How You Pay Your Debt
Utilizing debt is one thing - how you pay it off is another... check out the below chart:
US Govt. Debt
As the US Govt. Debt discussions have occupied a lot of media attention over the past weeks, I notice that there has been a lot of inaccurate facts and figures circulating around the internet. Many people believe that the Chinese Govt. owns most of the debt, when in fact it only owns…
Visualization > Movement of 880 iPhones
This video visualizes the movement of 880 iPhones in Europe in April 2011. Taken by tracking their GPS (they volunteered for it).
How I Use My iPhone
I was thinking the other day about life before iPhone and wondering how I managed to do all the things that my iPhone does... so I decided to put together a MindMap with the main tasks I use my iPhone for... and wow, its one thing to know this and…
Global Competitiveness Index 2010–2011
This years Global Competitiveness Index tells an interesting story... the US is sliding down the rankings, Switzerland maintains its lead and Sweden is on the way up. Singapore goes sideways. Having said that ranked 3rd in the world is not a bad place to be! There are many factors that drive…
Apple iPad 2 Review
Having had an Apple iPad since they were first released, I wondered if the new iPad would be different enough to get one. I didn’t wonder for long and moments later placed my order online. Shipped directly from the factory in China, the iPad arrived via Fedex. Now that I…
Google’s Management Rules
In 2009 Google embarked on a project to analyze performance reviews, feedback surveys and nominations for top-manager awards to identify the top habits of the most successful Google managers... below are the results courtesy of the New York Times. It is interesting that #1 on the list is to be…
Past – Present – Future
It is amazing just how fast the future turns into the past. Take a moment and consider the present, and as soon as you focus on the present - it becomes the past. Think about it. If the future is created in the present - and the future becomes the…
The Future Is Now
American author, inventor, and futurist Ray Kurzweil has some very interesting predictions about the future... worth considering... check out the graphic below... and note the predictions that have already been proven true!
US Long-term real GDP growth 1871-2009
Some people are eager to predict the end of long-term US growth. I would not be so quick. The American people have a remarkable talent for bouncing back - just take a look at the below chart of long-term real growth is US GDP. Make up your own mind...
World Population
As we consider 2011 and what direction the future will take, it is useful to look at the world as a whole and remember that the world we live in today gives us very useful clues as to how the world of tomorrow will look. Population size and growth are…
Self-Driving Cars
The future can be seen in movies and todays research projects... and when it comes to transportation self-driving cars are just around the corner...
Manufacturing Productivity vs Jobs
As manufacturing productivity goes up - the number of manufacturing jobs goes down. This means that more output is being produced at lower cost. What happens to the people out of work due to increases in productivity driven by technology? They either go out of work altogether - or... up-skill…
Motivators for Generation Y and Boomer Talent
There are some very useful pointers in this video...
The Importance of Company Culture
Check out this video from ABC Nightline about Zappos.com - they are trying to revolutionize how business is done and how people work... awesome!
Would you pay Employees $2,000 to quit?
Zappos.com, which works hard to recruit people to join the company, says to its newest employees: "If you quit today, we will pay you for the amount of time you've worked, plus we will offer you a bonus." Zappos.com actually bribes its new employees to quit! The thinking is that…
Mood Tracking with twitter
Can you measure happiness? For many people happiness is subjective and not so easy to measure, however, a person's mood level is easy to detect from their choice of words and their emotional content. Alan Mislove and his colleagues at Northeastern University filtered 300 million 140 character tweets posted on…
Entrepreneur State Of Mind
Highlights of a recent Entrepreneur Survey by Siamak Taghaddos include: 52% of entrepreneurs use an iPhone 36% feel the recession hasn’t hurt their business much 28% feel 2010 is going to be the best year ever
Social App for Television
This iPhone App is cool... the interaction between social media and television.
Double Standards
You can't look the troops in the eye and say, "It's been a bad year, we can't do anything for you," but then say, "By the way, we're going to pay ourselves a $1 million bonus." H. Ross Perot (1930–), US entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and politician. Referring to his resignation…
Mobile Commerce
The Personal Computer followed by the Internet created previously unimaginable new channels for commerce. Today's new frontier is being driven by mobile phones. Consumers are using their mobile phones to surf the internet, check bank balances and to make purchases. This new channel is called m-Commerce and though the sector…
Congruence
"You can't look the troops in the eye and say, "It's been a bad year, we can't do anything for you," but then say, "By the way, we're going to pay ourselves a $1 million bonus." H. Ross Perot (1930–), US entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and politician. Referring to his resignation…