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I had a great conversation with Yifat Cohen about what I see happening in the global economy, the future of American Innovation and what you can do about it.  It’s the first time I’ve spoken in such detail about some of the core ideas in my book, Econovation.  Get ready for the end of consumerism and rise of what I call ‘producerism’. You can watch the video or listen to the audio podcast.

You can follow Yifat on Google+ and her YouTube channel.

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Next week, I’ll have a fun guest – the author of Social Media is Bullshit, BJ Mendelson.

 

 

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Cirque du Soleil’s Andy Levey joins Steve Faktor to discuss the business of social, including:

  1. Can you make Charmin cool on social media?
  2. Is Mark Cuban alone at being mad at Facebook?
  3. Do platforms have monopoly power?
  4. The economics and future of Twitter and Google+
  5. How actionable is social data?
  6. Is the social user a real human or a “subset of humanity”
  7. Is buying fake followers like paying for a stripper?
  8. Who is a real influencer or expert? How to use brand ambassadors.
  9. Can you sell through social media?

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Here’s the audio of a fun interview I did this morning on NPR’s Chicago station WBEZ about my 9 Corporate Personality Types article on Forbes.

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 Today’s episode is a tour de force (I believe that was French).  It’s a companion piece to my article in Forbes, The 9 Corporate Personality Types and How to Inspire Them to Innovate I’m excited to welcome Stan Slap to the podcast.   Stan is the Chief Executive Officer of slap, the international consulting company renowned for achieving maximum commitment in manager, employee and customer cultures. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Bury My Heart at Conference Room B.  Listen in as we discuss what keeps companies from innovating and how to get emotional commitment from management in a way that won’t make everyone cry or watch Dr. Phil.

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I join web marketer and comedian Jordan Cooper on the latest episode of his Blenderhead podcast. Together, we explore the dark,  funny underbelly of the tech economy.  As I told Jordan, I had two choices to commit career suicide: go on his show or get a massive face tattoo.  Clearly, I made the right decision. 

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This week’s episode of Ideafaktory Radio is the first of a three part series with Forbes contributor and Social Enterprise guru Mark Fidelman.  This wasn’t even meant to be recorded! Mark deviously taped our private conversation on his iPhone and captured the two of us brawling over the future of apps, among other issues that keep geeks up at night.  In this episode, you’ll learn:

  1. Why you don’t need to motivate people who work at MTV
  2. Why only rich, hot people should go into journalism
  3. How successful apps get pimped
  4. Why Twitter and Facebook might be #JumpingTheShark #LOL #OMG
  5. Why I don’t care that apps are dying as Mark nurses app developers back to health, like Mother Theresa.
  6. How competition cleanses everything except financial services

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Coming soon: Gregory Essau, a home builder turned sustainable economy missionary.

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The first episode of the Ideafaktory Podcast is the best one ever.  It’s a great conversation between Steve Faktor and Dan Lyons (aka the original “Fake Steve Jobs“, aka “Real Dan Lyons). Dan has written for Forbes, Newsweek and many publications that begged me not to use their names!

This episode is all about social media fame as job security.  You’ll learn:

  • What crazy thing Dan wrote that made me reach out to him in the first place
  • How Dan escaped being an anonymous drone by blogging…as the end of print media loomed
  • Why you need to be a star
  • All about the brilliant, but seedy underbelly of monetizing influence
  • Why you should never get out of your jammies
  • Why immigrant parents don’t care if you can spell

Enjoy.  Comment below and subscribe to this weekly podcast at ideafaktory.com.

Awesome intro music by  The Walkers