New Hampshire Is More Than A Coin Toss. It’s A Number’s Game
Forget the media spin on Election2016. Instead keep your own scorecard. to predict the Election2016 Democratic candidate before the media announces the winner. You can do this by following a scorecard: a projected goal for winning delegates state-by-state. The scorecard was produced by David Wasserman for The Cook Political Report. The reason I like it is because it allows voters to follow the candidate of their choice without all the media hype and fear-mongering. In other words, just do the math. Here’s how it works. In a recent story, the DailyKos.com highlighted the research of David Wasserman. Wasserman’s model shows how many delegates each candidate has *already decided* they need from each state in order to get to 1976 pledged delegates. For example, here’s a screenshot taken from before the Iowa primary. In round one, HRC gained 10 additional delegates, Sanders subtracted 10 that the surveys predicted he would win. New Hampshire is round two. The image shows what Wasserman predicts each candidate needs, state-by-state, to reach the 1976 total necessary for a win. ...
American Politics: The Birth Pangs of An Inner Revolution
While the dust is still settling from a photo-finish, Hillary Clinton’s victory smile sets the tone for what may be a long race. While Bernie Sanders is calling for a revolution, Clinton is leading one. In entrepreneurial America, Clinton has chosen an evolutionary model for her campaign. It’s a “Let’s expand on Obama’s legacy. Let’s grow the affordable healthcare programs. Let’s take what’s working and make it even better.”This is a solutions driven model that focuses on growth and expansion. It leads to ever expanding complexity, networking and collaboration, leaving no room for disorder. By contrast, Sanders call for a revolution echoes within the walls of a closed system where entropy is the end game. In a closed system, order begins to break down, leading to greater disorder, greater social unrest, until the system is torn down and, over time, replaced with another closed system. This is also what we are seeing happen with the GOP. The Republican’s Grand Old Party is no longer growing, it is breaking apart, falling apart, breaking down. Like cats in a room full of rocking chairs, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. In time, the chairs will stop rocking, the cats will calm down. And what about the women in the room? The Hillary bashers? The Hillary haters? The women who throw words – like men at a modern day stoning – at the woman who could be the very first woman to serve as president of the United States. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright once reminded: “There is a special place in Hell for women who don’t help other women.”...
Bitcoin, Cyber Pirates, and The Future of Money
In reporting on the fate of the bitcoin in The Washington Post, Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the author of R.I.P. Bitcoin, may want to add two additional factors to its possible demise. The first is the fact that a number of unknown hackers around the world had found a way to temporary disrupt corporate communications and databases. Their target was small corporate businesses around the globe and they were demanding that the ransom be paid in bitcoins. In one corporate case I studied while studying the impact of corporate leadership to unexpected crisis, the ransom fee was 1,000 bitcoins. It wasn’t the small amount of the ransom, I was told. Instead, it was the fact that bitcoin’s so-called “pirates” were also making similar demands of other businesses they had hijacked. Their strategy: hack into a corporate database, interrupt the flow of their business services and then demanding immediate payment, in bitcoins, in exchange for restored service. The hackers rightly reasoned that the automatic response would be: “OK, its a small fee, go ahead and pay it. Let’s move on.” Many did just that. In this case, the CEO divided the workforce into two groups. Group A would dive deep into the system to find the leak, and plug it. Group B focused on making contact with every customer to explain what happened, and when they could expect to have the disruption of their online service repaired. That is, the job of the group assigned to customer outreach was to tell each customer exactly what was going on, and what...
Let’s Follow This GREEN Leader
#Quote: “We mandate that 50 percent of NY’s energy must come from renewables by 2030 and NY will be coal free by 2020. – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo @CFigueres @climatecolab @alexiaparks.
Was Obama’s Call to ‘Our Better Self’ A Call to Women?
At this watershed moment in American politics, could Obama’s State of the Union call to Americans to bring our better self into politics be a coded call to women? After all, who is the one men usually refer to when they refer to “my better self?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexia-parks/was-obamas-call-to-our-be_b_8971224.html Alexia Parks is founder of the 10 TRAITS Leadership...
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