Raising Virtual Children is Not Possible Yet, but Employing Virtual Secretaries is?!
By Yoram Yahav

Readers around the world are probably tired of reading my pieces about the uncertainty, changes and challenges occurring in our lives these days. However, speaking about changing times, I suspect that the essence of virtual employees and offices will become a prominent success factor for many of us.

Until recently, having an office, with a front desk secretary smiling and responding to every stranger who calls or walks in, was a must. Having a secretary radiated comfort, professionalism and respect. This reality is changing along with our transient societies… More>

Stop the Next Financial Crisis – Check out the Czechs!
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

It is increasingly clear that both the United States (Wall St.) and Britain (London), two key financial centers, are fumbling the ball, in enacting new systems to regulate their banks and financial services providers. In both countries, the lobbyists, moneyed interests and scare tactics (‘over-regulate us and you’ll have to bail us out again’…) have emasculated planned stiff regulations.

That is why the experience of a small Central European country, Czech Republic, with 10 million people, is so interesting and so relevant… More>

Leadership and Action on Climate Change
By David Miron-Wapner

While it may yet not be too late, we are walking a fine line with our modern comfortable, progressive life-style and civilization in the balance. Warnings have been sounded for many years. Those years have been wasted on failed international negotiations and all government’s failures to assume responsibility for creating a better, more secure climate future. All the while carbon emissions have consistently risen.

Why will it require courage? Simply put, though climate change is by now settled scientific fact, it remains an unseen threat... More>

From Better Place to Bitter Place
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

Why did Better Place, Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi’s ambitious attempt to rid the world of its addiction to oil, become Bitter Place, filing for bankruptcy in a Tel Aviv court on May 25 after burning over $800 million in investors’ cash? Over 900 Israelis bought Better Place Renault Fluence ZE all-electric cars. Nearly all of them said they were highly pleased with their cars; now, they’re simply out of luck… More>