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Reinventing Management For Speed, Innovation, And Collaboration

BY Seth KahanMon Jun 20, 2011

If someone said that the greatest invention of the last 100 years was a machine, most would agree. You might be surprised, however, to learn which one--business guru Gary Hamel asserts that the greatest invention of the century was a different kind of machine. That honor, according to Hamel, goes to management.READ»

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Bold Moves For Association Leaders

BY Seth KahanMon May 16, 2011

Associations have been an American staple for 100+ years. Today their primary value proposition, bringing together like-minded professionals and providing them with the best education, professional networking, and advocacy to be found, is being disrupted by advances in technology and private sector competitors. READ»

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Revolution at Work, Day 2

BY Seth KahanFri May 13, 2011

Here in Washington, DC, two blocks from the White House, Day 2 of Revolutionizing the World of Work commences (twitter #RevWork). Today’s event is a natural outgrowth of the annual Smithsonian event on Organizational ...READ»

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MIT Media Lab Selects Drop Out As Director

BY Seth KahanTue Apr 26, 2011

What does it mean when a world-class university that is a globally recognized leader in innovation chooses a director who has not completed his college degree? It means true leadership exceeds academic rank, plain and simple. The MIT ...READ»

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Deb Mills-Scofield, Business Innovation Maven

BY Seth KahanWed Apr 6, 2011

Deb Mills-Scofield calls herself a long-term trouble-maker. What she really does is resolve paradoxes, or show people how odd partners can coexist creatively. READ»

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Peter Stevens: Scrum Maestro Transforming the World of Work

BY Seth KahanSat Mar 19, 2011

Peter Stevens is a master and an evangelist in the world of scrum. Scrum is an amazingly effective approach to project management developed for software development now being widely applied to other disciplines including manufacturing and services. READ»

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Middle East Leadership Lessons

BY Seth KahanFri Feb 25, 2011

Social media plays a powerful role in the ongoing Middle East transformation. Wednesday I flew to Atlanta to discuss this with business relationship and social media expert, David Nour. He is Iranian born and the global thought ...READ»

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Obama on Innovation

BY Seth KahanThu Feb 3, 2011

Obama is keen on innovation to cut through current economic travails. Here are nine excerpts sliced from his State of the Union address.READ»

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Organizational Change Is Dead

BY Seth KahanFri Jan 28, 2011

If you hope to improve your performance, do a better job of delighting your customers or members, expand to adjacent markets, do a better job of execution, realize efficiencies, or achieve a transformation of any kind, you better work with the social systems, and not limit yourself to or be limited by the organization.READ»

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Individualized Value Creation for Large Populations

BY Seth KahanTue Jan 11, 2011

It’s a mistake to look at the iPad and see it only as a platform for a myriad of apps. Just as it’s a mistake to see Amazon as an interface for a lot of retail products (or books). Instead, each is a basecamp for an extended user experience.READ»

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Inviting Others to Become Involved in Your Initiative

BY Seth KahanSat Jun 26, 2010

There are many ways to get people involved in your effort. The best is to start by inviting them into a conversation. When people are participating in a shared conversation, the topic becomes jointly owned. There is no better ...READ»

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The New Plan for Project Plans: Less Planning

BY Seth KahanWed May 19, 2010

When is project planning a hindrance to a business? When it comes at the expense of real engagement. Seth Kahan explains, in this excerpt from his book, "Getting Change Right."READ»

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Eleven Lessons for Scaling Up

BY Seth KahanMon Apr 12, 2010

I have had the good fortune to work with several organizations that are scaling up, growing their capacity to meet higher demands. I call this intentional evolution. My engagements have centered on helping these groups customize their ...READ»

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Visionary Leaders Create New Industries

BY Seth KahanThu Apr 1, 2010

[It is my pleasure to once again bring you my star guest blogger, James Allan. Enjoy this post below! -Seth Kahan]When you see premium coffee shops on every major street corner, it’s hard to believe there was ever a time when ...READ»

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3 Reasons Business Cards are Dangerous

BY Seth KahanSun Mar 14, 2010

Traditional business cards and CDs-as-business-cards are dangerous because:1. They assume old-style communication: I have a message for you.This is a transactional view of communication. If you simply put your card in someone's hand ...READ»

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Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World

BY Seth KahanTue Mar 9, 2010

Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World is a handbook every visionary must read. Jam-packed with effective reality-tested tools and true-life stories, this new tome by David Gershon provides insights from the front ...READ»

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Seven Steps to Staging Successful Splashes

BY Seth KahanMon Mar 1, 2010

This secret is well known in the entertainment industry. Imagine you are an agent, and one of your stars earns $3 million per night and you want to bump her up to $4 million a night. How do you do it? There really is no logical reason ...READ»

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Visionary Leaders Try Things that Others Don’t See

BY Seth KahanSat Feb 20, 2010

[It is my pleasure to once again bring you guest blogger, James Allan. Enjoy this post below! -Seth Kahan] How are visionary leaders created? What does it take for a person to create, enhance and maintain ...READ»

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3 Tips for Reaching Line Managers, the Missing Link

BY Seth KahanFri Feb 12, 2010

People at the top have great ideas all the time. They excel at pouring over the data and finding better ways. People on the ground are in touch with the reality of day-to-day operations. They know the challenges and opportunities ...READ»

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Peer Into the Future

BY Seth KahanThu Dec 31, 2009

It’s the last day of the year… the decade. It’s time to do something that can only be done once in a lifetime: stand on the shoulders of the last 365 days, or the last 3,650 days, and peer into the future. Where was your ...READ»