EXPOMANAGEMENT 2007

Three days Expomanagement...

What I got out of it?

" Tapping non-consumers " (Chan Kim)
" The poor are not poor" (Prahalad)
" The job something fulfills - not the segment " (Christensen)

... and much more.
Will write on that soon.

C.K. PRAHALAD at EXPOMANAGEMENT 2007 MADRID

Namaste,

some great news here in Madrid.

I'll be C.K. Prahalad's personal assistant during his stay in Madrid for ExpoManagement 2007. This congress is the biggest of its kind in Europe and features speakers like Alan Greenspan, W. Chan Kim ("Blue Ocean Strategy") and Clayton Christensen ("Seeing What's Next").
Basically it's a management conference - with top-level participation. HSM claims there will be 2.500 European executives.

Anyway - let's get back to the point I wanted to make.
It's an incredible chance to help this great thinker to make his stay here as comfortable, successful and easy-going as possible and get him to know a little bit.
I am currently reading his book "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits") and it's really good. I'll post on that shortly.

Until the expo (it'll be on the 22nd and 23rd of May), I'll try to read his other books ("Competing for the Future" and "The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers"), too.

Found some interesting links on him which I wanted to share with you:

• on Wikipedia
• in a Blog which links to "all news Prahalad" (is this his blog? "About" page still in the making.
  
• and a good one in Businessweek

Or even easier, check out my "Del.icio.us" items on the right, you'll find a "Prahalad" link there as well.

BROAD CASTING FROM OFFTRACK RADIO

What an album! On May 7th, Sonar Kollektiv's Jazzanova and Dirk Rumpf of Offtrack Radio released a bomb!
The new album, a compilation and second in the series features 17 exquisite tracks.
I always loved "Held him first" by Deyampert - and having the acoustic version now let's me play around with it for a remix.

I just checked the prices and this really struck me:
On Sonar Kollektiv's homepage, the LP sells for just € 10,99, on German Amazon.de you can only find the first part of the series and not the new one and finally, on Amazon.com it sells for a whopping $ 28,49.

Really good: on the Sonar Kollektiv homepage you can listen to all the songs in full length (with a low bitrate). Just click here, and scroll down the page.

Anyway. The album is great, some of the highlights are Del Fuego, Listen to the Drums and of course Held Him First.

By the way:
If anyone finds the lyrics to Held Him First (I tried to come up with a transcript, but I'm not really sure if it's right), let me know!

POP!TECH Richard Dawkins

I came across a good podcast at POP!TECH. Richard Dawkins is talking about science's greatest strength: to be able to admit ignorance.

He's quoting Steve Grant...

"think of an experience from your childhood
something you remember clearly,
something you can see, feel or maybe even smell as if you were really there.

after all, you really were there at that time, weren't you?
how else would you remember it ?
but here is the bombshell:
you weren't there.
not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place.

matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together
Whatever you are therefore,
you are not the stuff of which you are made."

UPDATE:
I watched a couple of the other pop!casts and wanted to share the links to the two I liked best with you:

Thomas Friedman (Tom purports that green is the new red, white and blue, and that our current energy crisis is like no other.)
Reggie Watts (Writer, composer, musician and comedian extraordinaire Reggie Watts leads a musical trip that’ll get (and keep) you movin’.)