When robots rule the world – the future of jobs in a hyperconnected world
Kate Carruthers Steve Hopkins was telling me recently about an interesting law firm he’d come across in San Francisco – it’s called Robot. Where lawyer and junior partner Tim Hwang and his…
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Maximizing shareholder value should NOT be the only goal of the corporation
It is interesting to think about this now that we see Occupy Wall Street spreading around the world (even to Occupy Sydney). Back in 1976 Michael Jensen and William Meckling…
Building community #sibsyd #sydstart
On Thursday I spoke about Social Innovation Sydney at SydStart along with Selena Griffith, Michelle Williams, and Kim Chen. Apart from the Social Innovation Sydney team there was an illustrious…
Customer service in the digital age – what changes?
During an exchange on Twitter earlier this year with some folks who were attending #scrmsummit we chatted about customer service and about how costs are a real focus for most…
How do we create and share value in a jobless economy?
Jeff Jarvis sparked my thinking on this recently with his post on The Jobless Future. As Jeff so bluntly stated: “We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going…
Business, boring jobs and social good
Over the past 150 years businesses have dealt with the challenges of increased scale by optimizing processes, resource allocation and expenditure. However, there is a limit to how much one…
The jobless future and social innovation
I have argued previously that capitalism is broken and that we need to find new approaches that are good for people, animals and the planet. Further I asked if social…
Google’s interesting social innovation
My buddy Anthony Baxter has been a Googler for a while and has worked on many fascinating projects. But what he’s working on now is not just interesting from a…
Some thoughts on making change: it starts with us #gathering11
Since I’m in transit to New York to speak at the 140Conference about Twitter, Community & Social Innovation David Hood had planned for me to join in Gathering11 from a…
Changing the world, ideas, action, rethinking reality & the rabble-rousing ways of @umairh
One of the people who is vocal in his calls for change in how we do things in our westernised societies is Umair Haque. His work is worth reading whether…