He is the director of Flockwatching, a company that utilises information gathered from blogs, social media networks and the internet to create an understanding and outcome of social changes, new media and consumer trends in mass observation, James Harkin is a fascinating and current business speaker.
James has written essays, comments and reportage for the like of The Guardian, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The Economist, The American Prospect, The Nation and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
He is also an accomplished book writer. His latest full-length book, “Niche: The Missing Middle Of Business, Politics, Culture And Life”, was published in the UK and Commonwealth countries in March 2011, and prior to that released Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking.
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