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Visionary, Maker, Genius: Steve Jobs
Tonight, the news broke that Steve Jobs has died. There's a Google+ stream filled with commentary and stories about his life. Like many, I considered him a visionary, a genius, a maker. Someone the business community — and the business he built — will miss greatly. I looked for an official Apple company vision statement,…
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For Purpose: Intent as Influence
[YouTube, 13:01] Adam Braun is the founder of a for purpose organization called Pencils of Promise. This is a video of a talk he gave at Google Zeitgeist 2011. What I found fascinating about his story is that I was really, really interested in power — not as in have power over others, more…
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Leading Change
In Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself, co-founder of Fast Company magazine Bill Taylor says: “We are living through the age of disruption. You can’t do big things if you’re content with doing things a little better than everyone else or a little differently than how…
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How to Source and Credit Content
Online media makes it easier to copy things. As it is the case with so many other activities, however, execution is key. In researching information for this post, for example, I came across a post Lee Odden has written about 5 ways to source content on Twitter. He says: polls — I do mine…
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No Limit for Better
I agree with Dan Pink, there is no limit for better. How do you get there? In his latest book, Drive, Pink suggests you do that by taking an approach that has three elements to it: 1.) Autonomy – or the desire to direct our own lives2.) Mastery – the urge to get better and…
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Our Search for Meaning
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life — daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but…
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Blog News Release: The Age of Conversation
Today is the official release date of The Age of Conversation, an eBook co-authored by 103 authors from 10 nations. The permanent link and page to this group project on this site is here. Preliminary press: AdAge and Social Computing Magazine. Formats/Prices: Hardbacks $29.99Paperbacks $16.95E-book $9.99 Available at Lulu stores. BackgroundDedication If you're blogging this…
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The Narrative Fallacy
In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb approaches the impact of the highly improbable through multiple literary, philosophic and narrative references. I worked for years in risk management. The topic fascinates me. The book has a chapter titled Umberto Eco's antilibrary. The idea is that the more you know, the larger the rows of…