Sat.Jul 23, 2011 - Fri.Jul 29, 2011

Jay Cross

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The New Capitalist Manifesto

Jay Cross

“This book is more than a manifesto, it’s a blueprint for building the sort of twenty-first-century company that will be loved by its customers, envied by its peers, and admired by all those who care about the future of our planet,&# says Gary Hamel in the introduction to this short tome by economist Umair Haque. I agree wholeheartedly with Hamel that “The legacy model of economic production that has driven the ‘modern’ economy forward over the last hundred years is

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Bliss

Jay Cross

As I ease into personal-retreat mode, I’m de-complexifying my world. I only have a couple of things on my mind and as soon as I document them here, they’ll disappear from consciousness, too. Thing One. On Monday, Uta and I are driving down to Carmel, where we’ve rented a cottage near the beach for the month of August. My only work will be the 21C Leadership Project.