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Innovation Begins Here: How to Become the Hero in the Hero's Journey
By Brian Solis
"Welcome. You've officially arrived at the intersection of reality and possibility. Take comfort. You are not alone. There are many who are standing with you at this junction. But each of you has his or her own path to follow, and what you do next is yours and only yours to define. While that may sound either trite, abstract or both, the future does in fact begin with you and will be defined by you."
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
Women's Business
By Sally Haldorson
Sitting at my desk this morning, I was casually watching as attendees arrived for a meeting in our conference room, and noted with some Pavlovian consternation that every person in attendance was male. And I thought it odd, yet. .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker in Residence: Bruce Nussbaum on Business & Books
By Sally Haldorson
In our final Thinker in Residence installment on Bruce Nussbaum, author of Creative Intelligence, we asked Nussbaum to give us an idea of the question that most drives him to do the work he does, and also what books have influenced his work. Read on and enjoy Nussbaum's unique perspective that applies a sharp intellect and, to my mind, a light touch on such topics as creativity, capitalism, invention, and strategy. ∗ What is the one unanswered question about business you are most interested in answering?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / Staff Picks
Why Managing Sucks (and How to Fix It)
Book Review by Porchlight
In the world of professional work, there is a growing conversation about how work can be done and what is most important to a company and its staff. In 2010, we selected Rework as Business Book of the Year because if offered fresh thought on everyday business operations; it gave affirmation to the companies that were saying, "the old way is not the only way. " Pragmatic companies and their leadership teams have begun to tolerate and even embrace practices like telecommuting, choosing to focus on the results, rather than the process.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker in Residence: A Q&A with Bruce Nussbaum
By Sally Haldorson
Creative Intelligence competencies are designed to help you amplify your creativity. Separately and collectively, they increase your creative capacity. The model here is not the light bulb going off in the mind of a genius but the improved ability that comes with training in sports or yoga.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Thinker in Residence: Bruce Nussbaum, author of Creative Intelligence
By Sally Haldorson
Today we are introducing a new author-focused blog series called Thinker in Residence. For this series, we'll be asking some of the brightest and boldest business authors writing today to give us insight into their work. Over the course of a week, we’ll give you, our readers, a review of the book, an interview with the author, and the author's perspective on a current business challenge.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
In the Books, 2012 - The Digital Edition
By Porchlight
Jon and Sally have both spread the good word about In the Books, our annual review of business books, offering copies to anyone that asked and provided an address. Jon offered them here on the blog while I was out on paternity leave, and Sally offered them up in our latest Keen Thinker (the monthly newsletter she releases that, if you're reading this, you really should be following). I'm the one responsible for the project here, and now that I'm pretty sure everyone that cares enough to ask for a paper copy has received one, I am making the digital copy available to any and all takers.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / Staff Picks
Visual Leaders
Book Review by Porchlight
Leadership on its own is hard work. Leaders require many skills, but one particularly important ability successful leaders must have is vision. Despite being clichés of success, companies like Amazon and Apple are time and again exemplary largely because their leaders have been able to visualize the future and steer their followers—employees and customers—toward this vision of the future.
Categories: staff-picks
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Blog / News & Opinion
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed...
By Sally Haldorson
Over on KnowledgeBlocks I posted this passage** from Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan: You need to acknowledge that forces from within ourselves, forces from our relationships with others, and forces from the outside have powerful and predictable effects on our decisions. Consider that most of us have no trouble acknowledging that we do not know how our kidneys or other body parts work, and we are open to learning more about them, especially when we are sick. Too often, however, we assume that we know exactly what's going on in our minds when we face and make decisions, despite the fact that many of our past decisions have led to disappointing outcomes.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
What's the Future of Business?
By Porchlight
Predicting the future can be difficult. Some would say it's impossible. Yet in many predictions, there are things that resonate, things that seem close enough in proximity to the logical flow of events that we see their likelihood.
Categories: news-opinion
