Today, I’m both excited and delighted to announce a merger that should be welcome news for everyone concerned about the keeping the planet habitable: the union of Greenopolis Social Recycling with the leader in consumer engagement and rewards, RecycleBank. By combining forces and resources, these two enterprises, representing the country’s most progressive reprocessing and tracking
As I look at today’s business models, I see more and more evidence of how old business models that fail to adapt are becoming rapidly outmoded. One of the best examples of this phenomenon is Kodak, which totally missed the digitalization of photography at a time when photos are more popular than ever. The company
Last Friday I gave a talk at the New World Festival in Santa Monica on why I didn’t think we’d succeeded in movements like organic agriculture, climate change, and clean energy, and have instead created “global boring” and, worse, eco-fatigue. I also noted that after two years of thinking about this and testing different tools
More than three decades ago, Michael Porter, the Harvard-based professor and strategist, came out with a book “Competitive Advantage,” which resulted in him becoming my personal business guru. Prior to the book’s publication, an article he wrote for Harvard Business Review identified five competitive forces — customer power, supplier power, threat of new entrants, substitute
You’ve no doubt heard people in business attempt to anticipate what the next breakthrough idea will be. But what they probably should be wondering is: who will be responsible for developing the next such idea? That’s because new ideas are being generated every day, and some of them may hold great possibilities. But a promising
This week, for the first time in many years, I felt encouraged about the challenges we face in regard to carbon emissions, climate change and other major environmental issues, and about the behavioral changes that meeting them will require. As odd as it might sound, I credit my exposure to the amazing advancements now taking
The idea of “fun and fame” needs to be incorporated into everything we do — not just occasionally, but on an everyday basis. Why? Because we want to feel good about what we are doing, and we as humans are biologically wired for this positive feeling. When we feel good about something, our brains produce