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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The leadership of World Economic Forum met in Vietnam a few years back. Concerned parties already discussed Green Vietnam. http://www.good.is/post/how-vietnam-is-going-green/ These days, if you are late into the Industrial game, at least you can leap-frog in thought leadership and learned from others’ mistakes (China is overtaking Japan as number…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Two articles on Bloomberg Business Week. One on Clicking with co-workers (productivity increase) and the other, Vietnam is finally ready for foreign investment ( with a question mark at the end). The former article is based on a study that people who work and play together make a great…
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Bodies of little ones lined up on the floor (Syria). Little orphans waiting to be fed and sustained (Vietnam – Agent Orange victims) decades after the War was over. Nagasaki and Hiroshima, if we can still recall those localities. Wrong use of chemistry. Shadow effects. Masquerading rhetoric. Just as the Dow finally hit its height.…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: This program has been made possible by Viewers like you, and the following foundations….. We all heard that line on PBS or NPR. Now we will see it on Fortune magazine that Giving is back in an organized way (like Barn Raising in an Amish community, or Cognitive Surplus…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The author of “the everyday presentation of self” will need to completely rewrite his book for 21st-century readership. For instance, what is the equivalence of holding the door online? (Leave a larger space for Comment ?) Business and communication are out of breath, trying to catch up with network…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If I were the man who sold my company for almost a Billion dollars, I would go off to Rock concerts around the world, instead of sitting down to write a book. But Zappos former CEO thinks differently. He wants to go on a crusade. That crusade is to…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: DUI – Driving under the influence. DWT – Driving while texting. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc20100618_526096.htm And adults are found to out-text teens while driving (I remember a recent study about high school students’ SMS habit). Texting was first popular in Europe and later Asia. But people in those parts of the world use…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We are each given a remote control. But not all of us know where the PAUSE button is. We press PLAY or oftentimes FAST FORWARD. Then we are looped in by stimuli from all directions (Preview, Blu Ray slide show etc..). Attention grabbers and assaults to our senses. We…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Easy to propel forward. Easy to stop and stand still. No fear of falling (gravity) and no incentive to pedal forward (inertia). The blessing and curse of a stimulus-dependent economy. To move forward, one needs to fight both gravity and inertia. An extra wheel offers the illusion that things…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: I am back to the land where people work animals into daily speech: – strong as an ox – wrinkle as a monkey – dumb as a cow. Everything gets used more than once (recycled): plastic bags, banana leaves. In Understanding Vietnam ( through literature) published by Berkeley Press, the author,…
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