Starfish & Spider

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Rod Beckstrom, author of The Starfish & the Spider articulates the nature of decentralization and the elimination of traditional leadership in successful organizations from that of control to that of facilitating everyone to participate. Organizations that attempt to maintain control through leadership will increasingly find that effort ineffective. Adopt the Starfish modality.

Toffler and the Revolution

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Gregory Mantell's interview of Alvin Toffler relating to he and his wife's latest book Revolutionary Wealth addresses a series of notions including the intangible nature of knowledge and its reprecussions to wealth and his prediction of a series of "Institutional Katrinas", where businesses, governments and educational systems will catastrohpically fail in delivering on promises. Watch the interview.

Pollan and Kenner WNYC Radio Interview on Food

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Author Pollan and Director Kenner talk on WNYC Radio about US food policy. For the complete interview listen here. Each synthesizes the idea of how flawed food policy is based on a past paradigm of scarcity of calories as the key obstacle; thus leading to a strategy of subsidizing corn and soy production which serves as the foundatio of our centralized fast food nation.

Serve Up Food Inc.

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Michael Pollan, award winning author of a number of books including best seller The Omnivore's Dilemma is featured in the just released movie Food Inc.. No sphere of our world is protected from the impact of the revolution, least of which is the food industry as this documentary shows. You'll never look at food the same again. The need to decentralize our production and consumption of food has never been more evident.