Small Business Boomers

In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week Bill Gates continued his discussion about philanthropy by taking it to the business world. He talks about what he calls “Creative Capitalism.” The essence of this Creative Capitalism is “…an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world’s inequities.”
Now, it’s one thing to talk about individual philanthropy, but it’s quite another to talk about corporate philanthropy. It …read more

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A comment by Linda Johnson to one of my recent posts directed me to check out Bill Gates’ address to the graduates of Harvard in June 2007. In his address, he spoke about doing the most good for the most people.  The quote that particularly struck me was, “The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.”  In other words, turning caring into action should be a simple thing – you see a problem, and you act to change the problem.  But you may get blocked by complexities of the situation.  Gates says we …read more

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I’m fed up with the PC; well, not the generic PC, but just the one that Microsoft has crammed down our throats. I need a new laptop but I refuse to buy a PC because I refuse to be forced to have Vista on it. I understand that I would not even have the highest level of administrative rights on that machine. (Is that really true?)
Everyone I have talked to in my small field of influence has said, “check out a Mac.” So I looked at the new Mac Air. It is slim and light, …read more

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