I love big ideas, remarkable ideas, ideas that can change the world.
In this post, I share a short list of big ideas that I’d like to research and perhaps pursue this year in partnership with like-minded individuals and organizations. (Is this Consulting 2.0?) These aren’t problems I’ll solve in 2007 (or even a lifetime), but are fascinating puzzles worth pursuing right now in theory and in practice. These are the big ideas worth watching, with big implications.
What’s on your list?
Technorati Tags: economics+abundance, consulting+2.0, opensource, open+source+economics, emergence, creativity
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Ok, I’m officially on the ropes. Somebody wake me up in 2007. It’s been a busy business and social season. Between conferences, workshops, biz-socials, lunch meetings, coffee meetings, dinner meetings, friends visiting from out of town and many friends having holiday socials, it has been a whirlwind. It’s a good thing I’m otherwise on the beach, in consultant-speak. (And of course, studies now report that social drinking has positive effects on one’s earnings!)
I’m going to have to detox for a while, and I’m looking forward to getting caught up on my research reading list over the holidays, which has been growing rapidly. I will be offline between the 22nd and the 26th, which will certainly try my patience but will probably be good for me. Unplug this season. Happy holidays!
Andrew Coyne’s recent column, “Canada’s Culture of Begging” got me riled up this morning. Coyne argues that Mayor David Miller’s claim to a 1% portion of federal and provincial sales taxes collected in Toronto shows a lack of leadership on Miller’s part and is symptomatic of a wider culture of begging that plagues our fair land. What really set me off was the sycophantic cheering section among his commenters.
I say bollocks, because bollocks seems more polite than bullshit. I share my comment to Coyne’s blog here, and encourage you to leave your thoughts on Coyne’s blog.
Technorati Tags: Canada, cities, Ontario, politics, andrewcoyne, Toronto
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Late in coming, I thought I would blog my impressions from the Global Connect conference at MaRS last week. My quick take-aways:
- IP transfer is broken, especially in Canada
- VC is broken, sort of. maybe. especially in Canada. I guess.
- Paul Kedrosky rocks and should live in Toronto, damn it
- Ross Wallace and Ilse Treurnicht of MaRS did a fantastic job
- The innovation race is just beginning
- The blogging wonkosphere is lonelier than I thought
More after the jump…
Technorati Tags: commercialization, Innovation, Toronto, ICTToronto, NAO, VC, MARS, intellectualproperty, globalconnect
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