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Category Archives: Culture & Leadership

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Quiet: Understanding & Celebrating Introverts

March 29, 2012March 29, 2012

The last few weeks I’ve been as limp as a lettuce leaf that had stayed a few weeks too long in the fridge. This is not unusual. It is what …

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Quiet: Understanding & Celebrating Introverts

March 29, 2012

The last few weeks I’ve been as limp as a lettuce leaf that had stayed a few weeks too long in the fridge. This is not unusual. It is what …

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Meetings are SuperTax of Work

March 12, 2012March 12, 2012

We create a huge tax on everything we do when we insist on meeting more, later. Send stuff out that is best read so we don’t have to spend time …

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TED Bookstore Curation

March 3, 2012March 3, 2012

This year, I got asked to co-create the TEDbookstore with fellow TEDsters. I mentioned in an earlier post, it was a bit of a “sophie’s choice” moment because I felt …

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Social Means Freedom, For Better or Worse

February 23, 2012February 23, 2012

This is part II of a series on how the social era affects every business model, from how we organize, what we produce, and what we sell.  (Part I, the …

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Without a Clear Vision

February 21, 2012February 21, 2012

Vision is crucial. It is utterly irreplaceable. No amount of execution or financial success can replace vision. Why? Because, vision can lead the creative work of an entire tribe. (Not …

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Yahoo’s ShakeUp Demands Fearlessness

February 8, 2012February 8, 2012

Four longtime Yahoo board members, including the chairman, are leaving the company. In this one move, Yahoo is trying to make a clean break from the past — signaling that …

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What Barack Obama Could Learn from Vivek Wadhwa

January 27, 2012January 29, 2012

Ever since the presidential election of 2008, I’ve been getting progressively mad about something. I got enthralled with an administration that wanted to connect with people in the social era …

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8 Dangers of Collaboration

December 1, 2011December 1, 2011

Most of what is written about collaboration is positive. Even hip. Collaboration is championed enthusiastically by the Enterprise 2.0 experts, as well as leading thinkers like Don Tapscott as the …

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