Business Can’t Solve The World’s Problems. But Capitalism Can
Business and capitalism get conflated — in our media, in our language and in our thinking. They are not the same thing. One is a sector, the other a methodology. By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to […]
U.S. Turns From Pain Drug, Producer Eyes Global Market
According to a recent in-depth report by the LA Times, the painkilling drug OxyContin has seen sales fall in the U.S. by 40% since 2010. The owners, the Sackler family, are now pursuing a new strategy: global domination. The authors of this global marketing intrigue, Harriet Ryan, Lisa Girion and Scott Glover, claim to have […]
New DNA Test Can Detect Slavery in Your T-shirt
Shoppers lured by a bargain-priced T-shirt but concerned about whether the item is free of slave labour could soon have the answer – from DNA forensic technology. James Hayward, chief executive of U.S.-based Applied DNA Sciences Inc. that develops DNA-based technology to prevent counterfeiting and ensure authenticity, said his researchers have been working in the […]
Is Apple Developing a Self-driving iCar?
Apple Inc. is wading in to the debate over regulation of self driving cars, declaring it is excited about the potential for automated transportation and calling on U.S. regulators not to restrict testing of such vehicles. A five-page letter from Steve Kenner, Apple’s director of product integrity, to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is […]
Arianna Huffington: Digital Revolution Creating Burnout
The world lives under the ‘collective delusion’ that in order to succeed we have to burn out, while multi-tasking is a scientifically disproved myth, says Arianna Huffington, founder of Thrive Global and co-founder of The Huffington Post. Speaking at the Discovery Leadership Summit in Johannesburg recently, Huffington, who this August changed jobs from running the […]
Meet the Less Famous Donald Trump
While president Donald Trump fights his daily political battles, a Northern Virginia doctor – also named Donald Trump – is focused on clinical trials to fight cancer and doing the best he can to avoid conversations about his name or namesake. The majority of Americans know Donald Trump as the bellicose Republican president and billionaire […]
Dear Condescending Leader: This Is What You Sound Like
We have a funny family story about a woman who called one of my sisters a “patronizing c*nt” out of the blue. Please excuse the language. My sister was shocked the first time she heard it, and we’ve got in the habit of roaring with laughter at this unseemly expression every time we catch any […]
US$2.3 Trillion by 2030 From New Business Models in Food & Agriculture
New research shows sustainable business models could generate 80 million jobs by unlocking opportunities across 14 areas, including food waste, low-income markets, aquaculture and urban agriculture. There’s a reason why Real Leaders is a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – it makes financial and ethical sense. The 17 goals to transform our world […]
What Tech Executives Don’t Understand About Talent
In a recent interview, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said what most tech executives say about the growing talent shortage. She said we need more STEM education. She advocated channeling more students in to science, technology engineering and math courses. That’s of course the conventional wisdom . . . but it’s wrong. Well, not so much […]
Drug-inspired Fashion: It’s to die for
Terrorists move over. There’s a far worse terror in town that is targeting kids and adults, killing well over ten times more Americans this year than all terrorist attacks of the last 16 years combined. That’s correct. While politicians have spent several trillion dollars on foreign wars, they’ve distracted us from the very real threat […]
