The Down-Side of Great Ideas

So I am back from what might be my 11th or 12th Great Ideas conference (I’ve been to them all, back to the GWSAE days, but I’ve lost count), and as usual I had a great time. I enjoyed delivering both the deep dive on Humanize (with Maddie Grant) on the...

The Future of Leadership

Sorry to break this to you, but the future of leadership is not about you. That’s the title of a guest post I did this week over on the blog of Shawn Murphy and Ted Coine, two outstanding thought leaders in the leadership arena. They did a series on the...

A New Blog to Follow: metacool

I just stumbled on Diego Rodriguez’s blog (hat tip to Bob Sutton) called metacool. Diego is a partner at IDEO and his blog is a must read for incorporating design thinking into what you do (according to Fast Company, anyway, and I’m seeing their point)....

Deep Dive on Humanize

Next week is ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference, and Maddie and I are doing a “deep dive” session on Humanize on Sunday afternoon (after the opening General Session). A “deep dive” is a three-hour session, and I’m glad ASAE has started...

The (Questionable) Value of Being the Authority

So I know this is going to come as a huge shock to everyone, but Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print. Yes. They’re going to stick with their online encyclopedia and a set of educational curricula (which actually accounts for 85% of their revenue...
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