The Business Case For Corporate Philanthropy Donations are a better financial choice than either liquidation or landfill when it comes to unloading product that cannot be moved otherwise, according to a report released today.
Updated Tue Jan 24, 2012
Columbia Lighthouse For The Blind Matches D.C. Business Needs With Those Of Returning Vets In the face of an uncertain economy, it is critical that nonprofits align themselves with current needs to ensure their relevancy, generating value appreciated both by the public and sponsors. That idea helped Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind match thousands of returning D.C.-area vets with job training and placement services.
Updated Fri Nov 11, 2011
Roundtable Discusses Strategic HR HR is in a unique position to drive competitive excellence if it is fully aligned with business goals.
Updated Sat Jun 25, 2011
Reinventing Management For Speed, Innovation, And Collaboration 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.
Updated Tue Jun 21, 2011
HR Strategy And Innovation I had the opportunity to host an exclusive webinar that was limited to HR Certification Institute's credential holders who work for the Most Innovative companies. The topic was HR Strategy and Innovation.
Updated Mon Jun 13, 2011
Full Service Digital Is Here It seems like it has taken forever, but someone has finally done to digital representation what Bezos did to retail, pulled together all the pieces of the puzzle and optimized all the moving parts. Al DiGuido, a long-time shaper and player in the digital marketing industry, is CEO of Zeta Interactive and is exerting his influence to make full service digital an operational reality.
Updated Tue Jun 7, 2011
Bold Moves For Association Leaders 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.
Updated Mon May 16, 2011
Revolution at Work, Day 2 Here in Washington, DC, two blocks from the White House, Day 2 of Revolutionizing the World of Work commences (twitter #RevWork).
Updated Fri May 13, 2011
Revolution At Work Today in Washington, DC, I am working with Steve Denning, author of "The Leaders' Guide to Radical Management." We are leading a collaborative workshop that portends the coming revolution in the workplace, Revolutionizing the World of Work.
Updated Fri May 13, 2011
MIT Media Lab Selects Drop Out As Director 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 Media Lab has taken the bold move, announced today, to appoint Joichi Ito as its fourth director.
Updated Wed Apr 27, 2011
Deb Mills-Scofield, Business Innovation Maven 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.
Updated Thu Apr 7, 2011
Peter Stevens: Scrum Maestro Transforming the World of Work 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.
Updated Mon Mar 21, 2011
Middle East Leadership Lessons 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 leader in the field of Relationship
Economics.
Updated Fri Feb 25, 2011
Obama on Innovation Obama is keen on innovation to cut through current economic travails. Here are nine excerpts sliced from his State of the Union address.
Updated Fri Feb 4, 2011
Organizational Change Is Dead 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.
Updated Fri Jan 28, 2011
6 Steps to a Breakthrough Get your scope right.
Identify the area you will address. This will determine what is relevant and what is not as you move forward, untangling inter-dependent relationships.
Identify your Most Valuable Players
Updated Sat Jan 22, 2011
FOCUS on Business Smarts for All Focus provides business smarts to small and medium-sized companies, even solopreneurs... and it's free. Focus is a goldmine.
Updated Mon Jan 17, 2011
Individualized Value Creation for Large Populations 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.
Updated Sun Jan 16, 2011
The Opportunity for Growth in Tough Times There is a dramatic difference between those organizations that are growing aggressively and those who are not. The latter group is hunkering down, hoping to weather the storm. Instead of driving expansion they are becoming marginalized, and receding into the background.
Updated Tue Jan 11, 2011
Good Todo Solves Email Overload My inbox became more than an overstuffed annoyance. I run my business on relationships. Personal contact is the currency of my realm. My email catastrophe was an opportunity mine in disarray with diamonds in the rough obscured by urgent communiqués stacking faster than I could clear them.
Updated Mon Jan 3, 2011
