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Create The Conditions (that create the conditions) For Success
Don’t confuse enthusiasm for passion. Enthusiasm is nice. You can’t help but get excited being in the same room with someone who is “really, really enthusiastic”. It’s fun. It feels great. But it’s not passion. Passion isn’t about personality, and it isn’t infectious. Passion does not rub off on you while you’re working … [Read more...]
Lock people into a room for hours, or days, and eventually you'll get an answer. The only problem is that it might not be the answer you want, the answer you expect, or it may end up being the answer to a entirely different question altogether. Such is the risk when working in a collaborative session. As we saw in Copenhagen, during the 2009 UN … [Read more...]
It's got a couple of lopsided circles, a squiggly diagram, looping arrows, a few descriptive words and an oversized exclamation mark! It could change your company. It might even change the world. And it's right there in your hands... sketched out on a coffee stained napkin made of 100% recycled materials. It doesn't really matter where great … [Read more...]
Within ten years, the generation that went from flower power to corporate power will be stepping out of the C-Suite and passing control onto Gen X; followed closely by Gen Y managers. Things are going to change. Again. To understand how this will impact your company, take a step back and consider the fundamental attributes of each generational … [Read more...]
Guardians of democracy. It's a phrase used to promote various political perspectives but recently picked up by Leslie Gleb in his book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy. Leslie was referring to generations of Americans whose education level is so poor America will not be able to compete and uphold its leadership in a … [Read more...]
