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Sputnik Observatory: A Repository That Shows How Big Ideas Are Connected

A new site gathers insights from today's great thinkers, and links them up, so you can choose your adventure.READ»

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NEED FOR NEW ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES

Recently I attended the VINT symposium.Among the great speakers were Umair Haque and Don Tapscott. It was interesting that all speakers agreed on the fact that we now experience different sort of crises at the same time.They ...READ»

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The Eco Design Blog Series

From Iconographic to Biomimiced to Eco Dad, we are taking a look at the eco conundrum within design.READ»

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Why Bernard Madoff is NOT a symbol of our times

Lots of attention will be paid this week to the sentencing of Bernard Madoff, and rightfully so. But if we pay too much attention, we risk missing the bigger or more important story of how the U.S. wound up in the longest recession since the 1930s. READ»

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Opinion Exhaustion: Skittles, President Obama, and the Assault of Everyone

Something new is happening on Skittles.com. The company isn't putting its real estate to work as a marketing platform--singing the vast and socially beneficial aspects of Skittles. Instead, they have turned their homepage over ...READ»

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RADICAL INNOVATION NEEDS ICONOCLASTS

 I just finished reading Iconoclast from Gegory Burns. It is about how the brain sabotages creative thinking for most ordinary people. An iconoclast is a person who does something that others say can’t be done. It is clear ...READ»

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Is China becoming a global design superpower?

In recent years concern has risen about the potential of China as a global design superpower and the threat of China becoming a design source for the west, threatening the livelihood of thousands of designers and designers-to-be ...READ»

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The Importance of Inspirational Leadership

Historically, business has used carrots and sticks to get performance OUT of people. Today, we need to become leaders who can INSPIRE performance IN people.READ»

Nonsense At Work

Don’t fire the relationship: Did you know that customers have relationships with people, not with organizations?  Well, that’s something many businesses have forgotten in their rush to fire employees. Managers glibly talk ...READ»

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10 most common leadership shortcomings and how to resolve them

After scrutinizing 360-degree feedback data on over 11,000 leaders and evaluating the 10% considered the least effective, Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman found the 10 most common leadership shortcomings.These are ranked according to ...READ»

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An Innovation Lesson from Politics?

What businesses can learn from ObamaREAD»

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TEAM: TOGETHER EVERYONE ACHIEVES MIRACLES

 This is the acronym, which is used in the book One Minute Millionaire from Hansen/Allen. It stipulates the important role that every individual plays in the team. This weekend I saw some excellent example sof team work (or the lack ...READ»

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THE SOFT SIDES OF CHANGE ARE THE TOUGHEST

 Recently two studies from IBM as well as from McKinsey clearly highlight the urgent need to focus on the soft aspects of change, rather than on the hard aspects. This is a must to succeed in today’sever faster changing ...READ»

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LOVING LEADERSHIP

Currently I am reading the great book ‘ The Power of Design’ from Richard Farson. In his discussion about leadership he says the following: “Love and passion are the organizing forces in leadership and management, overriding ...READ»

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CONFORMITY KILLS INNOVATION

 In many organizations people are encouraged to continue with  ‘business as usual’ and to maintain the status quo. When you think about this, it is quite logical to behave in this way.  The current leaders and managers have ...READ»

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New role needed: Chief Wellbeing Officer

 IntroductionThe pace of change is continuously increasing. Competition is popping up from all over the world.New giants are emerging from countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa.This puts a lot of pressure on the ...READ»

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Economics and Truth: CultureofFuture.com and IDEO

Quite a gap of time since we last posted! It is definitely a whirlwind time of shift and change. Are we busy? We are busy here at CultureofFuture.com – framing change in a way that inspires learned pathways and wise reengagements. ...READ»

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Twitter’s tweet out quickly.

I just read that Neilson Online (www.nielsen-online.com) has found that 60% of people who sign up on Twitter abandon the service.  In fact Twitter’s retention rate is around 40%, which means that only 40% of the people who visited ...READ»

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CHANGE IS THE NEW NORMAL

A lot of organizations still think that change is an exception to the normal situation. They think that the goal is to return to the status quo as soon as possible. In the IT industry I was used to having two major ...READ»

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Innovation requires new thinking

Thinking is the RootThe starting point of all actions is your thoughts. This means that thinking is ultimately the main driver of the results you and your organization achieve. When your thinking is good, you have good results. And ...READ»

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To Trust or not To Trust

What drives us to trust companies? I just saw a study from Edelman called the Trust Barometer. It talks about the lack of trust people have in business and governments and how it’s changed over time.  For some perspective, the ...READ»

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THE GROW-MODEL FOR PERSONAL AS WELL AS BUSINESS GROWTH

 When I have a coaching client, they usually come to me because they have a problem. Let’s say that the coachee is out of work. He wants a new job, but he also would like support in defining which job/career is an excellent fit to ...READ»

Can America truly change?

Is change really coming to America? After all we did elect a President who ran on the platform of change. I do however wonder if we as Americans really have the capacity to change.  And if we do, why are we so slow to change? Is ...READ»

A culture that nurtures innovation

There’s a lot being written about how to survive the down economy but I think something is missing from the dialogue:  how to create a culture that thrives during it. Yes, intuitively most people know that to truly excel during ...READ»

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Twitterprise: Bringing Whole Selves to Work

Social messaging offers much more than collaboration when individuals include their multidimensional perspectives in the Enterprise stream.READ»

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