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The theme at Davos this year was "The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models." One of the models up for discussion was leadership. Panels with titles like "Leading Under Pressure" and "New Leadership Models from China" abounded. While speaking at a private dinner hosted by PwC on the topic of leadership and val...
The record-breaking Facebook IPO proves a number of things. But one thing it won't prove is that investors who buy now will get wealthy.
Facebook's success confirms these ideas:
The value of networks. Networks become more valuable as the number of users increases. As the largest undifferentiated network that anyone can join, Facebook's value comes from the fact that anyone can join. As numbers climbed into the millions and now close to a billion users, Facebook becomes mandatory, not optional, for those who wish to reach their friends or their potential cust...
The reality of web marketing is that almost all of it happens on platforms that are owned by others. Platform owners, such as Facebook or Google, have provided environments where some things are easy to do, some things are much harder to do, and some things simply can't be done. Even tougher for marketers is that these systems are constantly changing as the platforms evolve and grow. The best way to keep attention and stay up to date is to appeal to the philosophy of each platform's users.
As a Davos novice, I was fascinated to observe how entrepreneurship was reflected in the dialog among the world's movers and shakers at the World Economic Forum. The term "entrepreneurship" has achieved cult status in policy speeches, yet I was disappointed at our leaders' superficiality and wrongheadedness, as well as the topic's de facto low priority here. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Though the Forum has been working diligently in recent years to address the issue with sessions such as "...
The softly drifting snowflakes that greeted me every morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year were an inadequate warm-up for the cold blast of reality I felt in session after session during this five day Congress on the "state of the world."
As I participated, one theme seemed omnipresent — that while events are unfolding in the world at an accelerating pace, increasingly complex institutions are less and less able to deal with them.
