Surviving a Recession — And a Wildfire - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org

Thick bark and deep roots represents the engagement of your staff in the purpose of your company. They should know your company's North Star goals, believe in the work they come in to do every day, and understand the changing landscape. When the fire comes they'll be ready to react and represent your best interests rather than polishing up their resumes

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The Generation M Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday's way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government. Who's Gen M? Obama, kind of. Larry and Sergey. The Threadless, Etsy, and Flickr guys. Ev, Biz and the Twitter crew. Tehran 2.0. The folks at Kiva, Talking Points Memo, and FindtheFarmer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Jeff Sachs are like the grandpas of Gen M. There are tons where these innovators came from.

Gen M Manifesto! Read it now!

Ready for the RealTime Web?

Twitter to Facebook have already embraced the stream, but they are only the beginning.  An whole new ecosystem of real time stream platforms and apps is emerging before our eyes.

The curation of this little known conference says it all. Web2.0 is an era behind us and the RealTime Web it is. Of course we can count on none other than TechCrunch to put together an agenda like this of the Who's Who in the business. Of which the awareness of this trend will slowly but surely seep into the consciousness of marketers minds.