Principles Under Pressure: Working in Adversarial Relationships
Dec. 8, 2010 - By: Aryanne Oade
"This manifesto is about how to work with such an adversarial character, whether they are your boss, peer or team member. It is about how to use the specific behavior you need to use to help you manage the unclear boundaries, ambivalent motives and occasional duplicitous conduct that characterizes adversarial working relationships."

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O Brave New World: Driving Profitable Growth in the New Demand Economy
Dec. 8, 2010 - By: Rick Kash
"For the first time in the memory of most working people, we now live in a world of contracting markets, diminished consumer demand and anemic pricing power. And that in turn means that our current and widely adopted formula for growth is now obsolete."

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Forget Cinderella, Find Fred Astaire
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
“Most companies would like to become more gender balanced at all levels, with women and men dancing together in a smooth and natural way. They have been trying for decades to attract, retain and promote more women. [...] But nobody ever bothered checking if the prince can actually dance.”

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Make Your Web Site a Real-Time Machine
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: David Meerman Scott
“Now, we’re entering a fifth era of the evolution: transformation of the Web site into a real-time marketing (and sales) machine. This is the natural evolutionary outcome of a process that started with a new way to slip brochures under people’s doors.”

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Turning Social Capital Into Financial Capital
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: Marcia Conner
“Social media has the potential to dramatically improve the inner workings of every company. The interstitial connections can quickly cross business silos, inform decision making, educate people at all levels, and allow employees—especially new entrants—to pick up the natural rhythms of how people around them work.”

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Through the Fog: Solving Health Care in Companies
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: John Torinus Jr.
“Major change usually comes off a platform of crisis, and I think everyone can agree that crisis conditions surely exist in health care economics. The nation’s health care bill has been doubling every eight years for the last four decades."

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The Amish and the Case for Humility
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: Erik Wesner
“When they’re not around you or me, the Amish speak a language called Pennsylvania German. Demut is their word for humility. And Demut isn’t just for the Amish. Why does humility matter? It matters in business. It matters in life. It matters in our relationships."

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Change is the New Constant: Leading Organizations That (Can) Thrive in Crises
Nov. 3, 2010 - By: Alan Lewis
“Most organizations believe they are not working as well as they used to. They blame the rapid and unpredictable changes that are going on around them. But many of them have failed to grasp one fundamental truth: CHANGE IS THE NEW CONSTANT.”

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Personality Poker: How to Create High-Performing Innovation Teams
Oct. 6, 2010 - By: Stephen M. Shapiro
“'Opposites attract,' or at least that’s the line we’ve all been fed. However, in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from the physics of magnets, the fact is that opposites actually repel. Human beings strive for commonality, and organizations exist amid striking homogeneity—but why is this a concern?"

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Survival of the Simplest: The Micro-Script Rules
Oct. 6, 2010 - By: Bill Schley
“I have a simple premise: it’s too complicated. Now, you might say, ‘that’s rather broad, Bill. In your manifesto, you must tell us what is too complicated.’ And I’d respond simply—‘Okay, how about everything.’"

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