Author: Lloyd Morgan
-
Top Intellectuals: A Round-Up
The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, Thinkers 50, and Accenture’s Top 50 Business Intellectuals. Only one person has appeared on all three lists: Kenichi Ohmae. Twenty-four people (including Ohmae) appear on two of the lists. These people are: Bill Gates C. K. Prahalad Charles Handy Chris Argyris Clayton Christensen Edward De Bono Gary Hamel Henry Mintzberg…
-
Thinkers 50 – More Influential Thinkers
Thinkers 50 is a biennial poll to find the 50 most influential business and management thinkers in the world. The following factors are used to rank the short-list: Originality of Ideas Practicality of Ideas Presentation Style Written Communication Loyalty of Followers Business Sense International Outlook Rigour of Research Impact of Ideas Guru Factor Since its…
-
World’s Best Presentation Contest
In 2007 it was Shift Happens, closely followed by Meet Henry and The Sustainable Food Lab. What will win The World’s Best Presentation Contest of 2008?
-
Chinese Dietary ‘Secrets’
As The Independent points out, Chinese food has a bad reputation in the UK. But understood and prepared properly, it is healthy, fulfilling, and one of my favourite types of cuisine. These Chinese dietary ‘secrets’ have rejuvenated my fervour for Eastern cooking. Stop counting calories Think of vegetables as dishes Fill up on staple foods…
-
Top 50 Business Intellectuals
A list of the top 50 business intellectuals, as compiled by Accenture in 2002. Initially a list of 300, the top 50 were found using the following rankings: Google hits The LexisNexis media databases to 1997 Citations found in the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index to 1997 The top 5: Michael E.…
-
The World is Flat – Audiobook Giveaway
The Other Side of Outsourcing is a Discovery Channel documentary by Thomas Friedman on high-tech outsourcing to India. In it Friedman visits a call centre in Bangalore to interview the young Indians working there, and then travels to an impoverished rural part of India where he debates the pros and cons of globalization with locals.…
-
Losing Your Sense of Smell
Three years ago Elizabeth Zierah caught a cold; a few weeks later she was back to normal… except that she had lost her sense of smell. In Slate, she writes about the miseries of losing the sense of smell (and in the process, taste). I lost normal function on the left side of my body…
-
Umami: The Fifth Taste
Sweet, bitter, sour, salt… and umami. The fifth taste. Psychophysicists have long suggested the existence of four taste ‘primaries’, referred to as the basic tastes. Umami is now accepted as the fifth basic taste, exemplified by the non-salty sensations evoked by some free amino acids such as monosodium glutamate. Umami is a Japanese word meaning…
-
Barackbook
Republican site Barackbook mocks Obama’s Facebook support. With ‘his’ status set as “Barack is hoping to settle on an Iraq policy before November”, Barackbook attempts to highlight some of Obama’s “more controversial real life ‘friends,’ while cheerfully mocking his much-hailed online sheen”. In all, the site is a shockingly clever 21st century twist on the…
-
Secrets of Book Publishing
The author of Bit Literacy (one of the Startup Bibles) on the secrets of book publishing that they wish they had known: The publishers are not doing it for the love of books; they want something that sells. If your book will sell, it doesn’t matter what you’re writing about. Your main job – practically…