The Future of Work and Entrepreneurship for the Underserved.  Virtual Presentation to the International Conference on “Issues and Challenges of Business in Emerging Economy” at Hotel Mayfair Lagoon in Bhubaneswar, India on 11-12 January 2019.

Reading list from 2018 into 2019 Last year was a great year to read from technology to philosophy.  I enjoyed reading classics such as,  Man's search for Meaning , as well as Michelle Obama's memoir on  Becoming .  My favorite Business book was Unscaled as it predicted that economies of scale will reverse as we develop more efficient artificial intelligence and other technologies to enable smaller, creative and more effective groups of entrepreneurs to continue to fuel the worldwide innovation and transformation.  My last read for the year was The Tribe of Mentors; it was almost 600 pages and I frankly kept getting diverted to other books that were recommended by the mentors.  In 2018 I shared many of my book reviews on  Linkedin blogs and others on Amazon. Re Books are our windows into different worlds, people, places, and times.  While I read many more books during the year, I list below 20 of my favorite reads  – they are not in order except the first which

Report on Worldwide Racism and Poverty Enhancing Cooperation between the United Nations and Regional Mechanisms for the Protection of Human Rights Conference - December 8th, 2018  in Washington DC After a day-long report from representatives of the UN, OAS, grassroots organizations and academic institutions, it was apparent that globally racism and poverty has, and will continue. to plague us worldwide.  The challenge remains how can separate and disparate initiatives, programs, goals, and resources be united to form one mission to eliminate, eradicate -- or at least decrease the social ills that continue to rob humanity of its full potential.  Delegagtes from HBCU institutions