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iFive: Oil Spill Underestimated, Tunerfish TV App Launches, Teenage Sailor Found, Mandela Mourns, Banksy Caught on CCTV

While you were sleeping, innovation was hanging outside a pub, spray can in hand, tagging "Up All Night And Still Going Strong" on the wall.1. As the situation in the Gulf of Mexico continues, revised estimates of the true size of the ...READ»

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Senior Entrepreneurs Business Startups

Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

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Nokia Rocks the World: The Phone King's Plan to Redefine Its Business

Nokia already owns the global cell-phone market. Now Tero Ojanperä is launching the world's biggest delivery system for services, apps, and entertainment.READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Dream big what matters: Do you believe in something big?  I don’t mean religion, although that does qualify.  I mean anything that means more to you than life itself.  Or almost more. Big shakers and movers all have big ...READ»

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Creating Memorable Personal Brand Experience

When all is said and done, brand is all about perception, experience and memory of the brand users. Brands-in whatever form belongs to the target audience and not to the owner. About three months after a change in management of any ...READ»

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Visionary Leadership

A visionary leader perceives challenges and growth opportunities before they happen, positioning people to produce extraordinary results that make real contributions to life. I have begun working with a select group of people ...READ»

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Is Heroic Leadership a Thing of the Past?

The idea of heroic leadership has become something of a dinosaur in recent thinking. When people attack this notion, they have in mind senior executives who think they have all the answers, who take all the credit and who call the ...READ»

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Excellent Leadership is Innovation - Just Ask Obama

Even in a business blog, it is not possible to sit down on this historic morning to compose a piece about leadership and innovation without talking about Barack Obama. The Obama leadership equation for two years has been Obama = ...READ»

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The Poverty Problem: Pinpricks of Insight From Rimini, Italy

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with smart, worldly people, and there were a half-dozen moments that caught my attention.READ»

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Entrepreneurs Can Solve World Problems

Not everybody becomes an entrepreneur to make money. In fact, most young entrepreneurs seem to be focused on saving the world, rather than on the bucks. Best case scenario is that both happen. But for Phil Lillienthal, there's no ...READ»

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Boooorrriinng!!!

That's exactly what Philippe Gaulier teaches leaders not to be. He uses theatrical techniques in order to help would-be leaders find their inner clowns.READ»

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Nature Versus Nurture

Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander and painter Rosamund Stone Zander suggest leadership-training exercises for restless executives who are not "born leaders."READ»

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Fast Company Polls

Make Your Voice HeardREAD»

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Integrity Matters

So say the folks who took our latest survey, by a huge margin. Too bad they find it in such short supply among today's leaders.READ»

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The Gonzo Way of Branding

Billionaire Richard Branson has thrived by breaking the rules. Now he's tackling his greatest challenge, setting his sights on the United States and a new airline. He's testing himself and the limits of the Virgin brand.READ»

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Courage... But Were Afraid to Ask.

We asked some of the world's foremost leadership thinkers 15 questions to get to the core of courage.READ»

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How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Plot the Graph.

Marketers have figured out a way to measure how consumers really feel about brands. Warning: Love hurts.READ»

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One Man's Drive... One Company's Courage

Anglo American is by far the dominant company in a proud country that is being ravaged by AIDS. Dr. Brian Brink made it his business to transform Anglo's approach to saving lives in South Africa -- even if it meant incurring the wrath of a government that prefers to look the other way. Meet the determined face of corporate citizenship.READ»

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Song's Startup Flight Plan

How does an established corporate giant (in this case, Delta Air Lines) respond to disastrous economic circumstances and the rise of a new breed of competitors that operate by different rules? By creating a whole new operation (in this case, Song) that runs by those rules, and then trying to fly beyond the competition. Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the ambitious flight plan and bumpy launch of an internal startup.READ»

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Rule #3: Leadership Is Confusing As Hell

You think the past five years were nuts? You ain't seen nothin' yet! It's only going to get weirder, tougher, and more turbulent. Which means that leadership will be more important than ever -- and more confusing (see rule #3).READ»

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Living Dangerously - Issue 40

"Like the King, King David knew how to strum a person like an instrument."READ»

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Boooorrriinng!!!

That's exactly what Philippe Gaulier teaches leaders not to be. He uses theatrical techniques in order to help would-be leaders find their inner clowns.READ»

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Living Dangerously - Issue 32

"Here are the 10 Commandments of leadership that I carried down from the mountaintop."READ»

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How Will You Fail?

In My Humble Opinion: Harriet Rubin on living dangerously.READ»

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The Leader of the Future

Harvard's Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership.READ»