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Here is an excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine in which she explains why a handbook originally intended for software programmers, Extreme Programming Explained, is gaining a cult status for its simple leadership ideas. To read…
Read MoreLow-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…
Read MoreRichard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you probably know already, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…
Read MoreThe Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz HarperBusiness (2014) One man’s thoughts and feelings about making especially difficult decisions and resolving especially difficult situations Up front: I think the word…
Read MoreRichard Saul Wurman created the TED conference in 1984 as a onetime event. (As you may already know, TED refers to Technology, Education, and Design.) It became a four-day conference six years later. Chris Anderson purchased TED in 2001. Until…
Read MoreWhen it comes to innovation and leadership, questions can be more powerful than statements, argues author Warren Berger. When so much information is readily available to anyone online, the key to innovation is not gathering more data but rather asking…
Read MoreCandor: How to have courageous coaching conversations when it really matters Steven Stowell and Tony I. Herrara CMOE Press (2013) How to identify and correct ineffective patterns of communication when guiding, coaching, and giving feedback to others In a previous…
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Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz on “Five Keys to Curiosity”
According to Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, “Because people spend so much of their lives being talked out of (or talking themselves out of) their curiosity, they often lose a healthy connection to it. If you find that the strength…
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