Issue 82
The Four Strands: Creating Companies Aligned With Human DNA
May 4, 2011 - By: Henry Cloud, Ph.D
"When a company is designed and operates in ways that are aligned with how people are constructed, it will be like an airplane aligned with the laws of physics that govern force or torque. It will reach the altitude, speed and course that its horsepower allows. But if its design is not aligned, it will fly in circles, stall out, crash, or break apart.”
May 4, 2011 - By: Henry Cloud, Ph.D
How to Sharpen Your Sales Strengths
May 4, 2011 - By: Tony Rutigliano & Brian Brim
"You’ll be most successful at sales if you make the most of who you are. And by that, we mean using your natural talents—the ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that come naturally to you.”
May 4, 2011 - By: Tony Rutigliano & Brian Brim
Make It Happen: Turning Good Ideas Into Great Results
May 4, 2011 - By: Peter Sheahan
“The world is not short of ideas. It’s not. It is short of people who can execute on them. It is short of people who know how to take their aspirations and make a real impact on the world with them."
May 4, 2011 - By: Peter Sheahan
Issue 81
Why "Free" Is the Wrong Price for Water—Even If You Live on $1 a Day
April 6, 2011 - By: Charles Fishman
“Free turns out to be exactly the wrong price for water—whether that water is being used by huge global corporations, farmers, ordinary middle-class citizens, or the poorest people living in developing countries.”
April 6, 2011 - By: Charles Fishman
This Sentence Has 5ive Words: Eigen Values, Creating Truisms and the Future of Marketing
April 6, 2011 - By: Stephen Denny
"Creating eigen values is what marketers do when they’re doing their very best work. The concept of eigen values should change how you look at the marketing discipline completely.”
April 6, 2011 - By: Stephen Denny
Shine: Brain Science, Practical Psychology, Ancient Wisdom and the Cycle of Excellence
April 6, 2011 - By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD
“How do we draw the best out of people when so many of the rules and practices in life have changed? How in today’s new world can people reach their best at their best, given the speed of life and the torrent of information and obligation?"
April 6, 2011 - By: Edward M. Hallowell, MD
The Mistake Manifesto: How Making Mistakes Can Make Us Better
April 6, 2011 - By: Alina Tugend
“Mistake-avoidance creates workplaces where making changes and being creative while risking failure is subsumed by an ethos of mistake-prevention at the cost of daring and innovation.”
April 6, 2011 - By: Alina Tugend
The Three Gaps Between Goals and Greatness
April 6, 2011 - By: Pelè Raymond Ugboajah, PhD
“In the global race to achieve faster, better, cheaper business greatness, most leaders face a huge gap between the goals they set and the actual results achieved by the people in their organizations. This phenomenon is not a failure to plan, but rather, a failure to execute."
April 6, 2011 - By: Pelè Raymond Ugboajah, PhD
Social Sharing Manifesto: The Arguments For and Against The Rise of the Sharing Consumer
April 6, 2011 - By: Simon Salt
“Whether sitting around the campfire, standing at the water cooler, or chatting over the garden fence, human beings share their opinions with others. If those opinions prove to be useful, that person will be sought out for an opinion about other things and on a more frequent basis.”
April 6, 2011 - By: Simon Salt
Issue 80
The Micropreneur Manifesto: How to Stay Solo, Bleed Passion, and Build Products that Matter
March 9, 2011 - By: Rob Walling
“Micropreneurs are agile, inspired, independent, knowledge seekers who can't live with the 9-to-5 status quo.
If this resonates with you, read on. This manifesto attempts to distill the key points you'll need as you begin your micropreneur journey. I learned every one of them the hard way.”
March 9, 2011 - By: Rob Walling
