Work
- Co-ChairmanMay 2007 to presentConduct original research to identify emerging business opportunities on the edge - geographic, demographic and technological
- Founder and PrincipalJanuary 2002 to May 2007San Francisco, CaliforniaProvide management consulting services focusing on business strategy to senior executives of companies around the world
- PrincipalSeptember 1984 to April 2000
- Chief Strategy OfficerJanuary 1982 to August 1984
- September 1978 to March 1980
Education
- Class of 1978MBABusiness StrategyBoston, Massachusetts
- Class of 1974BPhilModern Middle Eastern StudiesLondon, United Kingdom
- Class of 1972Asian and African studiesMiddletown, Connecticut
- Class of 1968Andover, Massachusetts
- JDCorporate LawCambridge, Massachusetts
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
Current City and Hometown
Burlingame, CaliforniaCurrent city
Berlin, New HampshireHometown
About John
- I live and work on the edge - the views are breathtaking, the experiences deep and satisfying and the learning is limitless.
For a brief introduction, sample my 25 Things note in the Notes section
And before you join my friend network, it would help to read my Enter At Your Own Risk note in the Notes section
Favorite Quotes
- "The problems that exist in the world cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein
"History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes a lot."
- Mark Twain
"The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed."
- William Gibson
"There are always more smart people outside your company than within it."
- Bill Joy
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
- Alan Kay
"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."
- Yogi Berra
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
- Yogi Berra
"The way forward is paradoxically not to look ahead but to look around."
- John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."
- Eric Hoffer
"I am convinced that if the rate of change inside an organization is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight."
- Jack Welch
"It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing."
- Andre Gide
"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game."
- Winston Churchill
"Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
"It is easier to perceive error than
to find truth, for the former lies
on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth,
where few are willing to search for it."
- Goethe
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
- T. S. Eliot
"It is never too late to become what we might have been."
- T. S. Eliot
"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
- Anais Nin
"What we have before us are some breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems."
- John W. Gardner
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein
"When you wrap your arms around me, you open my soul and let it breathe."
- Joi McGowin
For more quotes, check out my Quotations note in the Notes section - apparently maxed out on permissible quotes here
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