Modern China - A podcast with Journalist and China expert, Jonathan Fenby
As Confucius said, To see the future, one must grasp the past.
Jonathan Fenby
China has emerged amazingly in the last three decades as an economic powerhouse set to play a major global political role, its future posing one of the great questions for the twenty-first century as it grapples with enormous internal challenges. Understanding how that transformation came about and what China constitutes today means understanding its epic journey since 1850 and recognizing how the past influences the present.
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio. China has been a reoccurring theme here - for good reason. There's little you can discuss - be it the environment, the economy, monetary policy, oil, trade, or manufacturing -- where China does not play a dominant role in the conversation. Joining us today from London is Jonathan Fenby, a former editor of the Observer and South China Morning Post, he is editor in chief of the information website, Trusted Sources. Jonathan knows China. His brilliant new book is titled "Modern China. The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present" published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. Add this one to your summer reading list, and the next time "China" comes up in a conversation, you'll be able to take the lead.
"We bet the Jockey, Not the Horse." A master class with the Pitch Coach, David S. Rose
David S. Rose
"If you don't understand what's happening in this new world and figure out ways to leverage all of these wonderful new things that are happening, there's going to be real problems ahead... This is a distributed world, my bet is on the little person in the garage." David S. Rose.
David Rose is an entrepreneurial executive and investor with extensive experience in high technology and communications, angel investments, finance and government. During the course of his career, Mr. Rose has supervised the creation of an intellectual property portfolio of issued patents appraised at over $100 million and negotiated both domestic and international corporate acquisitions. Mr. Rose is Chairman of the Board of the New York Angels, the leading angel investment consortium in the New York region. Through his investment fund, Rose Tech Ventures, he provides capital and management expertise to promising early stage companies. On behalf of his own technology firms he has personally raised tens of millions of dollars in venture, strategic and institutional capital.
With over two decades of hands-on experience in founding, managing and funding diverse companies, Mr. Rose is actively involved in mentoring and advising other entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Dubbed by BusinessWeek "The Pitch Coach" for his ability to help entrepreneurs perfect their fundraising skills, he was a Founding Member of the New York New Media Association and is a frequent guest speaker at graduate business schools including Harvard, Yale, Columbia and NYU.
David's public coaching seminars in presentation skills, early stage investing and entrepreneurship are conducted under the auspices of the Liminal Group, where he is a member of the faculty and on the board of advisors. Liminal Group is a multi-platform leadership consultancy that provides consultants to corporations, coaches to prominent individuals, and advisors to governments.
Massachusetts Maintains Lead as Nation’s Top State in Technology and Science, According to Milken Institute
Kevin Klowden
Welcome to a Big Picture edition of Total Picture Radio with Peter Clayton. Kevin Klowden is a Managing Economist at the Milken Institute. His research focuses on the roles played in regional economics by demographic and spatial factors including distribution of resources, business locations and movement of labor, and how these factors are affected by and interact with public policy. Kevin participated in the recent Milken Institute report which lists Massachusetts as being in "the best position of any state to achieve high-quality economic growth thanks to its vast array of technology and science assets."
According to the report, regional competition for technology industries has increased since the last release of the Index in 2004. Not only are states vying with each other for human capital and resources, but countries like China and India are increasing the competition on a global level.
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