The idea of personal branding is relatively new. The first mention of the concept online was in 1997 when Tom Peters wrote an article for Fast Company on The Brand Called You. However, in the last decade the importance of personal branding has grown astronomically as new social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress [...]
While many developed countries have been bailing out their banking sectors and trying to revive their struggling industrial economies, Chile has been quietly positioning itself as a new hub of entrepreneurship and innovation. With some of the lowest business and income taxes in the developed world and a debt-to-GDP ratio of 3.9% (the United States [...]
Give and you shall receive. We all know this common sense but in action it is so easy to give very little and take so much. Social Business Design is about creating a business model that is involved in your community and engaging your customers directly by listening to them, understanding their needs and finding [...]
Everyone knows those inspirational posters that you see in doctor’s offices, schools and libraries that encourage you to be curious, challenge yourself and read more. Well, San Francisco-based teacher Peter Castro has taken them to the next level as a tool to question our assumptions about what constitutes education. Remarkably, studies are now revealing that [...]
If you want to stay ahead of the curve, then you need to understand the trends that are shaping our future. The most important trends center around how technological innovation is transforming the way we live, work and communicate. People tend to form their plans for the future based on the recent past. The problem [...]
