Unleashing the Creative Reservoir: The Rise of the Creative Class, Revisited
May 9, 2012 - By: Richard Florida
“A new social compact—a Creative Compact—can turn our Creative Economy into a just and Creative Society, in which prosperity is widely shared.”

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Build This: Your Culturematic Laboratory
May 9, 2012 - By: Grant McCracken
“Ruled by pragmatism and play, your laboratory is fast becoming the place you come to look out into the future. This the bridge from which you can look at your possible outcomes, examine your range of options, think about how to think the future.”

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The Shattering: How We Get From Where We Are to What and Who We Need to Be—A Non-Illustrated Guide to Becoming Honest
May 9, 2012 - By: Erika Napoletano
“The Shattering is the moment where everything familiar slips away. Our protective facades of familiarity spontaneously combust and we shun faith, deny comfort. We’re left voiceless regardless of our need to scream.”

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Let’s Make Leadership Real Again
May 9, 2012 - By: Mike Figliuolo
“We have devolved from leaders into managers. Admiral Grace Murray Hopper said it best—you manage things, but you lead people. The problem is we’re no longer leading.”

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The Face-to-Face Manifesto: Back to the Future
May 9, 2012 - By: Ed Keller & Brad Fay
“The fact is that online social networking is no substitute for the power and impact of face-to-face communications. Real world conversations—most of which take place face-to-face—are still the dominant mode of communication, and they are the most trusted and persuasive.”

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Rebooting America's Innovation Engine: Using Jugaad to Innovate Faster, Better, and Cheaper
May 9, 2012 - By: Navi Radjou
“The motto ‘innovate or die’ held true for American firms in the 20th century. In the 21st century, ‘innovate faster, better, and cheaper—or die’ will be your new mantra.”

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Nine Things I Learned from Alan Mulally
April 11, 2012 - By: Bryce G. Hoffman
“I spent many hours sitting across the table from Mulally in his corner office on the twelfth floor of Ford’s world headquarters. I learned a lot about how to change cultures and streamline organizations, and I believe these principles will prove as valuable to your organization as they have to Ford.”

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Stop Selling and Start Storytelling
April 11, 2012 - By: Jason L. Baptiste
“Successful entrepreneurs are never selling, and always storytelling. Throughout this manifesto, I want to focus on how an entrepreneur can use storytelling to persuade four key constituents that can ultimately make or break their startup—the press, team members, customers and investors.”

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How to Avoid Becoming China’s Bitch: A Radical Centrist Manifesto for Fixing What’s Broken
April 11, 2012 - By: Peter D. Kiernan
“Where do I get off using a title like that? Because the time has come to get you out of your comfort zone. In fact, it’s well past time for all of us. If we don’t, we will lose more than our superpower status—we may well lose our national soul.”

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We Say We Want a Revolution: How to Activate the Activist and Surf the Tidal Wave of Radical Change
April 11, 2012 - By: Gina Amaro Rudan
“I confess—the revolutionary climate we’re experiencing right now excites me. Why? Because every monster economic crisis or socio-political upheaval brings bottom-up innovation, top-down collaboration, and a flurry of creativity ... ”

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