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"The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan. "
That quote comes from an intriguing opinion piece called Generation Sell that was published in the New York Times this weekend. It is a piece about a generation just coming of age and today's youth culture.
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Chaos and uncertainty are all around us. The economy is struggling, some have been out of work for years, and entrepreneurs are having a more and more difficult time creating success. Yet despite those things, there are organizations that are extremely successful.
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If there were a man who could boldly claim to have written a book that can help solve “Life’s Most Difficult Problems,” it would be Stephen R. Covey. Covey came onto the scene after writing The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People in 1989.
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This new book, The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution, by new media expert Brian Solis, is another firm reminder to companies that understanding social media will help them better understand their customers. In 2010, Nielsen research determined that 22. 7 percent of people were using social networks, up 43 percent over the previous year.
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Congratulations are in order for Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, authors of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (and their publishers PublicAffairs), for winning this year's Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Both professors of economics at MIT, the authors based the book on their more than fifteen years of careful research and analysis of the economics of poverty—and their attempt to find solutions to it.
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