3rd Ingredient®
Advice, information and training in the field of economics, business operations and business management.
3RD INGREDIENT® is a fundamental belief system originating with Jim Blasingame.
3RD INGREDIENT® is a line of products and services offered by Jim including a series of books, written articles and publications, and educational materials; advisory services; and consulting/training all in the field of Economics, Business Operations and Business Management.
Please browse the following selection of 3RD INGREDIENT® educational audio products to learn more about Jim’s motivational beliefs, products, and services concerning small business economics and operations; including Jim's exclusive series of 3RD INGREDIENT® shows.
Pam Danziger joins Jim Blasingame to report on research about the impact of testosterone on purchasing decisions, and to discuss the different ways that behavior might manifest.
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the current convergence of divergent forces -- high tech leverage and high touch humanity -- and that a digital interface must be created, because “humans require trust.”
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that the first version of digital leverage, including AI, was created without any ethical elements or allowance for trust, but that going forward, that will no longer be acceptable.
Arky Ciancutti joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how differently he would write his landmark book, Built on Trust, if he were writing it today, in the digital age.
Scott Aurnou joins Jim Blasingame to report on an Internet exposure where a cyber-criminal uses your online device and electricity as a zombie unit to mine crypto-currency.
Scott Aurnou joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how “deep fakes” technology gives people the ability to manipulate facial images to create false reproductions for destructive purposes.
John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the essence of Jim’s new book with regard to the expansion of digital leverage with an as-yet undeveloped method of installing ethical components in that leverage.
Sean Worthington joins Jim Blasingame to report that one of the reasons blockchain may become just one of many trust-delivering technologies is because of the high usage of electricity, and therefore the transaction cost.
Sean Worthington joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the shortcomings of blockchain technology, including the very slow speed and other issues.
Sean Worthington joins Jim Blasingame to continue our reporting on how blockchain works, and why it will likely be only one of many technologies to become trust-delivering resources.