Leadership, Courage, and Faith

By Dean Whittaker Last Wednesday, when my cell phone rang at 4:18 AM, I thought it was my alarm to wake me for my 7:15 AM flight to Lexington, KY.  I was to teach the following day at the Kentucky Economic Development Institute. But, instead it was Delta Airlines...

Cyber Warfare

By Dean Whittaker While visiting Shreveport, LA a few months ago, I was given a brief tour of the lobby of the new Air Force Cyber Warfare Center.  This brand new, 100,000 sq. ft., high security, $100 million dollar facility sat in the middle of a new 3,000 acre...

What Would Google Do?

By Dean Whittaker While attending the International Economic Development Conference Annual Meeting in Columbus, OH I sat in on a panel discussion based upon the book “What Would Google Do.”  The panel was to address the question, what would Google do if it was in...

Being vs. Doing

By Dean Whittaker We spend so much of our lives doing, that we often lose sight of being. In his book, “The Power of Pause,” Terry Hershey reminds us what is important verses what is urgent. How many times have we become unconscious to the moment we are in because we...

The eGuild Where New Companies Are Born

By Dean WhittakerThe concept for an entrepreneurial guild came to me while researching a response to a recent request for proposal. I was searching for a Blue Ocean Strategy in which the community would make their competition irrelevant by creating a new paradigm....