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Last week I posted a blog focused on the tax deal between President Obama and Senate Republicans as a good example of political compromise, – bringing people together with widely different opinions in order to get something concrete done. Such compromises are the essence of effective governance, especially in highly complex organization, whether in business…
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I have been thinking a lot about the Shirley Sherrod case, not so much for what we can learn about the current state of race relations or political discourse in the US, both of which have been extensively discussed by people much savvier than me on the subjects, but for what the case teaches us…
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Several events in the last few years – including the election of Barack Obama as US President, the rise of the Tea Party movement, and the SEC charges against Goldman Sachs – have convinced me that there is a profound changing of the order underway in US society. We are seeing the emergence of what,…
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I have always lived in or around cities. I was born in Havana, where I spent my first fifteen and a half years. My family then moved to Chicago, where I went to school for the next ten years. In 1970 I moved to the New York area and have lived there ever since, including…
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A few weeks ago, the New York Times published the results of a national survey of Tea Party supporters conducted jointly with CBS News. The Tea Party is generally described as a populist protest movement that emerged in the US in early 2009. Given the acute economic pain inflicted on so many by the ongoing…
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The ongoing US healthcare debates – or is civil war a better description? – remind me how incredibly hard it is to bring about disruptive transformations of any kind. In my experience, organizing disruptive transformational efforts is very difficult. I learned this first-hand at IBM with efforts like the Internet initiative in 1996 and the…
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A few weeks ago CNN broadcast Latino in America, a two-hour documentary that explored “how Latinos are reshaping our communities and culture and forcing a nation of immigrants to rediscover what it means to be an American.” The documentary was reported by Soledad O’brien, a highly regarded CNN anchor and special correspondent who in 2008…
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On October 1 and 2 IBM held its second global Smarter Cities conference in New York City. The first such conference was held in Berlin this past June, and the third will be held in Shanghai next year. As was the case with Berlin, the New York Smarter Cities event had a very impressive agenda. …
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I spent the first week of September in Chile and Argentina. Three yeas have elapsed since I last visited Santiago, and I have not been to Buenos Aires for almost four years. It was very good to be back in these two very nice cities. I love to travel in Spanish speaking countries, – I…
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Earlier this summer, I was in Berlin to participate in a Smarter Cities conference hosted by IBM. I had not been to Berlin in a while, and was looking forward to seeing it, especially since it is one of my daughter’s favorite cities in the world. I was not disappointed. Berlin is a very nice…