Good jobs — in bulk — don’t come from government. They come from risk-takers starting businesses — businesses that make people’s lives healthier, more productive, more comfortable or more entertained, with services and products that can be sold around the world. You can’t be for jobs and against business.
- Thomas L Friedman
www.thomaslfriedman.com
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html
Spot on.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Orange Prize 2010
Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction with her sixth novel The Lacuna. Congratulations. www.kingsolver.com + www.orangeprize.co.uk
Lilith Festival 2010
Meet the new music festival/founders/eco-conscious entrepreneurs and their viewpoints. www.lilithfair.com + www.i4ccampaign.com
World Innovation Forum 2010
Andreas Weigend viewpoint. Web 1.0 (getting business online = ebusiness) = Web 2.0 (customer focus=mebusiness) = Web 3.0. Check it out. www.weigend.com
Art Market Update
George/Mary Bloch’s snuff bottles collection. Chinese snuff bottles, from the mid-18th century on, tend to be made from precious materials, such as jade, ivory, lacquer, porcelain, bronze, silver, enamel, jet, rock crystal and rhinoceros horn. Air-tight with little ivory spoons, they became common among the Chinese because Western-style snuff boxes, so fashionable in England and France from the late 17th century on, proved unsuitable for the warm, muggy climate of the East. They were often given as gifts, some with symbolic meaning—homonyms in praise of fertility or children, for example—and much care went into their craftsmanship. Like Japanese netsuke, snuff bottles were designed as hand-held treasures. Cherish stone as if it were gold is a common declaration among collectors who prize interesting stones. So true.
Useful link:
www.bonhams.com
Useful link:
www.bonhams.com
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Kabuki
Take a look at one of Japan's most exquisite art forms. www.shochiku.co.jp + www.sadlerswells.com
Open Innovation
Open innovation initiatives. Stefan Lindegaard was spot on. Many thanks. www.15inno.com
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