Étiquette : Book reviews

numbers, numbers, numbers

Publié le par Connie Tang

In a world consumed with quantitative evaluation, don’t forget the power of words and stories to demonstrate impact. In his book, The Power of Social Innovation, Stephen Goldsmith (@powerofsocinnov) has many good messages for social entrepreneurs and social innovators, but one message that sticks is that it is important to ensure that « excellent doesn’t become […]

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Cage Match: Tapscott vs. Weinberg (I’ll take them both, and the margarita…)

Publié le par Connie Tang

I just finished two books that have received a lot of press of late – Dan Tapscott’s “Grown Up Digital” and “The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web” by Tamar Weinberg.  « Grown Up Digital” is an exploration of the Net Generation (31 years old and younger) who grew up in the digital age […]

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Inspiring Words from Bangladesh Inspire Reflection

Publié le par Connie Tang

I am reading Getting to Maybe by Westley, Zimmerman & Patton (more on this book later) in which they reference the work of social innovator Muhammad Yunus, Head of the Economics Department at Chittagong University in Bangladesh. In 1974 Bangladesh was experiencing a famine but “the university grounds were an oasis”. Yanus wrote, “if a […]

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