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Should Educators Command an Equity Position in Students?

by Dan Robles

The idea that a mentor may take an equity position in a protege is not new – it happens in families and extended families as elders are fully aware that the children will provide for the family in the future. The connection is not to hard to grasp that it’s in everyone’s best interest to help the kids – all of the kids. This is the social contract.

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The Vicarious Search Engine

by Dan Robles

This is how the innovation economy must play out. People must control, regulate, anonymize, and manage their own knowledge inventory. If only they could see their world through the entrepreneur’s eyes – perhaps they need a vicarious search engine more than anyone.

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The Competition is Competition Itself

by Dan Robles

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, as an analogy, suggests that the more we know about competition, the less we may know about cooperation. The more we know about cooperation, the less we know about competition.

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The Next Great American “Hail Mary” Pass

by Dan Robles

The Game
The knowledge economy will be outsourced to low cost countries. There is little rational analysis that suggests otherwise.  Information, knowledge and innovation are profoundly connected – lose one and you lose the other two … and so goes our innovation potential. The very technology invented and developed by American knowledge workers is the exact [...]

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Social Enterprise; Rating Systems

by Dan Robles

There is an ongoing discussion about the rating system for articles posted to a business oriented social network site that I belong to.  While am not part of the discussion, my one and only post to that site had been rated very low despite the fact that I am recognized internationally in the subject matter [...]

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The Knowledge Inventory; Part 3

by Dan Robles

In American society there is a persistent ideology of winners and losers; there can only be one winner and the rest are losers. We rank things in a very linear way; 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. Sports analogies dominate many business expressions; low ball, hail mary pass, ball’s in your court, etc. Our culture is [...]

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