Brad Rourke

Tag: Public Square Today

  • Toyota Needs Action On Three Levels

    My latest article at my blog at the Washington Times Communities, Public Square Today, is now live: Toyota Needs Action On Three Levels Last night I gave a talk on ethics and leadership and I based a large section of it on a reading of Akio Toyoda’s Wall Street Journal op-ed piece apologizing for his…

  • Membership Rolls Dropping. What Does 'Support' Look Like?

    My latest article on my blog at the Washington Times Communities, Public Square Today, is now live: Membership Rolls Dropping. What Does ‘Support’ Look Like? Yesterday on the DC Metro, I found myself seated behind someone who was reviewing the minutes from a board meeting. I don’t normally read over shoulders but this was just…

  • Donate Services To A Candidate?

    My latest article on my blog at the Washington Times Communities, Public Square Today, is now live: Donate Services To A Candidate? A good friend asks: In your experience, are most services used by local candidates donated? A candidate for the . . . State House, whose staffer attended my recent social networking class, asked me…

  • 20 Jobs Of The Future

    Here are twenty jobs we may be doing in the future, according to a new report. “Body-part maker,” anyone?

  • Today's Required Online Functional Literacy

    I’ve been thinking about workplace literacy lately. I’m thinking especially about professional offices (not so much the shop floor — my experience there is a lot older than my experience in front of a computer). It seems to me that we are in the midst of a major change in how work gets done. Again.…

  • Review Of Livescribe Smart Pen: Good For Leaders And Professionals On The Go

    My latest piece is posted at Public Square Today, my blog at Washington Times Communities: Review Of Livescribe Smartpen Livescribe Smartpen For Christmas this year, some family members fulfilled a long-standing desire I’d had and got me a Livescribe Smart Pen. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now, and I think this product is…

  • Where Did I Fail? Tough Questions For Year-End Reflection

    I know it’s just another arbitrary day, but I like to begin the new year looking forward. That usually means I spend the waning days of December reviewing things. My tendency is often to gloss over problems and let myself off the hook more than I should, so I like to carve out some time…

  • Facebook Analyzes User Diversity Data

    The Facebook data analysis team recently finished taking a hard look at the diversity statistics for the more than 94 million users who live in the United States. (Fun fact: There are more than 350 million users worldwide, making Facebook a larger “country” than the U.S.) Ethnic Makeup Of Facebook Users The data team dove…

  • Philanthropy: Too Scared To Fail?

    My latest piece is posted at Public Square Today, my blog at Washington Times Communities: Philanthropy: Too Scared To Fail? The paper of record for the charitable community, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, yesterday reported on a new study by the Cambridge-based Center for Effective Philanthropy. While the report itself focuses primarily on the ways foundations…