America – What is Our Future?
David Walker, most recently Comptroller General of the US and newly appointed President/CEO of the Peter G Peterson Foundation presented a special event - sponsored by CEO Netweavers - on Friday, April 25th. Many of the directions that we are taking today will shape the quality of life that our children will endure. To better understand where we headed, please following the link to view David's presentation.

Link:

David Walker Presentation

To learn more, visit the Peter G Peterson Foundation

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710356/

The Associated Press
updated 1:29 p.m. CT, Wed., March. 19, 2008

It's actually better for your own self-interest to cooperate, researchers find

WASHINGTON - Screaming sports coaches and cutthroat tycoons have it wrong: Nice guys do finish first, a new study suggests.

The Harvard University study involved 100 Boston-area college students playing the same game over and over — a punishment-heavy version of the classic one-on-one brinksmanship game of prisoner’s dilemma. The research appears in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature.

'weavers:

I found this recently and thought I'd share it as it mirrors the role of the CEO Forums:

http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/leadership/69883;_ylt=Au_rEfy0t31D4kIpRDdNY5q7YWsA

Build Your Own Personal 'Board of Directors'
by Jim Citrin

When you're at a critical turning point in your career or are making a decision that will have long-term ramifications for your organization, it's wise not to go it alone.

In fact, a proven strategy for a successful career is to cultivate a small group of professional and personal relationships to serve as your sounding board, brain trust, or personal "board of directors."

Sir Edmund Hillary, who in 1953 was the first Western man to summit Everest (his Nepalese Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, should never go unrecognized) died January 9th.

Many might suggest that he wasn’t the first person to summit Everest, that that honor arguably belongs to George Leigh Mallory, who died in the attempt in 1924. But as significant as Mallory’s attempt was, it is important to remember that the rule for summiting is that a successful effort is measured less by reaching the summit as by the safe return afterward. So it is in mountaineering as in business, the greatest leaders are trailblazers known as much for their own accomplishments as for the opportunities they create for others, the imagination they spark in all of us, and the possibilities they inspire.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dallas, TX, October 30, 2007 – John Casey, Chairman and CEO of CEO Netweavers announced today that Frank Bracken has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of CEO Netweavers. Mr. Bracken, former President and COO of Haggar Clothing Company, will serve on the Compensation Committee of CEO Netweavers’ Board of Directors.

Frank D. Bracken, was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Haggar Clothing Co. on July 20, 1994, became the first non-Haggar family member in the company’s 77-year history to assume that responsibility. Haggar is a leading international sportswear brand.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dallas, TX, October 30, 2007 – John Casey, Chairman and CEO of CEO Netweavers announced today that Steve Watson has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of CEO Netweavers. Mr. Watson, International Chairman of Stanton Chase International, will serve on the Governance and Nominating Committee of CEO Netweavers’ Board of Directors.

Steve has spent more than 24 years in senior management roles with global technology companies. Being in executive search since 1995, Steve focuses on serving domestic and international clients in the computer, telecommunications, software, and manufacturing industries, as well as Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers across industries. Steve is Managing Director of the Dallas office, and serves as the International Chairman for Stanton Chase International.

What does the CEO Netweavers BLOG and the Inverse of Metcalfs Law have as a relationship?

Let's start with a value understanding: “The value of a social network is defined not only by who’s on it, but by who’s excluded.”

This quote is from futurist Paul Saffo who uses a case study of Facebook, in part by arguing that as social networks grow, they will eventually encounter the inverse of Metcalfe’s law, becoming LESS valuable with each new user rather than more valuable.

This analogy to address various BLOGS points to an important limitation for social networks, such as Facebook, LINKEDIN and CEO Netweavers, compared with older sorts of networks, such as the postal or telephone systems. These benefit from Metcalfe’s Law, which says that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users. In other words, the more people that have phones, the more useful they become. This “network effect” leads to rapid adoption and puts up barriers for new entrants.

Adapted from IN THE SERVICE OF LIFE
By Rachel Naomi Remen

In recent years the question how can I help? has become meaningful to many people. But perhaps there is a deeper question we might consider. Perhaps the real question is…how can I serve?

Serving and helping are two different things.

When we help, we may take away from people more than we could ever give them; we may diminish their self-esteem, their sense of worth, integrity, and wholeness. Helping incurs debt. When you help someone, they owe you one…[with] serving there is no debt. We are as served as the person we are serving.

Laura Goodall believes she has a great life. But it hasn’t been easy. Her father deserted her mother when Laura was in high school. She suffers from chronic arthritis and psoriasis. She was 47 when her husband left her and their five teen-aged children—after divesting himself of all financial assets, so Goodall was ordered by the court to vacate their home and pay him half her teacher’s salary. Her older brother was killed in an airplane crash, and though she was still struggling financially, she often took in a nephew or two to live with her.

Why does Laura Goodall consider her life to have been so wonderful? She’s remarried, close to all her children, a practising Catholic whose faith enlivens her life, and above all, she feels joy in giving to others. She and her second husband run a nature store. “We feel very good about what we’re doing,” she says, “trying to make people aware how fortunate we are to have this beautiful world. It’s always been important to me that I’ve done something I thought would contribute to society.”