Gil Friend’s Blog
The blogging gap
... is a consequence of my travel schedule &c -- seems like I've been on the road much of the last 7 weeks. Back home and in the office now for the next few weeks before the speaking schedule cranks up again. BTW, you can also see some short clips of what I've been...
Happy birthday – to us!
Natural Logic is seven years old today! It's been a sometimes challenging road, but just look at where the world has moved to in that short time Thank you for your part in our part in making that happen.
Strategic Supply Chain Partnerships
I'm presernting a seminar discussion (in two minutes!) with Bainbridge Graduate Institute about Strategic Supply Chain Partnerships (see recent article in Corporate Responsibility Management)
Lester Brown and Lou Dobbs: China
This from Earth Policy Institute:Tune in to the Lou Dobbs Show tonight to see Lester Brown and Lou Dobbs talking about the visit of President Hu Jintao to Washington and the effect that China's growing consumption could have on the world. (The Lou Dobbs Show airs on...
Climate: A Crisis Averted
This just in, from Joel Makower and Stonyfield Farms: I'm very pleased to announce the launch of a 4-minute flash movie on climate change that I produced over the past year in partnership with Stonyfield Farm and two nonprofits, Earth Day Network and Clean Air-Cool...
Quote of the day
First bit of catch up. (Meant to post this 3/26!) Worldchanging reported on Bruce Sterling's speech at South by Southwest (SxSW), which you can listen to here: The challenge, Bruce says, is that the worst people in the world -- genocidal ethnic mafiosos,...
Time flies when you’re flying fast
I didn't intend this long a gap between postings (but then I never do). But since my last post I've been in Portland, London, Oxford, Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft and Paris -- giving speeches, working with clients, cranking out major deliverables and proposals... and...
Quote of the day
'We must do what we conceive to be the right thing and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we will be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we will be doing the wrong thing and we will just be a part of the disease and not a part of the...
Innovation isn’t…
Michael Schrage, speaking at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance conference (10th anniversary - happy birthday!) in Portland Thursday night (I'll be giving the luncheon keynote Friday), offered this important reminder: Innovation isn't what...