I have been on the road the last two weeks, traveling to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Singapore, Malaysia, and London. I’ve been in eight airports and slept in four hotels—a typical trip for me…something I’ve done 100’s of times. But several things made this trip “feel” different from other trips.
Emptiness
The [...]
The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]
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In a recent article in Reuter’s, Michael Dell talked about increasing growth in emerging markets by bypassing their typical phone/web direct-model and selling PC’s in retail stores (dubbed dell.com@retail).
I was talking to Dell’s Asia executives in China last year about job opportunities (this was before Michael Dell returned as CEO). I brought up the challenges [...]
Every month I am going to highlight a specific leader in the technology industry that best exemplifies the skills and qualities of a Disruptive Leader. Each will be a leader who:
Embraces challenge and adversity as a way to strengthen organizations and business fundamentals.
Uses game-changing strategies and tactics to overturn the status quo both within their [...]
This is a reposting of an article I wrote last week for NextBillion.net. NextBillion is a site that “brings together business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise.” While a few of the ideas are covered in the About section of this blog, I wanted [...]
