If you haven’t read Outliers, or Malcom Gladwell’s previous books The Tipping Point and Blink, you are missing out on some of the most insightful, entertaining, and mind-opening dissections of human behavior. In Outliers, Gladwell explains what makes a person extraordinarily successful.
Here is the Cliffs Note version:
You need a minimum level of smarts, but not [...]
The year started with the Mother of All Disruptions as the world teetered toward economic and financial collapse. The technology industry withered in general due to lack of demand. Intel, for example, reported its first loss in 21 years in the second quarter. As we head in to 2010, things seem to be on the [...]
Over the last five years, the public and private sectors have introduced a plethora of initiatives aimed at bridging the digital divide and bringing computers to underserved markets.
Intel launched the World Ahead program in 2006, a sweeping initiative to encompass all activities Intel was driving to bridge the digital divide. Microsoft launched Unlimited Potential in [...]
I guarantee that everybody reading this blog takes for granted the wealth of information at their fingertips. Looking for something? Google it.
But for the billions of people in the developing world that don’t even have a mobile phone, what do they do?
Last year at SoCAP ‘08 I met a young woman with an intriguing social [...]
Wired recently hosted a conference called “Disruptive by Design,” the first conference that I know of focused mostly on disruptive business models. In talking about Disruptive Leadership, I have often emphasize that a disruptive business model must accompany the disruptive innovation, especially when addressing the bottom of the pyramid. CK Pralahad talks in detail about [...]
