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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad business world….

October 9, 2013

Dilbertisms A magazine ran a “Dilbert Quotations” contest. They were looking for people to submit quotations from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the finalists: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual…

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had His Top Execs Read These Three Books

October 3, 2013

Jon Fortt conducted a rare interview of Jeff Bezos, one that was videotaped and featured by LinkedIn. Here is Fortt’s introduction. To watch the video of the interview, please click here. Photo: Steve Jurvetson/Flickr * * * At the beginning…

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Tim Brown asks, “What’s Stopping You from Being Creative?”

September 25, 2013

Here’s a brief article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn Today. To check out a wealth of other superb articles, please click here. * * * “In our experience, everyone is the creative type.” So true. The quote comes from Creative…

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Geoffrey Moore on “Open Innovation: Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up”

August 30, 2013

In Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) and then in Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape (2006), Henry Chesbrough explains that a business model “performs two important functions: it…

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Kevin Allen: Second interview, by Bob Morris

August 27, 2013

Kevin Allen is Founder & Chairman of business transformation company, [re:kap], that counts Burberry, M&C Saatchi, Nokia, Omnicom, Rolls-Royce, Smythson and Swedbank among its global clients. He spent over two decades on the front lines of business development at the…

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Tim Brown on “How to Sail Through Creative Uncertainty”

August 19, 2013

LAND HO!: A still from “Embrace Ambiguity,” a video by the old salts of IDEO’s New York office. The team wrote the script, hand-built the sets, then filmed and edited the clip themselves. To watch the video, please click here.…

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Why “Reply All” Is a Risk Worth Taking

August 9, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn. To read the completer article and check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * When was the last time you…

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Grant McCracken: An interview by Bob Morris

July 13, 2013

Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Grant McCracken has studied American culture and commerce for 25 years. He has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and worked for many organizations including Timberland, New York Historical Society, Diageo,…

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The biggest job interview mistakes

June 27, 2013

Here is an article written by Dave Johnson for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here.…

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Bill Schley: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 27, 2013

Bill Schley is an award-winning branding expert, author, speaker and a life-long entrepreneur. He is President and Co-Founder of the firm BrandTeamSix and is known for creating the Dominant Selling Idea at some of the world’s most successful companies. He…

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