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  • Bring Jack Back (Update: Jack IS back)

    Update: just minutes after posting by blog, it was announced that Jack IS back at Twitter, now as “Executive Chairman”. Check-out the news everywhere or here at ReadWriteWeb. I am getting so inspired by the fabulous Jack Dorsey from Square. Watch this video and the full transcript on Techcrunch. Read David Kirkpatrick’s article in Vanity… Read more

  • Innotribe Mumbai: Mobile Payments–connecting the unbanked

    Innotribe at Sibos 2010 in Amsterdam was such a success that we decided to start running stand-alone Innotribe events. The first event in its kind is Innotribe Mumbai on 1-2 June 2011. It’s not an or/or story. We keep on organizing Innotribe at Sibos. At Sibos this year, we will have 3 technology inspired topics:… Read more

  • How to create deep sustainable change

    In my job, I hear many executives asking “to shake the tree”. What does that mean ? The temptation to just “Pump-up-the-volume” or let the innovation engine run “red hot” is just around the corner. “Let’s come up with a list of hundreds of initiatives and “tricks”, and we’re done.” Tick ? Don’t think so.… Read more

  • Digital Identity Tour Part-4: Austin–Munich–Toronto

    This post is a fourth in a series on personal digital identity. Part-1 “The unpolished diamond was published here in August 2010 and Part-2 ‘The Digital Identity Tuner” was published here in September 2010. Part-3 “Personal Data Something” was published here in December 2010. The journey continues. Now we move into Austin for TEDxAustin and… Read more

  • Team dynamics and the fiction of friendship

    Check out this wonderful RSA animation about Steven Pinker’s “Language as a Window into Human Nature” Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. But I looked at this animation and was triggered by how much this relates to how our economies, companies, teams, ourselves and… Read more

  • Farsight 2011 Highlights: what explosion of information really means

    Have a look at a couple of the excellent videos on this wrap-up site about Farsight2011. I could spent days and days in this space. All my favorites, including Hedge Fund Manager and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Recorded Future co-founder and CEO Chris Ahlberg, journalist entrepreneur Esther Dyson, and many more in one big long… Read more