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NEPAL TELECOM   |  Comment

Cellphones at the Top of the World: Everest's Peak to Get Coverage

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 83
Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Nepal Telecom has some lofty plans for its cellphone service. The company is expanding its network coverage to one of the most special spots on Earth: the top of Mount Qomolangma...aka Mount Everest. Climbing to Everest's ...READ»

CAREERS   |  1 comment

How to Make Your Classroom Sizzle

BY Mike Useem
Relevancy Score: 80
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:13 AM

Without energy and engagement, students don't want to learn, and teachers don't want to teach.READ»

CHANGE MANAGEMENT   |  Comment

Urban Everest

BY John N. Pasmore
Relevancy Score: 75
Sat May 5, 2007 at 10:20 PM

Sibusiso Vilane climbed Everest. The South African joins fewer than 3,000 people who can say the same. And no other Black man can yet make that claim, though African American woman Sophia Danenberg did the deed in May of 2006. The ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2006   |  Comment

Lodestars of Breakthrough Success

BY Thomas Lee
Relevancy Score: 72
Tue Aug 15, 2006 at 8:26 AM

Nothing of much significance has ever been achieved, and nothing of much value has ever been created, that wasn't, at some time the point of someone's single-minded focus, the object of someone's intense curiosity, the subject of ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Leadership Lessons from... Mt. Everest

BY Michael Waddell
Relevancy Score: 62
Tue Sep 16, 2008 at 9:29 PM

Michael Useem is an avid mountaineer, a university professor and a successful author. So it is only natural that he uses mountain climbing as a metaphor to teach leadership development. According to Useem, Mt. Everest is among ...READ»

MANAGEMENT   |  1 comment

Consultants and Summitry - Into Thin Advice

BY Ron Lieber
Relevancy Score: 40
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:11 AM

Consultant Debunking UnitREAD»

HISTORY   |  Comment

Historical Holidays III

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 35
Wed Jun 2, 2004 at 5:36 PM

It's been a good week or so for innovation-oriented anniversaries. On May 26, 1977, the movie Star Wars premiered. On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was completed. On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Norgay were the first men to ...READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  Comment

The Wizard, King, and Hobbit of Business

BY Jim Collins
Relevancy Score: 32
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:49 AM

The history of IBM unfolds into an epic trilogy about its three CEOs--the determined father, reluctant son, and enterprising stranger.READ»

DESIGN   |  1 comment

Aloha in Antarctica

BY Clay Dillow
Relevancy Score: 28
Thu Feb 14, 2008 at 4:42 PM

When the National Science Foundation began a search for a firm to build a new research station in Antarctica, it passed over a handful of Alaska-based companies, turning instead to an architect in a more unorthodox locale. The NSF ...READ»

GEAR   |  Comment

Do the Write Thing

BY Cheryl Dahle, Senior Writer
Relevancy Score: 28
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17 AM

Staff StuffREAD»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Lessons From the Fast 50 Winners

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 26
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

Five key lessons from this year's 50 winners.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

The Tipping Point for Companies That Fail

BY Jory Des Jardins
Relevancy Score: 25
Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 8:38 PM

I've been reading a great book, Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris is Wrecking Companies and Careers, by Mathew Hayward (Kaplan, 2007), which seemed to make its way to me at an opportune time. As a small business owner I constantly ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Only the Brave Surrender

BY Shoshana Zuboff
Relevancy Score: 25
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:47 AM

Don't be ashamed of what you don't know.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

How to Stay on the Move ... When the World Is Slowing Down

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 22
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:29 AM

It's hard to remember a less-inviting time to have a great idea for a new company or to champion new ideas to change a big company. But leaders who think big aren't willing to downsize their ambitions -- they just have to work a little harder (and smarter). Here's some battle-tested advice on how to stay fast in slow times.READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING   |  Comment

Leader on the Edge

BY Curtis Sittenfeld
Relevancy Score: 18
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:08 AM

World-renowned explorer Robert Swan is the first person ever to walk to both the North and South Poles. Now he's teaching businesspeople about leadership under life-and-death conditions.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  1 comment

60 Seconds With Erik Weihenmayer

BY Danielle Sacks
Relevancy Score: 12
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:49 AM

Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest. Now he's helping corporations see things in a different light.READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS   |  1 comment

Web Designs Designed to Sell

BY Cheryl Dahle
Relevancy Score: 10
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:09 AM

Steve Burnett doesn't pretend that he knows why some sites sell and others repel. The key to creating great sites, he says, is to let the people who visit them help you design them: "Users will show us what works."READ»

LEADERSHIP MENTORING   |  Comment

Masters of Disaster

BY Regina Fazio Maruca
Relevancy Score: 8
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:26 AM

We asked eight turnaround experts, from professors to investors to managers, who have brought companies back from the brink, to give us their recipe for rescue. Here's the 411 on the 911.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Leaders Pushing Limits

BY Grace Andrews
Relevancy Score: 8
Fri May 25, 2007 at 1:00 PM

I have been reading with great interest, of late, the phenomenon of leaders taking physical risks and challenges to "keep the edge". It is an interesting concept. In a recent USA Today article by Del Jones, he writes about CEOs and ...READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  Comment

Extreme Jobs (and the people who love them)


Relevancy Score: 7
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:05 AM

Eighty-hour weeks. Relentless travel. Unpredictable schedules. High risk, high stress. Your worst nightmare, maybe -- but a dream for a group of elite workers.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Fantastic Voyage

BY Scott Kirsner
Relevancy Score: 6
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:47 AM

Cyberonics' medical implant is the size of a chocolate-chip cookie, and it could--could--be worth $2.8 billion someday. But as this dramatic tale of innovation and entrepreneurship shows, saving lives can be one tough business.READ»

ONLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE   |  2 comments

The People behind the People behind E-commerce

BY David Dorsey
Relevancy Score: 5
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:04 AM

To the people at OrderTrust, e-commerce won't truly arrive until they deliver it.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  2 comments

Can Google Stay Google?

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 2
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:56 AM

It is the company of the nanosecond -- and a really, really rich one at that. But Silicon Valley often eats its own young. So what are Messrs. Brin and Page planning to keep Google thriving for the long haul?READ»

LEISURE   |  Comment

Mid-Life Cyclist

BY Christine Canabou
Relevancy Score: 2
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:41 AM

Training for a grueling bike race, a hard-charging banker learns to shift gears.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  3 comments

The Power of Words

BY Harriet Rubin
Relevancy Score: 1
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:59 PM

Fernando Flores was Chile's minister of finance -- and, later, a political prisoner. Now he teaches companies how to use assessments and commitments to transform the way they do business. The outcome: executives who speak and act with intention.READ»