Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Diversity
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Checks and balances is one of the most important principles for making decisions and getting things done in a highly complex organization. While we primarily associate checks and balances with the US system of government, I believe that it equally applies to any other complex organizational system. It implies an organizational structure and a set…
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Urbanization is one of the major forces transforming societies all over the world. The rapid pace of urbanization is succinctly summarized in these sentences from the 2012 World Urbanization Prospects of the United Nations Population Division: “Between 2011 and 2050, the world population is expected to increase by 2.3 billion, passing from 7.0 billion…
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Last April, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYU President John Sexton announced the formation of the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), an applied science research institute led by NYU and NYU-Poly in partnership with academic institutions, global companies and New York City government agencies. CUSP is focused on the grand technical,…
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MIT professor Richard Larson recently wrote an excellent opinion column – STEM is for Everyone. In the column, he succinctly made the case for widespread STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) literacy, and explained why it is as important to our 21st century information economy as basic reading-writing literacy has been to the industrial economy…
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The Internet era was born in the mid 1990s. On August 9, 1995, Netscape’s IPO caught the world by storm. It marked the passage of the Internet from a network primarily used by universities, research labs and geeks in general, to a platform with a vastly expanded reach and connectivity. Anyone with a personal computer…
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Coming Apart: the State of White America 1960-2010, a recently published book by scholar and author Charles Murray, has generated some very interesting and important discussions about America’s increasingly polarizated society. In a January NY Times Op-Ed, David Brooks wrote that Coming Apart will prove to be one of the most important books of 2012…
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In November of 2008, Andrew Sullivan published an excellent article in The Atlantic, – Why I Blog, – in which he discussed the unique characteristics of a blog by reminding us what a web log shares in common with its namesake, the ship log. “In journeys at sea that took place before radio or radar…
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A couple of months ago a story out of Israel caught my attention. It concerned an incident that, while extreme, illustrates the tensions between groups with very strong religious beliefs and the larger, much less religious society that does not embrace these views. As we know, such discussions are now taking place in the US…
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Last week I wrote about the forces that, in my opinion, are contributing to an increasingly polarized America. I mentioned three such key forces: the structural changes and employment challenges our economy is going through; the changing demographics and emergence of a kind of new establishment in US society; and the technology-amplified, free-for-all conversations taking…
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Among America’s most cherished ideas is the notion that, despite all our differences, we are one nation. It is embodied in the Pledge of Allegiance: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for…