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Gerry Hudson's Key Note Address at MIT's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Celebration

Gerry Hudson, Chairman of the Board of Emerald Cities & International Exec. VP of SEIU address MIT audience during The 36th Annual  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. (more)

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World Labor Force Growing at Divergent Rates

“The potential labor force has nearly tripled since 1950, when it was 1.5 billion, and people of working age now account for 65 percent of the world’s total population—the highest ratio since 1950”

Vital Signs, World Watch Institute, 2009

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Global Employment Trends

“In many developing countries well over half of the workforce is employed in conditions that fall short of decent work”

 
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Global Chronic Hunger Rises Above 1 Billion

“In 2009, an estimated 1.02 billion people were classified as undernourished, 12 percent more than in 2008. This means nearly one in six people on Earth suffers from undernourishment.”

Vital Signs, World Watch Institute (2010)
 
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BIG Pilot Project from Namibia

 The Basic Income Grant campaign, which aims at achieving the introduction of a Basic Income Grant in Namibia, is to date the biggest civil society project united in fighting poverty. (more)

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Improving the technology of human accomplishment - Online competition till June 30th 2010

“A portal recently launched with support from McKinsey, Dell, HCL and London Business School has a competition seeking the ideas and approaches which will re-invent Management - http://www.managementexchange.com (MIX)”

Compete for the world's first Management Innovation Prize:

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Why no SWOT analysis?

“It is too satisfying to dwell on positives; but painful to be aware of threats and weaknesses.”

I see promoters of good causes so enamoured of the strengths and opportunities of their projects that they get irritated when threats and weaknesses are pointed out.
 
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Freefall by Joseph Stiglitz

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Obama administration's misguided economic policies (link). (more)

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Supreme Court and "The Corporation" - a long history

“The Corporation, a Canadian documentary film, though issued first in 2003, is brandnew today by the 'virtue' of Supreme Court. It is time again to ... (more)”

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Seven Acupuncture Points for Shifting to Capitalism 3.0

discussion paper on capitalism 3.0, June 2009, revised Sept 2009
by otto scharmer

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