Fareed Manjoo wrote in Slate that Tweeting a protest against a company has more success when you have more followers and are therefore perceived as having more clout. However, the number of followers is less important than who the followers…
A friend of mine, Rahul Deodhar, has just put out an excellent primer on poverty. He explains beautifully the concepts that I touched on in one of my early posts "The New Thinking on Poverty." The basic idea is that people…
Patrick Ferrell of the Miami Herald won a Pulizer Prizefor his striking pictures of the terrible floods that hit Haiti last year. However, the bigger tragedy was described in an article from the New York Times last month, “Living in…
Several years ago, USAID created a beautiful repository for all those progress reports, lessons learned reports, and technical studies that it generates: The Development Experience Clearinghouse. From its frontpage: USAID's Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) is the largest online resource for…
Seth Godin has a great post today entitled "Music vs the Music Industry." His opening paragraph is as follows: The music industry is really focused on the ‘industry’ part and not so much on the ‘music’ part. This is the…
I’ve spent 25 years managing projects overseas and occasionally at home in the United States. I was content to focus on my own work and my own successes. The January 12 earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince also changed me forever. I…
I was never very comnfortable with the ending to my previous blog entry. Yes, the crisis is serious and we need to change our habits. However, my conclusin seemed to be the result of small thinking. I'm just back from…