9 Innovators Transforming Financial Services

What I have discovered over the past few months is that while my big-bank friends sit back complaining about a lack of innovation in financial services—“everything is regulated,” “competitors copy too fast”—a new generation of outthinkers is busy dismantling nearly every dimension of the sector and introducing a new order of things. Position Position is […]

To succeed in business, outthink the competition.

How do today’s most successful companies stay on top? Chances are, they outthink the competition, coming up with strategies that leave business rivals in the dust, said Kaihan Krippendorff, a FastCompany.com blogger, founding Fellow of the Center for Leadership and an adjunct professor at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business Administration. On February 3rd, […]

Change the world with “Old School” social networking

The Milken Institute published a paper earlier this year (http://www.mikemilken.com/Sputnik-2Q11MIR.pdf) that points to some fundamental problems with our healthcare system. Our system has devolved into providing care (it is a healthCARE system) rather than finding cures. It is reactive rather than proactive, focusing on addressing the sick rather than preventing sickness from happening. Consider obesity. […]