October 2012 Newsletter

Yoyah Group

The Power of a Smile
By Yoram Yahav

credit: www.stockvault.netPeople on the streets, with nothing to eat, are smiling. The beggar, standing on the traffic island in the middle of the noisy and polluted intersection, perspiring from the humidity of the tropical weather, is smiling, the guard in front of the hotel working a twelve-hour shift, is smiling, the President of the hotel chain, walking in a hurry, is smiling.

Something here in the Republic of the Philippines, makes people smile… More>

 

Will Gas Help Build Peace?
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

credit: www.stockvault.netWhat if the Mideast suddenly became irrelevant? What if the Palestinians and Israelis could sit down and bargain over peace terms without meddling by the great powers or hostile Islamic nations?

It could happen and in fact to some degree it is. The reason: A radical change in the geopolitical map of the world due to massive discoveries of natural gas, through the process known as ‘fracking’ (hydraulic fracturing of rock layers by pressurized liquid, to release natural gas), developed first in America… More>

 

Changing Seasons and Value Cycling
By David Miron-Wapner


credit: www.stockvault.netAs one who is researching the connection between economy, business and ecology, I just completed an inspiring new book, Earth, Inc. Gregory Unruh posits five fundamental rules of the biosphere, applying them elegantly to business to achieve such a synergy that once followed, sustainability is simply embedded in the culture and operations of a company. Value chains with each end open are reconfigured into ecology-mimicking value cycles with continual feedback, use and re-use. Powerfully innovation is unleashed around and back again, from producer to consumer to decomposer.
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How Innovators Can Be Dreamers Without Fantasizing
By Prof. Shlomo Maital

credit: www.stockvault.netResearch by NYU psychologists Michael Sagristano and Yaakov Trope, along with Nira Liberman reveals what we all know: for events that are close to us in time (next month…), we can clearly see the downside, pitfalls, problems, challenges. But for events that are distant, we tend to see the upside without seeing concretely all the myriad things that can and do go wrong. Trope’s CLT says, an activity is less attractive, the closer in time it is, when the concrete details are less pleasant than the abstract goals…. More>