The Next Billion Internet Users

The Internet reflects human society, as Schmidt observes in his keynote address at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's launch of a New Vision for global think tanks http://www.ceip.org. As more people access the Internet they will be exposed to more of the world than they know now. Will the next Billion Users create more hate groups or more saints ? Will people be gaining more freedom than they can handle; and is free choice more choice than people want ? These questions are posed by the Google CEO and are fundamental to the important value of a neutral Internet. The implications to humanity for neutrality of the Internet are profound as Dr. Schmidt's questions point out. However, the disparities between those nation's and people who enjoy freedom and those who do not are so great as to make the potential of an open Internet more difficult to achieve and more important to reflect upon.

Socialnomics - A Business Revolution

Social media is not a fad, its a new way of interaction that is diminishing traditional media. By next year, generation Y will outpopulate the Baby Boomer generation and 96% of Y's are involved in social networks. If Facebook were a country it would be 4th largest in the world. 80% of companies are now using Linkedin to find employees and the fastest growing segement on Facebook are 55-65 year old females. 80% of tweets are made via mobile devices and therefore word of mouth has become world of mouth with only 14% trusting advertisements as a source of reliable information; afterall there are better sources via new technologies. Find out more in this incredible video on socialnomics.

Read Competing for the Future & Create Value

With Competing for the Future, managers have seen how they can reshape their industries. Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for what YOU must be doing today to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. The key to future industry leadership is to develop an INDEPENDENT point of view about tomorrow's opportunities and build capabilities that exploit them. Authors Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic-and successful. Watch Prahalad's talk on Build a Bear and Pace makers as examples of creating value in the "experience" economy. Can we transform our businesses and industries ? We must because there are new fundamental dynamics around creating value that demand rethinking what we believe and how we do things.

Eric Schmidt On Transparency & Open Immigration

Google's head, Eric Schmidt, recently shared his views on a series of topics at the Aspen Ideas Festival. He addressed how "old" institutions are inefficient and in particular governments. His solution is transparency because as he puts it, "many bureaucrats know what they are doing is not effective". Schmidt goes on to question why the US attracts foreign students and then kicks them out, a significant impediment to retaining the brightest minds from around the world. Finally, Eric touts the excitement that instant translations tools and photo identification being created by Google will offer. Check out this brief 6 minute interview to learn more.

Game Theory and Non Zero Solutions

Game theory is applied mathematics enabling an evaluation of strategic decisions.  Win loose or Win Win: its a choice based on our beliefs and the  perceived nature of our relationships.  As the networks of interdependence within and beyond communities and nations get more complex, the more enlightened people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum solutions. That is, win-win solutions instead of win-lose solutions. In leadership the measure of success is not so much whether you won at anothers expense, but whether you got what you wanted because you enabled other people to achieve their dreams and to do what they want. Learn more about how the Non Zero solution is key to traversing enormous revolutionary change. If your relationships are not based on Non Zero sums they cannot be productive long term in this day and age. Watch Clinton's brief talk about this reality in todays world.