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August 13, 2008
The following excerpt is the beginning of Chapter Three from the book What's Stopping You? : Shatter the 9 Most Common Myths Keeping You from Starting Your Own Business by Duane Ireland and Bruce R. Barringer.
August 25, 2008
This blog post comes from the authors of How the Wise Decide. To read part I, click here and part II. Here's part III: : : : : : : : : Dermot Dunphy, Part III The real challenge confronting Dermot Dunphy as he pursued his vision for Sealed Ait was how to keep the technological edge that allowed Sealed Air to charge premium prices.
August 26, 2008
Vince Poscente understands the opportunities speed offers. At age 26, he took up speed skiing, and merely four years later, he would race to a Canadian national record of 135 miles per hour at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. That was 1992.
August 29, 2008
Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, and I talked about the phenomenon of using crowds to do work. In this 33-minute podcast, you'll hear about Jimmy Wales and the founding of Wikipedia, Procter & Gamble using crowds for innovation, and the British Crown -- one of the first examples of crowdsourcing (around the 11. 45 minute mark).
September 04, 2008
That's right folks, Issue number 50. For this landmark issue, we brought ChangeThis founder Seth Godin back to discuss Tribes, the opportunities now available to lead a tribe of one's own, and what the Grateful Dead has to do with any of it. Next up, we have John Kotter, providing us with A Sense of Urgency while writing about its fundamental importance to organizational change programs.
September 10, 2008
Thanks to Jim Champy, author of Outsmart! : How to Do What Your Competitors Can't. The article below describes some shared characteristics of great companies.
September 15, 2008
REMEMBERING MIKE By Jim Champy My co-author, Mike Hammer, passed away a couple of weeks ago. It's hard to believe that he is no longer with us--he was a person of such presence and force. For years, we did good work together and produced what is considered one of the most important business books of the last twenty years, Reengineering the Corporation.
We're giving away 30 copies of 2007's In The Books--our review on the year's best business literature--over at InBubbleWrap this week. For all you kids who missed out on this resource the first time around or couldn't spring the dough for it, here's your chance to make it right and get your very own copy at absolutely no cost. To go directly to the offer, click here.
Things have been kind of quiet around here lately. You haven't been talking much here. We get a random comment here or there, but I don't remember the last time we had a conversation that drew a couple dozen people out to share their thoughts.
September 19, 2008
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