committee, House of Representatives, 57, 60, 192n56 Whig Party, 34 White, William Allen, 207n85 “Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America” (Gehl and Porter), xvi, 20 Wright, Gerald C., 214n72 Wyden, Ron, 62 Young, Clifford, 188n13 YouTube, 29 zero-based budgeting, 135–136 zero-based rule making, 136 Acknowledgments We find it a joy and a privilege to reflect on all those who helped us along this journey. A number of distinguished thought leaders have really impacted us. The work of author and former US Representative Mickey Edwards as well as Greg Orman and Charlie Wheelan, pathbreaking political innovators and talented writers, thinkers, and doers, shaped much of Katherine’s early thinking on these issues. We are grateful to Alan Murray and Clifton Leaf at Fortune for their early and influential buy-in.

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A grateful thank-you as well to the fabulous event and technical staff at the world-class Klarman Hall venue. We are also indebted to the team at the Social Progress Imperative, especially Scott Stern and Michael Green, who were instrumental in working with Michael to develop data on the social performance of countries that has been essential to our work. A number of generous academics and thought leaders have provided critical data, ideas, and insights for the book: Lee Drutman, David Moss, Mihir Desai, Jeffrey Green, Kenneth Shepsle, Nancy Unger, Peter Levine, Robert Johnston, Jack Santucci, Maureen Flanagan, Walter Nugent, Laura Philips Sawyer, Hahrie Han, Sara Binder, Robert Boatright, Julian Zelizer, Nolan McCarty, David E.

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz
Published 7 Mar 2017

The answers would seem conspiratorial if they weren’t so well documented in local newspaper articles from right after the storm, which detailed politicians and businessmen railing against the old New Orleans and sounding excited to usher in a new era. “It took the storm of a lifetime to create the opportunity of a lifetime,” then governor Kathleen Blanco said a few weeks after the storm. “We must not let it pass us by.” What else do you call a coordinated attempt by thought leaders, politicians, and business interests to radically change an entire city “demographically, geographically and politically,” as one real estate maven put it, except a deliberate attempt to gentrify? To many of the black people here who have stuck it out, who have been left with little since Katrina, who feel like the city did nothing to help them back or actively dissuaded them from coming home, those words—colonization, occupation, genocide—do not feel sensational.

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As Ishiwata points out, we didn’t just go back to forgetting that issues of inequality and racism exist; we went back to forgetting that an entire group of disenfranchised people exists. Closing that window explains why it took only days before people seemed to stop caring about the rebuilding of New Orleans, to stop caring that nearly 100,000 African Americans were not able to return after the storm. To many politicians and thought leaders such as David Brooks, the idea that we’d need to get a majority-black, majority-poor city back to its former self seemed unnecessary, even irresponsible. After taking a tour of the Houston Astrodome, where thousands had been bused after Katrina, former first lady Barbara Bush told a radio show that people seemed better off there than in New Orleans.

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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)
by Michael J. Mauboussin
Published 1 Jan 2006

You develop a small and useful tree of options that is continuously revised based on the arrangement of pieces and the actions of your opponent. It is critical to keep the number of options open. It is important to develop a theory of what kinds of options you want to have open. —John H. Holland, presentation at the 2000 CSFB Thought Leader Forum Managing for the Long Term At a business forum I attended, a senior executive of a Fortune 100 company proclaimed that his company manages “not for the next quarter, but for the next quarter century.” Ugh. Such platitudes do not instill confidence in investors. Most managers don’t have any idea what’s going to happen in the next five years, much less the next twenty-five years.

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Jensen, “Dare to Keep Your Stock Price Low,” The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2001. 8 Alfred Rappaport, “The Economics of Short-Term Performance Obsession,” Financial Analysts Journal 61, no. 3 (May-June 2005): 65-79. 28. Diversify Your Mind 1 See Norman L. Johnson, “What a Developmental View Can Do for You (or the Fall of the House of Experts),” talk at CSFB Thought Leader Forum, September 2000, Santa Fe, N.M., http://www.capatcolumbia.com/CSFB%20TLF/2000/johnson00_sidecolumn.pdf. 2 Michael J. Mauboussin, “Revisiting Market Efficiency: The Stock Market as a Complex Adaptive System” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 14, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 47-55. 3 Norman L.

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The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology
by William Mougayar
Published 25 Apr 2016

Another approach is to discover ideas within the various groups via a common process, but to develop the proofs of concepts for them in the labs, then proceed to implementing the best candidates with the business units. Regardless of the approach, they would all benefit from at least one strong blockchain advocate that is a respected thought leader, and a bold communicator and an enthusiast about blockchain technologies. A BLOCKCHAIN FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE One way to understand the scope of blockchains is by studying the comprehensive functionality they hold. This section depicts a proposed generic building block approach that was derived by analyzing the various approaches that exist on the market.

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In the early Internet years, he was the founding chairman of CommerceNet Canada, and authored two books, Opening Digital Markets (McGraw-Hill, 1997), and The Business Internet and Intranets (Harvard Business School Press, 1997). William started and raised money for three companies (two of them were sold), Engagio, Eqentia, and CYBERManagement. His career includes 14 years at Hewlett-Packard in senior sales and marketing management roles, 10 years as an independent management consultant and thought leader, and three years as global vice president of corporate marketing at Cognizant in Teaneck, New Jersey. In 2005, he was vice president, IT practice at Aberdeen Group in Boston. Over the years, he has consulted to numerous Fortune 500 companies, and is a professional speaker. William is a graduate of the University of Washington, the University of Western Ontario Ivey School of Business, and attended the University of British Columbia Graduate Commerce School.

Capital Allocators: How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest
by Ted Seides
Published 23 Mar 2021

Most first-time authors lose the naïve boon of seeing their name on a book jacket once they meet the reality that writing a book sucks up time and money, two of the most precious resources we have. Yet, here I am, sitting in front of my computer, following the serendipity that called me to put pen to paper once more. After so many interviews with allocators, managers, and thought leaders – where each had wisdom to share about how to enhance the investment process – I no longer could retain all the information in my head. David Swensen’s book remains the seminal tome in explaining the structure of capital allocation of institutional portfolios. This book is different. It endeavors to explain how these investors implement their craft.

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Talented CIOs are skilled at both listening carefully and speaking in public, both learning and educating, both thinking independently and orchestrating a group, both managing a team and a governance board, and each of reading, writing and arithmetic. The best ones are the equivalent of Major League Baseball’s five-tool players. Acquiring such a broad set of skills draws on many different disciplines. The interviews on the podcast with CIOs, investment managers, and thought leaders from outside of the investment industry collectively teach best practices around each of these skills. These lessons are not found in the readings in the CFA program, CAIA curriculum, or other investment materials. Just as my first book, So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund, shares case studies about start-up hedge funds from the front lines, this section describes skill sets that are only encountered in practice.

Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Workflow
by Dominica Degrandis and Tonianne Demaria
Published 14 May 2017

Originally, I set off to write a reference for students to use during workshops while designing their kanban boards. Later, this piece grew into a time-saving reference for me as well. It became a place to capture not only everything I learned about applying Lean, kanban, and flow practices to my own work, but also selected equations, theories, and stats from thought leaders. For example, how to define Lean? For that, I prefer Niklas Modig and Pär Åhlström’s definition. In their fantastic book This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox, they define Lean as, “a strategy of flow efficiency with key principles of just-in-time and visual management.”4 So, what do we know?

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If BoNDC is delayed six weeks, the total CoD is $230,400. CoD can be used to negotiate prioritization of work and to bring visibility to projects that have a bigger impact on the bottom line than the others. Visualizing CoD drives the right conversations and decisions around cost and revenue. As Joshua Arnold, thought leader and founder of Black Swan Farming, says, Cost of Delay combines urgency and value—two things that humans are not very good at distinguishing between. To make decisions, we need to understand not just how valuable something is, but how urgent it is.2 Hence, CoD communicates the impact that time has on value.

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
by Dan Lyons
Published 4 Apr 2016

We talk about how a lot of companies, especially tech companies, are hiring journalists and actually producing high-quality news sites. Some of them are doing a really good job, better than what we can do at a place like ReadWrite, if only because they have more resources. Halligan says he wants to produce material that raises awareness of HubSpot and establishes HubSpot as a “thought leader” in the world of marketing. I mention the idea of creating an independent site, sponsored by HubSpot but kept separate from the company. That’s what Adobe, a big software company in California, has done as a way to promote its marketing software. I know the guys who run the Adobe-sponsored site and have talked to them about how they launched it.

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I have no idea what all of these people are afraid of, but to marketers, the world is filled with fears that must be conquered. Maybe they like this rhetoric because it makes online sales and marketing seem like some kind of epic adventure rather than the drab, soul-destroying job that it actually is. Marketing conferences are filled with wannabe gurus and thought leaders work themselves up into a revival-show lather about connecting with customers and engaging in holistic, heart-based marketing, which sounds like something I made up but is actually a real thing that really exists and is taken seriously by actual adult human beings, which makes me want to cry.

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But here we are, bludgeoning social media with a barrage of identical tweets, all telling everyone we know to go read this great new article by our boss. I’m willing to help, but before I post any tweets I take a few minutes to read the article—and what Dharmesh has written nearly knocks me off my chair. The title of the article is “Your Customers Are Not Ignorant, Selfish Control Freaks.” Our company’s “thought leader” claims he has made an innovative breakthrough in management science: He now brings a teddy bear to meetings, and he recommends that everyone else do the same. That’s right. A teddy bear. Dharmesh argues that a company should always be “solving for the customer,” or SFTC as people call it at HubSpot.

The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
by Michael J. Mauboussin
Published 14 Jul 2012

These terms neatly capture the spirit of this discussion; see Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (New York: Basic Books, 2004), 32–33. 8. William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (New York: Warner Books, 1983), 39. 9. Matthew Salganik, “Prediction and Surprise,” presentation at the Thought Leader Forum, Legg Mason Capital Management, October 14, 2011. 10. More formally, a power law is expressed in the form: p(x) = Cx−α, where C and α are constants. The exponent, α, is often shown as positive, although it is negative. Since x is raised to the power of α, the distribution is called a power law.

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Tetlock, Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 129–143. 18. Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Companies to Fail (Boston: MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 19. Daniel Kahneman, presentation at the Thought Leader Forum, October 7, 2011, http://thoughtleaderforum.com/957443.pdf. BIBLIOGRAPHY Adair, Robert K., PhD. The Physics of Baseball: Revised, Updated, and Expanded. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. Agarwal, Sumit, John C. Driscoll, Xavier Gabaix, and David I. Laibson. “The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation.”

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The Halo Effect … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers. New York: Free Press, 2007. Saari, Donald G. Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 2001. Salganik, Matthew J. “Prediction and Surprise.” Presentation at the Thought Leader Forum, Legg Mason Capital Management, October 14, 2011. Salganik, Matthew J., Peter Sheridan Dodds, and Duncan J. Watts. “Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market.” Science 311, no. 5762 (February 10, 2006): 854–856. Salthouse, Timothy A. “What and When of Cognitive Aging.”

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
by Rob Walling
Published 15 Jan 2010

Reason #2: Members of a Vertical Talk to One Another Small industries tend to have a handful of thought leaders. Even industries like pool cleaners or countertop installers have business owners who are pushing the industry forward, finding and adopting new techniques, and communicating those techniques to the rest of the industry through conferences, trade shows, trade publications, online forums, social networks or mailing lists. This is important for a business selling into this industry for two reasons: If your product is good, word of mouth marketing will spread quickly If you can find the thought leaders and convince them to adopt your product, you will receive massive exposure in a short period of time Reason #3: Members of a Vertical “Hang out” Together Pool cleaners hang out together; whether at local trade meetings, national conferences, or online.

Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From a Sinking Society
by Thomas Frank
Published 18 Jun 2018

Yes, in certain reaches of the system the variables are different and the yield isn’t quite as dreadful as in others. But by and large, once all the factors I have described were in place, it was a matter of simple math. Grant to an industry control over access to the good things in life; insist that it transform itself into a throat-cutting, market-minded mercenary; get thought leaders to declare it the answer to every problem—and, last, send it your unsuspecting kids, armed with a blank check drawn on their own future. Was it not inevitable? Put these pieces together, and of course attendance costs will ascend at a head-swimming clip, reaching $70,000 a year now at some private schools.

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Then again, they will all be together, assuredly, as they sink finally into the briny deep. * * * The system can’t go on this way. It is too obviously a rip-off, on too many levels, with too many victims. One of these days a breaking point will come, just as it did with Enron and the dot-coms and the housing bubble, and all the fine words spoken by our thought leaders will once again be recalled to make them look like imbeciles. It’s easy to understand what ought to be done about the higher-ed situation; there is a huge literature on this subject. The scandal has been understood, to varying degrees, for decades. Every example I have used here, every argument I have made, has been made or used by someone else already; after all, the people who have seen this go down are people who can write.

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth
Published 14 Jan 2020

Today artificial intelligence is already shaping our future and it is about to move into many more domains. But maybe not in ways even some of the top thought leaders see it. The impact of artificial intelligence In late 2018, I was invited to the Creative Destruction Lab/University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management conference on machine learning and the market for intelligence. The conference is one of the top in the world on the state of machine intelligence/AI and is attended by some of the foremost thought leaders. In fact, many of the breakthroughs in artificial intelligence were created by Canadian researchers who continued working in the space through AI’s dark winter of the ’80s and ’90s.

The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models
by Barry Libert and Megan Beck
Published 6 Jun 2016

—Edward de Bono, physician, psychologist, and author of Six Thinking Hats NEW BUSINESS MODELS REQUIRE NEW THINKING; so let’s start with three simple questions: What beliefs and actions make a great business leader? Do you believe that the answer changes over time? How much have you changed your beliefs and actions over your career? Obviously, thought leaders throughout the ages have promulgated different beliefs about value, leadership, technologies, and organizational design. Furthermore, different situations call for different strengths. But what is critical for a leader now? We assert that the beliefs and skills that lead to success have changed dramatically in recent years and the most successful leaders will be those who can embrace new mental models.

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OpenMatters uses proprietary research to build indices and ratings for investors and strategies and rankings for companies to help both achieve better returns. THE WHARTON SEI CENTER for Advanced Studies in Management is the world’s first think tank for management education. The SEI Center ensures the relevance of management research and teaching to the evolving needs of business and society in the twenty-first century by joining with global thought leaders in diverse fields to anticipate the needs of management, identify forces of change, and understand emerging management paradigms.

Team Geek
by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman
Published 6 Jul 2012

Finally, thanks to all the crazy people and corporations of Silicon Valley: none of these crazy experiences could have happened if you hadn’t inducted me into your bizarro-world. About the Authors Brian Fitzpatrick leads Google’s Data Liberation Front and Transparency Engineering teams and has previously led Google’s Project Hosting and Google Affiliate Network teams. He cofounded Google’s Chicago engineering office and serves as both thought leader and internal advisor for Google’s open data efforts. Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system, led Google’s Project Hosting team, and now manages the engineering team for the Google Affiliate Network. He cofounded Google’s engineering office in Chicago and ported Subversion to Google’s Bigtable platform.

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question, Track Happiness Wiseman, Richard, Luck and the Favor Economy Z Zen management techniques, Be a Zen Master–Be a Catalyst, Be a Zen Master, Be a Catalyst About the Authors Brian Fitzpatrick leads Google's Data Liberation Front and Transparency Engineering teams and has previously led Google's Project Hosting and Google Affiliate Network teams. He cofounded Google's Chicago engineering office and serves as both thought leader and internal advisor for Google's open data efforts. Ben Collins-Sussman, one of the founding developers of the Subversion version control system, led Google's Project Hosting team, and now manages the engineering team for the Google Affiliate Network. He cofounded Google's engineering office in Chicago and ported Subversion to Google's Bigtable platform.

Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by Brad Feld
Published 8 Oct 2012

In short, entrepreneurs are often too busy to take the time to get up to speed on the details of spectrum policy, the arcana of patent law, the details of digital copyright discussions, or any other range of policy debates that will shape the future of innovation in the information industries. At Silicon Flatirons, we make a concerted effort to bring issues back to first principles and examine them with a wide range of thought leaders, bringing local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists into the discussion. By so doing, we believe, we can pave the way for better policymaking. In general, our philosophy toward the startup community is to “feed the network.” We are always looking for ways to give back and create opportunities, such as hosting a Startup Summer program as part of Startup Colorado.

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“Why would this person over here, who clearly has a different agenda, support this?” “Could we add this language into what you are saying so there’s a compromise?” “I’m not sure we can take this position because we need the support of so and so on something else.” In many cases, these conversations lead nowhere. In situations in which you have a strong, thoughtful leader like the current Colorado Senators Udall and Bennett, or a previously successful entrepreneur in Congress like Jared Polis, you end up with substance around entrepreneurship policy that can translate into action. Often, however, you just end up bogged down in the morass of additional policy talk in which no action can or will be taken.

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die
by Eric Siegel
Published 19 Feb 2013

Despite its successes, predictive analytics has penetrated only so far, relative to its potential. As a result, lessons and case studies such as those provided in Siegel’s book are in great demand.” —Boris Evelson, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research “Fascinating and beautifully conveyed. Siegel is a leading thought leader in the space—a must-have for your bookshelf!” —Sameer Chopra, VP, Advanced Analytics, Orbitz Worldwide “A brilliant overview—strongly recommended to everyone curious about the analytics field and its impact on our modern lives.” —Kerem Tomak, VP of Marketing Analytics, Macys.com “Eric explains the science behind predictive analytics, covering both the advantages and the limitations of prediction.

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PA’s deployment brings a qualitative change in the way we compete against malicious intent. But beware! Another type of fraud attacks you and every one of us, many times a day. Are you protected? Lipstick on a Pig An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers. —Rafe Colburn, Internet development thought leader Alan Turing (1912–1954), the father of computer science, proposed a thought experiment to explore the definition of what would constitute an “intelligent” computer. This so-called Turing test allows people to communicate via written language with someone or something hidden behind a closed door in order to formulate an answer to the question: Is it human or machine?

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Sitting on an expert panel at Predictive Analytics World, leading UK consultant Tom Khabaza put it this way: “Projects never fail due to lack of patterns.” With The Data Effect in mind, the scientist rests easy. Data is the new oil. It’s this century’s greatest possession and often considered an organization’s most important strategic asset. Several thought leaders have dubbed it as such—“the new oil”—including European Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, who also calls it “the new currency of the digital world.” It’s not a hyperbole. In 2012, Apple Inc. overtook Exxon Mobil Corporation, the world’s largest oil company, as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee
Published 1 Jan 2019

I care deeply about how our product affects people and I take very personally the responsibility I have to make that impact positive. The memo took my breath away. What was he thinking? How could anyone say something like that? What kind of company thinks such language is acceptable? Boz is one of the keepers of the Facebook culture. He is a thought leader inside the company who is known to say provocative things. When he writes a memo, every recipient reads it right away. More important, they take it seriously. Facebook may be much more than Boz’s memo and tweet, but the memo and tweet reflect the Facebook culture. The message was clear: the culture of Facebook revolves around a handful of metrics, things like daily users, time on site, revenues, profits.

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George based a speech at the World Economic Forum’s Davos conference on my Washington Monthly essay and introduced me to an amazing set of ideas and people. Michael Vachon, in particular, has earned my thanks. One of the most impressive people I met on this journey is Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. Marietje is a global thought leader on balancing the needs of society with those of tech platforms. Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry of Civic Hall introduced me to Marietje and then guided me through the idealistic and deeply committed world of civic tech. Thank you. Many people came out of nowhere to help me understand key issues: Ashkan Soltani, Wael Ghonim, Lawrence Lessig, Laurence Tribe, Larry Kramer, Michael Hawley, Jon Vein, Dr.

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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook, by Niall Ferguson (New York: Penguin Press, 2018), puts the power of Facebook and Google into historical context. Scary. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, by Jaron Lanier (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2018), is short and sweet. Lanier has been a thought leader in technology for three decades, with an early emphasis on virtual reality, but in this book he speaks as a concerned technologist who is also a philosopher about technology. This book did not need ten arguments, but I learned something from every one. One of Lanier’s major concerns—unrestricted development of artificial intelligence—is the subject of Machines of Loving Grace, by John Markoff (New York: Ecco, 2015).

The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
by Mary Childs
Published 15 Mar 2022

In the days following El-Erian’s announcement, they called more than 3,500 clients—calling and calling and calling, until they got a living human on the other end of the line. Leaving a voice message was insufficient. Gross and El-Erian made a point of flattering each other externally. El-Erian said of Gross, “His talents are truly exceptional, as is his dedication,” and Gross said that El-Erian was “a great leader, business builder and thought leader.” In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Gross affirmed that El-Erian’s exit “had nothing to do with friction,” but he did concede that he could be difficult. “Sometimes people will say, ‘Gross is too challenging,’ and maybe so. I would say if you think I’m challenging now, you should have seen me 20 years ago.”

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There, in the text, he saw the perfect phrase: “the new neutral.” It was catchy, iterative, a riff on the success of “the new normal.” “Now we’ve got it,” Gross said, circling it with a pen: the new neutral. The communications team pushed the new phrase, and the financial press wrote it up. Pimco’s united front, the thought leader in bonds (and beyond!), saw a new neutral, whatever that meant. It was a bit more complicated to understand than the new normal, but basically it signified more of the same: it referred to the “neutral rate” that the central banks focused on, the magical level at which the Fed should do nothing.

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Gross had helped to swell the finance industry, and it was now disproportionately massive relative to the economy to which it was attached, with correspondingly disproportionate salaries and bonuses, protected by defensive layers of jargon and derivative complexity so no one would try to get wise. Without him, Pimco could finally graduate from being founder-run into the ranks of the Established Firms. It could cleanly be a place for thought leaders; a nice, staid firm different only in its insistence on excellence and its great, very long-term track record. All the downside of Bill Gross—the embarrassing emotional show-and-tell every month, the wrangling with the ethics of being capital and feeling bad for labor, the rawness—had gone with him.

Clean Agile: Back to Basics
by Robert C. Martin
Published 13 Oct 2019

At the speaker reception for Software Development East, after doing a talk on management practices for distributed development that was completely devoid of the word “Agile,” I found myself surrounded by software industry thought leaders such as Bob Martin, Joshua Kerievsky, Mike Cohn, and Scott Ambler. It seemed the only topics they had any passion for involved things like 3×5 cards, user stories, Test-Driven Development, and Pair Programming. I was horrified that all of these thought leaders had been taken in by what I saw as snake oil. A few months later, while researching Agile in order to properly debunk it, I had an aha moment. As a programmer and business owner, this new insight came from understanding Agile as an algorithm for finding the highest-value-producing features in the market and then turning them into revenue faster.

Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds
Published 15 Jan 2012

Although the sketches from step 4 are not shown here, from the outline structure from step 2, you can see the simple structure before slides were added to the appropriate sections. The total number of slides ended up being more than 200. * * * Nancy Duarte CEO of Duarte, Inc., the world’s leading presentation and story firm. Clients include the greatest brands and thought leaders in the world. www.duarte.com Nancy Duarte talks about storyboards and the process of presentation design. Much of our communication today exhibits the quality of intangibility. Services, software, causes, thought leadership, change management, company vision—they’re often more conceptual than concrete, more ephemeral than firm.

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No matter what the digital toolmakers say, engagement is much more about you and your ideas, not about software features and presentation techniques. (Image in slide above from iStockphoto.com.) * * * Gihan Perera Author of the best-selling book Webinar Smarts: The Smart Way for Professional Speakers, Trainers, Thought Leaders and Business Professionals to Deliver Engaging and Profitable Webinars. www.webinarsmarts.com Webinar expert Gihan Perera offers advice on how to run an effective webinar that engages people. Webinars (seminars delivered over the Internet) are very popular today, both for promotional and educational purposes.

Best Places to Retire: The Top 15 Affordable Towns for Retirement on a Budget (Retirement Books)
by Clayton Geoffreys
Published 30 Apr 2015

Also, check out my website at claytongeoffreys.com to join my exclusive list where I let you know about my latest books. To thank you for your purchase, you can go to my site to download a free copy of 33 Life Lessons: Success Principles, Career Advice & Habits of Successful People. In the book, you’ll learn from some of the greatest thought leaders of different industries on what it takes to become successful and how to live a great life. Cheers, Why Picking the Right Place to Retire in Important When we begin a life of retirement, modest changes happen such as the amount of money we have coming in by the end of the month or the kind of lifestyle we choose.

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
by Scott Belsky
Published 31 Mar 2010

Along the way we have met with teams at revered companies across industries, including Apple, IDEO, Disney, Google, Zappos, and Miramax, as well as with brilliant individuals such as Stefan Sagmeister, Seth Godin, and Chris Anderson, who have, through their consistent execution of ideas, become admired thought leaders in the creative world. We learned that these teams and individuals did not arrive at success through a mysterious spark of creative genius. Rather, the people who consistently make ideas happen utilize many of the same best practices. Specifically, we discovered that the most productive creative individuals and teams have a lot in common when it comes to (1) organization and relentless execution, (2) engaging peers and leveraging communal forces, and (3) strategies for leading creative pursuits.

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They encouraged their teams to step back and regain perspective, to quit blaming and start brainstorming solutions. When their teams were plagued with doubt and uncertainty, these leaders seized the opportunity to combat apathy and rally their teams toward a solution. Naturally, amidst the anxieties associated with conflict, people are most impressionable when something goes wrong. Thoughtful leaders use conflict as an opportunity to align and strengthen their teams. Develop Others Through the Power of Appreciation In the autumn of 2005, I found myself driving from Boston’s Logan Airport to a small town along the shore of Cape Cod to attend a storytelling workshop run by world-renowned storyteller Jay O’Callahan.

Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win
by Chris Kuenne and John Danner
Published 5 Jun 2017

Although fundamentally an Explorer, Lidow also has a bit of the Driver in him, in that he was motivated to demonstrate he could not only lead a company but, like his grandfather, build one as well. As he shared his idea for addressing inefficiencies in the supply chain for electronic components, many people quickly saw its appeal. Given his reputation as a thoughtful leader and deep problem solver in silicon chip design and manufacturing, Lidow had no difficulty attracting talent to this juicy problem. With experts in place and early demand for a better way to source parts in a fast-growing industry, Lidow told us, “iSuppli benefited from many unfair competitive advantages: my good reputation in the tech community, my direct knowledge of what was valuable yet not being done well in the market, and my personal financial ability to kick-start development.”

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As your business scales and the problems accelerate in size and complexity, you need to anneal your ideas in the heat of ideas of others who are your intellectual peers. If you have formed your board effectively, you will find some of this talent within that group, but also look in places like universities, consulting firms, and other industry thought leaders. See the system aspects in the softer issues: Sure, it’s easier to think through inanimate problems that have a consistent pattern to them, like machines and software. But it is the animate ones that actually scale and deliver your business vision. As Mark Bonfigli illustrated, you can use your systems thinking to address how best to attract, measure, and continue to cultivate the talent you need to scale.

Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher
Published 28 Nov 2012

And it was with these extremely low expectations of myself that I began—and finished—the process of writing a book. Then, just as one might hope, some people bought the book. Some conferences called and asked me to speak. And then, one morning I woke up to discover that, according to the Internet, I was suddenly a content strategy “subject matter expert,” “thought leader,” and “guru.” And that was when the imposter complex set in. The imposter complex manifests like this. The more people tell you how smart you are—the more you hear about how your book is changing projects and companies and careers—the more you are absolutely convinced that any minute now someone is going to point a finger at you and say, “Waaaait a minute.

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Sara’s book provides us with accessible, practical information that helps us navigate the current complexities of multichannel content. Moreover, it offers important alternatives to planning and structuring content that empower us to move confidently into the future, rather than constantly trying to recover from the past. Sara has made her mark as a thought leader not because she was born that way, but because she has taken an enormously complex, intimidating topic and made it accessible to practitioners of all stripes. Content Everywhere promises to be the new bible for content professionals who are committed to creating meaningful content that can, at last, be free.

Leadership by Algorithm: Who Leads and Who Follows in the AI Era?
by David de Cremer
Published 25 May 2020

Or, in other words, algorithms may well drive the management process very soon. This is not simply a thought exercise anymore. Being confronted with greater expectations of productivity, the need to respond faster, and the requirement to be more rational and data driven in our responses, both business and thought leaders have put the idea to automate leadership firmly on the table. Few are now questioning if this is feasible, instead they are wondering how best to implement their AI management strategy. Business leaders have embraced the idea that the widely announced digital disruption has introduced many challenges.

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It is therefore imperative that organizations train and continuously update their workforce so that they have a basic understanding of, for example, coding and its potential use for task execution. The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon plans to spend $700m over the next six years to train 100,000 of its workforce in new technology skills.²¹³ Similarly, Microsoft has built the AI Business School to share knowledge and insights from top executives and thought leaders on how to strategically use AI in organizations.²¹⁴ It is this tech savviness that can make leaders more effective in employing algorithms in the most optimal ways. At the same time, it enables human employees to understand why this new (non-human) employee is needed. A second type of education should promote the human skills considered necessary for future leaders.

Extreme Early Retirement: An Introduction and Guide to Financial Independence (Retirement Books)
by Clayton Geoffreys
Published 16 May 2015

Also, check out my website at claytongeoffreys.com to join my exclusive list where I let you know about my latest books. To thank you for your purchase, you can go to my site to download a free copy of 33 Life Lessons: Success Principles, Career Advice & Habits of Successful People. In the book, you’ll learn from some of the greatest thought leaders of different industries on what it takes to become successful and how to live a great life. Cheers, What is Extreme Early Retirement? Adopting the Philosophy Professionals working a 9 to 5 job often look forward to the day when they can retire, however, they do not do the necessary actions and planning that is needed to achieve this.

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
by John Abramson
Published 20 Sep 2004

They know that we have been taught in medical school and during our residencies to accept information that modifies our practice only after it has been “blessed” by doctors farther up the chain of command. In training, these authority figures are the residents, fellows, and attending physicians, depending on where you are in the hierarchy. Practicing physicians in turn look to recognized experts, usually with prestigious academic affiliations. Marketing mavens call these doctors “thought leaders” or “key opinion leaders” (KOLs)—whether local or national—because they command enough respect to influence the medical decisions made by other doctors. These are the experts chosen to make CME presentations. The medical industry goes to great lengths to cultivate relationships with these experts, in the same way that athletes are recruited for product endorsements.

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Francis’s question about why I chose to leave my practice to write this book, and that I have helped to improve the health of more people than I might have otherwise. I also hope that in sharing what I have learned about the distortion of our medical knowledge with hardworking colleagues I will have inspired some to become more critical consumers of scientific evidence and the recommendations of “thought leaders” on the payroll of the drug and other medical industries. I will have succeeded in my task if I have motivated some readers to be more regular about exercise, adopt a healthier diet, stop smoking, and think more critically about the relationship between their own needs and goals and those that are externally imposed by the push of the market.

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See commercial research bias; medical research subjective experience, 206–8 sugar consumption, 236, 238 suicide, antidepressant therapy and, 116–17 supply-side medical care, 169–85 costs, 184–85 failure of, 254–56 heart attack care, 169–73 market pressures and, 174–78 medical services vulnerable to overuse, 178–80 more care vs. better care, 180–81 MRI and CT scans, 181–83 neonatal care, 173–74 terminal care, 183 surgical procedures, 43, 174–78 Tagamet, 43 tendonitis, 6–7 terminal care, 183 termination, premature study, 70, 104–5, 243–44 tests. See diagnostic tests thought leaders, 119 tobacco. See smoking total cholesterol, 18–20. See also cholesterol training. See medical education transparency, data, 27–28, 94, 105–6, 251–52. See also data transplantation bone marrow, 41, 51–52 organ, 43, 44 trazodone, 11 tricyclic antidepressants, 116 trust. See also doctor-patient relationship medical journal articles and, 17, 93–94, 106, 112–13 myth of excellence and, 39–42, 50–53 tuberculosis, 49, 195 type 2 diabetes, 222, 228–31 ulcers, 9, 28, 29, 43 unbiased information, 167, 219 uninsured patients, xxi–xxii, 20, 46, 253–54.

The New One Minute Manager
by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, M. D.
Published 4 May 2015

When he’s not writing or speaking, Ken teaches students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego. Born in New Jersey and raised in New York, Ken received an MA degree from Colgate University and a BA and PhD from Cornell University. SPENCER JOHNSON, MD, is one of the most admired thought leaders and widely read authors in the world. His books have become embedded in our language and culture. Called “The King of Parables” by USA Today, Dr. Johnson is often referred to as the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work. His brief books contain valuable insights and practical tools that millions of people use to enjoy more happiness and success with less stress.

The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
by Mohamed A. El-Erian
Published 26 Jan 2016

Federal Reserve, was there along with several of the presidents of the regional Feds. Bank of England governor Mark Carney and Governor Raghuram Rajan of the Indian central bank were also there, as were other governors from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East. This impressive gathering of officials was joined by leading academics, thought leaders, and commentators on monetary policy. Private sector participants from major financial firms were also there, as were members of the media (though, due to space constraints, most had been seated in the balconies overlooking the nearly overflowing room). Presenting his preview of the day’s much-anticipated panels, Governor Noyer verbalized up front what many in the room viewed as both the strength and weakness of modern-day central banking.

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Dedicated to my daughter, my mother, and my sister In memory of my late father Thank you for your amazing love, your terrific companionship, your enduring support, and your awesome inspiration ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is the result of several years of reading, observing, thinking, and, most important, discussing. It would not have been written without the amazing support that I have received from family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances; without the wonderful opportunities I have had to interact with policymakers, thought leaders, and astute observers of the global economy, markets, modern central banking, and behavioral science; without the extremely stimulating environments afforded to me by my professional activities; and without the inspiration, support, and companionship of some truly special people. By asking me how I would summarize in one sentence some of the most important economic issues facing us in the next few years, Rich Miller first put the idea of this book in my head.

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe
Published 6 Dec 2016

Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (New York: Penguin, 2005), 267. 15 Stephanie Forrest, Steven Hofmeyr, and Benjamin Edwards, “The Complex Science of Cyber Defense.” 16 Ibid. 17 Andrea Peterson, “Why One of Cybersecurity’s Thought Leaders Uses a Pager instead of a Smart Phone,” Washington Post, August 11, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/why-one-of-cybersecuritys-thought-leaders-uses-a-pager-instead-of-a-smart-phone/. Chapter 9: Systems over Objects 1 Communication with Joi Ito. 2 Interview with Jeff Howe. 3 Ferris Jabr and Scientific American staff, “Know Your Neurons: What Is the Ration of Glia to Neurons in the Brain?”

The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
by Leigh Gallagher
Published 26 Jun 2013

If you’ve visited New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or just about any other American city lately, you don’t need more proof that they are booming. Real estate prices are soaring, development is cranking, and once-blighted neighborhoods are now yuppified. This is well-trod territory; in media and “thought leader” circles, cities have become the equivalent of fashion’s new black, with a torrent of books lauding their resurgence. But it’s a remarkable shift, especially considering the growing ranks of young families—the demographic mainstay of suburbia—now electing to stay in cities. In New York, Tribeca is now called Triburbia, and in Center City Philadelphia, a former strip club has been turned into a Daddy Day Care center.

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“We were so pro-sprawl, pro-decentralization, and so auto-dependent,” he points out, that the development pattern was unsustainable from an energy perspective. “What’s happening now is that we’re becoming more in balance,” he says, citing the increased prevalence of the “urban form” in many suburbs. There are twists on this idea floating out there in “thought leader” circles, and many experts are attempting to categorize, label, and identify the precise areas the development industry should focus on for the future. Demetri Baches is an urban planner and former director at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company who now runs a planning consultancy called Metrocology out of Beaufort, South Carolina.

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America
by Tamara Draut
Published 4 Apr 2016

The first is the gaping social distance between Americans, which has certainly hardened by both race and class. Today’s working class lives in a completely different orbit from the middle and upper classes, with whom they often interact only in commercial transactions. Yet our policymakers, journalists, and thought leaders are overwhelmingly culled from the more privileged parts of America, a bias that distorts the narrative about working life today in profound ways. The second barrier is the very American tradition of pathologizing struggle and strife, which was once aimed mostly at the poor and the black underclass but has been extended to the entire working class, undercutting support for much-needed pubic policies that could help both the working class and the middle class.

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I gleefully sat in the front row of the White House Rose Garden to watch President Obama sign the bill into law. And in the years since its passage, it has saved people over $60 billion, and that’s just in fees alone. The credit-card companies can no longer do what they want, when they want, to people in debt. So I’m going to ignore the cynical and the elite thought leaders who try to shut down change by asking the “serious” question “How are we going to pay for it?” The stakes are simply too high to start a dialogue under this narrow definition of acceptable policy discourse. The time has come for a Better Deal. A Better Deal would reshape our politics by replacing a big-money-driven political system with public financing, so that candidates must reach deep into their communities to attract small donations, which would be matched by public dollars.

The Introvert Entrepreneur: Amplify Your Strengths and Create Success on Your Own Terms
by Beth Buelow
Published 3 Nov 2015

From Inspiration to Implementation Now that you have a notebook full of ideas, how are you going to bring them to life? There is a wide range of options for sharing information that fills various points of the funnel of engagement. Even more ideas will come to you as you receive feedback from others and familiarize yourself with what the thought leaders in your field are producing. (Hint: Set up an “info@” or “news@” email account for yourself, and use that as your subscription/sign-up account for people whose promotional emails you want to receive.) Keep in mind, you don’t have to do all of these ideas. Pick a few that align with your energy, vision, resources, and strategy.

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Like any other skill, it comes easily to some and is elusive to others. The point isn’t to judge yourself too harshly, but to recognize that your preference for communicating through writing can be a strong entrepreneurial asset in our content-driven world. Blogging is one of the easiest, most accessible ways to start establishing yourself as a thought leader in your field. A blog is like an online diary or journal, and it consists of regularly posted entries that are written by you and then shared through a feed, reader, or other electronic distribution method. Your topic focus, how often you blog, and how long your posts are depend on your purpose for blogging.

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future
by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson
Published 27 Mar 2017

Get Out of the Building Steve Blank teaches at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, but he is hardly a traditional academic. Rather, in his career Blank has actively participated in more than a dozen startups and by now has mentored hundreds more. Over the past decade he has emerged as a prominent thought leader, describing how to take a more scientific approach to the creation of new businesses. One of his mentees, Eric Ries, wrote the 2011 book The Lean Startup, which has become a must-read for almost any entrepreneur. The epigraph in Blank’s 2013 book with Bob Dorf (The Startup Owner’s Manual) says it all: “Get out of the building!”

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Scott is on the board of directors of MediaCorp, a diversified media company based in Singapore, and he chairs the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, a venture investment fund Innosight runs in conjunction with the Singapore government. He is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Review and in 2015 was named a “Light Bulb Thinker” by Thinkers50. He is a member of the Silicon Valley Guild, a collection of thirty international thought leaders and bestselling authors who write about the ideas and trends shaping business and society. Scott earned a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. He lives in Singapore with his wife, Joanne, and their four children.

To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell
Published 28 Feb 2017

It was true that these plays and films and works of prose fiction were not very good, or so he had heard, but it was also true that computers tended to improve very quickly at things they initially did not do well. His point, I supposed, was that I and people like me were just as expendable as everyone else, just as fucked by the future. I considered asking him whether he thought computers might eventually replace even keynote speakers, whether the thought leaders of the next decade might fit in the palms of our hands, but realized that whatever answer he provided to this question would be cause for smug vindication on his part anyway, and so I resolved instead to include a description in my book of his retrieving a dropped pistachio from inside his expensive shirt—an act of petty and futile vengeance, and the kind of absurd irrelevance that would certainly be beneath the dignity and professional discipline of an automated writing AI.

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As a writer, he is a controversial figure, a business-casual mystic whose arcane projections chart the furthest reaches of techno-utopian speculation. But he is by no means a marginal presence in the tech world; he is, rather, a tutelary spirit of Silicon Valley—a status that was more or less formalized in 2012, when he was brought in as director of engineering at Google, to act as thought-leader-in-chief for the company’s pursuit of machine learning. Kurzweil’s Singularity is a wildly multifarious vision of technological abundance, a feverishly detailed teleology in which all of history converges toward an apotheosis of pure mind. “How do we contemplate the Singularity?” he asks in the early pages of his 2005 bestseller, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin
Published 14 Sep 2021

They were: a money project, the goal of which was to grow Thiel’s wealth, requiring him, at times, to adopt the tastes and manners of a Wall Street mogul; a tech project, which was about establishing himself as a power broker in Silicon Valley after the dot-com bust; and a political project, which involved using those two things—his money and his tech credibility—to establish himself as a thought leader and to accumulate influence in Washington. The three efforts would often be in tension—as he embraced his identity as a hedge fund manager, Thiel would tack away from Silicon Valley, embracing the accoutrements of wealth, acquiring fabulous homes, fancy cars, and vanity businesses. But they were tied together in that they all involved, in one way or another, the elevation of Thiel’s contrarianism as a virtue to be celebrated in itself

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“Overrated or underrated?” Cowen asked. Underrated, Thiel responded. Thiel, who has often described himself as “both a total insider and a total outsider,” was playing a delicate game. From the outside—to Cowen’s audience, for instance, or to the hosts of CBS This Morning—he was an up-and-coming thought leader whose controversial past was behind him. But, in fact, at the same time he was playing public intellectual and yucking it up with members of the press, Thiel was making moves in secret. He didn’t just like New Zealand, he had secretly acquired citizenship in the country. And while he was jousting with reporters at book parties, he had secretly launched a media coup—one that aimed to settle the score with Gawker after years of criticism while sending a message to any other journalist who attempted to write about him critically

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Friends have said they’ve seen a softening; Thiel seems more at ease, maybe even happier. This could be a projection—one of Thiel’s talents is to present a canvas onto which others can ascribe their own ideas—but it probably isn’t. Moreover, Thiel’s legacy is assured, even if he were to withdraw entirely. His acolytes are some of the highest profile thought leaders emanating from Silicon Valley. Elon Musk can move markets with a single tweet—driving downloads of the secure messaging app Signal or helping to convince Reddit investors to buy shares in the money-losing mall retailer GameStop. Keith Rabois, an original satellite in the Thielverse, is a partner at Founders Fund and has been, on a daily basis, amplifying Thiel’s message that the Bay Area should be abandoned by anyone with money or ambition.

Behind the cloud: the untold story of how Salesforce.com went from idea to billion-dollar company--and revolutionized an industry
by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler
Published 19 Nov 2009

As the founder of this mission, it was my job to walk the talk. Many CEOs are leery of getting too personal and are wary of inventing a mythical persona. Don’t be afraid to step into the forefront and take risks. Most of the world’s best CEOs are indistinguishable from the companies they run. Embracing a ‘‘role’’ establishes them as thought leaders and gives them a certain celebrity status that begets invitations to speak with the 27 BEHIND THE CLOUD press, at events, and on panels—prime opportunities to spread their messages. Anyone can create a persona, but it takes time and energy to do it properly. Your ‘‘character’’ must fit with your company’s story to bolster your brand.

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• Create a takeaway piece for attendees that includes your offer, contact information, and quotes from successful customers and other third-party validation. 59 BEHIND THE CLOUD these public conversations, companies must cater to them and leverage them. By providing a forum for customers to meet, you can be a participant in these exchanges and use the viral effect to your advantage. Play #32: Always Stay in the Forefront In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry. Be the canary in the coal mine, warning people of what’s ahead—and demonstrate how your company is shaping the future. Events are an effective way to deliver your message to your audience and the press (which then reiterates it to a wider audience). We hold ‘‘launch events’’ every six to eight weeks.

The Facebook era: tapping online social networks to build better products, reach new audiences, and sell more stuff
by Clara Shih
Published 30 Apr 2009

In this case, if you are to respond at all, you might want to do so privately by sending a message directly to the individual and engaging on a one-on-one basis. It is like clicking “reply” instead of “reply all.” Private response is also a good option when you have identified early adopters, influencers, and thought leaders within a community and want to engage further through, for example, a more in-depth survey, interview, or focus group. • Response through another channel. Sometimes, your best response might be through another channel. Tapping into unsanctioned communities in listen-only mode can help drive your strategy elsewhere, such as how you think about TV and radio advertisements, new product and feature development, and targeting new audiences.

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For the software developers building applications for these social networks, instead of having to build a different version for each site as they did in the prestandards world, they can now more or less get away with building and maintaining one that will run across any OpenSocial-enabled site. For people like you and me who are members of these social networking sites, this means we can have a more unified view of and experience interacting with our friends on different sites. Bob Bickell, a startup veteran and thought leader in the social networking space, has coined the term “federated social graph” to refer to all of an individual’s contacts and connections across every site on which they might have friends. Here is an example: Kelly is signed up and has friends on MySpace, LinkedIn, and a swimming enthusiasts’ Web site— all of which have enabled the OpenSocial standard.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Published 9 Jan 2007

—VIJAY GOVINDARAJAN, professor and director, Center for Global Leadership, Tuck School, Dartmouth “With great energy and excellent content, Marshall engaged, excited, and even enthralled his audience of several hundred participants at the Wharton Leadership Conference. Marshall was a star!” —DR. MICHAEL USEEM, William and Jacalyn Egan Professor of Management and director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania “I consider Marshall to be the number one thought leader and coach in the field of leadership and executive development today. I sincerely appreciate his honest, straightforward, positive, and purposeful approach to executive coaching—it is second to none.” —LOUIS CARTER, president and CEO, Best Practice Institute, a global leader in creating and sustaining communities of practice “As the CEO of the Girl Scouts, I was working to help a great organization be ‘the best that we could be.’

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[in] the field of management” by the American Management Association; • a “top executive educator” by The Wall Street Journal; • a “great communicator” by O, The Oprah Magazine; • one of the “five most-respected executive coaches” by Forbes; • an “influentical practitioner in the history of leadership development” by BusinessWeek; and • one of “the most credible thought leaders in the new era of business” by The Economist. To all successful leaders who want to “take it to the next level” and get even better “Happy are they that can hear their detractions and put them to mending.” —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing Acknowledgments This book is a collaborative effort that has been built upon the contributions of many great people: My mentors and teachers: Peter Drucker and Richard Beckhard, who will never cease being my heroes; Paul Hersey, who gave me the opportunity to be an executive educator; Frances Hesselbein, my permanent role model; Bob Tannenbaum, John Ying, and Fred Case, who were great teachers and made sure that I graduated.

Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity
by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne
Published 4 Feb 2013

The implications of the functional dynamics of national money have some profound repercussions for society at large, which are explored in some depth in the next chapter. There is yet another layer to the obfuscation of money’s true nature. This comes from the science of economics itself. THE MISSING PIECE Though each respective school of economics and its thought leaders differ in fundamental ways on a broad range of economic issues, they do share a common oversight— each fails to look at money itself. This blind spot is not a mere coincidence but, rather, endemic to the discipline. Economics textbooks, for example, define money by what it does, as discussed earlier—a store of value, a medium of exchange, a unit of account—rather than what it is.

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For several years, she wrote a monthly column for the Irish Tattler and codesigned special events for the magazine to encourage women’s entrepreneurship. In New York, she wrote for Interview Magazine, Elle, and the Daily News, then headed west to San Francisco, where she wrote for Grassroots/Dresdner RCM Bank, compiling investigative reports on companies and industry sector analysis. She produced radio interviews with thought leaders and was an occasional on-air host for New Dimensions Radio, syndicated to NPR and community radio stations nationally and overseas. In order to gain experience in how business really works, Jacqui conducted market research for multinational biotech and pharmaceutical companies. She was vice president of a former boutique technology public and investor relations company, ContentOne, which handled media and investor relations for firms ranging from start-ups to publicly traded companies.

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante
Published 9 Sep 2019

One Boston-based research consortium was able to get a vaccine for Lassa fever, a disease similar to Ebola, all the way to the animal-testing stage in just four months and for about $1 million, cutting many years and many millions of dollars from the usual process.42 That’s nothing short of astounding. At this moment, researchers are starting the final sprint toward the end of a very long race to develop vaccines that will inoculate us against diseases that are so ubiquitous that we simply accept them as part of life. Many thought leaders predict, though with some trepidation, that it won’t be long before we’re no longer throwing Hail Mary passes such as the annual influenza vaccine, which in some years protects less than a third of its recipients, which is still far better than nothing. (If you don’t get flu vaccines or vaccinate your kids, please do.

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Mind you, the debate is not about whether this will happen; it is about what we should do when it happens. The same is increasingly true among the political, business, and religious leaders with whom I spend more and more of my time these days, talking not just about new technologies but about their implications. Slowly but surely, these individuals—legislators, heads of state, CEOs, and thought leaders—are coming to recognize the world-changing potential of the work being done in the field of aging, and they want to be ready. All these people might be wrong. I might be wrong. But I expect to be around long enough to know one way or the other. If I am wrong, it might be that I was too conservative in my predictions.

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When the human brain was evolving, the only things to change in a lifetime were the seasons. It should come as no surprise that we find it hard to predict what will happen when millions of people work on complex technologies that suddenly merge. No matter if I’m right or wrong about the pace of change, barring a war or an epidemic, our lifespan will continue to rise. And the more thought leaders I speak to around the globe, the more I realize how vast the implications are. And yes, some of those people have allowed me to think and plan for events well beyond the initial scope of my research. But the people who push me to think even harder are the younger people I teach at Harvard and other universities, and the often even younger people I hear from via email and social media nearly every day.

In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest
by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster
Published 16 Aug 2021

However, the academic financial research by Markowitz as well as his fellow Nobel laureates such as James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, Bill Sharpe, Myron Scholes, Bob Merton, Gene Fama, and Bob Shiller and by other exceptional researchers has created a framework and repeatable process for investors that has led to the democratization of investment management. This book is about their contributions to portfolio management. Is there a Perfect Portfolio of assets for investors, one that offers the ideal mix of risk and reward? Over the past decade of our journey, we asked this question to ten prominent iconic figures and thought leaders in the industry—Harry Markowitz, Bill Sharpe, Gene Fama, Jack Bogle, Myron Scholes, Bob Merton, Marty Leibowitz, Bob Shiller, Charley Ellis, and Jeremy Siegel—and their answers were both expected and unexpected. Our pioneers, while admittedly not a diverse group (and, as you’ll see in the chart in a few pages, a group with many interconnections), were reflective of the field at the time.

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We review the intellectual history and evolution of portfolio management by highlighting and explaining the key contributions of some of its most significant researchers over the past seventy years—the era known as modern portfolio theory. We have added color and context through interviews—which took place in San Diego, Monterey, San Francisco, New York, Cambridge, Chicago, Malvern, and Philadelphia—with a different academic or industry thought leader featured in each chapter. We integrate the lessons learned from our interviews with these key portfolio management players in the concluding chapter and present an investing checklist to help you develop your own investment philosophy so you can determine the Perfect Portfolio that’s right for you.

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Think in terms of society as a whole, and think twice about what you’re investing in and its purpose. 10 Charles Ellis and Winning at the Loser’s Game CHARLES (CHARLEY) ELLIS has been called the wisest man on Wall Street. After all, he is recognized as the first insider to publicly question the benefits of active investment management, in the mid-1970s. Ellis is an exceptional pacesetter and thought leader. He developed a key consulting firm from scratch, through the simple method of carefully listening to decision makers of institutional financial service providers—banks, dealers, brokers, and investment managers—and then providing those clients with unbiased advice. His insightful and controversial article, “The Loser’s Game,” helped inspire the growth of index funds.

The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation
by Hannah Fry
Published 3 Feb 2015

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, our future. On TED.com, we’re building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world’s most inspired thinkers – and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. Our annual flagship conference convenes thought leaders from all fields to exchange ideas. Our TEDx programme allows communities worldwide to host their own independent, local events, all year long. And our Open Translation Project ensures these ideas can move across borders. In fact, everything we do – from the TED Radio Hour to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from TEDx events to the TED-Ed lesson series – is driven by this goal: how can we best spread great ideas?

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake
Published 15 Dec 2010

Think of Kevin Spacey’s character’s line in the movie The Usual Suspects: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” 2. VEGAS, BABY Another reason given for why there has not been a groundswell sufficient to address America’s vulnerability to cyber war is that the “thought leadership” group in the field can’t agree on what to do. To test that hypothesis, I went in search of the “thought leaders” in what you might think was one of the more unlikely places to find them, Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, in the 104-degree heat of August 2009. Caesars is an incongruous site on any day, filled as it is with statues and symbols of an empire that fell over fifteen centuries ago scattered among blinking slot machines and blackjack tables.

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Yet they looked to the Obama Administration for leadership in the area. At that point the Obama White House had already called over thirty people to see if they were interested in being the administration’s leader on cyberspace security. The search went on in Washington, as did the demonstrations down the hall of how to hack systems. As the “thought leaders” wandered out of the Pompeii Room somewhat dejected, hoping for leadership, they could hear erupting, probably from the Vesuvius Room, the sound of hundreds wailing as a hacker virtually sliced apart another iPhone. We did not rush over to see what application had been hacked. Instead, we went off to the blackjack tables, where the odds of our losing seemed less than those for American companies and government agencies hoping to stay safe in cyberspace. 3.

Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
by Dani Rodrik
Published 8 Oct 2017

We can always anticipate the hedgehog’s take on a problem—just as we can predict that market fundamentalists will always prescribe freer markets, regardless of the nature of the economic problem. Foxes carry competing, possibly incompatible theories in their heads. They are not attached to a particular ideology and find it easier to think contextually. In the terminology of Daniel Drezner, foxes are “thought leaders” while hedgehogs are the true public intellectuals.21 Scholars who are able to navigate from one explanatory framework to another as circumstances require are more likely to point us in the right direction. The world needs fewer hedgehogs and more foxes. CHAPTER 7 Economists, Politics, and Ideas For people who work in the world of ideas, economists are oddly silent on the role of ideas in shaping behavior and social outcomes.

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The fact that we debate such questions passionately suggests that we all have varying conceptions of where self-interest lies. Our interests are in fact hostage to our ideas. So, where do those ideas come from? Policy makers, like all of us, are slaves to fashion. Their perspectives on what is feasible and desirable are shaped by the zeitgeist, the “ideas in the air.” This means that economists and other thought leaders can exert much influence—for good or ill. Economists love theories that place organized special interests at the root of all political evil. In the real world, they cannot wriggle so easily out of responsibility for the bad ideas that they have so often spawned. With influence comes accountability.

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage
by Douglas B. Laney
Published 4 Sep 2017

—Vijay Thiruvengadam, Executive Director for Decision Support and Analytics, University of Michigan Laney was one of the first experts to identify and call out the power of Big Data. Now, in Infonomics, Laney issues a call to action. This book is a welcome addition to the emerging body of serious literature on the power of data in an Age of Information. —Randy Bean, CEO and Founder of NewVantage Partners LLC, and thought-leader and contributor to Forbes, MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal This book is essential for any CDO or aspiring CDO. More importantly it should be read by all CEOs who wish to lead a data driven business. The ideas, concepts, and examples are well thought through and are rigorous.

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However, in the current information-driven society and increasingly digitalized world, sentiments are shifting from the economics of tangible assets to the economics of information—“infonomics”—and other intangible assets. I have relegated the examination of information economics toward the end of this book, not just because it is the “-nomics” in the “infonomics” portmanteau, but because it is opening a portal to an unexplored universe of ideas. Thought leaders like Barb Wixom and Erik Brynjolfsson at MIT have researched and taught on monetizing information and the information economy, and UCSD’s Jim Short is researching data valuation. Others like Gartner’s Andrew White, Alan Duncan, Alan Dayley, and Brian Lowans, along with practitioners including John Ladley, James Price, Tony Fisher, Thomas Redman, Kelle O’Neal, Danette McGilvray, Theresa Kushner, Maria Villar, and Rob Hillard, have been pushing the envelope on how to manage information more like an asset.

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do
by Erik J. Larson
Published 5 Apr 2021

The myth of artificial intelligence is that its arrival is inevitable, and only a matter of time—that we have already embarked on the path that will lead to human-level AI, and then superintelligence. We have not. The path exists only in our imaginations. Yet the inevitability of AI is so ingrained in popular discussion—promoted by media pundits, thought leaders like Elon Musk, and even many AI scientists (though certainly not all)—that arguing against it is often taken as a form of Luddism, or at the very least a shortsighted view of the future of technology and a dangerous failure to prepare for a world of intelligent machines. As I will show, the science of AI has uncovered a very large mystery at the heart of intelligence, which no one currently has a clue how to solve.

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Russellians want to keep Ex Machina in movies, downsizing talk about superintelligence to more mathematically respectable ideas about general computation achieving “objectives.” Unfortunately, Russellians tend to lump human beings into restricted definitions of intelligence, too. This reduces the perceived gap between human and machine, but only by reducing human possibility along with it. Russellians are thought leaders in a cultural trend, which I have called “the simplified world.” As Jaron Lanier puts it, “A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.”18 Kurzweilians and Russellians alike promulgate a technocentric view of the world that both simplifies views of people—in particular, with deflationary views of intelligence as computation—and expands views of technology, by promoting futurism about AI as science and not myth.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa
Published 19 Oct 2022

That was when we launched the group; see Olivia Solon, “While Facebook Works to Create an Oversight Board, Industry Experts Formed Their Own,” NBC News, September 25, 2020, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-real-oversight-board-n1240958. 46.Ryan Mac and Craig Silverman, “‘Mark Changed the Rules’: How Facebook Went Easy on Alex Jones and Other Right-Wing Figures,” BuzzFeed News, February 22, 2021, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones; Sheera Frenkel et al., “Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis,” New York Times, November 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html. 47.Maria A. Ressa, “[ANALYSIS] As Democracy Dies, We Build a Global Future,” Rappler, October 13, 2020, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/analysis-as-democracy-dies-we-build-global-future/. 48.Maya Yang, “More Than 40% in US Do Not Believe Biden Legitimately Won Election—Poll,” Guardian, January 5, 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/america-biden-election-2020-poll-victory. The figures 37 percent of Americans and 10 percent of Democrats came from a private poll shared with me. 49.

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Mendoza, “Networked Propaganda: How the Marcoses Are Using Social Media to Reclaim Malacañang,” Rappler, November 20, 2019, https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/245290-marcos-networked-propaganda-social-media. 30.Cherry Salazar, “Robredo Leads, Marcos Snubs Advertising on Facebook,” Rappler, January 16, 2022, https://www.rappler.com/nation/elections/robredo-leads-marcos-snubs-facebook-advertising-as-of-december-31-2021/; “After Skipping Jessica Soho Interview, Marcos Accuses Award-Winning Journo of Bias,” Philippine Star, January 22, 2022, https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/01/22/2155660/after-skipping-jessica-soho-interview-marcos-accuses-award-winning-journo-bias. 31.Working Group on Infodemics Policy Framework, Forum on Information & Democracy, November 2020, https://informationdemocracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ForumID_Report-on-infodemics_101120.pdf. 32.International Fund for Public Interest Media, “Maria Ressa and Mark Thompson to Spearhead Global Effort to Save Public Interest Media,” September 30, 2021, https://ifpim.org/resources/maria-ressa-and-mark-thompson-to-spearhead-global-effort-to-save-public-interest-media/; and Maria Ressa, “As Democracy Dies, We Build a Global Future,” Rappler, October 13, 2020, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/analysis-as-democracy-dies-we-build-global-future/. 33.Anne Applebaum, “The Bad Guys Are Winning,” Atlantic, November 15, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/12/the-autocrats-are-winning/620526/. 34.“Defend Maria Ressa and Independent Media in the Philippines,” Committee to Protect Journalists, https://cpj.org/campaigns/holdtheline/. 35.Bea Cupin, “#FactsFirstPH: ‘Groundbreaking Effort Against Discrimination,’” Rappler, January 26, 2022, https://www.rappler.com/nation/philippine-media-civic-society-groups-launch-facts-first-philippines-initiative/. 36.Isabel Martinez, “Maria Ressa Brings the Readers.

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation
by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson
Published 30 Dec 2011

—Paul Ohm“Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization,” UCLA Law Review 57, p. 1702 If ethical practices are the result of ethical inquiry, then how do those practices show up in business today? This chapter explores findings from primary and secondary research, including direct one-on-one interviews with industry thought leaders and practitioners working at companies who use big data. Reading the privacy policies and other statements available on the websites of most organizations is a great way to understand how data-handling practices are showing up in the world today: they’re free, available to anyone on the Web, and, although often written in fairly legal language, generally state in somewhat accessible terms what policies an organization follows when handling data.

Why We Work
by Barry Schwartz
Published 31 Aug 2015

We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives, and, ultimately, our future. On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers—and a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other. Our annual flagship conference convenes thought leaders from all fields to exchange ideas. Our TEDx program allows communities worldwide to host their own independent, local events, all year long. And our Open Translation Project ensures these ideas can move across borders. In fact, everything we do—from the TED Radio Hour to the projects sparked by the TED Prize, from TEDx events to the TED-Ed lesson series — is driven by this goal: How can we best spread great ideas?

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Published 28 Sep 2010

These models not only failed to deliver competitive advantage, they contributed significantly to the collapse of the entire industry, and harmed many other parts of the economy. We believe that the proprietary nature of these risk management models is the Achilles’ heel of this risky business and that a radical new transparency provides a necessary antidote. Professor John C. Hull, a thought leader in derivatives at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and author of the industry bible, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, said “Markets are frozen because investors have no real idea of what they are buying [or] have bought. Huge amounts of aggregation and the absence of the low level data,” he argues, “make the true values of these assets and pending losses very difficult to determine.

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The engagement process, a digital brainstorm, was modeled after an event IBM first held in 2001, called an Innovation Jam, where IBM brought together its employees worldwide to explore solutions to global problems. In 2006, the same event was even more successful, bringing together 150,000 employees and dozens of thought leaders online to brainstorm new areas of opportunity for IBM in sectors such as health care, transportation, and energy. CEO Sam Palmisano believed so strongly in the concept that he committed up to $100 million to develop the ideas with the most social and economic potential.20 The World Urban Forum Secretariat didn’t have that kind of money to throw at urban sustainability initiatives, but through the courage and support of hundreds of organizations and individuals from around the world, the Habitat Jam broke down the barriers of language, literacy, disability, poverty, war, and the digital divide to enable over 39,000 people from 158 countries to begin a conversation that some say will change the world.21 The diversity of the 39,000 was impressive.

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The principles of wikinomics provide guidelines for reinvention, but the real work is happening in the trenches where people with passion, drive, and expertise are getting involved in making the world more just, sustainable, and prosperous. So first and foremost we would like to acknowledge the countless educators, entrepreneurs, community enablers, doctors and health practitioners, artists and activists, public servants, scientists, social innovators, journalists, technologists, and thought leaders who are showing the world a way forward. Like Wikinomics, this book was inspired by several multimillion-dollar research programs directed by nGenera and funded by companies and governments around the world. We are thankful to nGenera CEO Tom Kelly, chairman and founder Steve Papermaster, and the director of nGenera Insight think tank Joan Bigham for their support and encouragement.

The Rapture of the Nerds
by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
Published 3 Sep 2012

Behind Doc, Bonnie stops struggling and emits a sound like a stifled, frightened giggle. Huw rolls his eyes. “Bonnie? Did she tell you where—?” Ade groans. Doc’s head whips around: “Be silent, heretic!” “Let me get this straight?” Huw asks. “You reincarnated and came here because you heard that your Thought-Leader has returned and is preaching the rapture of the uploaded? And if you get her, you’ll take her back to Jesusland and do the whole storming heaven thing and leave us alone?” “Don’t push your luck,” Doc says, his finger whitening on the trigger—just as the doorbell rings again. “Hello, is Bonnie here?

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No no no, that won’t do at all!” Her hair is almost standing on end, crackling with indignation: “What priest-ridden nonsense is this?” She grabs Doc by one ear and lifts. “Put that disgusting thing down right this instant, I say!” He lets go of the Taser shotgun as he rises, perforce to a stoop (for the Thought-Leader is not a tall person in this reincarnate body). “Do you call yourself an Objectivist? You aren’t fit to shine Alan Greenspan’s boots! And what’s this I hear about this bizarre superstitious plan to bring about a universal theocracy? Your illogic disgusts me! Truly pathological. Feh. You and I, we are going to have an open-minded discussion about the meaning of hypocrisy in the context of rational thought grounded on Aristotelian axioms.

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
Published 12 Jul 2021

He assured her that he could handle the controversy by convening a meeting of top conservative media executives, think tank leaders, and pundits in Menlo Park. It was critical, however, that Zuckerberg agree to play a prominent role in the event. On May 18, sixteen prominent conservative media personalities and thought leaders—including Glenn Beck of Blaze TV, Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute, and Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots—flew to Menlo Park for the afternoon gathering to air their concerns of political bias. Only Republican Facebook staff were allowed in the room, a former Facebook official said.

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That year, he had pledged to focus on fixing Facebook’s myriad problems: “protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent.”16 In 2019, he announced that he would host a series of discussions with thought leaders on the role of technology in society and the future. For 2020, he announced a more audacious goal. Instead of an annual challenge, Zuckerberg would tackle some of the most intractable problems facing the globe over the next decade. In a 1,500-word post, he reflected on his role as a father and on his nonprofit work to cure disease and extend life expectancy.

The Centrist Manifesto
by Charles Wheelan
Published 18 Apr 2013

Neither party has made this a priority. (The Republicans are often hostile to the idea of ceding any authority to international organizations.) The Centrist Party can offer leadership as we construct international institutions to deal with issues for the next fifty years, just as a generation of thoughtful leaders did after World War II. The Centrist Process We must also improve how we go about governance—how we approach problems, how we treat disagreement, even how we elect our leaders. Americans are not merely fed up with what politicians do; they are fed up with the entire political process, particularly the corrosive effect of money in campaigns.

The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
by Reid Hoffman , Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh
Published 15 Jan 2014

LinkedIn has a similar program under which employees can expense their lunches with smart people in the industry, as long as they summarize what they learned from the lunch on their expense report—a neat intersection of the alliance with old-school HR operations. Neither of these programs takes a lot of time and effort; just a single policy and some minimal expense. Facilitate Speaking Gigs for Your Employees Give your people time to take on leadership roles and speaking gigs in associations. Employees who are thought leaders outside the company improve the company brand and the employee’s own personal brand. For example, Moz, a Seattle-based marketing software start-up has a number of programs to encourage employees to speak. “If you get a speaking spot at an event, Moz will cover the travel and accommodations,” Moz founder Rand Fishkin told us.

San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness
Published 5 Apr 2023

Sign up to Mortified’s newsletter to get advance notice of upcoming events before tickets sell out. g Spoken Word g Contents Google Map MANNY’S Map 4; 3092 16th Street, The Mission; ///noon.rested.coherent; www.welcometomannys.com A nightly calendar of Q&As with politicians, activists, journalists, and thought leaders – past speakers include Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garzer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi – draws a mixed bunch of hippies and hipsters to this civically minded spot. By day, it’s MacBooks and macchiatos; by night, spirited debates on hot-button issues like colorism and homelessness.

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
by James Rickards
Published 15 Nov 2016

Media elites gather each July at the Allen & Company Sun Valley conference in Idaho. Central bankers gather in August at the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, conference sponsored by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. Military and intelligence elites gather at the Munich Security Conference in early February. Thought leaders and public intellectuals can take their pick from among the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, and the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Vancouver. These super-elite venues are not run-of-the-mill industry conventions.

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While partners were at the golf course or racetrack thinking risk was under control, LTCM was a ticking time bomb. In August 1998, the bomb exploded. Aftermath Complexity theory is not understood by regulators today, so perhaps LTCM partners can be forgiven for not understanding complexity in 1998. Yet once that collapse occurred, it might be expected that thought leaders in finance, like Alan Greenspan, Bob Rubin, and Larry Summers, would have learned lessons and tried to avoid a similar collapse in the future. They did just the opposite. In August 1998, as the LTCM debacle unfolded, Alan Greenspan was Federal Reserve chairman, Bob Rubin was treasury secretary, and Larry Summers was Rubin’s deputy, soon to be treasury secretary himself.

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
by Bruce Nussbaum
Published 5 Mar 2013

How to Build Innovative Companies,” BusinessWeek, August 1, 2005. 13 Years after I initially began these conversations: personal record. 14 I had joined Danny Hillis: I’d been covering design for more than a decade by the time of this meeting and was on a first-name basis with most of those attending it. They were what management consultants called “thought leaders” in innovation and design. They were, in fact, among the leading thought leaders of the field in the world. I’ve spoken at conferences organized by Patrick Whitney and have been onstage with Roger Martin and Larry Keeley. 15 While most Fortune 500s were no longer: Davis Dyer, Frederick Dalzell, and Rowena Olegario, Rising Tide: Lessons from 165 Years of Brand Building at Procter & Gamble (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2004). 15 With products like the Swiffer mop: Henry W.

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George
Published 7 Jan 2014

He has come to discoveries similar to mine by studying a number of companies (including Whole Foods Market) that are loved by all their stakeholders and have consequently become extraordinarily successful at creating both wealth and well-being. He investigated and described what made these companies special in his influential and inspiring 2007 book Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose. Over the last five years, together with a number of influential business and thought leaders, Raj and I have pursued our shared calling of changing the way business is thought about, taught, and practiced through our work in the Conscious Capitalism movement. In 2009, Raj cofounded the Conscious Capitalism Institute, which has now merged into Conscious Capitalism, Inc. (www.ConsciousCapitalism.org), a nonprofit of which we are both trustees.

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In 2003 he was cited as one of “50 Leading Marketing Thinkers” and named to the “Guru Gallery” by the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing. Bentley University honored him with the Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2007 and the Innovation in Teaching Award in 2008. He was named one of “Ten Outstanding Trailblazers of 2010” by Good Business International and one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America for 2010 and 2011. Sisodia has published seven books and more than 100 academic articles. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, and the Financial Times. His book The Rule of Three: How Competition Shapes Markets was a finalist for the Best Book in Marketing award from the American Marketing Association.

Zero to Sold: How to Start, Run, and Sell a Bootstrapped Business
by Arvid Kahl
Published 24 Jun 2020

Find the latest popular books released in your niche. Read reviews and summaries, or read the whole book if you have the time. You’ll find concepts and ideas that might not yet have been implemented as a service. This is particularly true for academic papers and articles. Follow the leaders. In social media, follow the thought leaders and influencers in your niche. See what they are saying, hear what they are complaining about, and read the conversations they’re surfacing. Are they saying something controversial that gets a lot of pushback from the incumbents? That is an opportunity for progress that you can facilitate. You can also look into what is being said about competitors to find out what’s lacking about existing solutions.

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Both roles allow you to be involved and benefit from the interconnected nature of tribes in different ways. To build a tribe around your business, you can step up as a leader, enabling your customers and those who could become customers to connect with each other, while centering it around your product. But even as a follower of the thought leaders inside a tribe, you will benefit from the knowledge and expertise you'll accumulate. You will learn how people tick, what metaphorical language they speak, and what their needs and desires are. No matter if you lead or follow, being part of a tribe will give you valuable insights. People have an innate need for connection on every level of their lives.

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo
by Rebecca Walker
Published 15 Mar 2022

After graduating, she organized a collective of artist activists based in Brooklyn. In 2016, she cofounded the Model Mafia, a growing network of hundreds of fashion models committed to building a more equitable, just, and sustainable industry and world. SONYA RENEE TAYLOR Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, transformational thought leader, author of six books including the New York Times bestselling The Body is Not an Apology, and founder of the movement and digital media and education company of the same name. Her work has reached millions of people by exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice using a radical self-love framework.

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As a founder, she was backed by top Silicon Valley investors and built partnerships with some of the world’s largest technology, travel, and media companies. Jamie has been named a Forbes “Up-and-Comer,” a Business Insider “Top Founder to Watch,” and a Huffington Post “Top 50 Non-Technical Founder in Technology.” As a thought leader in social justice, impact investing, and entrepreneurship, Jamie has appeared on major networks, such as CBS, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg, and her writing has appeared in several publications, including Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and The End of The Golden Gate, an anthology published by Chronicle Books.

California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--And What It Means for America's Power Grid
by Katherine Blunt
Published 29 Aug 2022

Darbee understood. Though he had never considered himself much of a progressive, he had been thinking seriously about what climate change meant for a company like PG&E. He decided to explore the question exhaustively. Part of the process involved a series of events in which Darbee invited academics and thought leaders to share their perspectives on climate change. Elon Musk, then new to Tesla, appeared at one to talk about electric vehicles. Peevey, sometimes a speaker, sometimes in the audience, developed a certain respect for Darbee. The two men began spending more time together—environmental events, a San Francisco Giants game.

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He had agreed to tape an episode of Climate One, a public forum and podcast series held at the Commonwealth Club. The host, a former journalist named Greg Dalton, had launched the show a few years earlier as a platform to discuss environmental and policy matters with business executives, scientists, and other thought leaders. There was reason to invite Earley on the show. Under his leadership, PG&E had continued to make progress on meeting its renewable energy targets even as it plowed money into pipeline repairs. By 2015, renewables were serving 30 percent of the company’s electricity needs, putting it squarely on track to meet the state mandate of 33 percent by 2020.

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das
Published 14 Oct 2011

In 2001, Jim O’Neill, an analyst with Goldman Sachs, came up with the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) economies. CRIB was rejected as infantile. It was marketing genius. The now ubiquitous acronym pithily captured the increasing power of emerging countries in the global economy. As investors and companies flooded into the BRIC economies, Goldmans, the thought leaders, earned large fees from providing advice, raising money, and investing it. In India in 2007, when a fund management company was listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange, its share price went up sharply because one of the management team had worked with O’Neill on the BRIC research. In 2010, O’Neill introduced a new acronym for favored frontier markets—CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa).

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Taking the agenda-less time to absorb a point of view that I had ignored while loved ones around me relished it was an oasis for my soul.” Barrack experienced an epiphany: “It is hard for us to dream...it is time for all of us...to spend more time outside the strict arithmetic cadence of our business...we must really find the ‘moment.’”24 George Soros craves acceptance as a thought leader. Appearing before the U.S. Congress, Soros brought along a copy of his latest book to promote it. For Soros, a man of letters and a hedge fund manager were identical career choices: The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don’t have much personal use for money.

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See also mortgages shorting (2005/2006), 256 subsidies, 334, 348 Suma Oriental, 82 Sumitomo, 227 Summers, Lawrence, 116, 129, 214, 300, 304, 315 Sunday Times, 364 super jumbo loans, 182 Super Return annual industry conference, 162 super senior tranches, 175 supply of assets, 267 survivorship bias, 243 suspension of deep-water drilling, 362 Suze Orman Show, The, 93 Suze Orman’s Financial Freedom, 93 swaps correlation, 255 credit default swaps (CDS), 232, 237 dispersion, 255 Fiat, 222-223 first-to-default (FtD), 220-221 gamma, 255 total return swap (TRS), 209 Swensen, David, 124 Swift, Jonathon, 130 Sydney Airport, 159 synchronous lateral excitation, 273 synthetic securitization, 173, 176 systematic risk, 118 T TAC (target amortization class) bonds, 178 TAF (term auction facility), 340 tail risk, 246 Tainter, Joseph, 349 takeovers (risk arb), 242 Taleb, Nicholas Nassim, 126, 246 Talking Heads, The, 46 taming risk, 120-122 Tang dynasty, 351 tansu savings, 39 Tao Jones Averages, The, 96 TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) trades, 217-218 target redemption forwards, 217 Tavakoli, Janet, 177 taxes avoidance, 48-49 cuts, 348 Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), 82-83 favorable regimes, 41 leveraged buyouts (LBOs), 138 VAT (value added tax), 262 tchotchkes, 162 Teenage Cancer Trust, 262 Teledyn, 60 television, financial news, 91-99 Templars, 32 temporary suspension of deep-water drilling, 362 Terra Firma Capital Partners, 154, 157, 162, 165 terrorism, 44 Texas Instruments (TI), 122 Texas International, 146 Texas Pacific Group, 154 Textron, 60 Thain, John, 291, 319, 330 Thaler, Richard, 126 Thatcher, Margaret, 66, 81, 158 the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA or Ginnie Mae), 179 theoretical profits, 231 theories, bubbles, 277-278 Theory of the Leisure Class, The, 41 This American Life, 185 Thompson, Todd, 93 Thoreau, Henry David, 359 Thornton, John, 76 Thorp, Edward, 121 thought leaders, 90 thundering herd, the, 66 TICKETs (tradable interest bearing convertible to equity trust securities), 160 Tierney, John, 98 Tiger Fund, 243 Time, 45, 129 Time Warner, 58 Tobias, Seth, 322 TOBs (tender option bonds), 222 toggle loans, 154 toilets, Japanese, 38 Tokyo as a financial center, 78 tools, six sigma, 60 Torii, Mayumi, 43 Toscanini, Arturo, 157 total return swap (TRS), 209 Tourre, Fabrice, 199 toxic currency structures, 218-219 toxic waste, 172 Toynbee, Arnold, 354 Toys R Us, 155 TPG, 156 trade protectionism, 334, 349 trading, 23-24 alleys, 92 banks, 73 proprietary, 352 securities, 66 stabilization of global trade, 349 traditional banking models, 68 tranches, 169 AAA, 203 equity, 192 innovation of, 178 super senior, 175 synthetic CDOs, 174 Z, 170, 178 transfers risk, central banks, 281-282 systems, money, 22 Transformers, 278 Travelers, merger of with Citicorp, 75 Treynor, Jack, 117 trickle-down economics, 42-43 Triffin dilemma, 31 Triffin, Robert, 31 Trollope, Anthony, 173 Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), 340 troy ounce bars, 25.

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 14 Jun 2017

Its sole purpose is to display a quote by Anaïs Nin, which I see every day: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” It’s a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know—world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more—look at their life’s journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves. This book is not intended to be a passive experience. It’s intended to be a call to action. You are the author of your own life, and it’s never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself and the world.

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A few things that stuck with me were that they were committed to practicing every day, they had very strong adherence to their precepts, and they only traveled in groups and always stuck together. “Show up in every moment like you’re meant to be there, because your energy precedes anything you could possibly say.” Marie Forleo TW/IG: @marieforleo marieforleo.com MARIE FORLEO has been called “a thought leader for the next generation” by Oprah Winfrey. She is the creator of the award-winning show MarieTV and the founder of B-School, and Forbes has included her website on its list of “100 Best Websites for Entrepreneurs.” Marie has mentored young business owners at Richard Branson’s Centre of Entrepreneurship, and she is the author of Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You’ll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!

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I’ve read Seneca’s letters hundreds of times and recommended them thousands more. Stoicism is a no-nonsense philosophical system designed to produce real-world results. Think of it as an operating system for thriving in high-stress environments. Thomas Jefferson kept Seneca’s writing on his bedside table. George Washington, thought leaders in Silicon Valley, and NFL coaches and players alike (e.g., Patriots, Seahawks) have embraced Stoicism because it makes them better competitors. The Tao of Seneca covers all of the fundamentals. TED Talk on “Fear-Setting”—tim.blog/ted In this talk (3M+ views) I describe the most important exercise that I do at least once a month.

This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
by Marc Stickdorn , Markus Edgar Hormess , Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider
Published 12 Jan 2018

He considers himself very fortunate to have been able to learn service design from some of the brightest thought leaders in the industry. JOHAN DOVELIUS — HEAD OF SERVICE DESIGN, DOBERMAN With 15 years in the design field, Johan has broad and deep experience in service design. Besides everyday work on design projects with clients, Johan is responsible for the art and practice of service design at Doberman as a design firm. JOUB MIRADORA — CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, SUN LIFE FINANCIAL PHILIPPINES Joub is the Chief Digital Officer of Sun Life Financial in the Philippines. He is a change maker and thought leader with 15 years of experience in strategic marketing, customer insights, corporate strategy, and corporate social responsibility in the fast-moving consumer goods and financial services sectors.

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As the founder of Groh! innovation, she consults with some of the world’s leading brands on strategic design challenges. She is the author of Change Ahead: How Research and Design Are Transforming Business Strategy, published in 2015. CATHY HUANG — FOUNDER AND CHAIRPERSON, WECO Cathy is a respected thought leader in the design industry. Under her guidance, CBi has become the primary design research and innovation design consultancy in China. Cathy has judged numerous renowned design competitions and she is frequently invited to speak at international conferences regarding innovation and design. In addition, her design views have been featured in magazines and television shows around the world.

Architects of Intelligence
by Martin Ford
Published 16 Nov 2018

There’s this idea that there is a true existential threat, something that’s been raised by Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking, where super intelligence could happen very rapidly, a recursive self-improvement loop. I’ve heard people say that your AutoML might be one step toward that because you’re using technology to design other machine learning systems. What do you think about that? FEI-FEI LI: I think that it’s healthy that we have thought leaders like Nick Bostrom to conjecture a fairly troubling future of AI, or at least send warning signs of things that could impact us in ways that we didn’t expect. But I think it’s important to contextualize that, because in the long history of human civilization, every time a new social order or technology has been invented, it’s had that same potential to disrupt the human world in unexpected and deeply profound ways.

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Many startups try to create a product in anticipation of a market being there; but in your case, the customers told you exactly what they wanted, and you responded directly to that. RANA EL KALIOUBY: You’re absolutely right, and it quickly became apparent that we were sitting on a potentially huge commercial opportunity. Collectively, Rosalind and I felt that between us we had started this field, we were thought leaders, and that we wanted to do it in a very ethical way as well—which was core to us. MARTIN FORD: What are you working on at Affectiva now, and what’s your overall vision for where it’s going to go in the future? RANA EL KALIOUBY: Our overall vision is that we’re on a mission to humanize technology.

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Affectiva is part of the Partnership on AI consortium, and a member of the FATE working group, which is the Fair, Accountable, Transparent and Equitable AI. Through working with these groups, our mandate is to develop guidelines that advocate for the equivalent of an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) process for AI. Alongside this work, Affectiva publishes best practices and guidelines for the industry. Since we are thought leaders, it is our responsibility to be an advocate for regulation, and to move the ball forward, as opposed to just saying, “Oh, yeah. We’re just going to wait until legislation comes about.” I don’t think that that’s the right solution. I’m also a part of the World Economic Forum, on which there’s an international forum council on robotics and AI.

The New Prophets of Capital
by Nicole Aschoff
Published 10 Mar 2015

. ________ 1Randall Smith,”As His Foundation Has Grown, Gates Has Slowed His Donations,” New York Times, May 26, 2014. 2Bill Gates, Harvard commencement speech, June 7, 2007. 3Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008, p. 12. 4Bill Gates, Harvard commencement speech. 5Bill Gates, “A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century,” speech at the World Economic Forum 2008, Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2008. 6See www.gatesfoundation.org. 7Melinda Gates, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar, Stanford Center for Professional Development, November 14, 2012. 8Bill Gates, Harvard commencement speech. 92014 Gates Annual Letter, http://annualletter.gatesfoundation.org/. 10Phillip McMichael, Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2008. 11See http://files.amnesty.org/INGO/INGOAC.pdf. 12Bishop and Green, Philanthrocapitalism, p. 21. 13Joan Roelofs, “Foundations and Collaboration,” Critical Sociology 33: 3, May 2007, 479–504; see also G.

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It
by Robert B. Reich
Published 3 Sep 2012

In 2003, Reich was awarded the prestigious Václav Havel Foundation Prize for pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2008, Time magazine named him one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century, and The Wall Street Journal named him one of the nation’s ten most influential business thought-leaders. www.robertreich.org ALSO BY ROBERT B. REICH Aftershock Supercapitalism Reason I’ll Be Short The Future of Success Locked in the Cabinet The Work of Nations The Resurgent Liberal Tales of a New America The Next American Frontier AS EDITOR The Power of Public Ideas AS CO-AUTHOR, WITH JOHN D.

Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
by Bethany McLean
Published 13 Sep 2015

According to Paul Willen, a senior economist at the Boston Federal Reserve, between 2008 and 2014 the Fed would purchase $2.8 trillion of agency mortgage-backed securities. Employees of Fannie and Freddie, now dubbed the “Toxic Twins,” were demoralized by the flood of criticism, and under the terms of the conservatorship they weren’t allowed to say anything to defend themselves. They weren’t allowed to lobby, or even go to conferences, talk to academics or thought leaders, write op-eds, or attend outside meetings without permission (which, says an employee, was often withheld). “We had no voice,” says a former executive. “So the philosophy was, ‘Head down, focus on what you can do. We do not want the company to be remembered this way. We’ve got to fix this’.” Private capital totally disappeared from the mortgage market.

Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide for Separation, Liberation & Inspiration
by Karen C. L. Anderson
Published 13 Mar 2018

She lives and breathes from a place of integrity and certainty, because of her strong and appropriate boundaries. As a result, she is relaxed and at peace. She belongs to herself. She has an undefended heart. —With thanks to Martha Beck and Elizabeth Gilbert. Katherine Woodward Thomas’ contribution to the field of personal growth is deep and wide. Her work has influenced many of the thought leaders who have influenced me. I am grateful for and honored by her endorsement of my own work. Even more so, I am profoundly thankful for the groundbreaking work she has done in the world. Thank you, Katherine, from the bottom of my bottomless heart. ~ Karen C.L. Anderson Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 1 Lineage Chapter 2 A Note to Daughters…and Their Mothers Chapter 3 Why I Do This, Plus FAQs and an Invitation Chapter 4 Living in Either/Or Land Chapter 5 Awakening Chapter 6 “So, Tell Me about Your Relationship with Your Mother.”

San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness
Published 4 Oct 2021

Sign up to Mortified’s newsletter to get advance notice of upcoming events before tickets sell out. g Spoken Word g Contents Google Map MANNY’S Map 4; 3092 16th Street, The Mission; ///noon.rested.coherent; www.welcometomannys.com A nightly calendar of Q&As with politicians, activists, journalists, and thought leaders – past speakers include Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garzer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi – draws a mixed bunch of hippies and hipsters to this civically minded spot. By day, it’s MacBooks and macchiatos; by night, spirited debates on hot-button issues like colorism and homelessness.

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Published 2 Oct 2017

But the thrust of his rhetoric was martial. “We shrink in fear of teenage thugs on every street,” he wrote. “More important, we shrink even from contemplating the forceful collective action we know is required.” Even as The Atlantic published those words, violent crime had begun to plunge. But thought leaders were slow to catch up. In 1996, William J. Bennett, John P. Walters, and John J. DiIulio Jr. partnered to publish perhaps the most infamous tract of the tough-on-crime era, Body Count: Moral Poverty…and How to Win America’s War Against Crime and Drugs. The authors (wrongly) predicted a new crime wave driven by “inner-city children” who were growing up “almost completely unmoralized and develop[ing] character traits” that would “lead them into a life of illiteracy, illicit drugs, and violent crimes.”

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Ostensibly assaulted by campus protests, battered by theories of intersectionality, throttled by bathroom rights, a blameless white working class did the only thing any reasonable polity might: elect an orcish reality television star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form. That Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for economic decline as a driving force among Trump’s supporters is, at best, mixed. In a study of polling data, Gallup researchers Jonathan T. Rothwell and Pablo Diego-Rosell found that “people living in areas with diminished economic opportunity” were “somewhat more likely to support Trump.”

Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America
by Danielle Dimartino Booth
Published 14 Feb 2017

But that was effectively what he had done by becoming underwriter extraordinaire to Congress’s bidding. Hoenig left the Fed in 2012 to become vice chairman of the FDIC. Plosser and Fisher soldiered on, joined by fellow hawks Bullard and Esther George of Kansas City. “With Mr. Fisher as a thought leader, some of the best new ideas are being developed within the Federal Reserve System,” MIT professor Simon Johnson wrote in the New York Times. I bet Bernanke loved that. However, the actions of the doves would always supersede the words of the hawks. Wall Street’s quip “QEternity” no longer seemed far-fetched.

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On June 3, 2009: FRBM: David Fettig, “Who Do You Trust With Your Money: Two Books Take a Hard Look at Federal Reserve Independence,” The Region, September 2009, www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/who-do-you-trust-with-your-money. Hoenig left the Fed: FDIC Board of Directors: Thomas M. Hoenig, fdic.gov, www.FDIC.gov/learn/board/hoenig/bio/html. “With Mr. Fisher as a thought leader”: Simon Johnson, “The London Whale, Richard Fisher and Cyprus,” New York Times, March 21, 2013. The December 2012 FOMC statement: FR: FOMC Statement, December 12, 2012. CHAPTER 20: THE TAPER TANTRUM Yes, I think it is working: Jim Tankersley, “Janet Yellen in Her Own Words: An Exclusive Interview,” Washington Post, October 9, 2013, www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/10/09/janet-yellen-in-her-own-words-an-exclusive-interview/.

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale
Published 14 May 2020

New fields (such as fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning) are developing in real time as universities meet both student and social demands. As computer scientists and operations researchers explore better ways to accomplish our goals, there will be a constant and necessary pushback from others capable of articulating the human values embedded in traditional approaches. When thought leaders in AI say humans need to be more emotionally “adaptable,” to be understood by machines, thoughtful commentators can observe how such discipline distorts and degrades experience.9 Apt emotional responses are more than mere sensation; they fuse knowledge and feeling in ways that disclose deeply troubling or worthwhile aspects of a situation.

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These arguments, woven throughout this book, are not popular among the corporate leaders now overseeing so many of the most important projects in automation. Nor do they fit comfortably in dominant economic paradigms. A narrow conception of efficiency reigns. If a machine can do a task as it is defined now (or, worse, as it is distorted and simplified to accelerate automation), it is almost certainly going to be cheaper than a human worker. Thought leaders in business tend to model labor as one more input into the productive process, to be cheapened as much as possible. In my treatment of labor and professions, I have challenged that reasoning. Societies have treated certain groups of workers as more than mere inputs to productive processes. They are human capital to be invested in—trusted fiduciaries, expert advisors, and skilled artisans.

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol
Published 13 Apr 2020

Entrepreneurship.org, “Field Observations with Fresh Eyes: Tom Kelley (IDEO),” video, YouTube, uploaded June 24, 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvkivmyKgEA. 42. Paul Bennett, “Design Is in the Details,” TED talk, July 2005, www.ted.com/talks/paul_bennett_finds_design_in_the_details. 43. Art Kleiner, “The Thought Leader Interview: Tim Brown,” Strategy + Business, August 27, 2009, www.strategy-business.com/article/09309?gko=84f90. 44. Kleiner, “Tim Brown.” 45. “Ideo on 60 Minutes and CBS This Morning,” video, IDEO, April 2013, www.ideo.com/post/ideo-on-60-minutes-and-cbs-this-morning. 46. Joe Rogan, “Neil deGrasse Tyson,” episode 919, video, Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, February 21, 2017, http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/neil-degrasse-tyson. 47.

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Sitkin, “Facts, Figures, and Organizational Decisions: Carter Racing and Quantitative Analysis in the Organizational Behavior Classroom,” Journal of Management Education 14, no. 1 (1990): 62–81, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/105256298901400108. 60. “Simply Great: Charlie Munger’s Speech to the Harvard School, June 1986—‘Invert, Always Invert,’” BizNews, June 13, 1986, www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/1986/06/13/charlie-mungers-speech-to-the-harvard-school-june-1986. 61. Gary Klein, “Performing a Project Premortem,” Harvard Business Review, September 2007, https://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem. 62. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (London: A. Millar, 1759). 63.

Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Published 26 Sep 2022

It’s how the Associated Press reports on minor league baseball and how the LA Times gets out its initial stories on earthquakes.16 Many publishers have resorted to ever more intrusive advertising and ever more clickable content, making themselves ever less attractive to subscribers. Some of these initiatives blur the line between editorial and ads—like Rolling Stone’s offer to let “thought leaders” pay two thousand dollars to write for them and “shape the future of culture,”17 or Forbes, which sells advertisers the right to blog on its site.18 This revenue hole is disastrous on any number of fronts. For democracy, because there are so few commercial resources remaining to fund investigative journalism and scrutinize government, enabling corruption and waste to flourish.

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Newspapers Have Shed Half of Their Newsroom Employees Since 2008,” Fact Tank, Pew Research Center, Apr. 20, 2020, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/20/u-s-newsroom-employment-has-dropped-by-a-quarter-since-2008. 16. Jaclyn Peiser, “The Rise of the Robot Reporter,” New York Times, Feb. 5, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial-intelligence-journalism-robots.html. 17. Archie Bland, “Rolling Stone Seeks ‘Thought Leaders’ Willing to Pay $2,000 to Write for Them,” Guardian, Jan. 23, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/23/rolling-stone-magazine-culture-council-publication. 18. BrandVoice, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/connect/content-solutions/brandvoice. 19. Timberg, Culture Crash, 231. 20. James Meese, “Advertising, Algorithms, and Democratic Risk,” unpublished manuscript, 2020, 16. 21.

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
by Orly Lobel
Published 17 Oct 2022

As of yet, what we call “artificial intelligence” is not sentient, and in a basic sense it is not yet artificial nor intelligent. AI tools are human-made tools that help us humans understand and direct the complexity of our world. The fears surrounding AI oscillate between its nascent reality and its omnipotent future. Thought leaders and industry moguls from Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk have warned that at a critical moment when AI becomes independent, the human race should be quite concerned about its own survival. Hawking wrote, “The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble.”

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The answer is that it can do so in countless ways, but with a caveat: if we are to embrace our coexistence with smart homes, smart cars, smart assistants, and ultimately smart friends, we need to be smart about all of them. In every field of work and play, and in every sphere of life, whether politics, markets, or family, our deep-seated moral commitments are facing new opportunities to harness technology. In 1985, feminist technology thought leader Donna Haraway published A Cyborg Manifesto. She envisioned a liberating future through technology, making gender a much more fluid, insignificant, and perhaps altogether obsolete category. She dreamed that we could all adopt a cyborg identity, and that gender would no longer confine us. Fast-forward a few decades, and technology and society are beginning to realize this vision.

Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours
by Marc Nager , Clint Nelsen and Franck Nouyrigat
Published 8 Nov 2011

The Startup Weekend team strongly believes that businesses flourish or die because of their business model—their business plan. Traditional business settings emphasize revenue generation and cash flows. Cutting-edge business trends, however—like those championed by Steve Blank and some of the other thought leaders mentioned in this chapter—urge founders to concentrate on the quality of their ideas and products; and they encourage them to do this, not through the lens of profitability, but by focusing on the overall vision, framework, and team. That's why we discourage people from presenting some ridiculous growth curve for their revenue during their final presentations.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Klaus Schwab
Published 11 Jan 2016

The Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils and our “future-oriented communities” strongly engaged in this topic and provided rich insights on all the topics discussed here. Special appreciation goes to the Global Agenda Councils on the Future of Software and Society, Migration and the Future of Cities. I am also grateful to the remarkable array of thought leaders who so generously contributed their time and insights on this topic during the Summit on the Global Agenda 2015 in Abu Dhabi, as well as members of the Forum’s Global Shapers, Young Global Leaders, and Young Scientists communities, particularly those who contributed ideas through TopLink, the Forum’s virtual knowledge and collaboration platform.

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier
Published 28 May 2018

AUTHOR’S NOTE, MARCH 2018: This book was written primarily during the final months of 2017, but events in 2018 turned out to be explosively relevant. The manuscript was done, done, done—headed to the printer—when the sorry revelations of the Cambridge Analytica scandal fueled a sudden, grassroots movement of people deleting Facebook accounts. Unfortunately, not all public figures and thought leaders handled the moment with the courage that was required. There were pundits who tried to quit but could not. There were others who pointed out that not everyone is privileged enough to quit, so it felt cruel to leave the less fortunate behind. Others said it was irrelevant to quit because the thing that mattered was pressuring governments to regulate Facebook.

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Published 14 Jul 2015

But marketing is Arton Capital’s biggest talent: the firm is known for building a flashy website, producing globe-themed party favors, including a leaflet shaped like a passport with every citizenship-by-investment option inside and a name tag that looks like a boarding pass, hiring models to staff his events, and parking Arton-branded race cars outside conference hotel entrances, just for show. Though Arton lacks Swiss discretion, he’s still taking cues from Henley. Both Kalin and Arton have courted the same names—academics, thought leaders, researchers, heads of state—to speak at their conferences. Both men are organizing their own respective “Global Citizen Awards” to honor an individual who represents the greatest hope for global citizenship. (The Clinton Global Initiative has an eponymous award; among its honorees are Malala Yousefsai, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg, and the CEO of a bakery known as the “United Nations of Bread.”)

Beautiful Testing: Leading Professionals Reveal How They Improve Software (Theory in Practice)
by Adam Goucher and Tim Riley
Published 13 Oct 2009

Naturally a keen observer of teams and processes, Jennitta has published many experience-based papers for conferences and software journals, and delivers practical, simulation-based tutorials and in-house training covering agile requirements, process adaptation, automated examples, and project retrospectives. Jennitta’s ongoing work has culminated in international recognition as a thought leader in the area of agile requirements and automated examples. She is very active in the agile community, serving a third term on the Agile Alliance Board of Directors, director of the Agile Alliance Functional Test Tool Program to advance the state of the art of automated functional test tools, member of the Advisory Board of IEEE Software, and member of many conference committees.

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Jennitta founded The Andrea Group in 2007 where she remains actively engaged on agile projects as a hands-on practitioner and coach, and continues to bridge theory and practice in her writing and teaching. S COTT B ARBER is the chief technologist of PerfTestPlus, executive director of the Association for Software Testing, cofounder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability, and coauthor of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications (Microsoft Press). He is widely recognized as a thought leader in software performance testing and is an international keynote speaker. A trainer of software testers, Mr. Barber is an AST-certified On-Line Lead Instructor who has authored over 100 educational articles on software testing. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, American Mensa, and the Context-Driven School of Software Testing, and is a signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

Finance and the Good Society
by Robert J. Shiller
Published 1 Jan 2012

A moment’s re ection, it would seem, might convince such persons that a function which occupies so important a place in the mechanism of modern business must be a useful and necessary part of that mechanism; but re ection seems to have little part in the intellectual equipment of the assailants of organized markets.1 Certainly, Conant was right about public opinion. Many thought leaders have said as much. He must have known that Karl Marx thought speculation was akin to gambling: “Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little sh are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.”2 And among the critics of speculation we have also to count the most important and in uential economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes: “It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive.

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But even there the system—which was deplored by Mahatma Gandhi and other spiritual leaders—is now declining. The same distaste for castes or their analogues was promoted by Vladimir Lenin in Russia, Kemal Atatürk in Turkey, Yukichi Fukuzawa in Japan, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong in China, Eva Perón in Argentina, and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. These thought leaders couldn’t be more di erent from each other, but together they provide evidence of a worldwide trend that nds castes or their analogues repugnant. Just as these beliefs represent a trend toward greater social enlightenment, there is a parallel trend toward enlightenment about caste-analogues in the business world.

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Published 22 Oct 2018

Oh, those wily Japanese! Their cars were snazzier, their food was healthier, and now their children were smarter! Casting the nation’s educational “crisis” as an economic threat helped pave the way for titans of industry to reclaim their place as legitimate thought leaders on schooling, a topic about which many of them seemed to know very little. Prominent among these thought leaders was IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner, a former Nabisco executive whose business triumphs included elevating the cartoon mascot “Joe Camel” to national icon status (thereby luring children to the cigarette brand) and yanking two multinational companies back from the brink of insolvency by—among other things—firing thousands of employees.

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
by Lionel Barber
Published 5 Nov 2020

I’m fortunate to be able to draw on colleagues such as Martin Wolf, our in-house German commentator Wolfgang Münchau and a new recruit, Martin Sandbu, a Norwegian economist who has taught in the US. These lectures help me organise my views on big subjects. They’re also good for establishing the FT’s brand (and my own) as a ‘thought leader’. The American elite have always had doubts about Europe’s single currency. Bob Rubin once likened Europe to a museum. (I imagine the French room devoted to social solidarity, the German room to industry and the Italian room to the Renaissance spirit.) Plenty of people in Washington still view the EU as a marginal player when it comes to the exercise of power.

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W. 54, 63, 188, 314 Bush, George W. 31, 54, 55, 56, 63, 106, 110, 169, 188, 233, 435 Buttigieg, Pete 413 BuzzFeed 258, 395 Cadbury 263 Cambridge Analytica 394, 394n Cameron, David ix, xvi, 81–2, 97, 98, 125, 148, 151, 152, 158, 159, 161–2, 164, 174, 177, 180–81, 191–2, 193, 195, 196, 198, 203, 204, 205, 209, 222, 223, 226–7, 244, 259, 260, 263, 267, 283, 286, 288, 289, 290, 304–5, 308–10, 316, 319, 320, 321, 323, 326, 333, 344, 345, 374–5, 382–3, 388, 389, 414, 417, 427, 438 Cameron, Samantha 81–2, 161–2, 198, 304 capitalism: liberal capitalism model xi, xii, 117, 147n, 276, 312, 330, 334, 335, 339, 353, 355, 401, 419, 434, 436, 439; reform of 352, 353, 410, 439 Carnegy, Hugh 321 Carney, Mark 122, 323–4, 327, 341, 365–6, 371, 412 Catalan independence movement 219, 226 Cayne, Jimmy 24, 25, 85 Centre for European Reform 388–9 Chan, Andy 393 Charles, Prince x, xii, 264–6, 267, 268–70 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack (2015) xv, 281 Cheney, Dick 54, 56, 233 Chidambaram, P. 38 China xi, 30, 31, 31n, 98–9, 117, 120, 123–4, 123n, 133, 140, 162–3, 169, 182–3, 206–7, 213–14, 228, 233, 241–2, 271, 303–6, 309, 344, 347–8, 351–2, 366, 374–5, 376, 390, 392–3, 395–8, 399, 410, 414, 434, 436, 439, 440 China Entrepreneur Club 233 Chubais, Anatoly 229 Churchill, Winston 24, 24n, 95, 128, 314, 310, 364, 422 Citigroup 68, 69, 85, 113, 114, 228, 404 City Lecture, Cambridge University 264 City of London xii, xiii, 25n, 106, 180, 224, 259, 297, 334, 365, 366, 429 Clark, Pilita 379 Clegg, Miriam 151, 195 Clegg, Nick 151–2, 158, 159, 162, 195–6, 275n, 286, 321, 394, 395, 414 Clinton, Bill 82, 150, 206, 208, 233 Clinton, Hillary 82, 96, 133, 233, 315–16, 331, 332 Clooney, George 204–5 Coalition government, UK 156–7, 158, 159–60, 193, 195–6, 209, 258–60, 275, 275n, 288, 289, 290, 354; austerity policies 209, 210, 259, 273, 289, 319, 438; Big Society concept 152–3 Cochrane, Alan 273 Cohen, Jared 332 Cohn, Gary 341–2 Cold War 96, 233, 314, 354, 395, 396, 398, 436, 438 collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) 45 Collins Stewart 14–15, 17–18, 19–20 Colloque (Anglo-French forum) 255–6 Colombia 140–42 Comcast 268 Communism, collapse of Soviet 88, 129, 137, 228, 344 Conservative Party 67, 71, 97, 106, 128, 139, 148, 151, 152–3, 156–8, 158n, 159, 174, 180n, 195–6, 217n, 223n, 227, 227n, 232, 244, 260, 273–5, 275n, 283–4, 287, 288, 289–90, 309, 310, 327, 333, 343, 345–6, 353–4, 358, 359–60, 365, 381, 388, 410, 410n, 411, 412, 414, 423 Corbyn, Jeremy 11n, 303, 340, 341, 345–6, 354, 363, 399, 402, 410, 427 Costolo, Dick 210–11 Coulson, Andy 191, 223, 223n Covid-19 xi, xvii, 123, 130, 383, 398, 433, 434–6, 438–9, 440–41 Cox, Jo 319 Crabtree, James 247 credit derivatives 37, 62, 66, 186 credit-rating agencies 62, 62n, 84 Crimea 91, 91n, 237n, 239, 275, 277 Crosby, Lynton xvi, 283–4, 287–8, 290, 345–6, 388 Crosby, James 18–19 Cummings, Dominic xv, 313–14, 420n, 423–4, 438 Dacre, Paul x, 76, 192, 195, 196–7, 220, 221, 227, 233, 239, 257, 331, 331n, 357, 363 Daily Mail x, 41, 67, 126, 151, 152, 192, 195, 220, 221, 239, 316, 327, 331, 334, 363 Daily Mirror 11, 32, 100 Daily Telegraph 32, 35, 51, 67, 126, 135–6, 135n, 192, 197, 273, 358, 358n, 359, 422 Dalian Wanda 213 Dalton, Stephen 148, 150 Danone 263 Darling, Alistair 69–70, 83n, 101, 101n, 136, 273 Darroch, Jeremy 267–8 Davidson, Heather 83 Davies, Howard 76–7, 76n, 190 Davis, David 362–4, 363n Davis, Ian 122, 197 DDB (advertising agency) 34 deflation 39, 391 Dell, Michael 120–21 Delors, Jacques 83, 341 Democratic Party, US 82, 98, 99, 187–8, 330, 332, 396; convention (2004) 82, 99; convention (2008) 98, 99; Democratic National Committee (DNC) 330 see also US Presidential Election Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) 157, 157n, 399, 425 Deng, Wendi 191 Deng Xiaoping 124, 129, 183 ‘de-platforming’ 262 Deutsche Bank 295, 383, 404, 410 Diamond, Bob x, 167–8, 212 Dickie, Mure 185 Dickson, Martin 13, 18–19, 102, 106–7, 431 Dilenschneider, Robert 84–5, 332 Dimbleby, Jonathan 340 Dimon, Jamie xiv, 24, 24n, 93–4 Dinmore, Guy 162 Disney 213, 214, 268 Doerr, John 215–16 Döpfner, Mathias x, 283, 291–3, 295, 407 dotcom crash (2000–2001) 4, 16, 76, 84, 184, 228 Dow Jones 59–60, 65, 66, 135n, 282 Dowler, Milly 190 Draghi, Mario xiv, 178–9, 198–9, 200, 212–13, 223, 226, 320, 341, 367, 368, 402, 412–13, 415 DreamWorks 213 Dubai xiv, 102–3, 111, 112, 135, 168, 175 Duberstein, Ken 188 Dudley, Bob 163, 239 Dumfries House 264–5, 269 Duque, Iván 142 Economist, The 26, 205, 221, 238, 258, 282, 294, 354, 381, 389 Edano, Yukio 185–6 Edelstein, Jillian 208 Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of 304 Edward VIII, King 198, 201 Egypt 54, 107, 177, 331 El-Erian, Mohamed: When Markets Collide 113 Elizabeth II, Queen 23, 271, 303–4, 305 England, Andrew 260–61 En Marche 353 Entwistle, George 217–18 Epstein, Jeffrey 7, 7n Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip 335 euro xiii, 61, 64, 84, 100, 172–3, 178, 179, 180, 198, 212, 223, 228, 413, 429 European Central Bank (ECB) xiv, 61, 69, 84, 100, 178–9, 179n, 188, 198–9, 203, 212, 223, 226, 367–8, 402, 412–13, 415–16, 436 European Commission 83, 84, 84n, 179, 274, 343, 344, 363, 402, 406 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) 274 European Economic Community (EEC) 227 European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) 198–9 European People’s Party (EPP) 97 European Round Table of Industrialists 409 European Union 437; Brexit see Brexit; Covid-19 and 436, 437; Customs Union 328, 339, 354; euro see euro; fatal flaw in 99–101; ‘fiscal compact’ proposal 198; free movement of people 324; Lisbon treaty 64, 64n, 67, 381; Maastricht treaty 64n, 342, 389, 426, 433; Single Market 196, 315, 324, 328, 339, 341, 354, 366, 425; sovereign debt crisis 100–101, 148, 153–5, 172–3, 177, 179, 180, 188, 198–9, 212, 219, 224, 226, 238–9, 253, 341, 368, 413, 415–16 European University Institute, Fiesole 178 Evans, Harry 6–7, 10 Evening Standard 126, 136–7, 138–9, 345 Exxon Mobil 155 Facebook xi, 178, 200, 215, 216, 222, 247, 347, 394–5, 394n, 439 Fairhead, Rona 29, 66 ‘fake news’ 41, 346, 347 Fallon, John x, 251–2, 257, 281–3, 292, 294, 295, 296, 297, 302 Farage, Nigel 253, 259, 262, 266, 284, 349, 412 ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ news 240, 255 Federal Reserve, US 76, 85–7, 86n, 88, 94–5, 114, 199, 241, 415, 436 Federal Reserve Bank of New York 87–8 Felsted, Andrea 235 Ferguson, Jason 247 Ferguson, Alex 247–8, 251, 389 Fidler, Stephen 21 Fillon, François 205 financial crisis, global xi, xiii–xiv, 19, 22n, 25, 31n, 37n, 44, 62, 66, 69–72, 74–7, 81, 83–8, 92, 93–5, 96, 100–107, 108, 109, 110–13, 114–16, 117–23, 123n, 124, 125, 127–9, 130, 131, 133, 134, 138, 144, 154, 173, 174, 186–7, 228, 232, 245n, 364, 401, 434, 435, 436; Bear Stearns collapse 25, 85, 87–8, 93, 98, 104; Lehman Brothers collapse xiv, 5n, 37, 81, 101–2, 104, 105, 107, 121, 160, 199, 432 financial liberalisation, era of 129 Financial Services Authority 76n, 106, 138 Financial Times xi; ‘A List’ contributors 189–90; advertising revenues 4, 9, 26, 255, 288; advertising/marketing campaigns 4, 33, 34, 70; alpha-male problem 209; app 137–8, 214; ‘B2B’ business 118–20; Boldness in Business awards 262; Bracken House, headquarters move from One Southwark Bridge to 373, 391, 404, 411; Bracken Room 24, 25, 101, 398; ‘Brighton’ meeting 73–4; British Press Awards newspaper of the year (2008) 92; British Press Awards newspaper of the year (2018) 379; Business Book of the Year 112–13, 166, 243–4; Business of Luxury Summit, Monaco (2009) 156; circulation 4, 26, 312, 379, 401, 406–7, 431 see also subscriptions, digital; code of conduct 201; Collins Stewart libel case 14–15, 17–18, 19–20; Commodities Summit 286–7; core mission 9; cost cutting 16, 26, 147–8; ‘digital first’ journalism 224–5, 240, 255, 403, 440; digital transformation of xi, xv, 10, 17, 43, 74, 92, 117–18, 147, 201, 218, 224–5, 240, 241, 255, 257, 272, 285, 394, 395, 401, 403, 432, 440; editorial independence, principle of 60, 93, 251, 282, 288–9, 292, 294–5, 297, 299, 311, 394; editorial leader conference 209–10; FastFT 224; FT Alphaville financial blog 27; ft.com 6, 69–70, 114, 117–19, 167, 240, 321, 380; Future of Capitalism series 129, 133; Future of News conference 379–80; gender balance at top of, plans for 340; Gulf, edition for the 135; ‘Here Day’ 202, 202n; hiring of staff/power to shape through appointments 5, 6, 12–13, 16, 26–7, 43, 51, 158, 189–90, 255, 403; House and Home, Weekend FT supplement 174, 264, 270; How to Spend It 104; in-house lawyer 20n, 200–201, 258, 405; independent sources, stories supported by two 9, 20, 56, 201; ‘Inside Blair Inc’ feature 142; investigations team 291, 368–9, 381–2, 405; Latin America coverage 140–42; LB accepts Nikkei request to stay on as editor 300; LB appointed editor 3–10; LB daily routine as Editor 35–6, 175–6; LB hosts team leader summer event 296–7; LB leaves post as Editor of 430–32; LB news editor of 9, 15; LB rotates top team 147, 302; LB’s essays for 355, 381, 427, 429; LB’s New Year note to staff, LB’s 224–5; LB’s overseas trips see individual nation name; LB’s second term as editor of 197–8, 202–3; LB succession planning at 252, 312, 391, 395, 401, 404, 426, 428, 429–31; LB US managing editor of 3–5; LB ‘walking the floor’ of 431; letters to the FT editor 83; Leveson inquiry and see Leveson inquiry; Lex Column 99–100, 361; Lunch with the FT 72–3, 120, 175, 176, 188, 229–30, 325, 326, 343; Magazine, weekend 208–9, 219, 302, 381, 401, 429; managing editor, change of 26n, 117, 147, 203, 224, 403; mid-morning meeting of commentators and ‘leader writers’ 103–4; motto, revival of original 58; Nikkei and see Nikkei; 125th anniversary 224, 225, 228–30, 234, 235; 1 million paying readers by 2020 target 312, 379, 401, 406–7, 431; origins 24–5, 25n, 224; Pearson and see Pearson; Pearson sells to Nikkei xiv, xv, 281–3, 284–5, 288–9, 291–300, 301–3, 304, 305–6, 310–11, 312, 403, 407, 428; pensioners’ lunch 277; Person in the News 21, 21n; Person of the Year 166–7, 223, 314, 357–8; publishing system 15–16, 26; ‘rebrush’/redesigns 34, 58, 254–5, 272; self-regulation, system of 257–8, 258n; sponsors 166, 243, 262; subscription business 26, 92, 118, 119, 229, 285, 312, 322, 339, 346, 379, 401, 406–7, 431; ‘thought leader’ brand 172; union members 202–3, 202n; US managing editor 5, 5n, 130, 147, 389; US, move into 3–4; ‘We Live in Financial Times’ marketing slogan 34, 44; Weekend FT 127, 174, 194, 208–9, 219, 302, 381, 401, 429 Fischer, Hartwig 377, 377n 5G technology 184, 375 Five Star Movement 203, 380 Flanders, Stephanie 42–3 Fleurot, Olivier 8, 9, 15–16, 25–6, 29 Ford, Jonathan 158 Fowler, Susan 357–8 Fox, Liam 274 Foy, Henry 417, 419 France x, 62, 69, 91–2, 95, 172, 177, 185, 198, 205, 255–6, 263, 326–7, 339, 341, 343–4, 353, 355, 366, 380, 408, 412–13 Fraser, Simon 319–20 Freeland, Chrystia 12–13, 12n, 85, 130, 147, 147n Fridman, Mikhail 90, 275 Friedman, Alan 27–8, 27n Frost, David 45, 137, 245 Frost/Nixon (Morgan) 45 FT Group 29 Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster (2011) 181, 185 Fuld, Dick x, xiv, 46, 85–6, 105 Fu Ying x, 124, 125–6, 241, 242 Gaddafi, Muammar 142, 177, 180, 259 Gandhi, Indira 407 Gandhi, Mahatma 408 Gandhi, Rahul 245 Ganesh, Janan 205 Gapper, John 43, 70, 88, 104–5, 190, 209–10, 221, 432 Garrahan, Matthew 213, 357, 379, 384 G8 237, 237n General Election, UK: (1992) 157, 228, 261; (1997) 12, 101n, 157; (2001) 12, 157; (2005) 12, 157; (2010) 148, 150–53, 156–9, 158n, 174, 173; (2015) 11n, 274, 283–4, 286–8, 289–90, 345; (2017) 343, 345–6, 353–4, 363, 388; (2019) 402 General Electric (GE) 66, 162–3 General Motors (GM) 221, 376 George, Eddie 138 Georgian National Theatre Company 192–3 Germany ix, xiii, xv, 31, 67, 69, 90n, 95, 101, 149, 172, 173, 179, 180, 188, 198, 199, 203, 219, 228, 237–8, 238n, 242n, 274, 283, 291, 292, 309, 331, 339, 343, 358–9, 368, 401, 404, 405, 406, 407, 413, 415, 416, 419, 421, 427, 433–5, 437 Ghosn, Carlos 375, 375n Giampaolo, David 233 Gibbs, Robert 131, 359 Gibson, Janine 395 Giles, Chris 210 Glasenberg, Ivan 287, 428, 428n Glastonbury Festival 322 Glencore 286, 287, 428n globalisation 34, 116, 228, 312, 333, 335, 348, 434 Gnodde, Richard 429–30 Gold, Dore 109, 109n Goldman Sachs xiv–xv, 24n, 31, 31n, 37, 55, 84n, 86, 87, 112, 122, 166–7, 178, 179, 243, 341, 342, 429 González, Felipe 225 Goodwin, Fred 22–3, 22n, 72, 75 Google xi, 137, 160–61, 178, 214–15, 326, 332, 439; Google Camp conference, Sicily 422; Mountain View headquarters 73–4; Street View 160–61 Gorbachev, Mikhail 90, 136–7, 138, 250, 344 Gordon, Sarah 209, 287, 383 Gove, Michael 255, 315, 316–17, 318, 323, 362, 410 Gowers, Andrew 5, 5n, 7–8, 12, 13, 26, 46, 105, 160 Grade, Michael 65 Grant, Charles 388–9 Grauer, Peter 212–13 Grayling, Chris 274 Great Depression 94, 114, 130, 335 Greece 99–100, 148, 153, 154, 172–3, 177, 211, 212, 238, 253, 341, 413 Greenberg, Maurice ‘Hank’ 36 Green, Damien 362–3 Green, Philip x, 162, 167, 235, 371 Greenspan, Alan 76–7, 88, 94, 129 Greig, Geordie 265 Grimes, Chris 403 Grove, Andy 420 G20 92, 117, 123, 123n, 131, 143, 408, 419, 420 Guardian 27, 35, 76, 82–3, 151, 161, 165, 190, 191–2, 197, 236, 237, 255, 258, 290–91, 318, 395, 440 Guerrera, Francesco 102 Guha, Krishna 94 Guinness, Sabrina 300–301 Gu Kailai 206 Gunvor 286, 287 Guthrie, Jonathan 361 Haass, Richard xvi–xvii Hague, William 274–5, 275n Hall, Jerry 317 Hall, Tony 217 Hamas 54, 108, 108n Hammond, Philip 324, 342–3, 345, 362, 365, 373, 420, 420n Hancock, Matt 413 Hannigan, Robert 149, 149n Hanson, Nigel 20n, 200–201, 258, 405 Harding, James 28, 192, 389 Harding, Robin 181, 284, 391 Harry, Prince 422 Hastings, Max 126–7 Hastings, Reed 398–9 Hayward, Tony 160, 163 HBOS 18–19, 104, 122, 127, 128 Heinz 263 see also Kraft Heinz Heywood, Neil 206 Heywood, Jeremy 258–60, 342, 364–5, 414–15 Hill, Andrew 244 Hill, Dave 11 Hille, Kathrin 183 Hill, Fiona 342, 349, 349n Hill, Jonathan 342–3, 342n Hilton, Steve 345 Hiroshima, Japan 284 Hitchens, Christopher 56–8, 57n, 72–3, 205–6 Hizbollah 107, 249 HK National Party 393 Holbrooke, Richard 57, 132–3, 132n, 148n, 170 Hollande, François 255–6 Hong Kong xvi, 60, 217n, 304, 350–52, 390, 392–3, 414 Hornby, Andy 19 Hoskins, Carine Patry 201 House of Commons 152, 193, 259, 343, 363n, 399–400, 423; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee 216n, 239–40; Treasury Select Committee 127 House of Lords 72, 158, 229, 275, 275n, 349, 363, 363n, 394, 438 House of Representatives, US 106 Howard, John 283 HSBC 22, 22n, 121, 122, 237 Huawei xii, 182–4, 375, 398, 399 Huffington, Ariana 99 Huffington Post 99, 258, 380n Hu Jintao 99 Hunt, Jeremy 274, 410, 411–12, 413, 425 Hussein of Jordan, King 102, 110 Hussein, Saddam 28, 57 Hutton, John 71 Hyon Hak-Bong 253–4 Ignatius, David 276 IMF (International Monetary Fund) 118, 123, 219, 246n, 402, 412 Immelt, Jeffrey 162–3 immigration xi, 67, 203, 283–4, 309, 313, 318, 319, 334, 335, 343, 354, 410, 420 Inagaki, Kana 181 Independent 32, 41, 192 Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) 257, 257n India ix, 30, 37–40, 123n, 129, 168–70, 203, 228, 244–7, 309, 348, 383, 407–9 inequality xiii, 193, 273, 410 inflation 30, 52, 95, 138, 251, 415, 435 Instagram 200, 347, 395 interest rates 30–31, 61, 70, 86, 100, 138, 323, 415 International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) 149, 150 Iran 54, 245n, 248–9, 249n, 250, 251, 251n, 259, 307, 377, 425; US nuclear deal with 248–9, 250, 251, 259, 307 Iraq 28, 108, 111, 243n; US-led war in 11, 12, 54, 55, 56, 57, 108, 110, 111, 142, 206, 208–9, 228, 330, 377, 387 Ireland 148, 188–9, 212, 425 ISIS 378 Islam, radical xv, 107, 108n, 170, 171, 248, 249, 251, 281, 378, 397 Israel xiv, 102, 107–9, 109n, 141, 208–9, 250, 251, 292, 319, 378, 382 Italy 27–8, 27n, 99, 100, 162–3, 178–9, 196, 203–4, 212, 214, 238, 239–40, 367, 380, 400, 413 Ivanov, Sergei 329–31, 417 Jackson, Andrew 348 Jacobs, Emma Gilpin 201 Jacques, Jean-Sébastien 386–7 Jain, Anshu 295 Jaitley, Arun 244–5 Jang Song-thaek 253–4 Japan ix, xv, xvi, 17n, 69, 181, 185–6, 281, 283, 284–5, 296, 298–9, 300, 301–3, 304, 305–6, 308, 325, 334, 359, 367, 371–2, 374, 390–92, 402, 403–4, 408, 411, 420, 427–9 Javid, Sajid 410, 420n Jenkins, Antony 285–6 Jenkins, Patrick 166 Jio 40, 247 jishuku (‘self-restraint’) 185–6 Johnson, Boris xvi, 37–8, 38n, 40, 98–9, 138, 139n, 158, 159, 200, 242–3, 244, 310, 315, 323, 325, 344, 345, 358, 359, 362, 371, 373, 388, 402, 410, 410n, 412, 420, 420n, 421, 422, 423, 425–6, 435, 437 Johnson, Jo 37–8, 38n, 40, 244, 373 Johnson, Woody 364 Jones, Claire 416 Jonsson, Martin 240 Jordan 102, 107, 108, 110 JPMorgan Chase xv, 24n, 88, 93–4, 98, 142 Judge, Igor 194–5 Juncker, Jean-Claude 274–5, 343–4, 406 Kagame, Paul ix, xvi, 142, 340, 354–6, 380 Kaiser, Bob 332 Kalanick, Travis 357 Karzai, Hamid 149–50 Kasparov, Garry 89, 91 Katzenberg, Jeffrey 213–14 Kaufman, Henry 186–7 Kazmin, Amy 407 Kellaway, Lucy 159 Kelly, General John 366n, 367, 367n Kelner, Simon 32, 41 Ken Hu 183, 398, 399 Kengeter, Carsten 193 Kennedy, John F. 96n, 380–81, 381n Kenny, Enda 188–9 Kerr, Simon 112 Kerry, John 68, 222 Keswick, Henry 304, 304n Keynes, John Maynard 88, 129 Khalaf, Roula x, 29, 102–3, 110, 111–12, 135, 177, 209, 248, 250, 302, 306, 308, 321, 322, 339, 371, 379, 390, 392, 428–9, 430, 431, 432 Khan, Imran 170–71 Khan, Sonia 420, 420n Khashoggi, Jamal 308, 392 Kim Jong-un 253, 374, 397 King, Mervyn 30–31, 31n, 71–2, 76, 106, 128–9, 173, 212 King, Rodney 148 King, Stephen 237 Kinnock, Neil 157, 261 Kissinger, Henry 54, 207 Kita, Tsuneo 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 310–11, 312, 321, 391, 401, 402, 404, 411, 428–9, 430, 432 Klerk, F.W. de 229–30 Knight-Bagehot fellowship programme, Columbia Journalism School 46 Kock, Gerhard de 51 Kohl, Helmut 344, 426 Kosovo 89, 89m Kraft Heinz 263, 352, 353 Kushner, Jared 367 Kuwait 111, 142, 206, 208 Kynge, James 124, 303, 393 Kyriacou, Kristina 268, 270 labour market, growth in size of world’s 228 Labour Party 11, 11n, 12, 30, 41, 64, 68, 71–2, 101n, 127, 128, 151, 157–8, 158n, 159, 162, 163–4, 193, 207, 228, 239, 259, 273, 284, 287, 288, 290, 303, 319, 340, 341, 354, 377n, 402, 438 Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford 395 Lambert, Richard 115–16, 244, 252, 297, 411 Lam, Carrie xvi, 350–51, 393, 414 Lamont, James 168, 203, 224, 302, 403 Lansley, Andrew 180, 180n Lavrov, Sergei 237 Lawson, Nigel 229 Lazard 121, 121n Leahy, Terry x, 23–4 Lebedev, Alexander 137, 138–9 Lebedev, Evgeny 136–7, 138–9, 139n, 376–7 Lee Jae-yong (J.Y.

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
by Robert B. Reich
Published 21 Sep 2010

In 2003 Reich was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel Foundation Prize for pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2008 Time magazine named him one of the ten most successful cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century, and The Wall Street Journal named him one of the nation’s ten most influential business thought-leaders. He blogs at www.robertreich.org.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal
Published 26 Dec 2013

Erika Hall, “How the ‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation,” Wired (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/why-do-research-when-you-can-fail-fast-pivot-and-act-out-other-popular-startup-cliches. 10. “The Power of User Narratives: Jack Dorsey (Square),” video, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture (Stanford University, 2011), http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2644. 11. Eric Ries, “What Is Customer Development?,” Startup Lessons Learned (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/11/what-is-customer-development.html. 12. Rich Crandall, “Empathy Map,” the K12 Lab Wiki (accessed Nov. 12, 2013), https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/k12/wiki/3d994/Empathy_Map.html. 13.

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind
Published 24 Aug 2015

The only difference between the two, in information processing terms, is that tax compliance involves progressing forwards through the rules driven by the facts and the law, while planning entails reasoning backwards through the rules in search of legal and factual premises that can justify a target tax liability.268 This underlying similarity is echoed by thought leaders in the world of tax who say that much tax planning work will also soon be conducted by machines. As for those who advise on tax deals, accounting firms at the leading edge are looking (as are progressive corporate lawyers) at the computerization of the due diligence work and the standardization of much of the documentation.

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The externalization here is not of pre-existing systems but of some of the practical expertise of the professions that hitherto was confined to their experts’ heads and in standard materials. Looking more generally now across the evolutionary path, it is clear that the nature of professional work changes as we move from left to right. Work delivered in the manner of craft, at the left-hand end of the spectrum, tends to be provided by a trusted adviser, often a leading expert or thought leader, while practical expertise that is provided online will usually represent the distillation of the collective experience of many individuals. At the same time, different forms of technologies are embraced across the spectrum. Generally, the further right one travels, the more capable and innovative the technologies become.

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
by Robert J. Shiller
Published 14 Oct 2019

Throughout the 1930s, the idea took root that the Great Depression resulted from an epidemic of “reckless talk” by opinion leaders who were oblivious to its psychological impact.18 In reality, though, prominent people seem to have been very aware of the possible psychological effects of their talk, which led to the creation of another narrative: thought leaders were now so worried about their talk inciting fear that the public began to assume a general bias toward false optimism. In other words, John Q. Public believed that thought leaders were trying to sound optimistic and that the listener had to correct for that overconfidence. It is easy to see how expectations may have become much more volatile in such an environment. In keeping with earlier narratives of panic, many people also saw the Great Depression as a stampede or panic.

Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins
Published 2 Aug 2021

She wanted to get him out in the public again, presented in a way that made him look decisive, droll, and self-aware. Musk suggested comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan, a standup comic, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) commentator, and the former host of TV’s Fear Factor, had carved out a wildly popular corner of the media landscape interviewing thought leaders, academics, and celebrities, as well as strident voices whose extreme positions most media refused to touch. Two days later it was arranged. Glover advised Musk that Rogan’s interviews can run several hours. “Joe doesn’t interrupt much so he will let you roll (he is funny and curses on air as no FCC rules for podcasts),” she prepped Musk.

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Rosen Motors had: Larry Armstrong, “An Electric Car That Hardly Needs Batteries,” Bloomberg News, Sept. 23, 1996, https://www.bloomberg.com/​news/​articles/​1996-09-22/​an-electric-car-that-hardly-needs-batteries. “There are not”: Karen Kaplan, “Rosen Motors Folds After Engine’s ‘50%’ Success,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 19, 1997. The result: Chris Dixon, “Lots of Zoom, with Batteries,” New York Times, Sept. 19, 2003. “If you like space”: Video posted by Stanford University from Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series (Oct. 8, 2003), https://ecorner.stanford.edu/​videos/career-development/. It didn’t align: YouTube video posted by shazmosushi on July 12, 2013: https://youtu.be/​afZTrfvB2AQ. CHAPTER 2 In 2000, ahead: Michael Kozlowski, “The Tale of Rocketbook—the Very First E-Reader,” Good E-Reader (Dec. 2, 2018), https://goodereader.com/​blog/​electronic-readers/​the-tale-of-rocketbook-the-very-first-e-reader.

Presentation Zen Design: Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations
by Garr Reynolds
Published 14 Aug 2010

People make instant judgments about whether something is attractive, trustworthy, professional, too slick, and so on. This is a visceral reaction—and it matters. The role of sketching and planning analog Nancy Duarte CEO of Duarte Design and best-selling author. Her firm creates presentations for the world’s leading brands and thought leaders. www.duarte.com Nancy Duarte shares the process her firm went through to build a file that pushes the limits of PowerPoint features. The best ideas start off as loose sketches. When Microsoft was about to launch PowerPoint 10, the company approached Duarte Design to build a presentation that would come installed with the application.

The Little Book of Hedge Funds
by Anthony Scaramucci
Published 30 Apr 2012

This industry is a synonym for stress. Exercise will allow you time to think clearly. 7. Make Time for Yourself: Sure you want to grow a business and sometimes you have to get away from it all. It will give you a better perspective. 8. Don’t Underestimate People: People are smart. So, make sure you include thought leaders into your networking endeavours. Be accessible to people who are accessible to you. I know it’s impossible to do that entirely, but at least ring fence a group of smart people and make sure you interact. 9. Admit Mistakes and Keep Moving: Be capable of admitting mistakes and correcting them quickly.

The Internet of Money
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Published 28 Aug 2016

We also needed someone to explain how all this stuff worked. Put simply, Andreas stepped up. In fact, I’ll bet history will remember that there was no one who played a more important role in the early days of explaining Bitcoin, what it is and what it means. Needless to say when it came to doing in-depth interviews of thought leaders for our own book, we pretty much started with Andreas. Reading this collection of essays, it’s amazing to contemplate that Andreas was waxing poetic and profound years before hardly anyone had even heard of Bitcoin. However don’t read this for the historical record of a furtive mind. Rather, read it for its rich insights, which are equally relevant, if not more relevant, today.

The Rich and the Rest of Us
by Tavis Smiley
Published 15 Feb 2012

To continue this important conversation, we decided to bring together some of the best minds in the nation to unpack the conundrum of increasing poverty in the richest nation in the world. This intention gave birth to “Remaking America: From Poverty to Prosperity,” the January 12, 2012, symposium held in Washington, DC, at George Washington University. The gathering featured such distinctive thought leaders as Suze Orman, Michael Moore, Barbara Ehrenreich, Majora Carter, Roger A. Clay, Jr., and Vicki B. Escarra; it was broadcast live on C-SPAN. While ironing out details for the symposium, we were contacted by a major publisher about translating our experiences and observations from the Poverty Tour into a book.

What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions
by Peter Neuwirth
Published 2 Mar 2015

After spending his first two years at Connecticut General Life Insurance (now CIGNA), he spent the next thirty-three in the consulting world, holding significant leadership positions at a variety of firms around the country, including most of the major consulting firms (Aon, Hewitt Associates, Watson Wyatt, Towers Perrin, and now Towers Watson) as well as spending five years as chief actuary at a regional benefits consulting firm (Godwins), seven years running a small actuarial firm (Coates Kenney), and one year in a large accounting firm (Price Waterhouse). He is currently a senior consultant at Towers Watson, serving as one of the firm’s thought leaders and national experts in the area of financing nonqualified executive retirement plans. Peter has consulted with dozens of the largest corporations in the world and worked closely with many European based multinational corporations during the crash of 2008–2009, getting the unique opportunity to view the unfolding of the global financial crisis from the perspective of an American actuary doing business in Europe.

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)
by Jamie Bartlett
Published 4 Apr 2018

BACK IN THE 1960S, celebrity academic and cryptic cultural theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted that the coming age of electronic communications would lead to the breakdown of established structures and identities. The consequence, he asserted, would be a return to a more tribal society. He famously called this seamless web of information ‘the global village’.1 People at the time celebrated this idea. McLuhan remains a distant inspiration for Silicon Valley, one of the original thought leaders and intellectual rock stars of the tech revolution. His ‘global village’ still bounces around Palo Alto, Mountain View and Cupertino. Every time you hear talk of ‘global communities’ and ‘total connectivity’, it’s the ghost of McLuhan. ‘By enabling people from diverse backgrounds to easily connect and share their ideas,’ wrote Mark Zuckerberg back in the early days of his site, ‘we can decrease world conflict in the short-term and the long-term.’

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite
by Michael Lind
Published 20 Feb 2020

Many of these corporate managers, financiers, lawyers, accountants, engineers, foundation program officers, media elites, and academics do pretty much the same kind of work that people in their professions did half a century ago, adjusted for differences in technology and industrial organization. But we are supposed to believe that they are not just old-fashioned managers and professionals, but members of a new “creative class” and “digital elite,” the “thinkpreneurs” and “thought leaders” of the “knowledge economy” who live in “brain hubs” (to use only a few of the flattering terms in the lexicon of overclass self-idolatry). From the assumption that a nearly meritocratic “knowledge economy” has replaced class-stratified, bureaucratic managerial capitalism follow two kinds of policies.

Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
by George Packer
Published 14 Jun 2021

We should have taken better care of ours. Look outside. Our bridges are buckling, another factory has closed up, badly ventilated schools are failing to educate another generation of children, hospital beds are overflowing again, local shops are posting out-of-business signs while Amazon delivery trucks fill the streets, our thought leaders sound like carnival barkers, our citizenry seems to be suffering through early-stage National Cognitive Decline, and the common skeleton is unknitting and likely to fall apart in a heap of bones for future archaeologists to study with furrowed expressions of puzzled sadness. Why did exhausted election officials across the country have to stay up late night after night to kill off the thousands of lies spreading through sophisticated digital pathways that were invented by the country’s most brilliant and successful entrepreneurs and channeled into millions of minds that have grown strangely vulnerable to contagion?

100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul
Published 14 Oct 2021

The constant need to show off your best online angle means constructing a façade that’s hard for any fallible human being to maintain. But retaining that sense of authenticity is particularly tough on those who’ve committed to making a living off it—the social media stars, the influencers, the online thought leaders. What may begin as a passion project can feel like a trap when it must bend to the whims of an audience. For those who depend on YouTube for income, catering to the algorithm with ever more pleasing posts can be about making a living, which ups the incentive to stay on top. On TikTok, same thing.

Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea Into a Global Business
by Mikkel Svane and Carlye Adler
Published 13 Nov 2014

And they did. But figuring out how to let them know about our service was sometimes an enigma. The toughest problem was that there wasn’t a natural place online that attracted an audience interested in buying a customer support service. It wasn’t that the industry didn’t exist—there were experts and thought leaders on customer service theory, and there were Gartner reports on the state of the industry—but there was no real community for customer service. At least there wasn’t anything that didn’t smell like old carpets and cigars. And based on our early customers, we weren’t so sure that was the audience we should really target!

Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism
by William Baker and Addison Wiggin
Published 2 Nov 2009

The most loyal adherents were the French, which had suffered inflation that had wiped out savings in the 1920s, giving them strong political cover. To them, “disregard for the gold standard led to financial excesses, economic chaos, and social turmoil,” and was thus dangerous. Likewise, before abandoning gold even the British thought leader Lord Keynes “was willing to try anything—a tariff, quotas, a national treaty on wages, profits and rents, foreign lending restrictions—anything except suspending the gold standard, which was too drastic to contemplate.” In the United States, “when there was a threat to the U.S. commitment to gold in 1931, the Fed responded by raising interest rates sharply and driving the country deeper into depression.”

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The great conservative voices of our time can choose to weigh in on the topic or be curiously absent and spoken over by the voices of the left, as if they Moral Hazard 161 were having a bad day as a guest on Hardball or some other one-on-one political TV segment. Although by and large today’s most visible conservative thought leaders articulate the dangers of socialism well, their failure to concentrate upon the need to dismantle the technocratic state as well as their rudimentary understanding of the monetary system and its history is an Achilles heel. Worse, knowing full well the unreliability of economic forecasting, in the period leading up to the 2008 election they became whiners about the press highlighting deteriorating business conditions and they acted as cheerleaders for economic recovery, only to reverse this posturing once Obama was elected.

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman
Published 17 Mar 2015

Why not believe it? Klout is easily gamed if you suck up to famous people, buy followers, post frequently, and engage in various other attention-grabbing exercises. But the social web is suffused with so-called credibility markers, which play into the existing Silicon Valley fervor for “influencers” and “thought leaders,” as well as résumés so padded you could rest your head on them. From verified accounts to listicles of essential Twitter users, power, authenticity, influence, and reliability are accorded every day on social media. These qualities often accrue based on traditional hierarchies—successful people in an industry promote their friends and colleagues; those wishing to join them are forced to appeal to them, whether on social media, in the office, at a conference, or elsewhere.

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But many start-ups take a “use the whole animal” approach to publicly available data—that is, this information is out there; it shouldn’t go to waste. It’s hard to escape the idea that value might be leveraged from the digital exhaust so prevalent online. Some other companies in the reputation racket have gone for a less deterministic approach. They still deal in the language of celebrity, thought leaders, and reputation, but they lean less on the faux objectivity of algorithms parsing hundreds of signals. Quora promises to be “your best source of knowledge” with “real answers from people with firsthand experience.” LinkedIn wraps itself in the gauze of net jargon: its featured members are capitalI “Influencers,” which really is to say that they’re milquetoast celebrities from the business world, here to dispense some wisdom.

The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
by Steve Stewart-Williams
Published 12 Sep 2018

And it has survived pop psychological attempts to stigmatize men’s desire for casual sex by blaming it on psychosocial immaturity, psychological maladjustment, repressed homosexuality, low self-esteem, fear of commitment, a Peter Pan syndrome, misogyny, male entitlement, toxic masculinity, and rape culture. Meanwhile, women’s greater reticence about casual sex has survived the efforts of some feminists and other thought leaders to persuade women to cast off the shackles of patriarchy and match men in the casual sex arena. This is all rather awkward for the Nurture Only theory. It suggests that, rather than being a product of culture, the sex difference in attitudes to casual sex often emerges in spite of culture. Arguably, though, the most persuasive argument against the Nurture Only view is that sex differences in sexual inclinations and choosiness can be found in many individuals who have no gender norms, no socialization, and little in the way of culture: that rather sizeable group, so often overlooked by psychologists, known as other animals.

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Now ask – which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again?”69 As with genetic evolution, it’s partly a matter of luck, or what we might call memetic drift.70 So, for example, if a cause or conspiracy theory happens to find its way into the head of a celebrity, or any other thought leader, it can suddenly spread like wildfire, even if it wouldn’t have made it far on its own steam. But memetic success is more than just a throw of the dice. Some memes have a better chance of making it than others. As Blackmore observes, there are two main things that memes must do to increase their “market share.”

Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
by Jared R. Richardson and William A. Gwaltney
Published 15 Mar 2005

For More Information: See Practice 5, Track Issues,, on page 35 and Practice 6, Track Features,, on page 39. 174 Appendix E Development Methodologies It sometimes seems as if there are as many different ways to develop software as there are developers. New ones appear all the time. Keep up-to-date with the thought leaders in the field, see what they come up with, and try it in your own shop. One methodology to avoid: the infamous Waterfall method. This has been universally discredited in more forward-looking development circles, but it’s amazing how many shops still use it. The Waterfall model assumes that you can compeletely understand every phase of your project and set a concrete schedule for each phase.

The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce
Published 20 Apr 2017

In 1995, just 5 per cent of wealthy Americans believed army rule would be a good thing. By 2014 that had more than tripled. An even higher share of upper-income millennials support autocracy. People tend to form political beliefs in their early years and then stick with them for life. If today’s rich young are tomorrow’s thought leaders, democracy has a shaky future. This survey’s data only goes up to 2014. If it had been taken after Trump and Brexit, the gulf between how rich and poor see democracy would be even wider. The more unequal societies become, the more likely we are to hear from the demophobes. This would strike a chord with my great-grandparents’ generation.

Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
Published 4 Sep 2013

Most businesspeople are still trying to push rocks uphill toward business recovery. However, history indicates that when the tech community is unified, focused and excited about a topic, as it is about context, it almost always follows that they will make waves that land on the shores of commerce. Although this book introduces some thought leaders, the business community overall is not thinking much about context right now. But they will soon be productizing it and using it for competitive advantage. Context Through Google Glass Google Glass is the product that is raising public awareness, excitement and concerns about contextual computing.

Unleashed
by Anne Morriss and Frances Frei
Published 1 Jun 2020

Your ideas are embraced at a conceptual level, but the timetable for change keeps being extended. Treat this development as an existential threat to your mission. When it comes to promoting inclusion—a mission so critical to the health of your organization—the right time to act is now. Your colleagues think they can wait you out. Management thought leader Earl Sasser calls this “kidney stone management,” the assumption that this too shall pass. Make it absolutely clear that you’re not going anywhere, preferably with a smile. If it takes showing up at someone’s office door with a cup of coffee (just the way they like it) every morning until you get the meeting, then so be it.

The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs
by Nicolas Pineault
Published 6 Dec 2017

83 EMFs & Autoimmune Diseases If EMFs have been clearly shown to make the blood-brain barrier (BBB) leak neurotransmitters and let the bad stuff in, there’s a strong chance it might be doing the same to your gut — which is usually protected by a very thin layer of cells that’s just permeable enough to let nutrients into your blood, without letting larger particles like proteins pass through. 270 271 272 273 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov it-takes-time.com ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ncbi.nlm.nih.gov © 2017 N&G Media Inc. Even if there seems to be a grand total of zero studies on the subject, some thought leaders in the health world like Dr. Jack Kruse are convinced that EMFs are one of the main causes of intestinal permeability, AKA “leaky gut”.274 If this ends up being true, this means that EMFs might be one of the many reasons that we’re seeing an explosion in food allergies and autoimmune diseases such as Celiac, Crohn’s, Lupus, Hashimoto’s, Rheumatoid Arthritis — all of which can be triggered or worsened by having a leaky gut.275 EMFs & Lyme Disease I might be pushing the envelope here, but what the heck.

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson
Published 5 Apr 2006

The economics of repetition's race to the top are easy enough to grasp: syndication and DVD sales offer great fi­ nancial reward to creators who generate titles complex enough to remain i nteresting through repeat encounters. But where is the economic reward in encouraging meta­ commentary ? The answer to that puzzle lies in the culture industry's growing emphasis on " thought leaders" or " key influencers. " The old way to market a new cultural product was to sell it like detergent: get you r brand and your mes­ sage in front of as many people as possi ble, and hope to per­ suade some of them to buy the product. If that means billboards and full-page newspaper ads, great.

How to Be Black
by Baratunde Thurston
Published 31 Jan 2012

The world is an increasingly diverse place, and to remain competitive, we must actively embrace a diverse mind-set in order to best tackle the diverse challenges ahead. With a diverse approach to diversity management, Optimus Research Group is positioned not just to survive in the changing marketplace but to thrive, becoming industry thought leaders on diversity. As such, the diversity committee is responsible for leading efforts to proactively spread the values of diversity throughout the organization and meets monthly to ensure such projects are on track. The diversity committee will also create a task force to respond to any diversity issues raised by members of the diversity committee or other employees.

Global Financial Crisis
by Noah Berlatsky
Published 19 Feb 2010

The Mirror “Global Economic Crisis Gravely Affects Khmer Migrant Workers,” April 10, 2009. http://cambodiamirror.wordpress.com. Ronak Patel “Global Financial Crisis Wrecks India’s Diamond Industry,” Telegraph, February 22, 2009. Mike Pflanz “Chinese Demand and Financial Crisis Cause Surge in Kenya Elephant Poaching,” Telegraph, February 25, 2009. Bilal Randeree “Is Islamic Finance a Solution?” Thought Leader, June 9, 2009. www.thoughtleader.co.za. Duvvuri Subbarao “Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on India—Collateral Damage and Response,” Bank for International Settlements, February 18, 2009. www.bis.org. Zarni “Global Financial Turmoil Affects Burmese Migrant Workers,” Mizzima, November 2, 2008. www.mizzima.com. 170 CHAPTER 4 Solutions to the Global Financial Crisis 171 1 Viewpoint International Investments Complicate the Financial Crisis and Its Remedy Michael Mandel Michael Mandel is the chief economist for Business Week and the author of the 2004 book Rational Exuberance.

The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World
by Aaron Hurst
Published 31 Aug 2013

The book was set to be published in September of the same year, but after a 15-minute conversation with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, we switched gears and decided to treat the manuscript as a beta version and not as the finished book. We printed 2,000 copies and sent them to pioneers and thought leaders in the new economy. We asked them to contribute their ideas and observations about the Purpose Economy, the book, and the concept. We asked them to share their Post-it notes. I wrote the book you are now reading, but in many ways it was co-authored by the numerous people who shared their stories and ideas.

The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony
by David G. W. Birch
Published 14 Apr 2020

So, to the people tasked with thinking about the future of conflict, the idea of a currency cold war is not new. The Harvard University Institute of Politics recently ran a wargame simulation of a US crisis around digital currency (De 2019). The participants included former senior White House advisers and thought leaders such as former Department of Defense officials and former Treasury secretary Larry Summers. The premise of this wargame, set in 2021, was that participants were members of the National Security Council, convened to respond to a threat to the United States following the roll-out of the DCEP. The scenario played out with the digital yuan undermining the dollar’s global dominance, with North Korea evading sanctions by using a digital alternative to the global banking system to buy nuclear materials and test new missiles, and with a variety of malicious state and non-state actors looting from SWIFT.

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb
by Dorie Clark
Published 14 Oct 2021

So I launched one for HR professionals, and it became one of the first internationally trending Twitter chats to come out of Asia.” She didn’t know exactly what the online community she built would lead to, but she knew these were the people she wanted to connect with. “We had CHROs, CEOs, authors, thought leaders, and more, all joining from all over the world,” she recalls. As a result of running the group, Tanvi, now a professor at Singapore Management University, has received prestigious speaking invitations, been featured in newspapers and magazines, and was lauded by the Society for Human Resource Management as a social media influencer for six years in a row.

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
Published 2 Jun 2021

Walter Bagehot observed in 1867 that ‘a great part of the “best” English people keep their mind in a state of decorous dullness … They think cleverness an antic, and have a constant though needless horror of being thought to have any of it.’37 As late as 1961, Lord ‘Bobbety’ Salisbury (the fifth Marquess) is thought to have scuppered Ian Macleod’s chances of becoming prime minister by describing him as ‘too clever by half’. Ideas have become the currency of the global elite. Bilderberg and Davos invite ‘thought leaders’ to address corporate titans. TED conferences are so enthusiastic about ideas that they can seem like religious festivals. ‘We don’t have castles and noble titles,’ says Andrew Zolli, the organizer of an ideas forum called Pop Tech, ‘so how else do you indicate you’re part of the elite?’ Aristocratic societies regarded ideas as either dangerous in themselves or, if they have to be indulged, things that should be taken only in measured quantities, like wine with a good meal.

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Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, toyed, as a young man, with becoming a public intellectual and still likes to reminisce about his time studying philosophy at Oxford. Eric Schmidt, a former chairman of Google, is the author of a lengthening list of books and a fixture on the ideas-conference circuit. (A jocular dictionary of Silicon Valley-speak defines a ‘thought leader’ as an ‘unemployed rich person’.)4 Bill Gates issues a recommended summer reading list every year. The most fashionable companies sponsor ideas conferences of their own: Google holds an annual ‘camp’ or ‘meeting of minds’ where billionaires mix with big thinkers. In 2019, the issue was climate change and the guests showed how seriously they took the subject by using 114 private planes and a fleet of superyachts to get to the conference on time.

The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
Published 14 Sep 2021

“spent at least some”: Mann and Adkins, “America’s Coming Workplace.” “our entire economy”: Toffler, The Third Wave, 223. from 90 million to 152 million: Data from US Bureau of Labor Statistics, “All Employees, Total Nonfarm.” “we did get a few things wrong”: Fisher, “Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview.” Late in life: Fisher. back to global preeminence: Z/Yen Group and China Development Institute, The Global Financial Centres Index 20. increased by 132 percent: Data from US Federal Housing Finance Agency, “All-Transactions House Price Index for Los Angeles County, CA.” AnnaLee Saxenian’s Regional Advantage: Saxenian, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, with a New Preface by the Author.

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The Maryland Public Policy Institute, July 26, 2011. www.mdpolicy.org/research/detail/a-better-solution-to-marylands-pension-problem. Fishback, Price V., and Shawn Everett Kantor. “ ‘Square Deal’ or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903.” Journal of Economic History 52, no. 4 (December 1992): 826–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2123229. Fisher, Lawrence M. “Alvin Toffler: The Thought Leader Interview.” Strategy+Business 45 (Winter 2006). www.strategy-business.com/article/06408. Fitton, Robert S. The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester, UK, and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. Fletcher, Jason, and Ryne Marksteiner. “Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation.”

The Mythical Man-Month
by Brooks, Jr. Frederick P.
Published 1 Jan 1975

In this course, teams of usually four students built in one semester some real software application system. About halfway through those years, I switched to teaching incremental development. I was stunned by the electrifying effect on team morale of that first picture on the screen, that first running system. Parnas Families David Parnas has been a major thought leader in software engineering during this whole 20-year period. Everyone is familiar with his information-hiding concept. Rather less familiar, but very important, is Parnas's concept of designing a software product as a family of related products.11 He urges the designer to anticipate both lateral extensions and succeeding versions of a product, and to define their function or platform differences so as to construct a family tree of related products (Fig 19.3).

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
by Tom Slee
Published 18 Nov 2015

Toward the end of his speech, Atkin made a pitch for help: So I’m here to tell you about some plans which will enable people to create a member-driven movement for the sharing economy [Peers]. If you like, a new kind of union for a new kind of economy. And I’m also here to ask for your support. So if you’re a platform: help your users create this organization and join it. If you’re a thought-leader, blogger, or conference speaker: champion it. And if you’ve got some ready cash, please help fund it. The chutzpah of asking his audience to dip into their pockets to fund an organization put together by billionaire-funded companies is remarkable. One of the motivations behind writing this book is to push back against people such as Douglas Atkin appropriating the language of collective action and progressive politics for private financial gain.

Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care
by Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker
Published 14 May 2014

What exactly, they wanted to know, was he going to fix? They were making money. Maybe he saw a problem, but they didn’t. Clearly, this line wasn’t going to work. Rushika needed to find people who were unhappy with the status quo. It was about then that he got a call from a physician named Arnold Milstein. He was a “global thought leader” for Mercer, a consulting firm that advised unions and employers on health benefits. In the early 2000s, Milstein had worked with Unite Here, the union representing hotel and casino workers in Las Vegas. The union had a contract that put aside funds for benefits. Year after year the rank and file were promised that any savings from this fund would underwrite pay hikes.

Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
by Thomas H. Davenport
Published 4 Feb 2014

—Rob Bearden, CEO, Hortonworks “Conversational, engaging, and an exceptional guide for decision making in the big data world. Big Data at Work offers insight to the business and technology components of a big data strategy, a path to success, and best practices from across industry sectors.” —Adele K. Sweetwood, Vice President, Davenport renowned thought leader on business analytics and big data, translating important technological trends into new and revitalized management practices that demonstrate the value of analytics to all functions of an organization. He is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College, a fellow of the MIT Center for Digital Business, cofounder and Director of Research at the International Institute for Analytics, and a senior adviser to Deloitte Analytics.

Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Published 11 May 2014

In the end, you may find that only one idea out of twenty is worth pursuing—but you might never have come up with that one unless you were willing to blurt out, childlike, everything that wandered through your brain. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small. If you meet someone who fancies himself a thought leader or an intellectual, one of the nicest compliments you can pay is to call him a “big thinker.” Go ahead, try it, and watch him swell with pride. If he does, we can virtually guarantee you he has no interest in thinking like a Freak. To think like a Freak means to think small, not big. Why? For starters, every big problem has been thought about endlessly by people much smarter than we are.

The Self-Made Billionaire Effect: How Extreme Producers Create Massive Value
by John Sviokla and Mitch Cohen
Published 30 Dec 2014

Yet not every insight, every business connection, every risk taken results in a billion dollars of value. That success is not evenly distributed across the range of good ideas made us ask the question that lies at the root of this book: namely, what enables self-made billionaires to create such massive value? There are plenty of available truisms that get touted by thought leaders in response to that question. Extreme entrepreneurs take bigger risks, for example, or they focus on new markets. We didn’t know at the outset whether any of these ideas were true, but on their own they didn’t seem to explain the scale of success that these people achieve. Many people take risks, but very few reap high returns.

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food
by Chase Purdy
Published 15 Jun 2020

Is there something inherently special about that basic act of living? Does it affect the protein composition within the physical tissue of the animal, and in a way that defines its meat and what it is on the most minute, molecular level? I recall a conversation I had with Bay Area–based Finless Foods CEO Mike Selden, one of the most thoughtful leaders in the industry. He told me that his company’s scientists had done a lot of work researching how an animal’s movement is incredibly important to the quality of its meat. It’s one of the reasons why we don’t eat farmed tuna, he explained. An adult bluefin tuna can grow to about ten feet long in the wild, where it swims against strong currents for thousands of miles.

Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
Published 12 Sep 2016

He earned a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and was on track to reach his goal of becoming a respected university president. That was all well and good, but Parker hated it. He came to the realization that he could be inspired by people like Martin Luther King and Gandhi, but that didn’t mean he had to walk their same path. He ended up redesigning his life as a thought leader and writer—still working for the same goals, but in a way that was less about imitation and more about authenticity. The point is, there are lots of powerful voices in the world, and lots of powerful voices in our heads, all telling us what to do or who to be. And because there are many models for how life is supposed to be lived, we all run the risk, like Parker, of accidentally using someone else’s compass and living someone else’s life.

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
by Brink Lindsey
Published 12 Oct 2017

We believe that, in our day, we need to develop and implement a new set of auxiliary precautions for an era with new threats to effective, popular government. III DUCKING MADISON’S CHALLENGE Neither the left nor the right has faced up to Madison’s old but once again urgent question, much less come up with an adequate answer. In order to find a way out of our governing crisis, thought leaders and policymakers on both sides need to do better. Conservatives and libertarians have failed by insisting that the baby be thrown out with the bath water. Once government assumes any responsibility to regulate in a given area, they argue, it is inevitable that rent-seeking will corrupt policymaking.

China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies Are Changing the Rules of Business
by Edward Tse
Published 13 Jul 2015

the numbers will fall precipitously as the workforce falls to 650 million: See Ansuya Harjani, “This Is How Fast China’s Workforce Is Shrinking,” CNBC, January 20, 2014, available at http://www.cnbc.com/id/101349829 (accessed September 2, 2014). Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School: See Theodore Kinni, “The Thought Leader Interview: Rita Gunther McGrath,” strategy+business, Issue 74, Spring 2014. SF Express: See Li Tao-cheng, “SF Express Chain Stores Stir Up China’s E-Commerce Market,” WantChinaTimes.com, June 3, 2014, available at http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20140603000003&cid=1502 (accessed November 4, 2014).

The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman
Published 14 Oct 2019

As we’ve seen, after cracking down on tax dodges, the average tax rate that would maximize tax collection at the top is much higher than the current rate of 30%—it is close to 60%. Admittedly, should their tax rate double, the wealthy would report less income, even with tax avoidance kept in check: thought leaders would perhaps give fewer paid speeches, company executives may retire somewhat earlier, and so on. As a result, the inequality of pre-tax income would fall; according to the best available estimates, the top 1% share of pre-tax national income would decline from 20% to about 16%.16 Let’s run the math again: should their average tax rate double, America’s affluent families would pay 60% of 16% of national income in tax, which is about 9.5% of national income.

The Right Side of History
by Ben Shapiro
Published 11 Feb 2019

Many of the most prominent proponents of the social science movement were devotees of so-called race science, the pseudoscience that suggested that all disparities were due to inborn traits—and that the future of a society lay in its willingness to find a “solution” to the problem of “undesirable” populations. This pseudoscience led many of those same “humanistic” thought leaders to propose eugenics as a solution to societal ills. As historian Thomas Leonard writes, “The roster of progressives who advocated exclusion of hereditary inferiors reads like a Who’s Who of American economic reform. . . . They were joined by the founders of American sociology.”63 Among these figures were Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Little Black Book of Decision Making
by Michael Nicholas
Published 21 Jun 2017

Our Evolutionary Heritage If the Only Tool You Have is a Hammer … Fearing “Nothing” The Scary Unknown Warped Perceptions Creating Stress by Thought Alone The Problem in a Nutshell Notes 7: The Dance of Old and New Modelling the Mind The Three Part Brain Two Approaches to Decision Making The Conditions for Creativity Getting to Grips with Insights Intuition: Our Fourth Mental Capability Balanced Decision Making Requires a Balanced Mind and Brain Notes Part Three: Transforming Decision Making from the Inside Out 8: The Inside-Out Challenge Technical versus Adaptive Learning Brains are “Plastic” The Power of Attention Attention, and The Myth of “the 10,000-Hour Rule” Turning Development Inside Out Addressing “Big Questions 1 & 2” Notes 9: Evolving the Brain Notes 10: Unlocking Creativity Through Mindfulness Achieving Optimal Performance The Ultimate Skill Getting Present Attention in the Absence of Mindfulness Bounded Awareness Seeking to Disprove Meditation Improves Attention The Conditions for Insight Notes Conclusion The Need for Mindful Awareness “Get into the Water” Transformation via the Ten Principles Notes Index EULA List of Tables Chapter 3 Table 3.1 List of Illustrations Chapter 5 Figure 5.1 Chapter 7 Figure 7.1 Chapter 9 Figure 9.1 Conclusion Figure C.1 Acknowledgements Looking back over my 30-year career to this point, there are countless people who have contributed to my professional growth and development, and many more who have profoundly shaped my personal journey. Without them, I could not be doing what I do, living a life I love full of meaning and purpose. They include family and friends, my coaches, thought leaders I've had the opportunity to learn from, colleagues and clients. I have huge gratitude for them all. I'd like to acknowledge several key teachers who have had a profound impact on my thinking and progress: Tony Robbins, for accelerating my personal development and awakening me to my own potential for transformation; John Maxwell for the many insights he provided about what it really means to be a leader; Daniel Goleman, who first got me thinking in new ways about how we can maximise relationships, influence and impact; Deepak Chopra for helping me to understand how our minds and bodies are interconnected, and for the huge impact he has had on giving my life meaning; Eckhart Tolle for deepening my understanding of the power of present moment awareness; Dr.

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
by Angie Schmitt
Published 26 Aug 2020

At this point we can only hope that the devastation from this illness will be limited and we will emerge with a renewed sense of care for our fellow citizens and their health and well-being. This book, I hope can help planners and overlapping disciplines put the values of care, empathy, and caution over habit and convenience to save lives in the same way that we are taking on this terrible global crisis. —March 2020 Foreword As one of the nation’s leading voices and thought leaders in transportation equity, I have devoted my entire career to creating equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities. In doing so, I have been methodical and intentional in the use of my power, my pen, and my privilege to highlight and humanize the disparities and injustices faced by historically disadvantaged population groups in the United States.

Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe
by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Published 9 May 2022

Early on, police suspected that a young German boy may have stolen the work. The boy had visited the museum multiple times, and police thought that the boy may have become so obsessed with the woman in Da Vinci’s painting, so crazy in love, that he stole the work. Remarkably, there was great sympathy for the boy, with some thought leaders at the time suggesting that a boy so in love might deserve the painting. The investigation for a time focused on J. P. Morgan, the American banking magnate. Many people in France suspected that only an American would be brazen enough to decide that he alone deserved to enjoy the Mona Lisa. After it was discovered that Morgan had been vacationing in Italy at the time of the heist, the press hounded him.

For the Love of Autism: Stories of Love, Awareness and Acceptance on the Spectrum
by Tamika Lechee Morales
Published 23 Apr 2022

Our world needs people who can think outside the box! Tamika: Thank you, Brenda, for your time. This has been great! I thank you and Moshe for daring to dream and take action. May this interview serve as inspiration for individuals and organizations alike. Resources Self-Advocacy: Self-advocates/researchers/thought leaders I like to follow: Lutza Ireland, PhD, www.​linkedin​.com​/in​/dr​-lutza​-ireland​-5b028116b​/?originalSubdomain​=au John Elder Robison, jerobison.blogspot.com Stephen Shore, EdD, drstephenshore.com Temple Grandin, PhD, templegrandin.com Dr. Tony Attwood, tonyattwood.com.au ASAN Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, autisticadvocacy.org Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network (AWN), awnnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/AWNNetworkParentPacket.pdf Neurodiversity Neurodiversity Network, neurodiversitynetwork.net/neurodivergent-leaders Career and Self Development Neurodiversity Career Connector, ndcc.simplifyhire.com Neurodiversity Network, neurodiversitynetwork.net/career-self-development Networks for Employers and Advocates: Neurowrx, a global alliance to accelerate the employment of autistics in STEM, neurowrx.org Neurodiversity @ Work Employer Roundtable, a collection of employers committed to neurodiversity-focused hiring initiatives, disabilityin.org/what-we-do/committees/neurodiversity-at-work-roundtable Vocational Training Aspiritech AREA program: Aspiritech Remote Employment Academy funded by Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation offers training and summer internships in Intro to QA (Quality Assurance), soft skills, and more—in process!

Rigged Money: Beating Wall Street at Its Own Game
by Lee Munson
Published 6 Dec 2011

There was always something eating away at me when working though different trading strategies versus investment theories. All traders are concerned about is risk. Like gambling, traders look at what you have to put up and what you can get, or simple odds. Investment theories were always trying to compete for the expected return of the bet. This is when I started to listen more carefully to what Dr. Andrew Lo, a thought leader on hedge funds and financial engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Finance, was trying to get across. A peddler of ideas himself, he came up with Adaptive Market Hypothesis. I don’t know why it is a hypothesis—it’s simple. Survival is the game, and the game changes with each new crop of investors.

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment
by Sangeet Paul Choudary
Published 14 Sep 2015

Layering on new interactions Platforms scale by adding more interactions and layering on edge interactions around a core interaction. All platforms are centered on a core interaction that enables every other (edge) interaction. LinkedIn, for example, has multiple interactions, such as recruiters serving jobs to candidates and thought leaders publishing posts for readers. However, the central purpose of LinkedIn continues to be centered on enabling professionals to connect with each other. LinkedIn’s failure to power this core interaction would lead to the failure of all edge interactions that the platform enables. 6. Enabling end-to-end interactions Platforms create efficiencies in interactions by aggregating demand and supply and ensuring that the most relevant users are matched with each other.

Designing Search: UX Strategies for Ecommerce Success
by Greg Nudelman and Pabini Gabriel-Petit
Published 8 May 2011

Part I: Optimizing eCommerce Search Results Pages Part I discusses ways to optimize the layout and content of ecommerce search results pages. It also covers the importance of no search results pages; provides a quick but useful framework for understanding why shoppers behave as they do, taken from different perspectives of industry’s thought leaders and a construct of shopper roles; describes how to avoid pogosticking; discusses the use of thumbnail images; and provides answers to the important but difficult question of how to deal with ads on search results pages. Part II: Designing eCommerce Search Interactions Part II covers a wide array of topics related to the design of intuitive and effective ecommerce search interactions.

Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
by Mark Goulston M. D. and Keith Ferrazzi
Published 31 Aug 2009

He’s a genius at reaching unreachable people and, in this book, you’ll find out just how he does it. I originally met Mark through his books Get Out of Your Own Way and Get Out of Your Own Way at Work. His books, his work, and, most importantly, Mark himself so impressed me that I pursued him and now we’re business partners. He’s one of the thought leaders at Ferrazzi Greenlight and a trusted adviser to me. After watching him work, I can tell you why everyone from the FBI to Oprah pays attention when Mark talks about reaching people: his techniques, simple as they sound, really work. Oh, and don’t be put off by the fact that Mark’s a psychiatrist.

The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
by Dr. Jim Taylor
Published 9 Sep 2008

Certainly the wealthy are highly connected with one another, and with the politically powerful as well, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to political interest or an attempt to leverage their connections into personal gain. Half feel they have greater access to, and sway over, politicians and thought leaders than less affluent individuals, but fewer than one in five reports using that access and influence to further his or her business aims. Influence peddling in smokefilled rooms isn’t the style of today’s entrepreneurial wealthy. Instead, among the relatively small percentage with a passion for politics, they are more likely to use their wealth to run for office.

The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
by Christine Negroni
Published 26 Sep 2016

Following the attacks against America on September 11, 2001, she joined the aviation law firm Kreindler & Kreindler, directing its investigation into sponsorship of terror and other aviation disasters on behalf of victims’ families. During this time she qualified for membership in the International Society of Air Safety Investigators. She is considered a thought leader in the aviation industry and contributes insight, analysis, and advocacy on the subjects of safety and civility in air travel. PENGUIN BOOKS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 penguin.com Copyright © 2016 by Christine Negroni Penguin supports copyright.

The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff

Kurzweil, an optimistic “transhumanist,” thinks this future will manifest itself as the merging between humans and computers, allowing human consciousness to live forever. In preparation, Kurzweil has collected every scrap of material possible related to his deceased father so that one day he’ll be able to recreate his father’s consciousness in the cloud and once more have a chat with him.22 There’s a catch, however. To get to the future, Silicon Valley thought leaders believe society needs to remain free from the suffocating grasp of the government. Ellen Ullman sees this Ayn Randian sensibility expressed often in the Valley by men who see the government as “anathema, a pit, the muck in which dreams of changing the world will forever sink.”23 In his early days at the helm of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg listed himself as “enemy of the state.”

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
Published 14 Jan 2020

It passed them by. Flat structure, meritocracy, non-nonnegotiable offers. Systems do work as designed. * * * That same spring, the CEO of the analytics startup stepped down. “I just need a break,” he told a business reporter. “It’s been a marathon.” On social media, he joined the ranks of industry thought-leaders contributing to the founder-realism genre, recommending therapy and community, microblogging his own emotional development in real time. In the chat room for ex-employees of the analytics startup, my former coworkers lauded the decision. They joked about inviting the CEO to the channel. They rolled their emoji-eyes at his inspirational posts.

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World With OKRs
by John Doerr
Published 23 Apr 2018

A special thank-you goes to the individuals who took time out of their impossibly busy schedules to read the manuscript and offer the feedback that made it so much better: To Bing Gordon, who also introduced me to Debra Radabaugh, who introduced me to Coach Campbell. I thank Jonathan Rosenberg, who furnished so many perceptive observations on the Google way of using OKRs and pointed me to our “stretch” case studies. Thanks to Laszlo Bock, a brilliant thought leader on goals, continuous performance management, and culture. And to Dov Seidman, the great business philosopher, for his wisdom on culture and values. Thank you Tom Friedman, Laurene Powell Jobs, Al Gore, Randy Komisar and Sheryl Sandberg, friends with big brains and kind hearts, who shared their unique values and wisdom on building teams and institutions.

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge
Published 27 Feb 2018

And today, adaptive systems can learn our preferences over time as they watch what we are doing and track our decisions. In all three of these areas, highly evolved data analytics and advanced machine learning (or “artificial intelligence,” as it is often called) have fueled important progress. When combined, we have all the key building blocks of data-rich markets. Digital thought leaders and energetic online entrepreneurs are already taking note. There is a gold rush just around the corner, and it will soon be in full swing. It’s a rush toward data-rich markets that deliver ample efficiency dividends to their participants and offer to the providers a sizable chunk of the total transaction volume.

Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global
by Rebecca Fannin
Published 2 Sep 2019

Technologies we use every day—Siri, touchscreen, GPS, the internet, and the iPhone—came out of the US Department of Defense and government-funded scientists for military purposes. “Anyone who is trying to understand China today without understanding what’s happening from the innovation perspective or what’s happening to China’s entrepreneurs, is not thoughtful,” says tech investor Gary Rieschel, a thought leader in the world of venture and entrepreneurship. “That’s a huge blind spot for a great number of policy specialists in United States working on China.” Merit Janow, dean at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a former deputy trade representative to China and Japan, gives her expert perspective: “Trade policies won’t fix the fact that China is investing heavily in tech R&D and education, while the United States is cutting.

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly
Published 14 Jun 2021

Besides serving on the boards of Johnson & Johnson and Ralph Lauren, he now spends most of his time as a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and supporting other leaders seeking to become the best versions of themselves and to lead with purpose and humanity. He is also actively invested in efforts to advance meaningful diversity and inclusion. Writing collaborator CAROLINE LAMBERT has helped a wide range of change makers and thought leaders in business, civil society, and politics translate their ideas and experience into books. Previously a foreign correspondent and deputy Asia editor at The Economist, she wrote about business, economics, and politics in various parts of the world, earning the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award and the Sanlam Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.

Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life
by Sarah Edmondson
Published 16 Sep 2019

It was thrilling to make those discoveries about old reactionary patterns that hadn’t been working for me, and the integrations had begun to give me a high. Ever since that first phone call with Mark on day one of my Five-Day, he encouraged all of us to ignore everything unfavorable that we’d ever heard or read about Keith Raniere. After all, Jesus, Buddha, and all other thought leaders met with resistance, he and the leaders explained, because most people in the world wanted things to stay status quo. Why else would human progress be necessary? They taught us a theory that came from the nineteenth-century German philosopher Schopenhauer: “All truth passes through three stages.

User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
by Mike Cohn
Published 1 Mar 2004

* * * The Addison-Wesley Signature Series The Addison-Wesley Signature Series provides readers with practical and authoritative information on the latest trends in modern technology for computer professionals. The series is based on one simple premise: great books come from great authors. Books in the series are personally chosen by expert advisors, world-class authors in their own right. These experts are proud to put their signatures on the covers, and their signatures ensure that these thought leaders have worked closely with authors to define topic coverage, book scope, critical content, and overall uniqueness. The expert signatures also symbolize a promise to our readers: you are reading a future classic. THE ADDISON-WESLEY SIGNATURE SERIES SIGNERS: KENT BECK & MARTIN FOWLER Martin Fowler has been a pioneer of object technology in enterprise applications.

Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
by David J. Anderson
Published 6 Apr 2010

With Kanban, I have chosen to synthesize all three and to provide an overview of how to recognize these improvement opportunities, and details on how to implement improvements using each model. Each of the three schools of thought on continuous improvement described below has its own group of thought leaders, its own conferences, its own canon of knowledge and experience, and its own group of followers. Your company may subscribe to one or more of these schools. Being able to show how Kanban’s techniques can provide opportunities for improvement in your organization’s favorite flavor may be an advantage.

Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win
by Sachin Khajuria
Published 13 Jun 2022

That is why ethics, real transparency, and judgment must be at the heart of where money is allocated from investors to private equity firms. Performance alone is not enough—not going forward. That is also why the media spotlight that is increasingly focused on senior figures in private equity has some justification. Arguably, these investment folks are as important as other business and thought leaders we already think of in the conversation around the impact on our economy—and society—whether we are talking about the CEOs of the Big Tech companies or the Wall Street banks. What they stand for and what motivates them is part and parcel of the jobs they do. They are not only the “key employees” in fund documents between their investors and their firm—they are also key people in our economy.

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu
Published 22 Mar 2020

One afternoon, Liam reverently showed us a video about Amazon’s robotics division — proof of Amazon’s efforts to automate away dangerous jobs, which we saw as a sign of the benevolence of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who clearly cared so much about making life better for his workers. Our perspectives were immature and half-formed, with no theoretical basis, but we expected we could figure everything out by reasoning from first principles, as if we were the first people to have ever thought about the concept. We devoured blog posts from Silicon Valley thought leaders on potential policy responses to widespread automation; I was especially intrigued by the idea of Universal Basic Income, an idea which I assumed had been invented in Silicon Valley. I wasn’t entirely sure what we could do, but I took solace in the fact that our existing product was a narrow application of the general idea of automation, in the sense of reducing human intervention using machine intelligence.

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
by Jeremy Lent
Published 22 May 2017

This impressive study program gave a common intellectual heritage, steeped in the classical tradition, to generations of Europeans pursuing vocations in virtually any professional or administrative field.20 Trained in the classical disciplines, and stimulated by the learning emanating from Spain, a fresh class of thought leaders emerged in Europe, experimenting in new ways to synthesize Christian theology with natural philosophy. The cognitive foundation for modern science was being laid.21 The Implicit Narrative of Christian Rationalism What did this foundation of scientific cognition look like? It was a seamless fusion of the classical deification of reason with the belief in the omniscience of a Christian God.

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“This struggle to save the future,” observes Al Gore, “will be played out in a contest between Earth Inc. and the Global Mind.”88 The ease with which the internet transmits ideas across the world means that, when the time comes, the transformation of global consciousness could occur at a speed that might surprise everyone. It is part of our evolved human nature to stick together with our group's attitudes or opinions even when a changing situation leaves those attitudes out of date, which can frequently cause social rigidity and political inertia. When thought leaders emerge, offering new ways of thinking, they gradually attract increasing numbers of people until a tipping point is reached and the “stickiness” that kept people attached to their old pattern of thinking is superseded by the pull of the new ideas. All of a sudden, the gradual shift in ideas becomes an avalanche when those who are most comfortable sticking together find themselves in a rush to join in the new way of thinking.

The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit
by Marina Krakovsky
Published 14 Sep 2015

See Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold, “Seed Capital from Angel Investors: Mike Maples, Founder and Managing Partner, Floodgate (Part 3),” One Million by One Million Blog, July 14, 2010, retrieved from http://www.sramanamitra.com/2010/07/14/seed-capital-from-angel-investors-mike-maples-founder-and-managing-partner-floodgate-part-3/. 26.Interview with Mike Maples Jr., September 17, 2014. 27.Paul Graham, “A Unified Theory of VC Suckage,” PaulGraham.com, March 2005, retrieved from http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html. 28.Russ Roberts, “Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future,” EconTalk, May 19, 2014, retrieved from http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/marc_andreessen.html. 29.Ben Horowitz mentions Rachleff’s influence in an interview with Stanford engineering professor Tom Byers, “Disrupting the Venture Capital Industry,” Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series, November 19, 2014, retrieved from http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMate rialInfo.html?mid=3438. 30.Andy Rachleff, “Demystifying Venture Capital Economics, Part I,” Wealthfront Blog, June 19, 2014, retrieved from https://blog.wealthfront.com/venture-capital-economics/. 31.“Marc Andreessen on Breakthrough Ideas and Courageous Entrepreneurs,” interview at Stanford Graduate School of Business, March 8, 2014, retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck
Published 13 Nov 2012

I am personally grateful to Adele Chatfield-Taylor and the Harrison family for their enthusiastic encouragement, and also for overlooking the baby damage. I have dozens of people to thank for the information and stories that make up this book. As the text and notes suggest, certain chapters depend heavily on the thought leaders in their subjects, roughly as follows: economics: Chris Leinberger and Joe Cortright; health: Richard Jackson, Howie Frumkin, and Lawrence Frank; parking: Donald Shoup; transit: Yonah Freemark; safety: Dan Burden; biking: Jeff Mapes and Robert Hurst; and urban triage: Andres Duany. While this list is by no means complete, I also received important help from Adam Baacke, Kaid Benfield, Scott Bernstein, Ron Bogle, Tom Brennan, Amanda Burden, Norman Garrick, Robert Gibbs, Alex Gorlin, Vince Graham, Charlie Hales, Blake Kreuger, Bill Lennertz, Matt Lerner, Todd Litman, Mike Lydon, Michael Mehaffy, Charles Marohn, Paul Moore, Wes Marshall, Eileen McNeil, Darrin Nordahl, Brian O’Looney, Eva Otto, David Owen, Jay Primus, Shannon Ramsay, Ginny Seyferth, Christian Sottile, Boo Thomas, Brent Toderian, John Torti, Harriet Tregoning, and Sam Zimbabwe.

Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
by William MacAskill
Published 27 Jul 2015

In this position, he’s been able to promote and discuss ideas he thinks are important, such as more liberal immigration policies, a universal basic income, and the idea of earning to give. In advocacy, we would expect the distribution of impact to be highly fat-tailed: it’s a winner-takes-all environment, where a small number of thought leaders command most of the attention. We don’t have data on impact through advocacy in general, though the distribution of book sales, which one could use as a proxy, is highly fat-tailed, as is the distribution of Twitter follower counts. Again, therefore, this is an area you might only want to go into if you think you have an unusually good chance of being successful.

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
by Tyler Cowen
Published 27 Feb 2017

American government and civil society, acting in conjunction, actually brought about a lower crime rate, more safety for most of our kids, no more draft riots, and more job and residential stability, among the many other changes that took place. Of course, this portrait of a slowdown in dynamism is not usually what you hear from our business, political, and thought leaders. Bill Gates, for instance, has said that “the idea that innovation is slowing down is … stupid.” He claims that new ideas are coming at a “scarily fast pace.”1 Or on Twitter, until recently, Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), Netscape founder and successful venture capitalist, would tweet up a storm at least once a week about the benefits of modernity, the progress of the American economy, and most of all the wonders of tech and Silicon Valley.

What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix It
by Stephen Davis , Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson
Published 30 Apr 2016

“Investor Trust Study: 2013” (CFA Institute and Edelman, 2013), www.cfainstitute.org/investortrust. 57. There are issues created by the widespread adoption of cheap beta strategies. As we’ve seen, mass adoption of diversification can allow risks to build up in the system, even while decreasing the risk to an investor of something going wrong with any one investment. Thankfully, thought leaders like the Royal Society of the Arts are trying to mitigate those risks and accentuate the positives. We discuss how in chapter 5. 58. “Passive Investing Has Room to Grow,” Financial Times, September 23, 2012. 59. “Investors Shift to Low-Cost ‘Tracker’ Funds,” The Telegraph, February 12, 2013. 60. www.unpri.org, accessed September 21, 2014. 61.

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele
Published 14 Apr 2013

As individuals and as a society, we need to acknowledge small as our future but simultaneously rediscover and embrace values such as limited government, the rule of law, due process, and individual freedoms of religion, speech, press, and assembly. While it may seem like a giant task, the first step is simple: start talking. A good way to staunch the decline of our existing institutional culture is by having a series of conversations with civic, political, and intellectual thought leaders who would in turn discuss the End of Big in their own ways with their audiences. Countless democratic efforts across the country would be emboldened if voices in the national media and Washington confirmed the discomfort most Americans feel with the state of our politics, our government, our commerce, our systems.

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor
Published 4 Mar 2014

Networks reflect and exacerbate imbalances of power as much as they improve them. The tendency of open systems to amplify inequality—and new-media thinkers’ glib disregard for this fundamental characteristic—was on vivid display during a talk at a 2012 installment of the TEDGlobal conference convened under the heading “Radical Openness.” Don Tapscott, self-proclaimed “thought leader” and author of influential books including Growing Up Digital and Wikinomics, titled his presentation “Four Principles for the Open World”: collaboration, transparency, sharing, and empowerment. Tapscott told the story of his neighbor Rob McEwen, a banker turned gold mine owner, the former chairman and CEO of Goldcorp Inc.

The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen
Published 5 Jan 2015

No, Rochester’s downtown definitely wasn’t worth a three-thousand-dollar private helicopter ride—unless perhaps you had, like me, come to the city in search of a quarter century of failure. One of the most ludicrous Silicon Valley cults—its most “striking mantra,” according to the Guardian3—is its religious veneration of the idea of failure. Peddled by thought leaders like Tim O’Reilly, it’s the idea that business failure is a badge of success for entrepreneurs. Idolizing failure is the hottest new meme for the alpha geeks of the Valley. The bigger their success, the more exaggerated their claim to being serial failures. “How I Failed,” O’Reilly thus titled a much-hyped 2013 keynote speech at one of his own successful events.4 But O’Reilly has some stiff competition in this failure Olympiad.

The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work
by Vishen Lakhiani
Published 14 Sep 2020

To the teachers who provided wisdom for this book: Drima Starlight, for being pivotal in the early days of Mindvalley and for your values process that has been key to our continued success and now the success of countless others; Cameron Herold, for your Vivid Visioning technique that took my business to new heights; Srikumar Rao, for your sage wisdom, mentorship, and support through the highs and lows; Lisa Nichols, for believing in me early on, and for your friendship and partnership in the field of personal growth; Reverend Michael Beckwith, for your spiritual guidance, your Life Visioning process, and your commitment to transformation on the planet; Naveen Jain, for blowing me away with your moonshot ideas that have expanded the way I think I run my business; Richard Branson, for suggesting I write the first book that led to this book and for inviting me to mastermind with you on Necker, and being an example of how business and life can flow together with ease; Bob Proctor, for kicking my butt and getting me to think better; Ken Wilber, for being the Father of Integral Theory whose models have shaped me, my work, and many of the ideas in this book; Tim Urban, for your genius blog that tackles the most relevant topics the world needs to know about in a way that’s witty and engaging; Tom Chi, for your stand for humanity and for setting an example for how leaders should conduct themselves in business; John Ratcliff, for inspiring other leaders to truly see their people with your Dream Manager program; Daniel Pink, for your commitment to compassionate leadership and teams that thrive; Patty McCord, for reminding the world that people are already leaders the moment they walk in a door; Elon Musk, for being a trailblazer who sets an impeccable standard for how to think ten years ahead; Barack Obama, for your mentorship and inspiration; Larry Page, for sharing the OKR system that’s transformed how we work at Mindvalley; Doug McGuff, for your super slow training, and helping me reverse my biological age; Simon Sinek, for emphasizing the importance of sharing your why; Jim Collins for encouraging me to get the right people on my bus. To the thought leaders who are no longer with us but who have influenced my life and the ideas in this book: Buckminster Fuller, for showing me how to tackle impossible problems; Terrence McKenna, for your stand for people living self-expressed lives, for your mind-bending wisdom, and for contributing to my worldview; Rumi, for your spiritual guidance and your poems that have stuck with me and shaped the way I work; Martin Luther King Jr., for inspiring us all to live bravely; and Abraham Maslow, for revolutionizing the field of human psychology with your Hierarchy of Needs.

That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
by Mark Kenyon
Published 2 Dec 2019

This meeting inspired Roosevelt to create an organization that would stand up for those animals and places, lobbying for wildlife management, protection, and reserves. The Boone and Crockett Club, named after famed hunter-explorers Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, was founded by Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Together, the two men began building the club’s membership to include the most influential scientists, businessmen, and thought leaders in the nation. One of the organization’s stated goals was to “work for the preservation of the large game of this country, and, so far as possible, to further legislation for that purpose, and to assist in enforcing the existing laws.” The Boone and Crockett Club became one of the first and most effective conservation organizations in the country with the goal of lobbying for environmental reform and legislation, and the momentum it developed changed the history of the nation.

Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by Mo Gawdat
Published 29 Sep 2021

But I’m not going to tell you till the end of this book if we are there because we are staying off the grid to escape the machines, or if we are there because AI has relieved us of our mundane work responsibilities and allowed us the time, safety and freedom to just enjoy being in nature, doing what humans do best – connecting and contemplating. I won’t tell you yet simply because, at this current moment, I don’t know how our story with the machines will end. That, my friend, will be up to you. Yes, you as an individual. Not your government, your boss or the thought leaders that you follow. The future, truly, is up to you. It will depend on the actions you decide to take in the next ten years, starting from today. This is a prophecy of what’s about to come. I have watched closely over the years I spent on the cutting edge of technology as we built machines that are smarter than we are.

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
Published 5 Feb 2019

Eventually, India’s population will also begin to subside, but in the meantime the world watches in fascination as this teeming, dynamic society moves toward center stage. With an immigration intake three times that of the United States, on a per capita basis, Canada’s population should broach fifty million by 2060. Any further increase in the annual intake, which many business and thought leaders are recommending, could push that number all the way up to sixty million.451 By then, all things being equal, Germany’s population will have shrunk from the current eighty million to as low as sixty-eight million.452 Though it’s hard to imagine it, Canada’s global standing could improve simply because of the size of its population.

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank
Published 15 Mar 2016

Collaborations such as “Startup NY,” a program that uses public universities and tax breaks as entrepreneur bait; it is, Cuomo tells us, “a game-changing initiative” that works by making public universities “into tax-free communities that attract new businesses, venture capital, start-ups, and investments from across the world.”4 There is also a version that comes from sky-blue Delaware, where Democratic governor Jack Markell—a man much beloved of the East Coast banking and telecom communities—has tried to privatize the Port of Wilmington, has done battle with public workers, and has fashioned a role for himself as an info-age thought-leader. Toward the end of 2014, Markell traveled to Stanford University, the center of the knowledge economy, to speak about “Disruptive Innovation,” meaning, in this case, web-based companies that displace an existing personal service. The question before policymakers like him, Markell said (according to his prepared text) was “how we can facilitate the success of these innovations.”

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling , Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Published 2 Apr 2018

I have learned a lot from the CEOs of international businesses and from my PhD students in Stockholm. I have learned even more from women living in extreme poverty in Africa; from Catholic nuns working in the most remote villages; from medical students in Bangalore and academics from Nigeria, Tanzania, Vietnam, Iran, and Pakistan; and from the thought leaders of countries on all income levels, from Eduardo Mondlane to Melinda Gates. I want to thank all of you for sharing your knowledge with me, for making my life so rich and wonderful, and for showing me a world completely different from the one I learned about in school. Understanding the world is one thing.

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
by Sean McFate
Published 22 Jan 2019

They deceive us and foster strategic atrophy. To filter them out, you need to know who they are and what they are saying. It may surprise you. False Prophets Who are the influential war futurists? One would assume that generals, intelligence officers, university faculty members, and think tank fellows would be the thought leaders. However, these individuals are eclipsed by people who have the imagination to steer pop culture. The most influential war futurists in the West are artists, novelists, and filmmakers; people whose visions inspire us all. But they also delude us. What makes a good movie does not make an effective strategy, and vice versa.

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 9 Sep 2019

In his 2015 biography, China’s New Energy Revolution, Li Hejun said that he “was deeply moved [by the] powerful set of coordinates and insights” in The Third Industrial Revolution and was particularly struck by the contention that solar energy was “more suitable for future independent and distributed production.”53 In September 2013, Li Hejun, who at the time was also the vice chairman of the powerful All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, invited me to Beijing to share the vision, theory, and practical application of renewable energies—and the role China might play in the next great energy revolution—with twenty of China’s key policy leaders, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs. The meeting was a seminal event that helped galvanize support behind the Chinese leadership’s new commitment to establishing the green business opportunities of an ecological era.54 Fast-forward to 2018. Hanergy leads the world in thin-film solar power technologies. Its new “solar powered electric express delivery cars,” equipped with thin-film modules, are on the road and can travel 100 kilometers a day.55 The company, which holds the world record for solar efficiency at a 29.1 percent conversion rate, is also using thin film to power unmanned aerial vehicles, backpacks, umbrellas, and a range of other items, allowing individuals to carry the sun’s energy with them wherever they go to power much of what they do.56 China’s renewable energy sector already employs 3.8 million people.57 The manufacturing, installing, and servicing of solar- and wind-harvesting technology and the conversion of the country’s electricity grid from a servomechanical system operating on fossil fuels and nuclear power to a digital Renewable Energy Internet will spawn millions of additional jobs in the coming three decades.

Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict
by Max Brooks , John Amble , M. L. Cavanaugh and Jaym Gates
Published 14 May 2018

In these clashes, the Jedi were simply overwhelmed because they were deployed in such small numbers relative to their two-timing, murderous clone “comrades” when the vicious Order 66 was executed. In the end, the Jedi were two heartbeats from extinction. Future Looking, the Strategist Must Be He was a great fighter and may have been an even greater teacher. Yet Yoda was, nonetheless, an inferior strategist. For military schools and thought leaders to adopt his moniker is a demonstrable misappreciation of the strategist’s craft, because, ultimately, Yoda was marginalized, the Jedi were unimportant, and the Republic was in flames. Having praised Yoda for what he did well and censured him for what he did poorly, it is important to secure lessons from this wreckage.

Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too
by Gary Vaynerchuk
Published 30 Jan 2018

Crush It! made me able to envision what my future could look like. I’d been thinking that I first needed to become a prestigious company to get other businesses to hire me, and I didn’t give enough credit to the fact that I was already being watched, asked for advice, trusted, and considered a mini–thought leader because of the personal brand I’d developed through the videos about my life. It made me realize how important personal branding is to growing a business, and I was already doing it without even knowing it. So maybe I was further ahead than I thought! Maybe I could turn this thing I was doing for fun into something else by simply leveraging what I knew really well—how to use video, how to talk to a camera like it’s a person—and then craft the messaging for a very specific type of person.

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
by Jeff Patton and Peter Economy
Published 14 Apr 2014

Bad teams gather requirements from stakeholders. Good teams are skilled in the many techniques to rapidly try out product ideas to determine which ones are truly worth building. Bad teams hold meetings to generate prioritized roadmaps. Good teams love to have brainstorming discussions with smart thought leaders from across the company. Bad teams get offended when someone outside their team dares to suggest they do something. Good teams have product, design, and engineering sit side-by-side, and embrace the give and take between the functionality, the user experience, and the enabling technology. Bad teams sit in their respective functional areas, and ask that others make requests for their services in the form of documents and scheduling meetings.

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott
Published 4 Jul 2022

Over the years both banks and the fintech industry have slowly and quietly acknowledged their symbiosis. After thousands of industry articles and pundit predictions about the imminent destruction of banks, conciliatory pieces about how banks and fintechs could ‘work together’ emerged. These articles are always presented as a kind of ‘a-ha’ moment, when the industry thought-leader or analyst realises that the encounter they’ve been reporting on as a battle was actually an uncomfortable series of first dates between future spouses. Direct line In 1987, when I was a little boy, my artist mother took me to an exhibition of an up-and-coming illustrator called William Kentridge.

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
by Michael A. Cusumano , Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
Published 6 May 2019

Allowing anyone on any side of a platform completely free rein could be potentially dangerous to democracy, social well-being, and global economic stability. Whether they liked it or not, companies such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet-Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent, and others would need to accept the new roles that their platforms played in the world economy and modern society as a whole. Even as policy makers and thought leaders were criticizing platform businesses, it is worth remembering that successful platforms have long lives. With millions or billions of participants engaged and connected, platforms tend to be more enduring than stand-alone product or service businesses. Microsoft, for example, introduced DOS and then Windows in the 1980s.

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (In a Big Way)
by Roma Agrawal
Published 2 Mar 2023

Every item requires the creation or extraction of a raw material, then making, packaging, and assembling it – all before we lay our hands on it – and then what happens when we’re done with it? The poorer our understanding of what is behind our things, the components that create the whole, the worse our decisions about their quality, value for money, and sustainability will be. Guru Madhavan, an engineering thought-leader, says that relentlessly producing new objects that may or may not be needed is a questionable act, and that it is paramount to bring ethics, economics, and environmental considerations into the core design of engineering. This ethos is very relevant to the design process that Rebeca believes we should all be attuned to, and will be a way to stop that relentless production of stuff, which is unsustainable.

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown
Published 12 Apr 2010

The Center for the Edge has also the good fortune to include among its ranks Glen Dong, our resourceful chief of staff; Duleesha Kulasooriya, a man whose insights are matched by his forbearance; Christine Brodeur, who navigates the labyrinths required to bring our work to market; and Regina Davis and Carrie Howell, who keep the trains running on time, and on track. We have also benefited from the opportunity to test our ideas midstream with senior business leaders, academics, and other thought leaders in small-group workshops in Palo Alto, in various “Dinners on the Edge” held around the United States, and other venues. Their frank and perceptive commentaries have helped sharpen and strengthen the research. These executives have included Steven Aldrich, Brian Arthur, Prith Banerjee, Michel Bechauf, Brian Behlendorf, Ken Berryman, Mike Byron, Elizabeth Churchill, Art Cimento, Bill Coleman, Jay Cross, Chris Curtin, Cathy Eisenhardt, John Garris, Seth Goldstein, Patrick Grady, Spencer Greene, TJ Grewal, Marguerite Hancock, Russell Hancock, Hamilton Helmer, John Horrigan, Scott Johnson, Ritta Katila, Tom Kehler, Justine Lam, Mick Lopez, Martin Milani, Paul Milgrom, Bill Miller, Simon Mulcahy, Om Nalamasu, Mark Orrtung, Vivek Paul, Roy Pea, Ross Piper, Chris Sacca, Russell Siegelman, Dan Simpson, Sonny Singh, Tom Stewart, Marco ten Vaanholt, Doug Thomas, Denny Weinberg, Kevin Werbach, Jeff Woods, Mark Yolton, and Zia Yusuf.

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
by Arun Sundararajan
Published 12 May 2016

Sharing Ownership in the Sharing Economy Although less common than shareholder corporations, the cooperative ownership structure has a presence in both the US and European economies, with (as of 2009) over 30,000 cooperatives operating in 73,000 US locations, holding assets over $2 trillion, and revenues of over $650 billion.26 A key early advocate of this structure for the sharing economy is Janelle Orsi, a 2014 Ashoka Fellow and thought leader about law in the sharing economy. In 2010, Orsi founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) to develop a legal infrastructure and legal expertise that would sustain worker cooperatives of different kinds.27 More broadly, SELC focuses on interventions that will enable the widespread creation of new economic models, ranging from direct legal support to communities to drafting new legislation.

Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services
by Robert Daigneau
Published 14 Sep 2011

T he Addison-Wesley Signature Series provides readers with practical and authoritative information on the latest trends in modern technology for computer professionals. The series is based on one simple premise: Great books come from great authors. Books in the series are personally chosen by expert advisors, world-class authors in their own right. These experts are proud to put their signatures on the covers, and their signatures ensure that these thought leaders have worked closely with authors to define topic coverage, book scope, critical content, and overall uniqueness. The expert signatures also symbolize a promise to our readers: You are reading a future classic. Service Design Patterns Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services Robert Daigneau Upper Saddle River, NJ • Boston • Indianapolis • San Francisco New York • Toronto • Montreal • London • Munich • Paris • Madrid Capetown • Sydney • Tokyo • Singapore • Mexico City Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks.

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts
Published 1 Sep 2014

According to one poll, seven of ten Republicans support such an amendment.22 “The fact is, a great many people feel that they’re not being heard, that their interests are being passed over to promote the interests of Big Business and Big Labor,” notes Chris Myers, a conservative blogger on Red State. “But here’s a chance for conservatives to demonstrate clearly that we stand for what people really care about. Isn’t that what we always say we’re trying to do, anyway?”23 What is interesting is that, in the wake of the Tea Party meltdown, we’re already seeing conservative thought leaders shifting toward the center—and away from the brand conservatism of Impulse politics. As Ross Douthat, one of The New York Times’ conservative columnists, has pointed out, a pragmatic, solutions-oriented “reform conservatism” has recently been emerging from center-right think tanks and from pragmatic conservative politicians concerned with the movement’s currently suicidal trajectory.

Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank
by Chris Skinner
Published 27 Aug 2013

For the long term, the concept of smart cities and the internet of things will allow us to attach financial services everywhere, because everything will be connected in all metropolitan areas, making transactions easier for customers, merchants and city services. About Pol Navarro Pol Navarro is a highly qualified digital business, customer service and ecommerce strategist, and recognized thought leader, speaking internationally on several Banking, Mobile and Internet conferences. His main role is as Head of Channels and Innovation at Banco Sabadell, one of Spain’s biggest banking groups, where he leads all the activity related to new channel development, new customer services and innovation.

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
Published 14 Apr 2013

By moving through Scharmer’s U process, we consciously access the blind spot and learn to connect to our authentic Self—the deepest source of knowledge and inspiration—in the realm of “presencing,” a term coined by Scharmer that combines the concepts of presence and sensing. Based on ten years of research and action learning and interviews with over 150 practitioners and thought leaders, Theory U offers a rich diversity of compelling stories and examples and includes dozens of exercises and practices that allow leaders, and entire organizations, to shift awareness, connect with the best future possibility, and gain the ability to realize it. Paperback, 560 pages, ISBN 978-1-57675-763-5 PDF ebook, ISBN 978-1-57675-866-3 Berrett-Koehler is an independent publisher dedicated to an ambitious mission: Creating a World That Works for All.

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less
by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou
Published 15 Feb 2015

.’ – Henry Chesbrough, Faculty Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and author, Open Innovation ‘Frugal Innovation proposes a breakthrough approach to solving some of the most complex issues of our global economy as it empowers human beings to use their creativity to generate economic and social value while preserving the environment. A must-read for thought leaders and practitioners worldwide.’ – Bruno Roche, Special Adviser to the G20 French Presidency Mission on Social Justice and Globalisation, and Chief Economist, Mars Incorporated The Economist FRUGAL INNOVATION How to do better with less Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu GAPPAA.ORG First published in India in 2015 by Hachette India (Registered name: Hachette Book Publishing India Pvt.

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
by Alissa Quart
Published 25 Jun 2018

We’ve been to the automation rodeo before, after all. (This time the bull operates with AI.) Shouldn’t we always first and foremost defend people and their labor? AS A TECHNO-PESSIMIST, I AM FAR FROM CHIC. BUT MY MELANCHOLY over robots puts me firmly into one of roughly four strands of thought about automation among (ostensibly human) “thought leaders,” labor organizers, and the like. The first strand argues that the robots are coming and it’s a horror movie for which we’ve only seen the trailer. The second strand also believes that the robots are coming, but that their arrival will be a techno-positive revolution! The third strand asserts that the advent of robots is both inevitable and overstated; automation may have to be addressed, according to this strand of thought, but not with great urgency.

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider
Published 10 Sep 2018

For years, the journalist and entrepreneur Peter Barnes has been calling for a universal dividend funded through the use of common goods, particularly a tax on carbon emissions; now, governments in places from California and Oregon to the District of Columbia have considered plans to implement such a system. One of Barnes’s champions is digital organizer Natalie Foster, who teamed up with Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to mobilize executives, unions, and thought leaders of many stripes to unite behind payouts for all.17 Some basic income schemes bypass regular money altogether. Cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin or Ethereum have been designed to come into being as basic income, and to gain value through their universality. These attempt to form an entire monetary system in which basic income is the starting point.18 Under the present regime, new money appears when banks lend it out.

High-Frequency Trading
by David Easley , Marcos López de Prado and Maureen O'Hara
Published 28 Sep 2013

“This book is a must read for anyone with any interest in high frequency trading. The authors of this book are a who’s who of thought leaders and academics who literally did the fundamental research in the innovation, development, and oversight of modern electronic trading mechanics and strategies.” Larry Tabb, Founder & CEO,TABB Group, and Member of the CFTC Subcommittee on Automated and High Frequency Trading. “The concept of high frequency trading too often evinces irrational fears and opposition. This book, by experts in the field, unveils the mysteries, records the facts and sets out the real pros and cons of such mechanisms.”

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
Published 15 Mar 2017

A month later, Steven Pinker, the acclaimed Harvard scholar, vented his general frustration at the overly cautious reactions to biotechnological advances like CRISPR in an opinion article in the Boston Globe. Instead of creating red tape or introducing prohibitive regulations, he argued that “the primary moral goal for today’s bioethics can be summarized in a single sentence. Get out of the way.” Other thought leaders enthusiastically supported gene-editing experiments on embryos but drew a sharp distinction between research and clinical applications. For example, in their statement on genetic modification of the human germline, the Hinxton Group—a global network of ethicists, scientists, lawyers, and policy experts—extolled the tremendous promise of gene editing for human health and recommended that basic research continue unimpeded, using both nonviable and viable embryos.

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
by Ben Mezrich
Published 20 May 2019

They had put Charlie in front of prestigious investors, banks, and other potential partners, had made sure the company was licensed, and had tried to make Charlie into the CEO that BitInstant needed. And when that hadn’t worked, they had demanded that he straighten up—and obviously, all of it had failed. Tyler knew the arrest would hit the Bitcoin community hard. Charlie was one of its biggest names and one of its thought leaders, even a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization headed by many of the biggest names in the cyber economy, aimed at building up the reputation of Bitcoin and helping raise its profile in the world at large. He guessed that many Bitcoiners would support Charlie—some, for the wrong reasons.

How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper
Published 18 Dec 2017

One group built an organic hydroponic planter out of a plunger. Another group used plungers to identify parking spots. One of the best brainstorming techniques we ever had happened when Tina Seelig came to teach at Draper University. Tina is a Draper University board member and She who pioneered the DFJ Thought Leaders program, where entrepreneurs come to Stanford to speak to students who are there studying entrepreneurship. She is a bundle of gusto and enthusiasm. She started her class by challenging our student teams. She said, “Come up with your best idea for a restaurant." The teams came back with moderately interesting ideas for restaurants like fusion food with sports on TV and Tex-Mex with mariachis.

Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
by Jeremy Bailenson
Published 30 Jan 2018

You can change the shape of your eye to your heart’s content but you can’t shift the focus inside of the image. Experientially, in VR, it doesn’t matter where you focus—the sharpness of the scene stays the same due to the unchanging accommodation rates. There are only a handful of academic studies on this, and while the data are far from conclusive, most academics and thought leaders in VR believe this problem will prevent long-term use of headsets. Reality Blurring These physical limitations of VR haven’t stopped some intrepid researchers and enthusiastic users from exposing themselves to virtual environments for long periods of time. More studies need to be conducted on the physical health consequences of such use, but there are already interesting anecdotal data about the how intensive use can contribute to a third potential hazard of long-term VR use, reality blurring.

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington
Published 6 Apr 2020

But we have left ourselves no alternative. The upside is that, for the foreseeable future, this will be by far the biggest opportunity for adventure, growth, and evolution in the tightly coupled stories of humankind, capitalism, and our home planet, Earth. The Author John Elkington is a writer, thought leader, serial entrepreneur, and, at heart, an environmentalist. Sometimes described as the “Godfather of Sustainability,” he has now written or co-authored twenty books, including the million-selling Green Consumer Guide series. At the age of eleven, in 1961, he raised money for the newly formed World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he has for many years served on the organization’s Council of Ambassadors.

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis
by James. Davies
Published 15 Nov 2021

I have written this book to do my part in helping to correct this dominant yet misguided approach, and to discuss how we might put things right by understanding and solving the real roots of our mental and emotional distress. To do so, I have travelled widely to speak with leaders in the mental health and associated professions: senior politicians, public officials, civil servants and key academic thought leaders. I have become immersed in the relevant literature and archives, and have spent much time trawling the corridors of power in an attempt to help reform mental health from the inside. From these activities, I’ve gained invaluable insight into the socio-economic causes of our current mental health crisis, the revelations of which, often strange and disconcerting, litter the pages of this book.

Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson
Published 30 May 2016

Many new users would want to gain access to the insights of those early users, so they would have a strong incentive to join Quora. Eventually the platform opened up to allow anyone to join and answer questions. More recently, Medium, a popular blogging platform started by former Twitter founder and CEO Ev Williams, launched as an invite-only network limited to journalists, successful entrepreneurs, and other thought leaders before it opened up to anyone. “Our philosophy is that quality begets quality, so we will grow Medium smartly,” Williams said at the time.45 Starting with these high-quality users helped seed the platform with a lot of quality content, which then attracted a lot of readers and other producers who wanted to reach them.

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding
Published 28 Mar 2011

They provide a Web-based overview of the implications for various aspects of everyday life and society, and suggestions of measures that could start the transition to a steady-state economy. www.steadystate.org. The Footprint Network The home of the idea that the economy is operating at over 140% of capacity and increasing every day. This site has all the data and methodology. www.footprintnetwork.org. A Note on the Author Paul Gilding is an international thought leader and advocate for sustainability. He has served as head of Greenpeace International, built and led two companies, and advised both Fortune 500 corporations and community-based NGOs. A member of the core faculty for Cambridge University’s Programme for Sustainability Leadership, he blogs at www.paulgilding.com, and his newsletter, The Cockatoo Chronicles, has subscribers around the world.

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter
by David Sax
Published 8 Nov 2016

The good jobs. The reality is a lot less simple. While the growth of the digital economy is real and will only continue, the benefits of that vast growth on employment, economies, and communities have not even come close to matching the hype surrounding them. Those other jobs, the ones politicians and thought leaders don’t talk about—analog jobs—still matter a hell of a lot more than do those associated with the digital economy. Nowhere is this clearer than Detroit. Detroit is compelling for those studying the American economy because its wounds are out in the open. Silicon Valley has some creeping problems—most notably very high levels of homelessness due in part to its pricy housing stock—but they are little known.

Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
Published 23 May 2011

(Caglar Ozbas, CRM Manager, English Select Consultancy, Istanbul, Turkey) “Groundswell is a great inspiration for everyone willing to learn how to connect people with social technology. A must have.” (Stefano Maggi, Managing Partner, We Are Social, Milan, Italy) Credits & Copyright Author Profile: Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff - Charlene Li is a social media thought leader, founder of the Altimeter Group, and author of Open Leadership. Josh Bernoff is a senior vice president at Forrester Research and coauthor of the recently released Empowered, a book about how to manage in the age of the empowered customer. Filmmaker Profiles: Harvard Business Publishing Creative Center - Harvard Business Publishing Creative Center: Dave Di Iulio, Producer; Elie Honein, Director of Photography; Terry Cole, Editor Web Links: Groundswell Publisher Website Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff In their bestselling book Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff defined “the groundswell” as a social structure in which technology puts power into the hands of individuals and communities, not institutions.

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late
by Michael Ellsberg
Published 15 Jan 2011

Elliott brought on some friends to help him, Jeremy Schwartz (a Berklee College of Music dropout), Brett Leve, and Jeff Rosenthal, and the gatherings morphed into what is now Summit Series (http://www.summitseries.com), an annual invitation-only gathering of young entrepreneurs, innovators, and thought leaders, which has been called by Forbes “the Davos for Generation Y.” The New York Times says, “There is no blueprint for what Mr. Bisnow and his associates are doing. Perhaps the closest analogy is Davos, if the yearly forum held in Switzerland for billionaires and heads of state were somehow crossed with MTV’s ‘The Real World.’”1 The tipping point for Summit Series occurred in 2009, when the White House Office of Public Engagement wanted to put on a roundtable with young entrepreneurs.

Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby
Published 23 May 2016

So here is the question we will put to you, if you’re a marketer: Do you wish you had Persado’s job? If you’re the kind of person who in the past had the brains and education to compose and refine effective direct-mail pitches, you are more likely today to be involved in “content marketing”—producing blogs and op eds, commissioning proprietary research, and planning events with “thought leaders” in your sector. Or you might be penning sustainability reports, or expressing your brand’s solidarity with worthy causes, or engaging various stakeholders. If software can hold down the fort on direct mail and allow you to take on these more nuanced and fulfilling assignments, we say more power to it.

Data and the City
by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle
Published 2 Aug 2017

This simply roots the data in questions of size (bigness), variety (diversity and extent), velocity (temporal frequency of collection or observation), veracity (level of accuracy and/or uncertainty) and value (what it brings to various purposes), but it might be objected that all these criteria apply to small data. However, the implication is that it is size, scale and scope that pertain to these characteristics (IBM n.d.). In fact, big data are much more than these four or five ‘Vs’. Dutcher (2014) has collected together some 40 definitions from ‘thought leaders’ across the industry and one of the main conclusions is that big data are more about the tools that are needed to process them than their size or volume. Often big data are hard to understand because they have little structure, they are sometimes but not always large, and traditional tools are very difficult to use in their processing.

The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
by Randall Stross
Published 4 Sep 2013

But when PG wrote “The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups” in October 2006, he said that “launching too slowly has probably killed a hundred times more startups than launching too fast.” He advised founders to trust that early adopters will be fairly tolerant of incomplete products. They “don’t expect a newly launched product to do everything; it just has to do something.” 2. Eric Ries, “Building the Minimum Viable Product,” Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series, Entrepreneurship Corner, Stanford University, September 30, 2009, http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2295. 3. Steve Blank, “Perfection by Subtraction—The Minimum Feature Set,” Steve Blank blog, March 4, 2010, http://steveblank.com/2010/03/04/perfection-by-subtraction-the-minimum-feature-set/. 4.

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
by Reid Hoffman , June Cohen and Deron Triff
Published 14 Oct 2021

So it’s safe to say that challenging established thinking doesn’t always sit well with people. But I’d argue it’s not only a good idea to harness constructive conflict, it’s critical to the decision-making process. You can’t effectively set a strategy or decide direction if you’re unwilling to grapple with tough questions and have some disagreement over ideas. Thoughtful leaders thrive on disagreement because it gives them the information they need to improve their ideas before they reach the world. We all have our own personal threshold of comfort around conflict. Some people thrive on lively debate; others find it deeply stressful. But if the boss can’t be challenged safely, then no one can.

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino
Published 5 Aug 2019

Its website features blog posts like “4 Things I Learned as a Millennial Workaholic” and “How Rupi Kaur Built a Career on the Relentless Pursuit of Creativity,” but the company is geared toward events: Girlboss holds conferences, or “Girlboss Rallies,” which sell VIP tickets for $700 and digital access for $65. “Part conference part experiential inspiration wonderland,” the website proclaims, “the Girlboss Rally has taken the tired conference world by storm, creating a space for the next generation of entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and thought leaders to meet, hatch plans, and thrive together.” The basic idea here is that, for women, photogenic personal confidence is the key to unlocking the riches of the world. In her memoir, Amoruso writes, “In the same way that for the past seven years people have projected themselves into the looks I’ve sold through Nasty Gal, I want you to be able to use #GIRLBOSS to project yourself into an awesome life where you can do whatever you want.”

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb
Published 5 Mar 2019

IBM’s Socratic AI is a useful ally within newsrooms, helping journalists further investigate their reporting as they discuss a story’s possible angles. It’s also used to assist with fact-checking and with editorial quality assurance: stories are reviewed for unintentional bias and to ensure that a broad mixture of sources and voices are included. (Long gone are the lists published by magazines and newspapers ranking all-male lists of thought leaders, business leaders, and the like.) Generative algorithms are used to make complete videos out of still images, create 3D models of landscapes and buildings from just a few photos, and listen for individual voices obscured in crowds. This results in far more video news content that takes fewer resources to produce.

WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
by Craig Kielburger , Holly Branson , Marc Kielburger , Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg
Published 7 Mar 2018

Forming our Impact Council vastly improved the outcome of our project pitches due to the fact that it is made up not only of a range of internal stakeholders, but external experts, as well. Who should make it onto a great Impact Council? Business leadership team/CEO Sector expert: He/she will have a deep understanding of what a good project looks like within the sector Researcher or thought leader within the sector: She/he will know the players within the sector, including all stakeholders Expert within your organization: Depending on the area you wish to invest in, pull individuals with the most knowledge and experience from your own organization Previous project partner: If possible, involve a partner you have worked with successfully in the past.

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright
Published 6 Jun 2014

In response to the Soviet Union’s 1958 launching of the Sputnik I satellite, President Eisenhower established a scientific-military organization whose goal was to develop strategic technologies: the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In 1962, under President Kennedy, that agency established a new computer science– oriented unit called the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), led by MIT professor J. C. R. Licklider. Licklider had earned his reputation as a thought leader in the still-young computer science world, having written a work called Man-Computer Symbiosis and publishing a series of memos for what he jokingly described as an “intergalactic network” of connected computers: perhaps ten or twelve in all, attached to a variety of disk drives, remote consoles, and teletype machines.

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
by Clint Watts
Published 28 May 2018

Al-Qaeda’s online library at tawhed.ws provided nearly every ideological text powering jihad’s preachers. Using citation analysis, the West Point team had mapped who referenced whom in all of these militant texts, similar to the way Google’s search engine originally tracked web links for its algorithm. Will’s team deciphered who the thought leaders behind bin Laden’s violent madness were. Thousands of logged citations produced a map of key messages and messengers al-Qaeda terrorists used to enrage their supporters, inspire their followers, and motivate some to join them on the battlefield. The work provided a blueprint, much-needed reconnaissance for launching America’s new fight in the “war of ideas” against al-Qaeda.

Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story
by Greg Smith
Published 21 Oct 2012

Based on Jack Welch’s pioneering Crotonville Management Development Center at General Electric, Pine Street started during the Hank Paulson era as a way to ensure that the leadership and cultural tenets of the firm weren’t diluted after Goldman Sachs went public. In the beginning, the series of seminars was reserved for managing directors, but later VPs and even select clients were allowed to attend. I took the president of my largest client. At Pine Street, thought leaders such as Bill George, the former CEO of Medtronic turned Harvard Business School professor, the author of Authentic Leadership, and a Goldman Sachs Board member, talked about how leaders are meant to behave. A scientist talked to us about the Stanford marshmallow experiment—the one where children were left alone in a room with a marshmallow.

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
by Joel Kotkin
Published 11 May 2020

What we are seeing is a new form of aristocracy developing in the United States and beyond, as wealth in our postindustrial economy tends to be ever more concentrated in fewer hands. Societies are becoming more stratified, with decreasing chances of upward mobility for most of the population. A class of thought leaders and opinion makers, which I call the “clerisy,” provide intellectual support for the emerging hierarchy. As avenues for upward mobility are diminishing, the model of liberal capitalism is losing appeal around the globe, and new doctrines are arising in its place, including ones that lend support to a kind of neo-feudalism.

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson
Published 27 Apr 2020

Khan et al., “Corporate Sustainability (2016): 1697–1724; Eccles et al., “The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance” (2014): 2835–2857. 25. The discussion below draws extensively on Julie Battilana and Michael Norris, “The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (Abridged),” HBS Case no. 419-058, March 2019. 26. Jean partnered with a number of key thought leaders, including Robert Massie, Bob Eccles, and David Wood. She describes her decision to found SASB as very much a purpose-driven decision. As Jean recalled, “It was scary to stop earning a regular income, but I truly felt a moral responsibility to take this idea forward because it had the potential to have such a major impact in the US and around the world.” 27.

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson
Published 2 May 2023

Social vulnerability invites us to remember that this inherency is social in two senses: first, in the sense that it is intimately linked with our need for human connection, and second, in the sense that how we experience this inherency is fundamentally shaped by our social position and the social institutions that structure that position. I am, of course, not the first to entertain vulnerability, empathy, and love as tools of civic connection that we would be better off embracing. From bell hooks51 to Brené Brown,52 visionary thought leaders have called emphatically for our collective need to embrace vulnerability in our work lives, our personal lives, and our political lives. As hooks calls us to embrace love as a political value and practice of freedom, “The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression.

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation
by Jono Bacon
Published 1 Aug 2009

While this may sound like an environment driven by chaos and mismatched focus, many communities have been productive with this approach. Although there is no formal leader, the sense of leadership naturally grows out of reputations that are developed and matured within the community. At its heart, this is a pure form of meritocracy: when people do great work, they become thought leaders. Although some communities may enable people to climb the ladder based on meritocracy, in an enlightened dictatorship there simply is no ladder. An interesting example of this approach is the KDE project. Founded by Matthias Ettrich, KDE set out to build an easy-to-use desktop environment, and it has become popular among Linux and other Free Software enthusiasts.

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O’Reilly started doing this via the publication of books (The Art of Community is published by O’Reilly), many of which are the best-known books in the technology field. O’Reilly has since diversified into conferences (e.g., OSCON, Strata, TOC, Velocity, and Where), organizing the popular FooCamp gathering of leading minds in the industry, and has an investment division called O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV). Tim has also been seen as a thought leader on change and innovation in technology. He was a driver in the adoption of Web 2.0 and has been a proponent of social media, and particularly Twitter. What is your social media story? How did you get started, and what attracted you? My “social media story” begins long before Facebook or Twitter.

The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
by Duff McDonald
Published 24 Apr 2017

Both he and his colleagues saw the necessary investment in the collection of cases as a finite and manageable thing—specifically, he thought it would be a “temporary endeavor—perhaps of two or three years’ duration—which would largely cease after enough cases had been collected.”2 Given that the School has long since concluded that it is actually a permanent endeavor, Donham’s fateful decision serves as another lesson about business—even the most revered and thoughtful leaders occasionally have no idea what they’re talking about. It was obvious early on that the benefits of the case method would be holistic in nature, of value not just to the students but to the professors, the School, and the business community itself. The School realized, correctly, that asking the faculty to collect and write the cases would further their ambition of producing research relevant to business practitioners.

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“Porter’s major impact was describing business itself as an ongoing Hobbesian state of competition—not just between competitors, but between companies and their customers, suppliers, and social institutions,” wrote Green. “Adversarial relationships in Porter’s worldview are simply the Way Things Are.” If Milton Friedman and Michael Jensen provided the economist’s justification for business’s us-versus-them stance, argued Green, “Porter was the thought leader for business; business’s relationship with government and society was one of competition, not of collaboration toward some higher, joint purpose. . . . Business was the source of its own legitimacy. It needed no external endorsement. . . . Today’s message from the public and government is: We don’t trust you, the free lunch is over, and as long as you continue this adversarial mindset, we will continue to deny you legitimacy.”17 The latest example of Porter issuing a grand prescription to solve society’s problems only to have it shoved back in his face came courtesy of Robert Reich.

European Founders at Work
by Pedro Gairifo Santos
Published 7 Nov 2011

Sohoni: Folks like Spark PR and Ballou PR also came onboard very early as supporters. They have their huge networks; Ballou in France particularly, Spark PR in the US and UK. What we did was really reach out to TechCrunch and FT [Financial Times] became big partners early on and we just worked through those networks of bloggers and journalists and writers and thought leaders in local communities to help spread the word. We continue to use those same channels today. So, once again, we've grown that, of course, but we've stayed very connected and true to the initial folks, like the bloggers, etc., who helped us spread the word. Santos: And how many applications did you have in the first program compared to now?

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
by Robert C. Martin
Published 1 Jan 2007

Here, in a few short paragraphs, Ron has summarized the contents of this book. No duplication, one thing, expressiveness, tiny abstractions. Everything is there. Ward Cunningham, inventor of Wiki, inventor of Fit, coinventor of eXtreme Programming. Motive force behind Design Patterns. Smalltalk and OO thought leader. The godfather of all those who care about code. You know you are working on clean code when each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem. Statements like this are characteristic of Ward.

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by George A. Akerlof , Robert J. Shiller and Stanley B Resor Professor Of Economics Robert J Shiller
Published 21 Sep 2015

One mini Dark Age is one too many. ELEVEN The Resistance and Its Heroes The phishing equilibrium that we have described in this book is pervasive, but it is not comprehensive. And that is because we have individuals who step back from the profit incentive and who act as business leaders, government leaders, thought leaders, religious leaders. Standard economics (the “purely economic model”) presumes no civil society, but in fact we live in a community of people who care about one another. We have mentioned a number of heroes throughout this book. Now we will focus on the nature of their heroism in resistance to phishing; the accomplishments of those heroes; and also what eludes them.

Docker in Action
by Jeff Nickoloff and Stephen Kuenzli
Published 10 Dec 2019

But even though truncation helps, these container IDs are rarely easy to read or remember. For this reason, Docker also generates human-readable names for each container. The naming convention uses a personal adjective; an underscore; and the last name of an influential scientist, engineer, inventor, or other such thought leader. Examples of generated names are compassionate_swartz, hungry_goodall, and distracted_turing. These seem to hit a sweet spot for readability and memory. When you’re working with the docker tool directly, you can always use docker ps to look up the human-friendly names. Container identification can be tricky, but you can manage the issue by using the ID and name-generation features of Docker. 2.3.2.

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
by Alec Ross
Published 13 Sep 2021

Additionally, US companies are forbidden from bribing foreign officials to further their business interests, but in certain parts of Africa payoffs are standard practice. Again, according to Ambassador Carson, the Chinese are happy to buy their way into a deal. I recall being in Gabon for a summit of more than a dozen African heads of state and nine hundred African business leaders. I traveled there with a little group of economists and other thought leaders, and we were all being well paid to speak to the heads of state and business leaders. I came to realize that we were just a bit of side entertainment, like the soccer player hired to acrobatically juggle a soccer ball in front of the ballroom. The real business took place in hotel suites and the presidential palace, where a few dozen Chinese government and business representatives negotiated with the African leaders.

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future
by Hal Niedzviecki
Published 15 Mar 2015

Dre] Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation is, according to the program’s website, “a transformational presence” with a “focus on invention and conceptual thinking, drawing on the talents and influences of leaders from across industries to empower the next generation of disruptive inventors and professional thought leaders.”8 Even departments and professions once considered virtually sacrosanct are getting into the act of teaching innovation. Michigan State University has reconfigured its law school to focus on business and technology and encourage its students to think of themselves as potential start-up entrepreneurs.

Our 50-State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America
by Howard G. Buffett
Published 2 Apr 2018

Coast Guard WFP: World Food Programme A Note on Names A number of individuals whose comments and insights appear in this book either live in or have left situations where violence is a constant threat. I use pseudonyms for those at risk, and I have not identified their hometowns or given specific details about where they are living now. Foreword by Senator Heidi Heitkamp Howard G. Buffett is one of the most brilliant, outside-the-box thought leaders I’ve ever met. His ideas often challenge the status quo and force people out of their comfort zones. His foundation specializes in helping vulnerable people in some of the most dangerous and difficult situations on Earth, and he lives by a hard-and-fast rule: You must take risks and not be afraid to fail, because the same stale thinking and ideas will get you nowhere.

The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
by Christian Davenport
Published 20 Mar 2018

“Our parents had no idea”: Tom Junod, “Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will,” Esquire, November 14, 2012. “I thought the Internet”: Elon Musk, “The Future of Energy and Transport,” Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, November 14, 2012. “Well, I don’t think you’ll be coming back”: Elon Musk, “Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders” lecture, October 8, 2003. “The online financial payment system”: Ibid. Given the size of the rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaW4Ol3_M1o. “We were both interested”: Junod, “Elon Musk.” “Because, of course”: Elon Musk, “Mars Pioneer Award” acceptance speech, 15th Annual International Mars Society Convention, August 4, 2012.

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
by Abby Norman
Published 6 Mar 2018

Almost every night of my life: Christian de Duve, Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative (New York: HarperCollins, 1995). The Nation Institute Founded in 2000, Nation Books has become a leading voice in American independent publishing. The imprint’s mission is to tell stories that inform and empower just as they inspire or entertain readers. We publish award-winning and bestselling journalists, thought leaders, whistle-blowers, and truthtellers, and we are also committed to seeking out a new generation of emerging writers, particularly voices from under-represented communities and writers from diverse backgrounds. As a publisher with a focused list, we work closely with all our authors to ensure that their books have broad and lasting impact.

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
by Jonathan A. Knee
Published 31 Jul 2006

Namely, attempting to market knowledge of the needs of SLCs across industries as a unique expertise of interest to anyone. Even if there had been serious resources committed to such an initiative, my view was that it would still be doomed to failure. If my experience in publishing taught me anything, it was that the only way to effectively cover SLCs was by providing appropriate incentives to the thought leaders in each industry sector to take responsibility for these companies as well. The history of previously aborted SLC initiatives had shown that even with that kind of commitment, it was still a challenge to get the staffing needed to execute SLC projects and almost impossible to get research to cover SLCs.

Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert
Published 14 Aug 2020

In the 1940s, the United Fruit Company hired Edward Bernays, who later used his public relations expertise to help foment a coup in Guatemala after the election of a president who was unfavourable to the company. Bernays helped mount a multi-pronged disinformation campaign designed to discredit the democratically elected president, Jacobo Árbenz, as a communist puppet and to motivate U.S. lawmakers and thought leaders to support an overthrow. Eventually, the CIA did just that, launching a covert coup d’état, code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, which replaced Árbenz with the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas. Bernays’s Freudian-inspired techniques of thought persuasion not only inspired the coup, they became instruments in the arsenal of the CIA.

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
by Jing Tsu
Published 18 Jan 2022

The 1898 movement forced those in power to consider abandoning the China-centered worldview and embrace important aspects of Western learning. Kang Youwei, a clever Confucian from Guangdong, had greater political ambitions at court. He tried to play members of the imperial family against one another. Liang Qichao, a precocious upstart from the same province, followed his teacher’s tactics before rising to be a thought leader in his own right. They had the twenty-six-year-old Guangxu Emperor’s sympathetic ear, and the young ruler even implemented some of their proposed changes, showing his readiness to stand up to his powerful aunt. But it did not take long for the Empress Dowager to suspect that the reforms would directly curtail her power.

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
Published 10 Jul 2023

Even what looked from the outside like horrible publicity was not necessarily bad for the cohesiveness of the group. Leaders of NXIVM turned the questions raised by negative news reports into a tool to ferret out wobblers and keep only the most ardent believers.10 If you find yourself continually agreeing with a politician, pundit, or self-styled thought leader, ask yourself whether they might be deliberately attempting to lead you down a path to an extreme or nonsensical conclusion, and get off before you get there. EVADING SELECTION Most efforts to reduce Internet fraud focus on reducing the number of people who reply to scammers by educating users or by algorithmically filtering out scam emails.

Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
by Susan Linn
Published 12 Sep 2022

—BOB IGER, former CEO and current executive chairman and chairman of the board, Walt Disney Company I am sitting in the sparsely populated state-of-the-art auditorium at the San Francisco Jazz Center. I’m attending PlayCon 2018, a Toy Industry conference billed as the “biannual gathering of thought leaders forming the future of our ever-changing, and at times, challenging industry.”1 Challenging is right. Two months earlier Toys “R” Us, the iconic big-box toy chain that accounted for 15 to 20 percent of domestic toy revenue,2 had filed for bankruptcy and was closing. At its height, Toys “R” Us operated nine hundred stores just in the United States.

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
by Rachel Plotnick
Published 24 Sep 2018

Importantly, Vail, Benson, and others often thought in future terms. Realistically, buttons could not materially accomplish every kind of laborers’ task at the turn of the twentieth century, but the fear that eventually they could weighed heavily on observers. To respond to increasing mechanization and automaticity, thought leaders in manual or formerly manual industries focused on the importance of human contact, human intuition, and human skill to effectively carry out the operations of a business. One author proposed a compromise in recognizing that although push buttons would continue to exist, workers would simultaneously need to exist to create and maintain the buttons; through these efforts, they could achieve mastery over machines.61 To this end, educators in the field of industrial arts urged that machine workers find a way to always maintain agency in the growing “battle” between humans and machines.

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
by Max Boot
Published 9 Jan 2018

His departure in June 1968 was covered by only one newspaper, the New York Times, which buried a small item headlined “Lansdale Retires from Saigon Post” on an inside page next to a giant advertisement for patio furniture.54 The Washington Post waited more than three months, until late September 1968, to run an interview with Lansdale. The Post account noted that he had tried to carve out a niche as a thought leader and catalyst for action. The problem was that “in a situation where everyone considers himself to be his own expert after a two-month stay, the post of thought leader is held at a discount.”55 In the final analysis, everything that Lansdale had done on his second tour—from studying Vietnamese customs to overseeing the 1966 elections to cultivating his would-be Magsaysay, General Nguyen Duc Thang—had been “held at a discount” by the decision-makers in Washington and Saigon.

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
by Jamie Bartlett
Published 12 Jun 2017

See Gyurko, Zoltan Istvan The Nation Institute Founded in 2000, Nation Books has become a leading voice in American independent publishing. The imprint’s mission is to tell stories that inform and empower just as they inspire or entertain readers. We publish award-winning and bestselling journalists, thought leaders, whistleblowers, and truthtellers, and we are also committed to seeking out a new generation of emerging writers, particularly voices from underrepresented communities and writers from diverse backgrounds. As a publisher with a focused list, we work closely with all our authors to ensure that their books have broad and lasting impact.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Published 24 Jan 2012

The companies who use open office plans are new companies, just like the World Wide Web, which is still a teenager.” The Internet’s role in promoting face-to-face group work is especially ironic because the early Web was a medium that enabled bands of often introverted individualists—people much like the solitude-craving thought leaders Farrall and Kronborg describe—to come together to subvert and transcend the usual ways of problem-solving. A significant majority of the earliest computer enthusiasts were introverts, according to a study of 1,229 computer professionals working in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia between 1982 and 1984.

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
by Jacqueline Novogratz
Published 15 Feb 2009

So much can be learned by listening to the market: Indeed, this process may lead to insights about how to price insurance products for the very poor so we’ll have a more rational system for bringing affordable, critical goods to them in a way that is reliable and accessible. Malaria bed nets might be one component of such a program, which would have to be built from the perspective of the people who actually use it. What also makes the process of growing solutions to poverty complex is the noise we hear in the media and among thought leaders who believe their way is the only way. They suffer from a paucity of listening skills—just at the time when listening has never been more important. Today’s media are highlighting a major debate between those who think that everyone in Africa should be given a free bed net to protect him or her from malaria and those who believe that the bed nets should be sold at an affordable price.

Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business, + Website
by Matt Blumberg
Published 13 Aug 2013

If you spend months in planning and development before sending your product into the market, the result could easily be a swing and a miss. Of course, if you go out to market a lot more quickly, the result could still be a swing and a miss, but you won’t have burned through all your resources before your first at-bat. That is the insight behind the agile and lean methodologies championed by Silicon Valley thought leaders like Eric Ries and Steven Gary Blank: the failure of early startup initiatives is predictable, so that failure should be built into the process rather than treated as a crisis when it happens. My only concern is that the past few years have led to an overcorrection. It’s true: the first story you tell about your startup will probably be wrong.

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
by Brad Stone
Published 30 Jan 2017

Pishevar was a bearded bear of a man who doled out hugs easily and was prone to frequent bouts of sentimentality. He had a mixed track record as a startup founder himself, but as a venture capitalist, Pishevar represented an emerging class of investor in Silicon Valley. Instead of hard-won experience and business wisdom, he had social connections and charisma. He was a cheerleader as much as a thought leader, able to align himself with fashionable new ideas and more than willing to demonstrate his support publicly, doing everything from sending Tweets to shaving the logos of his portfolio companies into his hair (something he did twice). Pishevar, a consummate networker on both coasts, also offered something that Marc Andreessen could not: access to celebrities and politicians.

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley

As the nineteenth century ended robber-baron industrialists were only too eager to rush off to form cartels, or welcome government regulations, the better to extinguish wasteful competition. Yet instead of earning the ridicule of the economics profession for this cronyism – as they had done from Adam Smith – they were now applauded. Thought leaders of the left, like Edward Bellamy and Thorstein Veblen, demanded an end to duplication and fragmentation in business. There must be a plan, a planner and a single structure, they agreed. Bellamy’s vision of the future, in his immensely influential and bestselling novel Looking Backward, has everybody in the future working for a Great Trust and shopping at identical, government-owned stores for identical goods.

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford
Published 8 Jun 2020

Futurism is a genre of mythmaking that seeks to generate a feeling of inevitability around some desired outcome, a picture that is offered as though it were a prediction. This is a good way to attract investment. And reciprocally, the flow of investment dollars is a good way to attract public speechifiers (journalists, “thought leaders,” etc.) who will lend their voices to the chorus of inevitability. One must accept the future rather than “cling to the past” (which often means simply accepting the present—what presently exists—as perfectly adequate). Do you prefer to wallow in the comforting self-delusions of “nostalgia”? We should notice that while driverless cars hold real potential to ease congestion, and thereby contribute to the common good, there has been no talk of treating as a public utility the infrastructure that will make driverless cars possible, nor of making their programming available for inspection.

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Published 28 Jan 2020

There’s also genetically modified organisms overrunning ecosystems, cyberterrorists playing good night New York with the power grid, or biohackers playing goodbye San Francisco with weaponized Ebola. These are the horrors that go bump in the expo-tech night. And this is Bostrum’s dark point: We’re in for a bumpy ride. Yet, are we certain? This is a contentious question. Sure, thought leaders like Elon Musk and the late great Steven Hawking have been exceptionally vocal about existential dangers, and institutions as august as Oxford and MIT have formed departments devoted to their study, but opinions remain all over the map. Trying to find accurate odds about our odds of survival is an exercise in futility.

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
by Michael Bhaskar
Published 2 Nov 2021

The political scientist Daniel Drezner argues that the public sphere has become an ‘ideas industry’: commodified, politicised, chiselled down, neatly packaged to capture that currency of the modern world, attention.91 Research groups, startups and government departments are all chasing the eye-catching press release, the wave of hype that will carry them to glory. Screw evidential standards and slow, messy research: bask in the glory of a breathless headline, a different but no less insidious brand of populism. We move from ‘public intellectuals’ to ‘thought leaders’; from critics and sceptics to evangelists; from open to closed minds; from expertise towards personal experience, however shallowly constituted; from lecture series to ten-minute TED talks; from books to blog posts; from scholarship to the consultancy gig; from disinterestedness to the impact agenda; from thoughtful correspondence to Twitter; from research for research's sake to research for plutocrats and autocrats.

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
by Nicholas Shaxson
Published 11 Apr 2011

Many will demand more transparency and more international cooperation, even as they work to frustrate both. They will call for reasoned debate as they engage in character assassination, secret deals, and worse. They will talk the language of democracy and freedom, the better to defend unaccountable, irresponsible power and privilege. Civil society is, thankfully, beginning to stir. The current thought leaders are Global Financial Integrity in the United States and the Tax Justice Network (TJN) in Europe, whose expertise has been invaluable for this book. John Christensen, TJN’s director, remembers holding an expert briefing on offshore for staff in the Senate buildings, in Washington D.C., and seeing a senior congressional staffer with tears in her eyes as she described her happiness at seeing civil society at last begin to engage, after spending so long battling to get any traction on offshore issues, in the face of the ferocious Washington right-wing counter-lobbies.

Reactive Messaging Patterns With the Actor Model: Applications and Integration in Scala and Akka
by Vaughn Vernon
Published 16 Aug 2015

Thanks to all of you for providing the kind of feedback that made a difference in the quality of the book. In particular, Daniel Westheide is like a “human Scala compiler,” highlighting even difficult-to-find errors in written code examples. About the Author Vaughn Vernon is a veteran software craftsman and thought leader in simplifying software design and implementation. He is the author of the best-selling book Implementing Domain-Driven Design, also published by Addison-Wesley, and has taught his IDDD Workshop around the globe to hundreds of software developers. Vaughn is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians
by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman
Published 21 Mar 2017

“This goal will require us to present an alternative that is not just a little better, but dramatically better. This is going to require the assembly of a team of bioethicists, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and regulators themselves who understand that the current regulatory paradigm is an impediment to the advancement of humanity. Once we have assembled our team of thought leaders of the future, we need a laboratory in which to cast the distinction between the broken system and the path forward. We believe that the Seasteading Institute is that laboratory.” Why seasteading? “By taking our medical research offshore and partnering with the right individuals, we have a unique opportunity to efficiently and safely reshape the regulatory pathway.

Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide
by Martin S. Fridson and Fernando Alvarez
Published 31 May 2011

He is co-author, with Martin Fridson, of the fourth edition of Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide (John Wiley & Sons, 2011). He contributed a chapter on business planning for the Next Generation Business Handbook (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), where he was recognized as one of the 50 thought leaders of tomorrow. From 1999 to 2003, he was on the Advisory Board of McGraw-Hill's Annual Editions in Entrepreneurship. Professor Alvarez has written or supervised over 50 cases and technical notes developed for the purposes of class discussion in entrepreneurship courses and cash flow analysis. Index Acceleration, future expenses Accounting Principles Board (APB) Accounting profits Accounting scandals Accrual accounting Acquisitions.

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes
Published 1 Jun 2021

It was no secret that as this process unfolded, the Chinese were also stealing American technologies and intellectual property—using them first to catch up with us and then to pull ahead of us in the new frontiers of Artificial Intelligence that will increasingly shape life on earth. At every turn, the profit motive and economic interdependence between our countries ensured that concerns over democratic values would be subordinate to other interests. The U.S. government always had higher priorities. The American moguls who served as thought leaders on China and gatekeepers to the Chinese market—men like Henry Kissinger, Hank Paulson, Steve Schwartzman, and Mike Bloomberg—really had only one idea to offer: Do what the Chinese want, and you can make money there. U.S. businesses acquiesced to the self-censorship that comes with operating in China.

Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together
by Philippe Legrain
Published 14 Oct 2020

He has set up a foundation to encourage better governance in Africa – including by awarding a prize to heads of state who govern well and then transfer power democratically. And he has championed the benefits of immigration and its contribution to development. The spur for all his achievements as an entrepreneur, philanthropist and thought leader? His frustration at the bureaucracy of working for British Telecom (BT), the UK’s former telecoms monopolist. Ibrahim was born in northern Sudan in 1946 – ‘I’m Nubian,’ he says – and grew up in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. His father worked for a cotton company: ‘We were an average family.

Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All
by Laura Bates
Published 2 Sep 2020

Farrell was widely lauded: he was profiled in a four-page spread in People magazine, featuring photographs of him cooking breakfast for his wife, in which he waxed lyrical about ‘learning how to listen rather than dominate… to be vulnerable rather than construct facades of infallibility’. The Financial Times also named him one of its ‘top 100 thought leaders’. ‘I was like a God to many women,’ Farrell would later tell one journalist, a sentiment that should perhaps have raised something of a red flag.1 But Farrell started to become concerned with the ways in which he perceived men to be systemically disadvantaged and, in the mid-1970s, when the National Organization for Women staked its position against the presumption of joint child custody in divorce cases, he split from the organisation.

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia
Published 9 Feb 2021

(London: Sage Publishers, 2000), 130-46. 60.Walden Bello, The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (London: Zed Books, 2006), 11; Aurora Almendral, “Why 10 Million Filipinos Endure Hardship Abroad as Overseas Workers,” National Geographic, December 2018, www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/12/filipino-workers-return-from-overseas-philippines-celebrates/; Ligaya Lindio-McGovern, “Labor Export in the Context of Globalization: The Experience of Filipino Domestic Workers in Rome,” International Sociology 18, no. 3 (September 2003): 513-34. 61.E. San Juan Jr., US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 4. 62.Walden Bello, “How the Marcos-World Bank Partnership Brought PH Economy to Its Knees,” Rappler, April 2, 2019, www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/227198-analysis-how-marcos-world-bank-partnership-brought-philippine-economy-to-knees; Eduardo C. Tadem, “Philippines: The Marcos Debt,” Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, November 5, 2018, www.cadtm.org/Philippines-The-Marcos-debt. 63.Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (London and New York: Verso, 2006), 73. 64.International League of Peoples’ Struggle, “International Day against Trafficking: Labor Export Policy Is State-Sponsored Human Trafficking,” December 12, 2013, https://ilps.info/en/2013/12/12/international-day-against-trafficking-labor-export-policy-is-state-sponsored-human-trafficking/. 65.Silvia Federici, “Reproduction and Feminist Struggle,” in Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction: Struggles and Movements, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Giovanni F.

Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity With a Neurodiverse Workforce
by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith
Published 2 Aug 2021

We’ve also not helped matters by allowing the 80 per cent to create the assessment and selection process that very rarely likes or appreciates the needs and capabilities of the 20 per cent.1 That article came off the back of Theo visiting a recruitment leaders’ summit in Whitstable, which he was invited to by Jamie Leonard, founder and CEO of The Recruitment Events Co, who’s also an advocate for neurodiversity. The event was part of the Resourcing Leaders 100 (RL100), a think tank of thought leaders and practitioners from within the in-house recruitment industry. This was where he heard for the first time the term ‘Neurodiversity’ and in the context of people who are dyslexic, ADHD, autistic, dyspraxic… and/or all of the above. Kirstie Kelly and Ed Thompson were presenting part of the day on the concept of what neurodiversity is and how we as recruitment leaders could get involved in making our workplaces more inclusive.

Relevant Search: With Examples Using Elasticsearch and Solr
by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman
Published 30 Apr 2016

As our “boss,” he pushed us into the limelight to write, speak, and solve the big problems. As a leader, Eric makes your passion his passion. Without Eric taking the training wheels off (and sometimes insisting on a unicycle), we wouldn’t have realized how capable we are as writers or problem solvers. Eric has taught us that everybody can be a thought leader, including us. Thanks to TMDB for its data and support. We spent a lot of time trying to find good data sets. TMDB (http://themoviedb.org) not only provides a rich search data set, but also supported us and our early readers as we ferreted out bugs and issues, usually in our own code. Travis Bell, in particular, deserves our thanks for responding promptly to our issues and emails.

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield
Published 29 May 2017

Amid clear signs of a speculative asset bubble, by late 2015 a convergence of factors—the domination of mining by a very few large Chinese pools, the fading interest in accepting Bitcoin at retail and the drifting of institutional attention toward newer, shinier technologies—made it evident that the promised utopia of universal, frictionless digital transaction would have to be deferred. This posed something of a gut check for the community of experts, think tanks, startups and media outlets that had grown up overnight in the wake of Bitcoin’s appearance. Observers were treated to the unedifying spectacle of would-be thought leaders—many who had recently hyped the currency for its limitless potential—waving away the contentions they had made just a month or two previously. You could almost hear the gears grind as the conventional wisdom pivoted; the new line was that the enabling technology of the blockchain itself was more interesting, and far more worthy of sustained investigation, than anything as naff as a mere decentralized global currency.

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg
Published 2 Jan 2006

My and OSAF’s original position was, electricity is good, therefore everyone should have their own power plant! Unconsciously, I always imagined that user empowerment somehow meant a server-free or server-light environment. Now I think that’s actually wrong.” A few weeks later he elaborated: “This actually turns out to be a deeply charged issue. So many of the people who are thought leaders in open source value freedom and initiative, and those values have been very tied up with this American frontier myth of self-sufficiency—going out on your own and just doing it. And while there’s a lot to say for that, it turns out that the reality of open source and the Internet is much more collaborative than the narrow libertarian P2P ethic.”

When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity
by Anthony Berglas , William Black , Samantha Thalind , Max Scratchmann and Michelle Estes
Published 28 Feb 2015

It then considers the cognitive bias of technology journalists who generally love technology and so tend to overlook the dangers, leading ultimately to the rapture of the geeks, whereby some writers get excited about the prospect of uploading their minds into a computer and so becoming immortal. Barrat is concerned that the future may not be so rosy, and certainly not if it is not managed carefully. Barrat himself is a writer and producer of documentaries rather than a software engineer. He writes in an accessible journalistic style and provides interesting anecdotes about the thought leaders that he interviewed in order to write his book, which includes the somewhat reclusive Eliezer Yudkowsky. He also covers the key philosophical issues, such as the intrinsic goals that an AGI must have in order to pursue other goals, and the problems of creating a friendly AGI. Only high level coverage of the actual technologies is provided, and there is no real discussion about what intelligence actually is.

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery
Published 12 Nov 2013

But urban life has now been stretched to such an extent that suburbia, exurbia, and edge cities together form a distinct system that has transformed the way that entire city-regions function. This is the system that some have come to call sprawl. I will call it the dispersed city, for the characteristic that defines almost every aspect of it. While the world’s architectural critics and so-called thought leaders tend to focus their attention on iconic structures and rare designs, the journey to the happy city must begin out here, in the landscape of the infinitely repeated form, on the plains of dispersal. For every new urban plaza, starchitect-designed tower, or sleek new light-rail network, there are a hundred thousand cul-de-sacs out in the dispersed city.

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R. Morris
Published 1 Jan 2012

If we look around at the rooms we inhabit, or through those storehouses of every convenience, of every luxury that man can desire, which deck the crowded streets of our larger cities, we shall find . . . in the art of making even the most insignificant of them, processes calculated to excite our imagination by their simplicity, or to rivet our attention by their unlooked-for results. The book positioned him as a thought leader in achieving a new synthesis of traditional culture and manufacturing. Instead of merely lamenting Blake’s “dark Satanic mills,” thinkers like Carlyle extolled the coming of an “organic society” that integrated the “Dynamical” and “Mechanical” aspects of human nature.39 Babbage plays directly to that sentiment, emphasizing the utilitarian beauty of machines and the elegant objects of art—the machined rosettes, lithographs, and engravings—that they can produce, or reproduce, for the masses.

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by Frank Pasquale
Published 17 Nov 2014

They should not escape regulation simply because they do business a bit differently than the entities now targeted by the FCRA.20 Big Data firms also need to consider whether certain lists should even be created at all. Categories like “daughter killed in car crash,” “rape victim,” or “gullible elderly” may help some ghoulish marketing genius make a buck. But they also run a clear and present danger of fueling exploitive or manipulative business practices.21 Thought leaders at the Future of Privacy Forum have explored whether that Institutional Review Boards, like the ones that must approve human subjects research at universities, should judge the appropriateness of sensitive data use. Such boards might approve uses of data that help data subjects, while delaying or blocking ones that are unnecessary, unhelpful, or worse.

The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization
by Michael O’sullivan
Published 28 May 2019

In some respects, the world is now so well connected in its financial and information flows that globalization is everywhere, so much so that we have become much less conscious of it. Globalization has few defenders, as it is now unfashionable and politically unprofitable to show support for it. It has no outright owner, though some international research bodies and thought leaders like the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are closely associated with it. Similarly, many economic, political, and social stresses, such as inequality, poverty, and the decline of agriculture, are ascribed to the evils of globalization, regardless of the true origins of those stresses (in fact, during globalization the world poverty level has collapsed from 35 percent of the world population in 1990 to 11 percent in 2013).4 In addition, the public understanding of globalization is not strong.

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg
Published 11 Oct 2021

After all, no policy is a policy—it is one that has been tried and that we have been living with for the better part of the last two decades. I worry it is in many ways the policy that has brought us to this very point of economic and strategic precariousness. I’ve found myself asking these kinds of questions over and over again, whenever a senior official or distinguished thought leader hews to what feels like hidebound thinking. We can’t push back too forcefully on Russia in cyberspace because it might lead to escalation. We shouldn’t partner too closely with Taiwan or else it will destroy our relationship with China. Some of this conventional wisdom is no doubt wise. I have a great deal of respect for those whose viewpoints are hard-won through years of service.

The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
by Robert Zubrin
Published 30 Apr 2019

He applies a rigor to mission plans that NASA can only admire—though it doesn't—and try to emulate. His realism is the key to our larger future.” —Gregory Benford, author of The Berlin Project “At last, here is the vision we were aiming for when we landed on the Moon. The Case for Space is the case for the future!” —Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 “Zubrin is one of our generation's thought leaders in space exploration, and with The Case for Space he makes another major contribution to humanity's journey to the stars. We are several human generations since Apollo, yet nation-states have retreated from their once-bold path beyond our planet. With the amazing private efforts such as SpaceX now bearing fruit, a revolution is upon us such that space exploration is becoming the domain of private companies and citizens.

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Published 9 Sep 2019

One night after dinner, I called on my northeastern Wisconsin roots and braved the snow and ice to walk the full two-mile length of Davos’s main boulevard. It looked more like the Las Vegas strip than an Alpine village. Other than a handful of banks, the ski town was dominated by the lit-up logos and slick signage of tech companies, each (Microsoft included) promoting their AI strategy to the business, government, and thought leaders spending the week in the Swiss Alps. Two things were abundantly clear: AI was the new thing, and tech companies have big marketing budgets. After sitting through numerous discussions about the benefits of AI, I realized that no one was taking time to explain what AI is or how it works. It was assumed that everyone in the room already knew.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
Published 21 Mar 2005

Not only did he encounter obstacles to extending the Mongol domains, but within his own administrative territory, sectarian violence flared in a struggle for dominance between Taoist and Buddhist monks, further limiting his control over his lands. Instead of sending news of victories and dispatching caravans of tribute to Karakorum, Khubilai sent frequent excuses for the delays encountered and unexpected conditions. The generous explanation of scholars sympathetic to Khubilai is that he was a mature and thoughtful leader who wanted to proceed with careful organization and not on impulse, and one who combined the best of Chinese and Mongol military strategies and armies. The less generous explanation is that he lacked the Mongol aptitude for war but managed to avoid failure because of the general momentum of the Mongol conquest and the outstanding martial ability of his generals.

Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions
by Elizabeth Ghaffari
Published 5 Dec 2011

The book is very practical—trying to differentiate ourselves in a very crowded market. It’s a very fragmented business and very competitive. It’s tough to break through all the noise. I think we are succeeding. Ghaffari: How do you define your position as a “leader?” Ferracone: As a leader, one has to have vision, courage, follow-through and compassion. I have vision as a thought leader in our industry and in seeing the possibilities of what our firm can be and the role it can play. Sometimes that takes courage because it requires me to be unconventional—to think unconventionally. In addition, I need to make investment decisions for the future in order to back that vision and execute against it.

CTOs at Work
by Scott Donaldson , Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson
Published 13 Jan 2012

Rick held previous positions as Vice President of Products and Services for Gannon Technologies Group, where he led the transformation of technology research into the product stage for the defense and intelligence communities, and as Vice President of Strategic Projects and Applied Technology at T. Rowe Price, and Program Manager at Roadnet Technologies (a UPS company). Rick attended Towson University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Joe Natoli is Chief UX Architect at Mind Over Machines. With more than 20 years' experience, Joe is a recognized thought leader in interface design, information architecture and user experience. He marries technology user expertise with a background in brand and product strategy for B2B, B2C and government projects. Joe speaks frequently on user experience, web engineering and design for the Graphic Artists Guild, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and other national forums.

Designing Interfaces
by Jenifer Tidwell
Published 15 Dec 2010

Mashable repost of a viral YouTube video What Instead of always generating your own content, find works on other sites that you can link to, quote, or repost. Add your own commentary, or invite your readers to comment. Use when You see the role of your social media presence to partially be that of an aggregator: you find good stuff out there that you know your audience will enjoy, and you post it for them. You serve as an editor and thought leader whose taste is trusted by your readers. Not all organizations will find this pattern appropriate. Some may prefer to publish only the content they create themselves. Why If your presence is seen as a go-to site for good stuff, you’ll acquire more followers. These followers then see your logo or name whenever your reposted content appears in their streams.

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott
Published 9 May 2016

The Yale Law School professor has taken up the mantle of convener-in-chief for the industry. Like another prominent woman—Dawn Song, MacArthur fellow and computer science professor at Berkeley, and an expert in cybersecurity—Stark comes from a distinctly academic background but has other ambitions. She organized Scaling Bitcoin, convening developers, industry players, thought leaders, government officials, and other stakeholders in Montreal. A “constitutional moment” for the sector, Scaling Bitcoin was credited with clearing logjams in the block-size debate. Today she is also leading as an entrepreneur, collaborating on the development of the Bitcoin Lightning Network to solve the blockchain’s scalability issue.

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones
Published 20 Apr 2015

You give the smallest amount of medication over the longest period of time because you don’t want to give a patient too much, for fear of addiction.” But during the 1980s, medications and technology were making new treatment possible. Old attitudes began to fade. From Utah, Webster, Michael Ashburn, Perry Fine, Brad Hare, and Richard Chapman emerged as pain clinicians and thought leaders, along with Portenoy and others in New York. Soon a critical mass was reached and an effervescent pain-management scene developed in Salt Lake. This new Salt Lake pain vanguard held monthly meetings that attracted a hundred people at a time to listen to speakers, discuss new techniques in pain management, and put the old days behind them.

Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison
Published 29 May 2017

As Geoff Dyer has explained, “The Communist Party has faced a slow-burning threat to its legitimacy ever since it dumped Marx for the market.” Thus the Party has evoked past humiliations at the hands of Japan and the West “to create a sense of unity that had been fracturing, and to define a Chinese identity fundamentally at odds with American modernity.”47 During the 1990s when many Western thought leaders were celebrating the “end of history” with the apparent triumph of market-based democracies, a number of observers believed that China, too, was on a path to democratic government. Today, few in China would say that political freedoms are more important than reclaiming China’s international standing and national pride.

Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet
by David Moon , Patrick Ruffini , David Segal , Aaron Swartz , Lawrence Lessig , Cory Doctorow , Zoe Lofgren , Jamie Laurie , Ron Paul , Mike Masnick , Kim Dotcom , Tiffiniy Cheng , Alexis Ohanian , Nicole Powers and Josh Levy
Published 30 Apr 2013

He thought it was wrong for the FCC to treat broadband Internet access differently, noting that it provides exactly the same “physical pipe” for delivery of content that telephone lines provide for dial-up ISPs. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-277.ZD.html COICA/PIPA/SOPA ARE CENSORSHIP MIKE MASNICK Mike Masnick is the CEO and founder of Techdirt, a website that focuses on technology news and tech-related issues. Masnick is also the founder and CEO of the company Floor64 and a contributor at Businessweek’s Business Exchange. Techdirt has a consistent Technorati 100 rating and has received “Best of the Web” thought leader awards from Businessweek and Forbes. For many, Masnick and Techdirt blew the whistle on COICA—the predecessor to PIPA and SOPA. This entry is adapted from blog posts that he wrote in the fall of 2010. In the fall of 2010, two of the entertainment industry’s favorite senators, Patrick Leahy (who keeps proposing stronger copyright laws) and Orin Hatch (who once proposed automatically destroying the computers of anyone caught file sharing … before his own Senate office was found to be using unlicensed software, that is) proposed a new law that would give the Justice Department the power to shut down websites that are declared as being “dedicated to illegal file sharing.”

If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?
by Raj Raghunathan
Published 25 Apr 2016

During the course of reading this book, you may have managed to keep some of these negative influences at bay, but now that you are done with the book, those old conditionings will likely reassert themselves. What can you do to break—or at least mitigate—your old counterproductive habits and reinforce the new and productive ones? I posed this question to several thought leaders, including Marshall Goldsmith, author of several best sellers including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, and Art Markman, professor of social psychology at UT Austin and author, again, of several best sellers such as Smart Thinking and Smart Change. Using their input, I have developed three strategies that I know, based on the experience of my students, to be effective in sustaining higher happiness levels.

Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi
Published 14 May 2020

Ryan Vlastelica, “Investors Flock to Vanguard Funds, Dump Goldman, Wells Fargo, and Others,” MarketWatch, July 12, 2017, https://on.mktw.net/2OomPvp. 45.One important foundation of this literature is the shared value initiative, led by Harvard Business Professor Michael Porter. https://www.sharedvalue.org/partners/thought-leaders/michael-e-porter. 46.Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, The Business Case for Purpose (2015), 1, https://hbr.org/resources/pdfs/comm/ey/19392HBRReportEY.pdf. The organizational purpose was defined as “an aspirational reason for being which inspires and provides a call to action for an organization and its partners and stakeholders and provides benefit to local and global society.” 47.Deloitte, Culture of Purpose: Building Business Confidence; Driving Growth (2014), https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/about-deloitte/us-leadership-2014-core-beliefs-culture-survey-040414.pdf.

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen
Published 13 Sep 2021

In science fiction books and TV shows, people see depictions of robots that want to control or outsmart humans, and superintelligence turned evil. Media reports tend to focus on negative, outlying examples rather than quotidian incremental advances: autonomous vehicles killing pedestrians, technology companies using AI to influence elections, and people using AI to disseminate misinformation and deepfakes. Relying on “thought leaders” ought to be the best option, but unfortunately most who claim the title are experts in business, physics, or politics, not AI technology. Their predictions often lack scientific rigor. What makes things worse is that journalists tend to quote these leaders out of context to attract eyeballs.

Mastering Private Equity
by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen , Michael Prahl and Bowen White
Published 15 Jun 2017

Since then, ESG management has evolved into an essential activity for GPs looking to go beyond basic regulatory demands. While GPs’ interest in ESG was initially driven by LP expectations, over time many GPs started seeing commercial benefits from incorporating ESG practices into their investment program. Thought leaders have adopted comprehensive and structured processes to leverage risk management and value creation opportunities. Progressive thinking on ESG has been formalized in industry guidelines that have become widely adopted. Exhibit 14.2 charts the evolution of ESG in PE. Exhibit 14.2 ESG Evolution: From Risk to Opportunity LP EXPECTATIONS: The growing demand for public accountability and transparency around environmental and social issues from the investor community and their constituents has led LPs to push for increased ESG awareness.

Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges and Leaderboards
by Yu-Kai Chou
Published 13 Apr 2015

Some background info: Gabe Zichermann is a brilliant marketer, speaker, CEO of the largest Gamification conference in the industry, the GSummit, and is one of the leading evangelists of Gamification and its commercial use. Sebastian Deterding is the Ph.D. academic that studies the deep theories and motivations of game design and Gamification. He is considered one of the most respected thought leaders in the space. In this debate of epic proportions, Sebastian Deterding publicly examined each chapter of Gabe Zichermann’s book Gamification by Design, and explained why he considered each chapter to be flawed and/or inaccurate2. Hyperbolically speaking, his blog post on the subject was almost longer than the book itself.

The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
by Philip Augar
Published 4 Jul 2018

It was run by David Harding, a Cambridge graduate who Walker had met while chairing the university’s 800th anniversary campaign. After leaving Barclays, Antony Jenkins served out his term as chairman of the charity Business in the Community and took over as chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships. A strong believer in the potential of digital technology to increase competition in banking, he became a thought leader in ‘fintech’ and, among other things, founded 10x Future Technologies in order to become involved directly. Walker’s and Jenkins’ successors as chairman and chief executive respectively, John McFarlane and Jes Staley, remain in post at the time of writing. The regulators’ inquiry into Staley’s hunt for the whistleblower reported in April and May 2018: Staley was reprimanded and fined £642,430, but kept his job.

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman
Published 23 Sep 2019

Their love of freedom, their celebration of capitalism, and their ambivalence about democracy resonate today. These sophisticated ideas have carried a seductive power—especially in simplified and attenuated forms—and they have proven hard to dislodge, even when linked to authoritarian governments, reactionary political movements, or vapid thought leaders.23 As Hayek observed, the spontaneous interactions of individuals in a free society often produce consequences well beyond the designs of the participants. The Austrian School’s history confirms this aperçu. Marginal Revolutionaries argues that a renewed, critical engagement with this tradition can be used to clarify how economics, politics, and power interact and how ideas, institutions, and influence intermingle to produce the orders in which we live.

Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge
Published 29 Nov 2011

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, of Harvard Business School, has written or co-written eighteen books, including When Giants Learn to Dance, earning her the sobriquet “the thinking woman’s Tom Peters.” Others are management consultants with the gift of gab or a taste for self-promotion. Most top-rank consultancies employ at least one “thought leader” who regularly writes business books: George Stalk at BCG (who has written or co-written four) and Lowell Bryan at McKinsey (who has written or co-written six) are prominent examples. A few brave spirits have become more-or-less full-time gurus. Stephen Covey has sold 30 million copies of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree
Published 2 Jul 2018

Newspapers reveled in lurid details of her wealth, notably her shoe collection, which drew comparisons with former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos. Yet her later popularity sprang more from the supposed modesty of her lifestyle and the conservatism of her demeanor. Those who knew her described an intelligent and thoughtful leader, who spoke in flawless convent-educated English and preferred literature to politics. “She read widely, and used to ask me for book recommendations,” an experienced diplomat in New Delhi who worked closely with her once told me. As her health worsened, even her reclusive habits invited sympathy.

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt
by Sinan Aral
Published 14 Sep 2020

Individuals with access to scarce, novel information in a given network cluster can broker opportunities and enable innovation by applying novel information they receive from outside their group to problems that are intractable given what their group knows. This is part of what it means to be a thought leader who thinks “out of the box.” But it might be more accurate to say that these connectors, brokers, or influencers think “out of the cluster” rather than “out of the box.” These are the people whose diverse networks provide them with jobs, promotions, and economic opportunities. They create value by brokering novelty between disparate parts of the human social network, and (as I will describe in later chapters) in an attention economy, this type of novelty is king.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

She followed the meritocracy’s rules and rode its elevator, floor by floor, to the top: high school debate club, Yale then Oxford, liberal media darling, advisor to some of the most powerful men in the world, dinner parties with the Davos set. She has described herself as “a child of the narrative” and a “darling of … northeastern or bi-coastal elite thought leaders.” So what happened? Did she discover, at a certain point, that this elite liberal order, the one that had lifted her so high, was not what it seemed? That it was not actually fair, but rather rife with rigged rules and false promises and cruelties? Was it in the rubble of that collapsed worldview, with nothing to replace it, that she came to see a labyrinth of cabals and conspiracies?

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Published 3 Oct 2022

GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT engineer for Lockheed: Jake Kaplan, “Known as Astros Science Guy, Sig Mejdal to Experiment with Role as Minor League Coach,” Texas Sports Nation, March 13, 2017. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “You are going to need database”: “Analytically Speaking: Conversations with Thought Leaders,” www.youtube.com/​watch?v=p3HqSMhY46Q. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “We can use it to ensure”: McKinsey podcast, May 15, 2017. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Luhnow told the interviewer: “How the Houston Astros Are Winning Through Advanced Analytics,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2018.

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
by C. K. Prahalad
Published 15 Jan 2005

Ken Blanchard co-author of The One Minute Manager® and The Secret: What Great Leaders Know-And Do In the face of accelerating turbulence and change, business leaders and policy makers need new ways of thinking to sustain performance and growth. Wharton School Publishing offers a trusted source for stimulating ideas from thought leaders who provide new mental models to address changes in strategy, management and finance. We seek out authors from diverse disciplines with a profound understanding of change and its implications. We offer books and tools that help executives respond to the challenge of change. Every book and management tool we publish meets quality standards set by The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon
by Rosa Brooks
Published 8 Aug 2016

Russia used high-tech jammers to block communications between Ukrainian military units, but also deployed one of the oldest tricks in the book, placing sensitive Russian equipment next to schools and hospitals to make it politically impossible for Ukrainian forces to target them. Russian cyberattacks paralyzed Ukrainian government computers, while crudely doctored photos helped spread anti-Ukraine misinformation.34 • • • The U.S. military’s most thoughtful leaders are taking note as well, and have a keen understanding of the gaps between our current capabilities and the evolving and complex threats we face. The Army’s Special Operations Command recently produced a white paper urging greater emphasis on “political warfare,” for instance, which the paper defined as “a persistent and purposeful synergy of diplomatic, economic, informational, and military efforts in unified campaigns where military contributions support the attainment of broader strategic end states.”

Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
by Paul Scharre
Published 23 Apr 2018

There was no question that if I was going to understand where the robotics revolution was heading, I needed to speak to Work. No single individual had more sway over the course of the U.S. military’s investments in autonomy than he did, both by virtue of his official position in the bureaucracy as well as his unofficial position as the chief thought-leader on autonomy. Work may not be an engineer writing the code for the next generation of robotic systems, but his influence was even broader and deeper. Through his public statements and internal policies, Work was shaping the course of DoD’s investments, big and small. He had championed the concept of human-machine teaming.

Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by Alan Rusbridger
Published 14 Oct 2018

He had had exactly one year’s experience in media – as an advertising copy chaser for The Home Organist magazine – before joining the Guardian. I took with me a copy of The Internet for Dummies. Thus armed, we set off to America for a four-day, four-city tour. In Atlanta, we found the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), which was considered a thought leader in internet matters, having joined the Prodigy Internet Service, an online service offering subscribers information over dial-up 1,200 bit/second modems. After four months the internet service had 14,000 members, paying 10 cents a minute to access online banking, messaging, full webpage hosting and live share prices.

Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
by Jacob Turner
Published 29 Oct 2018

The ethics board of DeepMind features prominent commentators, and the Partnership’s coalition now includes non-governmental not-for-profit organisations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).19 These initiatives may sound promising, but there is a risk that if governments do not act swiftly to create their own AI agencies, a significant proportion of thought-leaders in the field will become aligned to one corporate interest or another. Though experts appointed to tech companies’ boards will in most cases aim to maintain their independence, the fact of their association inevitably raises the risk that either they will be influenced to some extent by the interests of the company in question, or they will be seen to be so influenced.

How Money Became Dangerous
by Christopher Varelas
Published 15 Oct 2019

How can we get out ahead of the biggest dangers and make crucial, fundamental improvements before we’re reeling from the next major crisis? Collectively we have the power to effectuate real progress, but proactive collective change is not possible without strong leadership. Who in the industry has the standing or the desire to be a thought leader, to gather the support required to make necessary changes? There is a leadership vacuum in the financial world. There aren’t enough role models like Sheriff Gates and Mayor Tubbs. The industry is so embattled that it has a hard time attracting or keeping the people who could be effective leaders.

Mastering Blockchain, Second Edition
by Imran Bashir
Published 28 Mar 2018

It is worth noting that steps 4 and 5 are considered non-compulsory, as the transaction itself is finalized in step 3; however, block confirmation and further transaction reconfirmations, if required, are then carried out in step 4 and step 5. This completes the basic introduction to blockchain. In the next section, you will learn about the benefits and limitations of this technology. Benefits and limitations of blockchain Numerous advantages of blockchain technology have been discussed in many industries and proposed by thought leaders around the world who are participating in the blockchain space. The notable benefits of blockchain technology are as follows: Decentralization: This is a core concept and benefit of the blockchain. There is no need for a trusted third party or intermediary to validate transactions; instead, a consensus mechanism is used to agree on the validity of transactions.

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin
Published 14 Sep 2020

Interview with Sebastian Thrun; “The Great Robot Race.” 5. Interview with Sebastian Thrun; Conor Dougherty, “How Larry Page’s Obsession Became Google’s Business,” New York Times, January 22, 2016; Arjun Kharpal, “Google’s Larry Page Disguised Himself,” CNBC, May 11, 2017. 6. Interview with Lawrence Burns; Scott Corwin and Rob Norton, “The Thought-Leader Interview: Lawrence Burns,” strategy+business, Autumn 2010; Lawrence Burns and Christopher Shulgin, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car and How It Will Reshape Our World (New York: HarperCollins, 2018). 7. Lindsay Chappell, “2007: The Moment Self-Driving Cars Became Real,” Automotive News, December 19, 2016 (Whittaker). 8.

Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
Published 10 May 2021

One described a conference room at the Amazon Studios office with walls that were covered in portraits of Jeffrey Tambor, Woody Allen, and Kevin Spacey (star of an Amazon film, Elvis & Nixon). All three would fall in the gathering backlash against sexual misconduct, known as #MeToo. The movement was also about to ensnare Roy Price and entangle Amazon in a scandal that its executives thought they had put behind them. * * * That October 2017, a few hundred or so tastemakers, thought leaders, authors, musicians, actors, producers, and their families were whisked by a fleet of private jets from the Van Nuys Airport in L.A. to Santa Barbara. From there, they were taken by another convoy of black sedans to the nearby Four Seasons Resort. The five-star hotel was closed to the public that weekend, as was the Coral Casino Beach & Cabana Club across the street.

Rikers: An Oral History
by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau
Published 17 Jan 2023

And to be fair to him, I don’t think there [was] a space for those voices when he was pushing for closure. The world is changing. People are just more willing to hear from people directly impacted, probably because of a lot of pressure from people like me and people who came before me. But I would call him a maverick, a thought leader, somebody who sort of gets out ahead of everyone else. I want to be careful not to take the thunder away from the people who I think actually did create the change. MARTIN HORN: Herb certainly planted the seed in me in 1979 and [in 2002], when I took over city corrections, it was something that I always had in the back of my mind.

After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle
Published 2 May 2022

People close to him saw his interest in fashion as an extension of Jobs’s legacy of marrying technology with culture. In their eyes, the iPod alone hadn’t resurrected Apple; its connection to music had. If the watch was going to succeed, Apple would need to forge relationships in the creative world and win over thought leaders in fashion the same way it had won over record labels and musicians. Jobs would have crushed such internal tensions by issuing an autocratic decision based on his personal preference. The finality of his decisions had spared Ive, who disliked conflict, from the everyday headaches of corporate infighting.

Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street
by Jackson Lears

Stanislav Petrov and his staff, under unimaginable pressure, correctly concluded that the system flashing “LAUNCH” had raised a false alarm; Petrov did not report the incoming missiles to his superior officers, who would have immediately ordered a full-scale nuclear attack on the United States. This was the sort of incident (and there have been more on both sides) that would have inspired a thoughtful leader like Gorbachev to urge the abolition of nuclear weapons. Reagan was nearly persuaded, but in the end he simply could not give up his quixotic dream of the Strategic Defense Initiative. Despite warming relations between the superpowers and a few substantial arms-control treaties, the dream of abolition—or even significant cuts in the nuclear arsenals—disappeared.

Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
by Kenneth S. Rubin
Published 19 Jul 2012

Extending the authors’ analogy, giving a new Scrum team just “The Scrum Guide” and expecting good results would be like giving a new chess player a 15-page description of the rules of chess and expecting her to be able to play a reasonable game of chess after reading it. It just isn’t a stand-alone resource. This book, Essential Scrum, is an attempt to be the missing single source for essential Scrum knowledge. It includes an in-depth discussion of Scrum’s principles, values, and practices—one that in most cases agrees with other agile thought leaders and “The Scrum Guide.” (Where this book offers a different perspective from what is widely promoted elsewhere, I point it out and explain why.) This book also describes approaches that are consistent with the Scrum framework and that have been used successfully by me and teams I have coached.

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
by Kurt Andersen
Published 4 Sep 2017

In most places, the principles of biology were taught without any asterisks. The cultural impact of the Scopes trial, however, was enormous. Each side was confirmed in its beliefs. It allowed the mainstream to write off Christian true believers as hillbilly dead-enders and to imagine that reason was inexorably triumphing in America. Thought leaders and cosmopolites and middle-class Time-reading conservatives, such as my grandparents and parents in Nebraska, could almost forget that many millions of gung-ho Christian fantasists still existed. And the fantasists—especially in the South, for whom the Yankees’ twentieth-century national cultural victory was a rerun of their Civil War victory—could go on believing and telling their children that science was untrue when it contradicted the Bible.

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
by Daniel Gordis
Published 17 Oct 2016

To Ari Hoffman, who spent a summer reading the manuscript even while working on his Ph.D. in literature at Harvard, my thanks for his insight and suggestions. To Yaacov Lozowick, the chief archivist at the Israel State Archives, and Guy Jamo of the Central Zionist Archive, many thanks for all their assistance. Several of Israel’s thought leaders consented to be interviewed for the book, and their insights substantially enriched the final product. For their time and wisdom, my thanks to Ruth Calderon, Micha Goodman, Donniel Hartman, Avi Katzman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Saul Singer. Several friends and colleagues offered to read the manuscript in a late but not final stage and made substantive suggestions that dramatically improved the final product.

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by Neil Irwin
Published 4 Apr 2013

He placed phone calls, sent e-mails, and, in the case of his colleagues on the Fed Board of Governors in Washington, arranged in-person meetings. The FOMC had a number of members already committed to decisive action, among them Bernanke’s inner circle of Janet Yellen and Bill Dudley and emerging thought leaders such as Charles Evans of the Chicago Fed and John Williams of San Francisco. Then there was the committee’s more hawkish wing, the people who couldn’t be swayed to vote for more monetary easing no matter what, including Jeffrey Lacker of the Richmond Fed and Charles Plosser of Philadelphia. Bernanke concentrated instead on the swing voters.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov
Published 15 Nov 2013

This is not to mention the complex and controversial history, itself full of protracted battles and rancorous debates, over the physical infrastructure that made electricity widely available. Only by papering over and suppressing such history can we see “the Internet” as unique and exotic. It’s not that our Internet thought leaders are insincere or inclined only to say things that will secure them better consulting projects—even though, occasionally, this seems like a factor. Rather, they themselves believe their own epochalist rhetoric. This, as we’ll see later in the book, explains both the religious zeal with which they embark on and justify their quest to ameliorate the human condition as well as their lack of empathy for industries and institutions that are currently in crisis.

Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
by Scott Gottlieb
Published 20 Sep 2021

Many people reviewed portions of this book, some who chose to remain anonymous, but among them were Jerome Adams, Scott Becker, Trevor Bedford, Luciana Borio, David Boyer, Andrew Bremberg, Carlos del Rio, Shami Feinglass, Richard Hatchett, Leslie Kiernan, Yuval Levin, John Martin, Chris Mason, Mark McClellan, Stephen Ostroff, Kavita Patel, Caitlin Rivers, Veronique Rodman, Lowell Schiller, Joshua Sharfstein, Lauren Silvis, Michael Strain, Marc Thiessen, and Steve Usdin. I was also inspired by the work of many great reporters, commentators, and thought leaders who chronicled this crisis and provided critical insights on the threats and how we could address them. The real-time exchange of information, often through social media, helped shape the nation’s response and improve our collective outcomes. Where political leadership fell short, the informal networks forged between people with shared public health goals helped to identify what was going wrong in real time, and to light the way on how we could reduce death and disease and ease suffering.

Fantasyland
by Kurt Andersen
Published 5 Sep 2017

In most places, the principles of biology were taught without any asterisks. The cultural impact of the Scopes trial, however, was enormous. Each side was confirmed in its beliefs. It allowed the mainstream to write off Christian true believers as hillbilly dead-enders and to imagine that reason was inexorably triumphing in America. Thought leaders and cosmopolites and middle-class Time-reading conservatives, such as my grandparents and parents in Nebraska, could almost forget that many millions of gung-ho Christian fantasists still existed. And the fantasists—especially in the South, for whom the Yankees’ twentieth-century national cultural victory was a rerun of their Civil War victory—could go on believing and telling their children that science was untrue when it contradicted the Bible.

Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay
Published 2 Jan 2009

Whether it’s supply chains, whether it’s enterprise networks, whether it’s biosciences and pharmaceuticals and time-sensitive organic materials, the airport itself is really the nucleus of a range of ‘New Economy’ functions,” with the ultimate aim of bolstering the city’s “competitiveness, job creation, and quality of life.” His idiom is a mash-up of consultant-speak and academic jargon, each one wielded to differing but complementary effect. He hammers home his collection of catchphrases like a good thought-leader should. “The Web can’t move a box,” “business is a contact sport,” and “never make strategic decisions on a cyclical basis.” And then there’s “survival of the fastest,” poached from Alvin Toffler. “My favorite book of his is Powershift, published in 1990,” Kasarda told the room. “It’s a five-hundred-eighty-five-page treatise asking what will define the next hierarchy of countries, of companies, of regions and communities.

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
by J. Bradford Delong
Published 6 Apr 2020

For the well-thinking, any idea that this progressive economic system of rapidly increasing prosperity might break down was, as Keynes put it, “aberrant [and] scandalous.”1 Yet then came World War I, and the failures of economic management after World War I to restore stability, confidence in the system, and the prewar rate of rapidly advancing prosperity. And so things fell apart. The center did not hold. Here I need to issue a warning: The time since the beginning of the neoliberal turn overlaps my career. In it I have played, in a very small way, the roles of intellectual, commentator, thought leader, technocrat, functionary, and Cassandra. I have been deeply and emotionally engaged throughout, as I have worked to advance policies for good and for ill, and as my engagement has alternately sharpened and blurred my judgment. From this point on this book becomes, in part, an argument I am having with my younger selves and with various voices in my head.

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab
Published 13 Nov 2023

Jack Hassard, “Why Bill Gates Defends the Common Core,” Art of Teaching Science (blog), March 15, 2014, https://jackhassard.org/why-bill-gates-defends-the-common-core/. Rex Tillerson: Erin Kourkounis, “CEOs Tout Benefits of Common Core Standards,” Tampa Tribune, October 28, 2013. “on the decline”: Glenn Britt, “Investing in Innovation,” Forbes, March 1, 2010, https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/01/science-technology-education-thought-leaders-britt.html?sh=60dc6d571eee. “regulatory capture”: McShane, “Bill Gates at AEI on the Common Core.” beef up: “Is Bill Gates a Closet Liberal?,” Salon, January 29, 1998, https://web.archive.org/web/20120607021236/https://www.salon.com/1998/01/29/feature_349/. paid low wages: Daniel Costa, “STEM Labor Shortages?

The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling
by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross
Published 30 Jun 2013

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. About the Authors Ralph Kimball founded the Kimball Group. Since the mid-1980s, he has been the data warehouse and business intelligence industry's thought leader on the dimensional approach. He has educated tens of thousands of IT professionals. The Toolkit books written by Ralph and his colleagues have been the industry's best sellers since 1996. Prior to working at Metaphor and founding Red Brick Systems, Ralph coinvented the Star workstation, the first commercial product with windows, icons, and a mouse, at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
by Eric Kaufmann
Published 24 Oct 2018

In order to escape, people retreat behind visors and gloves into a virtual-reality fantasy world. Is the world real or a simulation? The problem has vexed metaphysicians for millennia and many techno-optimists point to a future in which the virtual and real have become blurred. The tech magnate Elon Musk, a thought-leader in this area, claims that we may already be living in a simulation. ‘40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot,’ Musk told an audience at a tech conference. ‘Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year.

The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole
Published 29 Dec 2018

Among his nineteen books, Vanguard Management was chosen as “One of the best business and economics books of the year” by the editors of Business Week. He has won a Mitchell Prize for a paper on economic growth policy, named one of the “100 most influential people in business ethics” by the editors of Ethisphere, and one of “the top 100 thought leaders on leadership” by Leadership Excellence magazine. Discover great authors, exclusive offers, and more at hc.com. Also by James O’Toole Watts and Woodstock: Identity and Culture in the United States and South Africa Work in America (principal author) Work and the Quality of Life (editor) Energy and Social Change (principal author) Work, Learning, and the American Future Tenure (principal author) Making America Work Working: Changes and Choices (principal editor) Vanguard Management: Redesigning the Corporate Future The Executive’s Compass: Business and the Good Society Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle’s Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness The New American Workplace (co-author) America at Work (co-editor) Transparency: Creating a Culture of Candor (co-author) Good Business: Exercising Effective and Ethical Leadership (co-editor) The Practical Idealist: Gandhi’s Leadership Lessons Corporate Stewardship: Achieving Sustainable Effectiveness (co-editor) Copyright THE ENLIGHTENED CAPITALISTS.

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by Brian Dear
Published 14 Jun 2017

And the history of how we reached this future has been researched, deciphered, studied, analyzed, organized, and disseminated far and wide for long enough that the story has become legend, set in stone. Nerds, geeks, and hackers are no longer outcasts and ridiculed; they’re now sought-after “thought leaders,” many counted among the tens of thousands of recent millionaires and hundreds of billionaires. The list of heroes’ names in the “computer revolution” is long. But there is an equally long list of unknown computer pioneers, the people whose stories fill the pages of this book. — To be in the great state of Illinois is to be hours away by jet, days by car or rail, from the West or East Coasts, each a thousand miles away.

Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards
by Antti Ilmanen
Published 4 Apr 2011

I hope that readers will find my treatment of risk-based and behavioral explanations for expected returns surprisingly balanced. Fama and French are also among my leading lights when I tackle that perennial question “if your ideas have any investment value, why would you share them?” Evidence abounds that business gains accrue to perceived thought-leaders. Yet, many serious writers publish for less selfish reasons as well. They want to enhance the general investor experience and improve the marketplace. Chicago also had other superb finance and economics professors and besides faculty we got great guest speakers in the finance workshops. Naturally, I had more active dialogue with fellow students, many of whom became excellent talking-partners and friends over the years.

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
by Paul Tucker
Published 21 Apr 2018

That is one precondition for incentives-values compatibility in this area. The Principles as a Social Norm for IA Policy Makers: Inducing Self-Restraint If embedded as a political and social norm, the Principles might help to create incentives for self-restraint. Given their high status within our societies, IA policy makers have opportunities to act as thought leaders beyond their field or delegated duties. Judges and military leaders have long faced those temptations, giving rise to the ethic of reserve described in chapter 4. As presented there, this might have seemed to be a matter of virtue. But, of course, it is part of the rich set of public expectations, sometimes informally codified, that frame the position in society of military commanders and judges.

The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton
Published 19 Feb 2016

Instead of being stationed with magisterial Art Deco appointments as were Chrysler's executive elect, Googlers lunch together on artless furniture, and while they do, they enjoy free and nutritious gourmet meals. Why fuss with decorative aesthetics when something far more valuable is being hatched during the meal? Available onsite amenities include massage, free bikes, indoor rock climbing, and regular symposia with thought leaders on a range of topics. Efforts are made to couch an idealized version of programmer lifestyle in its own idiosyncratic luxuries and to dampen any distraction or discomfort that might interrupt collaborative innovation, including perhaps going home. The Googleplex (the architecture of which was designed incidentally by Clive Wilkinson and others) may already serve as a kind of model sub-urban spatial system for the maintenance of global software platforms, but for that, it is also a highly selective population of Users.

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts
by Ashoka Mody
Published 7 May 2018

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Code Complete (Developer Best Practices)
by Steve McConnell
Published 8 Jun 2004

Programmers tend to view managers as being at a lower level of technical evolution, somewhere between single-celled organisms and the woolly mammoths that died out during the Ice Age, and if there are going to be programming standards, programmers need to buy into them. If someone on a project is going to define standards, have a respected architect define the standards rather than the manager. Software projects operate as much on an "expertise hierarchy" as on an "authority hierarchy." If the architect is regarded as the project's thought leader, the project team will generally follow standards set by that person. If you choose this approach, be sure the architect really is respected. Sometimes a project architect is just a senior person who has been around too long and is out of touch with production coding issues. Programmers will resent that kind of "architect" defining standards that are out of touch with the work they're doing.

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice
by Pierre Vernimmen , Pascal Quiry , Maurizio Dallocchio , Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi
Published 16 Oct 2017

Fernandez, Finance and Financial Economics, A debate about common sense and illogical models, working paper available at www.ssrn.com, January 2017. McKinsey, Are today’s CFOs ready for tomorrow’s demands on finance?, December 2016. S. Mian, On the choice and replacement of chief financial officers, Journal of Financial Economics, 60(1), 143–175, April 2001. R. Norton, CFO Thought Leaders, Strategy Business Books, 2005. M. Scott, Achieving Fair Value: How Companies Can Better Manage Their Relationships with Investors, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2005. L. Zingales, Presidential Address: Does finance benefit society?, Journal of Finance, 70(4), 1327–1363, August 2005. Section I Financial analysis Part One Fundamental concepts in financial analysis The following six chapters provide a gradual introduction to the foundations of financial analysis.