"Business @ the Speed of Thought Business @ the Speed of Thought is a book written by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and explains how digital infrastructures and information networks can help someone get an edge on the competition. Gates asserts cyberspace and industry can no longer be separate entities, and that businesses must change to succeed in the Information Age. Though the book is not a technology handbook it gives insights on how to integrate business process with technology. It explains how advances in networking and information technology can"
"seeking to raise business practices from short-term win-lose dynamics to fulfilling longer-term business aims. The foundation draws inspiration from the dictum: Adam Smith advocated that a business should advance the prosperity and well-being of the communities where it was active. Subsequently, Smith's invisible hand has been used to defend laissez-faire economics that stand in contrast to the actual business philosophy he promoted in his seminal works ""The Wealth of Nations"" and ""Theory of Moral Sentiments"". The award committee of the Business for Peace Foundation selects Honourees who each have demonstrated that it is possible for a business to enter into"
"served as a member of the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute. Rinearson co-wrote ""The Road Ahead"" with Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold. It was Gates' first book and spent seven weeks at the top of ""The New York Times"" best-seller list. Previously in the 1980s, Rinearson had written how-to books on using Microsoft Word in MS-DOS for Microsoft Press. Of one of these, New York Times reviewer Erik Sandberg-Diment wrote: ""Word owners should not be without Rinearson's book, even if they read no more than a tenth of it."" According to Rinearson's official bio at his company, he"
"the entire summer on vacation during his years in office, famously said ""The business of the American people is business."" When Coolidge declined to run again in the 1928 election, the Republican Party nominated engineer and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who was elected by a wide margin over Al Smith, the first Catholic nominee. Hoover was a technocrat who had low regard for politicians. Instead he was a believer in the efficacy of individualism and business enterprise, with a little coordination by the government, to cure all problems. He envisioned a future of unbounded plenty and the imminent end"
"and in his community. Charles Sheldon Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857, Wellsville, New York – February 24, 1946, Topeka, Kansas) was an American Congregationalist minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, ""In His Steps,"" introduced the principle of ""What Would Jesus Do?"" which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th Century and had a revival almost one hundred years later. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas between US-75 and K-4 is named the ""Charles Sheldon Trafficway"" in his honour. Sheldon was a graduate"
"pace as faculty, such as Michael Porter (Harvard ) and C. K. Prahalad (University of Michigan), published academic papers that changed the way people thought and acted within companies. Prahalad is most notably remembered for developing the concepts of “core competencies” and “strategic intent”. These and other respected academic business thinkers — Don Hambrick, Ram Charan, David Ulrich, Michael Hammer, Gary Hamel and many others — are the true pioneers of executive education and the ongoing effort to facilitate wealth creation and other new concepts aimed at making stronger businesses while improving the welfare of the world. Throughout the 1970s"
"Tools for Thought Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of ""retrospective futurism"" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. The book covers the groundbreaking work of thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and J.C.R. Licklider, as well as Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, and Microsoft (when Microsoft was ""aiming for the hundred-million-dollar category""). Rheingold wrote that the impetus behind ""Tools for Thought"" was to understand where ""mind-amplifying technology"" was going by understanding"
"control. Resources can be raw materials, such as a gold mine or oil well, or intellectual, such as patents, and even trademarks and brands (such as the valuation of the Coca-Cola brand). Edith Penrose Edith Elura Tilton Penrose (November 15, 1914 – October 11, 1996) was an American-born British economist whose best known work is ""The Theory of the Growth of the Firm"", which describes the ways which firms grow and how fast they do. Writing in ""The Independent"", the economist Sir Alec Cairncross stated that the book brought Dr. Penrose ""instant recognition as a creative thinker, and its importance"
"Charles Sheldon Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857, Wellsville, New York – February 24, 1946, Topeka, Kansas) was an American Congregationalist minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, ""In His Steps,"" introduced the principle of ""What Would Jesus Do?"" which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th Century and had a revival almost one hundred years later. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas between US-75 and K-4 is named the ""Charles Sheldon Trafficway"" in his honour. Sheldon was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover"
"Western world, economics was not a separate discipline, but part of philosophy until the 18th–19th century Industrial Revolution and the 19th century Great Divergence, which accelerated economic growth. Hesiod active 750 to 650 BC, a Boeotian who wrote the earliest known work concerning the basic origins of economic thought, contemporary with Homer. Fan Li (also known as Tao Zhu Gong) (born 517 BC), an adviser to King Goujian of Yue, wrote on economic issues and developed a set of ""golden"" business rules. Chanakya (born 350 BC) wrote the ""Arthashastra"", a treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy. Ancient Athens,"
"in businesses and organizations around the world. Our purpose is to illuminate the complex choices that leaders face—in strategy, marketing, operations, human capital, governance, and other domains—and the impact of their decisions.” The late Joel Kurtzman, formerly editor-in-chief of the ""Harvard Business Review"" and a business editor and columnist at the ""New York Times""—together with a group of partners at Booz & Company, then part of Booz Allen Hamilton—founded ""strategy+business"" in 1995. A collection of Kurtzman’s Thought Leader columns was published in book form, ""Thought Leaders: Insights on the Future of Business"" (Jossey-Bass, 1997). Kurtzman served as editor-in-chief between 1995"
"front-page story in the ""Boston Sunday Post"" declared Winsor “perhaps the greatest” of a group of same-aged business and political leaders (many of them classmates in the Harvard class of 1880), including Theodore Roosevelt, Josiah Quincy, Richard Saltonstall, Robert Bacon, and William A. Gaston, who had been responsible for building the country’s banking, telephone, and transportation industries: “Winsor had the insight that saw the transportation needs of the last four decades. He saw the needs of and the demand for illuminating and heating gas. He saw the demand for communication... He grasped their importance and he...found the men to develop"
"mind, clear sighted, cautious, perhaps at bottom pessimistic in areas where thinkers we would label 'progressive' felt less difficulty in taking a stand; never content to select only one or two elements in a complicated equation in order to build a quick-order policy or program; far ranging enough in intellect to take in the whole sum of the factors, and comprehend their often contradictory effects. In the 1940s, Harold Innis reached the height of his influence in both academic circles and Canadian society. In 1941, he helped establish the American-based Economic History Association and its ""Journal of Economic History"". He"
"Steel. Gladden (1836–1918) was an American clergyman. His words and actions earned him the title of ""a pioneer"" of the Social Gospel even before the term came into use. Gladden spoke up for workers and their right to organize unions. For Gladden, the ""Christian law covers every relation of life"" including the relationship between employers and their employees. His 1877 book ""The Christian Way: Whither It Leads and How to Go On"" was his first national call for such a universal application of Christian values in everyday life. The book began his leadership in the Social Gospel movement. Historians consider"
"human capability, not simply the increase in national income per capita, and thus requires policies attuned to health and education, not simply GDP. James Tobin's (winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics) proposal for a tax on financial transactions (called, after him, the Tobin tax) has become part of the agenda of the movement. Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz (another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems. Korten and Stiglitz's"
"cure the nation's ills, and especially against the idea that zero net economic growth might be a means to save society and protect the environment."" Perhaps the most accurate prediction was made by Roy Ash, co-founder and president of Litton Industries, during a spirited discussion with Peter G. Peterson, Robert Roosa and Roberto Campos. He proclaimed, ""state capitalism may well be a form for world business in the world ahead; that the western countries are trending toward a more unified and controlled economy, having a greater effect on all business; and that the communist nations are moving more and more"
"organizational levels, and furthermore that this is desirable. Thus if both views are recognized there are two major types of process through which strategy may be formed: deliberate, and emergent. There has been vigorous debate concerning the extent to which each of these strategy formation processes is usual or appropriate. Kenneth R. Andrews Kenneth Richmond Andrews (May 24, 1916 – September 4, 2005), was an American academic who, along with H. Igor Ansoff and Alfred D. Chandler, was credited with the foundational role in introducing and popularizing the concept of business strategy. Andrews graduated from Wesleyan University in 1937 with"
"speed and the decelerating standards in two of the finest news organizations in the nation, Los Angeles Times and CNN. Their book is a very provocative read."" Tom Johnson ""In No Time to Think, Howard Rosenberg and Charles Feldman take a refreshing pause to contemplate today's superheated media environment and the implications of 'Shoot first, think later' news. The book deftly captures this relatively new dynamic and its depressing implications for journalism and democracy -- and should be required reading for anyone who cares about either. Breezily written, it's a sobering reminder of the often-overlooked price tag associated with headlong"
"be predicted by extending current trajectories."" The following trends are covered in the book: The Industries of the Future The Industries of the Future is a 2016 non-fiction book written by Alec Ross, an American technology policy expert and the former Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her time as Secretary of State. Ross is also a senior fellow at Columbia University, a former night-shift janitor, and a Baltimore teacher. Ross launched a campaign for the Governor of Maryland in 2017. The book explores the forces that will change the world in robotics, genetics, digital"
"a period of prosperity. Good times were widespread for all sectors (except agriculture and coal mining). New industries (especially electric power, movies, automobiles, gasoline, tourist travel, highway construction, and housing) flourished. ""The business of America is business,"" proclaimed President Coolidge. Entrepreneurship flourished and was widely hailed. Business interests had captured control of the regulatory agencies established before 1915 and used progressive rhetoric, emphasizing technological efficiency and prosperity as the keys to social improvement. William Allen White, a leading progressive spokesman, supported GOP candidate Herbert Hoover in 1928 as one who could ""spiritualize"" business prosperity and make it serve progressive ends."
"where it came from. Tools for Thought Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology is a work of ""retrospective futurism"" in which Smart Mobs author Howard Rheingold looked at the history of computing and then attempted to predict what the networked world might look like in the mid-1990s. The book covers the groundbreaking work of thinkers like Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and J.C.R. Licklider, as well as Xerox PARC, Apple Computer, and Microsoft (when Microsoft was ""aiming for the hundred-million-dollar category""). Rheingold wrote that the impetus behind ""Tools for Thought"" was to understand where ""mind-amplifying technology"""
"Thinking Strategically Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life is a non-fiction book by Indian-American economist Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, a professor of economics and management at Yale School of Management. The text was initially published by W. W. Norton & Company on February 1, 1991. The book discusses issues of strategic behaviour, decision making, and game theory. The authors present the main concepts, such as backward induction, auction theory, Nash equilibrium, noncooperative bargaining, to a general audience. Each concept is illustrated by examples from common life, business, sports, politics, etc.—as applying game theory to"
"candidate in 1976 on the Libertarian Party ticket; Anthony Hargis, author and business entrepreneur; John Pugsley, investment advisor and author of best-seller ""Common Sense Economics""; Linda Abrams, constitutional attorney and member of the Rampart Institute board; Prof. Bob McGinley, alternative lifestyles psychologist; Sandy Shakocius (a.k.a. Sandy Shaw), life-extensionist and biochemist; Shawn Steel, a founder of the Future of Freedom Conference Series; Carl Nicolai, electronics designer and inventor; Kenneth Grubbs, Jr., editorial editor of ""The Register"" in Orange County, and Janice Allen, Libertarian Party activist, emceed the event. The Saturday banquet paid tribute to libertarian pacifist, author, TV/radio broadcaster, and founder"
"rapid speed. In 1956, Ford Foundation funded Licklider to analyze how libraries could be improved with technology. Almost a decade later, his book entitled """"Libraries of the Future"""" included his vision. He wanted to create a system that would use computers and networks so human knowledge would be accessible for human needs and feedback would be automatic for machine purposes. This system contained three components, the corpus of knowledge, the question, and the answer. Licklider called it a procognitive system. Early projects centered on the creation of an electronic card catalogue known as Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). By the"
"including Adam Smith, Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Henry Richard, Herbert Spencer, H. R. Fox Bourne, Edward Morel, Josephine Butler, W. J. Fox and William Ewart Gladstone. Their philosophies found the colonial enterprise, particularly mercantilism, in opposition to the principles of free trade and liberal policies. Adam Smith wrote in ""The Wealth of Nations"" that Britain should grant independence to all of its colonies and also argued that it would be economically beneficial for British people in the average, although the merchants having mercantilist privileges would lose out. During the colonial era, the global process of colonization served to"
"was blunt and simple, just as most works of genius are simple, sell more for less."" ""The Columbus Georgia Ledger"" wrote ""What Ford meant to transportation, what Edison meant to electricity, what Burbank meant to Horticulture, John Hartford meant to Food Retailing in America."" The ""Davenport Daily Times"" wrote ""In the death of Mr. John there passes a Retail Napoleon. He had a Grocery Empire as Ford had a Automobile Empire, Rockefeller an Oil Empire, Carnegie a Steel Empire. We shall not see their like again."" John Augustine Hartford John Augustine Hartford (February 10, 1872 – September 20, 1951) was"
"highlighted his endorsement of living wage laws and opposition to free trade agreements such as NAFTA; he mostly concentrated on his tax policy, which had been created specifically for him by Arthur Laffer, the famous supporter of supply-side economics who created the Laffer curve. This plan, which called for the replacement of the progressive income tax with a flat tax and a value added tax, both at a fixed 13-percent rate, was decried by his opponents as regressive. Nevertheless, it was endorsed by ""The New York Times"", ""The New Republic"", and ""Forbes"", and its raising of taxes on corporations and"
"work and entrepreneurship characterized the region, as the Puritans and Yankees endorsed the ""Protestant Ethic"", which enjoined men to work hard as part of their divine calling. The federal government under President George Washington and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton strongly promoted business enterprise in the 1790s. He had a vision of an industrial nation, based on the strength of urban America. Washington himself was business-oriented, and was involved in numerous projects to develop transportation and access to Western lands. Organized banking began on a small scale after the American Revolution, with a few private banks in Boston and New York,"
"Brooks Adams Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871. Adams believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles. In ""The Law of Civilization and Decay"" (1895), Adams"
"stripped. What historians have identified as ""business progressivism"", with its emphasis on efficiency and typified by Henry Ford and Herbert Hoover reached an apogee in the 1920s. Wik, for example, argues that Ford's ""views on technology and the mechanization of rural America were generally enlightened, progressive, and often far ahead of his times."" Tindall stresses the continuing importance of the Progressive movement in the South in the 1920s involving increased democracy, efficient government, corporate regulation, social justice, and governmental public service. William Link finds political Progressivism dominant in most of the South in the 1920s. Likewise it was influential in"
"progressive thought in metaphysics and the field of human potential, and is often quoted with references to his work appearing across a wide swath of international cultural, business, and educational forums from the Kennedy Center for the Arts', interviews with American hip-hop artists and slam poets, international investment conferences, and the pages of international media such as CNET's ""Top 10 List: Human Development Gurus"" and ""The Times of India""'s ""Sunday Life"" section. On 1 May 2013, Wilde suffered a heart attack while driving through Ireland. He was 66 years old. Wilde's principal philosophy states that, while many citizens may seem"
"political disruptions. Harvard University Professor Larry Summers says ""this book is the best guide yet to come out"" and Steve Case, the chairman and CEO of Revolution writes ""West explores how emerging technologies will change the way we live. He provides interesting insights on how to think about the future of AI, robotics and the Internet of Things."" Northwestern University Professor Ben Page warns ""Humans, plan ahead!"", while MIT Professor Andrew McAfee says ""if you want a concise, clear-eyed, evidence-based, and up-to-the-minute overview of the future of work, this is the book for you."" Recently, he was honored by ""Public"
"thinking. Similarly, Kirkpatrick Sale, wrote about progress as a myth benefiting the few, and a pending environmental doomsday for everyone. An example is the philosophy of Deep Ecology. Sociologist Robert Nisbet said that ""No single idea has been more important than ... the Idea of Progress in Western civilization for three thousand years"", and defines five ""crucial premises"" of the idea of progress: Sociologist P. A. Sorokin said, ""The ancient Chinese, Babylonian, Hindu, Greek, Roman, and most of the medieval thinkers supporting theories of rhythmical, cyclical or trendless movements of social processes were much nearer to reality than the present"