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David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees

BY Kermit PattisonMon Apr 11, 2011

Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. Its principal guru is David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford design school, who takes a similar approach to managing people.READ»

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Leveling Up Your Staff: Zynga's Mark Pincus on Entrepreneurial Companies

BY Kermit PattisonWed Oct 27, 2010

Mark Pincus was chased out of some of the best companies in America, before building his own. Pincus is the founder and CEO of Zynga, creators of online games FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Here, Pincus talks about why a company's strength comes from its culture, and why everybody should think like an entrepreneur.READ»

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How Herman Miller Has Designed Employee Loyalty

BY Kermit PattisonWed Sep 22, 2010

Those famous Herman Miller chairs are comfortable--and apparently working for the company is too. The average Herman Miller employee has 14 years of service. What makes people stick around? In this Q&A, CEO Brian Walker explains the company's unique approach to leadership, why openness breeds loyalty, and why good stewardship makes good business.READ»

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Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made It an Employee Pyramid and Saved His Company

BY Kermit PattisonThu Aug 26, 2010

Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain, talks to us about how the near-death of his business changed his outlook on leadership, why managers put too much emphasis on money and not enough on meaning, and why it's more important to climb the employee pyramid than the corporate ladder.READ»

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: "I'm Just a Manager"

BY Kermit PattisonWed Aug 11, 2010

Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out.READ»

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What Breed Is Your CEO? Randy Komisar on Leadership and Management

BY Kermit PattisonTue Jul 27, 2010

In the life of a company, every dog has its day. So says Randy Komisar, a veteran entrepreneur and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He warns of the classic mistakes of manager-wannabe-leaders, the perils of too many bullets and not enough Zen, and why CEOs are like dogs. READ»

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FreeRisk: Crowdsourcing Credit Ratings?

BY Kermit PattisonMon Mar 30, 2009

Can an open source approach reinvent the business of analyzing risk?READ»

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Powering Down: Q&A With Saul Griffith, Makani Power

BY Kermit PattisonFri Jan 2, 2009

Forget about a new gym membership or diet. The most important New Year’s resolution for 2009 may be slimming down your energy footprint. To that end, Saul Griffith and his colleagues have created WattzOn, a personal calculator that allows users to track energy consumption down to the last apple they eat.READ»

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Crowdsourcing Innovation: Q&A with Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive

BY Kermit PattisonMon Dec 15, 2008

Can open innovation revolutionize doing good? In this Q&A, InnoCentive president and CEO Dwayne Spradlin explains why crowdsourcing is becoming a powerful tool for doing good.READ»

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The Twine that Binds: Q&A with Nova Spivack

BY Kermit PattisonSun Dec 7, 2008

Half a century ago, management guru Peter Drucker introduced the concept of the knowledge worker. Today his grandson, Nova Spivack, is trying to turn their knowledge into something more than the sum of the parts and boost their ...READ»