How One Little App Creates A Boost Economy
If you’re ever lost your mind worrying that the 3-mile back up at the Lincoln Tunnel was going to make you miss dinner, you’ll appreciate the unique value of the […]
"Data Shame": Can It Actually Boost Business-to-Business Relationships?
Data shame It’s such a striking concept, it’s hard to believe that “data shame” gets only two legit google hits — one in a blog post and another in a […]
Negotiating From A Leader's Perspective
There’s a lot of terrific advice out there to help you negotiate your total compensation package when you’re accepting a new job. While this advice helps you as an individual […]
How To Choose Business Partners for a Boost Economy
A friend told me once that we should only share our love with people who can benefit from it. My friend argued that even though we might want to ‘love’ […]
Why Zipcar Is Not the "Sharing Economy"
Zipcar isn’t a sharing business, so it can’t create the sharing economy. Who can? Businesses that support customer-to-customer relationships and reciprocal caring.
Discrimination in Hiring: A Failure of Imagination?
This just in, from the Journal of Group Process and Intergroup Relations Narrow imaginations: How imagining ideal employees can increase racial bias Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, B. Keith Payne, Sophie Trawalterm Abstract When […]
Defining Thick Value in a Boost Economy
Thick value has many simultaneous kinds of positive meaning, that are stacked, nested, embedded, and fused with each other into layers that are weighty with significance. Thick value has more meaning and conveys more about why it’s valuable. When we pay attention to thick value, we make choices that help us maximize more than financial profit or system efficiency.
5 Ways to Expand How We Think About Value in a Boost Economy
It can be hard to convince certain “business” people that it actually makes sense to conduct their business in a generous, boosty way that creates opportunity for others. The mainstream […]
Only Partner With Businesses Who Have the Love And Will Share It
I was meeting with a Silicon Alley entrepreneur, talking with him about options for extending his company’s reach by partnering with other businesses that target his same audience. He’d had […]
Unique Layers of Value: Love With Food’s Boost Economy
Every boost economy has layers of value networks– networks through which different kinds of value flow. When you imagine these nets of value stacked one on top of the other, […]