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The Power of Oration
When a kid is going off to college, we always give them the following piece of advice: “If you want to get a competitive edge over …
The Only Secret to Success You Need to Know
In business, the natural response is often to make things EVEN MORE complicated than they need to be. Business is inherently complicated anyway, so …
How To Avoid The Surrogation Trap
Back in the Soviet Union, ball bearings were a big deal. You see, as a general rule, the more industrial machines you were building, the …
Why you definitely need to tune out by Brian Solis
Do you remember the moment you chose to tune out everything and everyone around you to pay more attention to what’s happening behind the …
It’s The Flame That Matters, Not The Carrier
In Medieval Europe, the trade guilds had three ranks: The Apprentice. The kid. The boy. The lowest guy on the totem pole. 2. The Journeyman. From the French …
Vorsprung Durch Technik
Marcus Engman, the head designer of Ikea these last six years, just quit to go and start his own consultancy. His big idea? To convince …
If you want to be successful create a culture of openness
There’s a rather common belief that success is the precursor to virtue, not the other way around. i.e. “We’ll be open and curious and generous …
Post-Modern Diplomacy
When we think of the world, we mostly think of “countries” being the basic unit of mass human organization. The French do it a certain …
The confessions of feel good brands
Tom Godwin was having a big ol’ rant on Twitter recently: “Someone should coin a word for this trend for ultra privileged faux “goodness” brands. Things like …
How Microsoft Did It
Microsoft uses technology to build community in a globally dispersed workforce of over 140,000 employees. Here’s the thing. The technology you use (and Microsoft’s technology will …
How to thrive in love and in work – by Jennifer Petriglieri
According to Sigmund Freud, love and work are the cornerstones of our humanity. Too often, however, those cornerstones shift shape and are ill-fitting. One …
The Reality of Twitter Mobs
For people who follow these things, Twitter had ts legendary breakout moment at SXSW 2006. That’s when the geeks embraced the platform en masse. But for all its …
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