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Work Smart: Fighting Your Way To Creative Breakthroughs

When I ask creative teams to tell me about how they push ideas to fruition, one of the things they swear by is fighting.READ»

RIM's Vision Of The Future Might Rely On Someone Else's Goggles

Dear RIM, If You Can't Imagine A Innovative Future Vision Of Your Own, Don't Make A Futuristic Promo Clip.READ»

A Test For Entrepreneurial Readiness: You Have To Want To Build A MudHouse In Your Living Room

People often ask me, "How do I know if it is right to start a social entrepreneurship organization?" or "How do you make the jump and just start?" In many ways, if you have to ask that question regarding social entrepreneurship, or marriage, then I think for me--it probably isn't right. READ»

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New Glasses Give The Blind Bionic Eyes

Smartphone and gaming tech offers the vision-impaired the promise of better lives, for much less than the cost of a guide dog.READ»

"Virtual Cane" Lets Visually Impaired Navigate Via Sonar

A new prototype device allows the visually impaired to more easily walk the streets using sonar-like technology to create an impromptu spatial picture. READ»

Find An Expansive View

Picking the right scale for your mission is an art. Define your purpose too narrowly and soon run out of aspirations to fill. Set your sights too high and you risk de-motivating your people. To illustrate this concept, I want to ...READ»

Outsourcing Your Marketing - Should You Hire Outside Marketing Help Now?

If you find yourself short on talent necessary to grow your business consider these benefits of augmenting your existing staff with temporary marketers... READ»

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A General Theory of Leadership?

We focus on what it means to be in charge to understand leadership, but this is a confused mixture of leadership and management. We need to look at leadership in a broader sense to develop a general understanding.READ»

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Fixing Your Marketing - The Problem of Penguins

Reason #1 why your marketing doesn’t work – You are using Big Business marketing rules. If you’re playing by their rules, you’re going to lose just about every time.READ»

Make more money – stop selling and let people buy.

We all want to buy things, but nobody really wants to be sold anything.READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Enough with the leadership dreams:To all real business people out there, I say it’s time to stop encouraging leadership at work.  Actually, go the whole hog – tell them to stop this leadership nonsense all together.What are ...READ»

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Red Flag to Leaders - This is a Recipe for Poor Performance

I read a scary statistic today – a new survey found that only 45% of Americans are happy with their work. This is the lowest level of job satisfaction that the Conference Board research group has recorded in more than 22 years of ...READ»

Improving Customer Experiences - Is It Still Important Or Is Price The Only Thing That Matters?

Many have questioned the importance of the overarching customer experience... Has the economic downturn minimized its importance?READ»

MIT Advances the Model for Retinal Implants

Several institutions have developed models for retinal implants--some companies, such as California-based Second Sight, have even started developing them commercially. But, while cochlear implants, for example, can impart fairly ...READ»

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How to Create a 20/20 Business Vision and Why it Matters

The turning point for a vision is when everyone sees it, gets it, and buys into participating to make it happen... built your vision... make that dream a reality. READ»

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Work at home programs

Why don't more customer service center employees work from home?READ»

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Asset velocity versus high margin.

Who is winning the game?READ»

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The Strategic Leadership Challenge

Are you up to the strategic leadership challenge?READ»

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“90% OF COMPANIES FAIL TO IMPLEMENT THEIR STRATEGIES EFFECTIVELY.”

Is it because the strategies are not sound? Are the strategies not articulated clearly or is it a leadership problem? READ»