Think Again: Globalization, by Moisés Naím

Really good article about globalization, is it new or no, is it good or bad, is it about Americanization or no, etc.

“Einstein, Franklin, and the Role of Creativity in Today’s World”- a great talk, both funny and inspiring. If you have time to watch just one talk, better go for this one.

“Understanding The Fear Of Success”- a nice essay full with worth-to-remember quotes.

“Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love”: 14th is coming, remember? I really liked the definition of love by Robert Sternberg- that it’s made up of three components: intimacy, passion, and commitment and that one relationship could be based solely on one of them, or , for instance, instead having all three, it could mix just intimacy and passion (romantic love), and so on. It could also lack all of them…

Have a great weekend

The Art of Internet Marketing (on FORA.tv)

A nice introduction to the area of online marketing… The speaker talks a bit about most of the ways you could use internet to help you generate greater profits – through banners, video, radio, text, image ads, forums, social communities, YouTube, corporate & business blogs, etc.

It`s not so much about great ideas on how to differentiate your business from your competitors but it helps to realize (once again) how valuable could be intenet marketing for your business or to think of some new ways you could try out.

What was mentioned a couple of times was the need of refining the online campaigns you run. It`s not just to be on the internet, it`s more about finding the right way to do so, the right image, place and so on.

Here you can find some of the author`s bookmarks related to the topic.

Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Memory (article)

Improve Your Memory (online based exercises)

If you are interested what more you could do to improve your memory besides the yellow notes all around your place, books, etc., these are two interesting pages you may like.

Knowledge is power, we all know that, and our memory help us to acquire it for less time and keep it for longer. One could say that greater your memory is, more successful you will be.

Thomas Friedman: Why We Need a Green Revolution (I have bought the book “Hot, Flat and Crowded” on my trip to Brussels and I hope I`ll have some free time to read it soon…)

Александър Петров: Кризата може да се окаже по-тежка от Голямата депресия

DB Research

Top 10 Best Cities of the Future

I`ll go for Budapest, Hungary and/or Warsaw, Poland

Europe`s economic outlook (Bulgaria is doing quite ok, ah? )

The Politics of Hunger: How Illusion and Greed Fan the Food Crisis, Paul Collier (You can also listen to the article)

Промените в климата: по-бързи, по-силни, по-скоро

Доклад за глобалната конкурентоспособност 2008-2009 г.

The End of Time-Based Management?

[…] If you look at the history of using time to measure work, it’s a relatively recent concept starting around the 1930s, when assembly-line production became too complex to determine what you did or what I did. Prior to that, people were paid according to how many buttons they sewed: by task.[…]

[…] ROWE obviously has some limitations, especially in the service economy, where you need people present during certain hours. […]

[…] It definitely asks more of managers.[…]

Take a look at the comments as well as there are some good points worth to read.

( “How to measure the “unmeasurable”?”; “9-5 is an arbitrary system set-up in the Industrial Age (read Tim Ferris’s 4-hour workweek) We live in Enterprise 2.0.” , etc.)

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A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

[…]Beginning October 1st, Edge will begin to publish on a weekly basis the text, selected video highlights, and photos of the six classes comprising “A Short Course In Behavioral Economics”. Below, please find the Table of Contents; Introduction By Daniel Kahneman; Summary of Day 1 By Nathan Myhrvold; Summary of Day 2 By George Dyson; Link to the Photo Gallery; and Link to Class One.[…]

I really liked one of the quotes below this text- it says “[…]The increased concentration among banks seems to have the effect of making financial crisis less likely, but when they happen they are more global in scale and hit us very hard.[…], Nassim Taleb

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Seven Questions: Thomas Friedman’s Plan for a Hot, Flat, and Crowded World

No need of presentation or quotes, just read it : )

Value Based Management

Quite an useful site. You can also have a look at the Free Management Library.

Technology and the Global Economy

Quite an interesting conversation on the connection between technology and economic development. Talking a lot about innovation issues (why innovation is so important today, what does innovation ecology mean, what ODM stands for, Factor 4…or 10?, etc) and the “incredible excitement of change”.

I like the reflections on the world we are living in as an “age of discontinuity” instead of an age of continuity, as it was till now. (And as a result of that- is the set of assumptions & knowledge managers have is relevant in today`s world?) plus much more. It`s definetely worth listening to.