- It seems everyone is using Twitter. However, Twitter, in cases, can allow users to get access to breaking news and help companies do market research.
- I said it in Wednesday’s post: companies can’t just ‘hunker down’ during trying times. They need to invest in their core and, according to this piece in the New Yorker, start spending.
- Forbes considers what US cities have the best employment prospects.
- Interesting piece on how the recession may ‘shape’ America–and New York.
- Foreign Policy Magazine looks at how the world will be shaped by the recession–pointing to Mexico, Russia, and other countries as potential hotbeds for instability.
- Predicting crisis isn’t easy. Warnings are most often premature–a lesson leaders should learn quickly.
- NY is getting hit hard by the recession but young people are still trying to get in and get work.
- Want a job? Think green and go to school.
- Washington is becoming a glass town. But does it really signal ‘transparency’?
- Obama, like all leaders, has his skeptics.
- Can Michael Steele manage the GOP? He is alienating his base and needs to take control.
- Africa’s next leader: South Africa’s Zuma may bring Africa together or get caught up in the ‘same-old-same-old’.
