Who is in Your Heart Trust?
I started using the term "brain-trust" in 2003 while working on a case for support for a proposed non-profit. I was working with a powerhouse of a businesswoman who made stuff happen. It seems like she knew everyone in Seattle and how to get them to accomplish great things. It was she who taught me "the more people in the brain-trust the better" which I have used ever since to express my need for gathering information and, with the right people, collaborating. But recently I have begun to question where some brains seem to be leading us. For example, in the age of BIG DATA…maybe all this desire for counting is making us a little crazy. I mean seriously…say this outloud: "we are googling analytics". That...