A Call Against Complacency
March 9, 2011 - By: Dambisa Moyo
"Given the evidence and importance of positive incentives, why, over the past 50 years, have policymakers embarked on a systematic and deliberate strategy of putting in place a catalogue of policies that dis-incentivise citizens from acting in a manner that could be beneficial to their economies, and the world at large?”

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The Reinvention Imperative
March 9, 2011 - By: Daniel Burrus & John David Mann
“In the good old twentieth century, you could reinvent your company, product category or industry once, and then go for a decade before doing anything especially innovative again. That doesn’t work anymore. The world has changed, and more importantly, change itself has changed."

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Lizards & Leaders: How Meditation Accelerates Change
March 9, 2011 - By: Eric Klein
“The goal is to cross your learning edge. […] To do this you have to let go of the structures, beliefs, and habits that constituted your old sense of self–without losing awareness. It takes a resilient awareness to remain at your learning edge without being overtaken by the inner lizard."

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The Maxwell Fallacy: There’s More to Leadership than Influence
March 9, 2011 - By: David Burkus
"John Maxwell, billed often as America’s foremost authority on leadership, has made his career around the phrase: 'Leadership is influence; nothing more, nothing less.' [...] It’s brief. It’s pithy. It’s wrong.”

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Ending Ephebiphobia: Young People Deserve More
March 9, 2011 - By: Sarah Newton
“The stereotypes of young people and the irrational fear we have of them have no place in modern society. Pliny the Elder was on to something when he said, 'What we do to our children, they will do to society.' If his words are to ring true, then we are in for a whole lot of trouble."

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Six Reasons Why the Sharing Society (aka the Mesh) Will Trump the Ownership Society
Feb. 16, 2011 - By: Lisa Gansky
“Get out of your chairs and into the streets, kids—the Internet has come to town. Literally. The IT revolution started by moving data around. Now mobile devices have spread the revolution to physical things—to the street."

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As One: A Manifesto for Individual Action and Collective Power
Feb. 16, 2011 - By: James Quigley & Mehrdad Baghai
“As One. Five letters that make all the difference between a group of individuals and a unified team. Two words that transform individual action into collective power. One idea that can help you realize the full power of your people."

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Activating the Entrepreneur Within
Feb. 16, 2011 - By: Jeffrey Weber
"So you, dear reader, want to know if you are an entrepreneur. It would be so easy to draw your blood and see the entrepreneurial DNA floating about and qualitatively state, “Yes, he is an entrepreneur!” But what good would this do? There still would be so much lacking outside the control of simple DNA to activate the entrepreneur within you.”

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How to Turn around Problem Performance in Five Questions or Less
Feb. 16, 2011 - By: Jim Bolton
"Underperformers suck. They suck the productivity out of a team or organization. They suck the morale out of your high performers. What are underperformers costing you? How much time do you spend reacting to problems related to underperformance? Think of the things you could do with that time if you could only get it back."

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The Seven Myths of Hyper-Social Organizations: Why Human 1.0 is Key
Feb. 16, 2011 - By: Francois Gossieaux
"To understand the changes that are afoot in the world of business you are better off understanding Human 1.0, which took tens of thousands of years to develop, rather than Web 2.0, which took merely a decade.”

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