Archives: November 2008

Tips On How To Blog Best From An Expert

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 24

Check out this new book on blogging. David Armano of Critical Mass is one of 40 top bloggers interviewed. Armano's views on how to blog are insightful and frank. What's...

Dear President-Elect Obama, Appointing Larry Summers to The National Economic Council is Not Enough. You Need An Innovation Dream Team.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 20

Dear President-Elect Obama. It's great to see you appointing so many competent officials from the Clinton Administration, such as Lawrence Summers, but you need to go beyond competence in your...

Does Obama Really "Get" Innovation? Not Really.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 19

I've been reading the Obama Administration Plan for Innovation, Science & Technology on the barackobama.com.issues.technology site. And the site name gives it all away--the discussion about innovation is on the...

The Recession--Is There an Upside to the Downside? Facebook.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 19

Check out this Facebook page that asks the question: Turning Recession on it's Head--Is There an Upside to the Downside? I really like the idea of constraints forcing creative solutions....

Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson is the Grand Designer.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 16

Hank Paulson is taking heat from economists, Wall Street institutional investors and politicians in Congress for changing the federal government bailout policy. The stock market went down last week partly...

Ask Motorola's Design Guru Bruce Claxton Five Questions.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 12

Over at the Innovation & Design channel, Helen Walters has launched a great feature--Ask Five Questions. She tells you, the audience, that she's going to interview someone big in the...

Islamic Innovation in Dubai.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 12

On the road to the airport in Dubai, I passed a big billboard sign. It said: "Innovation Thinking Based on Islamic Values." Fascinating....

Brainstorming with 699 Minds in Dubai.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 09

It's one thing to do collaborative innovation over a digital social network but it's another to do it physically in a huge room in Dubai--which is what I did yesterday....

World Economic Forum in Dubai Day 2--The Design Manifesto.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 09

Here is the "manifesto" of our Global Agenda Council/Design group that came out of an amazing day of discussion in Dubai about the financial/economic crisis and what design thinking can...

Summit on the Global Agenda, Dubai. Day One.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 08

Drinking Gin In A Bar In Dubai.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 06

At the end of Day 1 in Dubai, the day before the Summit On The Global Agenda begins, I am dazed and delighted. Here are some superficial observations: I was...

Advice for President-Elect Obama--Design The Future, Don't Repeat The Past.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 06

In looking at the people President-elect Obama is choosing for his transition team and the names of those proposed for the new administration, I find familiarity, not surprise. They are...

The Internet As A Right--At The World Economic Forum In Dubai.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 06

I had breakfast this morning in Dubai with John Rossant, a wonderful friend and now head of Publicis' event operation. John is putting on the World Economic Forum's Summit on...

Designing America After The Election.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 04

I'm a few hours away from flying to Dubai for a World Economic Forum meet-fest on designing the world post-crisis. Brian Collins is in my Design GAC--Global Agenda Council-- and...

McCain and Obama: Voting In New York.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 04

Just finished voting in New York City. Got there at 8AM, finished at around 9AM. It was the longest line I can remember, with everyone on it very jazzed. Of...

Clorox Profits Rise, Helped by Burt's Bees and Green Works Brand.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 03

OK, here's the future. In this time of recession, with consumer spending plummeting and corporate profits disappearing, Clorox, the bleach maker, is making money by going green. It is selling...

Obama Vs. McCain in The Most Transformative Election in Recent History.

Posted by: Bruce Nussbaum on November 03

Whoever wins on Tuesday, November 4, this election will turn out to be one of the most transformative events of our lives. The role of social media in the electoral...