Problem:In a world of free ideas, why and how are we still needed?
Mastering the Problem:Your unique reason of being today, and your “unique edge”, is in the human element. Skills and technology and ideas - once the staple of competitive edge [a term outdated in a world of crazy collaborations] - come cheap(r). To just about anyone. For example, if we thought having a social network was still the latest path to billionaire glory, we haven’t yet known Ning.
The ability of a person to make unique connections, and sustain …

Everybody knows it. From programmers finding code, to ex-lovers looking up dirt on jilters, to graduate students procuring thesis - Google has it all. Google is the highway to 100-ideas-a-minute factories. So how on Google earth are we to have what is variably known as “competitive edge” or, in quaint business speak, “unique selling proposition”!? In human speak, it means, to thousands of corporations and millions of free agents, “What worthwhile thing can I offer if ideas are free? When someone else has done it already? Or I look a …

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Dear readers:
I found out how well NEXT> by Ramla was anticipated by the readers when some promptly reported that it was "down" or "weird." While the blog was being reviewed by the Blogger Team, who were sorting the splogs (spamming blogs) from the blogs, it was taken over by a splogger.
Persistent requests for support as well as some pro-active tracking of the spammer dude helped to get the blog restored. Back again. Thanks to the beleaguered Blogger Team.
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Version 2.0 of the PC-MoB: People-Centered Model of Business will incorporate case studies collected since the PC-MoB was first published. If you wish to participate, send in a 1000-1500 word, clearly-written summary of your people-centered enterprise/organization at nextbyramla. (It's a G-mail ID.) Mention the area of business and operations, and the application of your people-centric approach. Be bold, share the challenges, failures, successes, opportunities. A website for the business/ organization is required.
Send by June 10, 2007. Much thanks! Selected case studies will be published in subsequent versions of …