Thomas Edison
Jules Pieri is Co-Founder and CEO of the product launch platform The Grommet. The company’s Citizen Commerce™ movement is reshaping how consumer products get discovered, shared, and bought. Pieri started her career as an industrial designer for technology companies and was…
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Randy Grieser is the founder and CEO of ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership & Workplace Performance and the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute. He is a visionary leader who, together with a team of employees and trainers, has positioned these organizations…
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Against all odds, leadership speaker Alden Mills conquered asthma in his youth, then persisted to accomplish extraordinary results: he became a nationally-ranked rower, a three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander, CEO of one of the fastest growing companies in America, and…
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HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) If you don’t care about your personal and professional growth, why should anyone else? As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR…
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A professor in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, Henry Mintzberg has been called a lot of things over his career – influential, innovative, iconoclast. Business magazine Fast Company even likened him to Mick Jagger. Of course, Mick Jagger was never named one…
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Truthful Living: The First Writings of Napoleon Hill Napoleon Hill with Jeffrey Gitomer Amazon Publishing (October 2018) Timeless but timely advice for personal growth and professional development Henry Ford once observed, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t,…
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The Execution Factor: The One Skill That Drives Success Kim Perell McGraw-Hill Education (September 2018) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Leaders in any organization — whatever its size and nature may be — would be well-advised to keep…
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The Story of Great Inventions, published by Harper & Brothers (1910), is a seminal work that deserves much more attention and appreciation than it has received. Elmer Ellsworth Burns has this to say about a contemporary, Thomas Edison: “He sat one night…
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Kevin Hong is an Amazon best-selling author of The Outlier Approach: How to Triumph in Your Career as a Nonconformist. Previously, Kevin grew his startup Dealflicks up to a $15M valuation. He is currently an advisor to several startups including Sinemia and executives/entrepreneurs. Kevin’s work…
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Perspectives on disruptive creativity
In Originals, Adam Grant explains how non-conformists move the world. When they are actively engaged in change initiatives, the strongest resistance encountered will probably be cultural in nature, the result of what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as “the ideology…
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