Bill Gates meets Steve Jobs-The Meet of the Titans

In their rare joint appearance at All Things Digital 5, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss their contributions to the technology industry, the qualities they most respect in one another. Check out this inspiring video which speaks so much more than the participants do. Watch the videos in sequence to watch the complete interview.

James McCarthy decribes effective strategic planning

Strategic planning is a firm’s internal process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.  Check out how senior consultant James McCarthy describes effective strategic planning.

Excellent lecture on social intelligence and leadership

This video is an interview with Daniel Goleman, outstanding psychologist, Harvard Business Publishing. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance. How social and emotional intelligence vary with degrees of success amongst leaders.

Joseph Stiglitz speaks on the problems with GDP as an Economic Barometer

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz (“Globalization and Its Discontents”) talks about why GDP is not always suitable for use as a measurement for economic well being. Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He was awarded the [Click to read more..]

Philip Kotler on marketing in times of economic downturn

During economic turbulence, it is important for a company to view it as both an opportunity and a danger. Sometimes it is a bad idea to cut costs across the board. Marketing prodigy Kotler advices to stop cutting the budget that creates sales and gives tips on how to measure the marketing spend with non-direct [Click to read more..]