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What Cory Booker is Teaching us about 21st Century Leadership

December 7, 2012December 8, 2012

This week, Mayor Booker is living on a “food stamp” budget to raise awareness of food insecurity. For those of you that don’t know of him, Cory Booker is an …

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Who You Are Is What You Make

November 22, 2011November 23, 2011

Sharing another talk I’ve recently done on innovation and igniting performance inside our firms. Innovations like pyramids, paper, gunpowder and silicon are the direct result of the cultures that introduced …

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Redesigning Leadership

November 17, 2011November 17, 2011

This last year, I’ve felt burnt out on business books. I read enough of them and, frankly, I find myself less and less motivated to do so. I used to …

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Enough About You

October 14, 2011October 14, 2011

I remember when I first joined online communities. How foreign it all felt. Who was “out there” that I was tweeting to? Who was going to read the blog that …

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Must-Read Weekend Reading

October 2, 2011October 24, 2011

I’ve been so busy synthesizing 10 years of thinking on Social Business Models, and writing up these ideas for an upcoming HBR magazine article that I have been remarkably behind …

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Release Ideas Into The Wild

August 8, 2011August 8, 2011

Sometimes I hold onto ideas as mine alone, almost as if I might have held onto my first baby blanket – tightly – for fear I might lose it. When …

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Why I’m Glad I Got Fired

March 17, 2011July 18, 2011

I came to be an expert on collaboration because Carol Bartz both hired me and fired me — within 18 months. Here’s what happened. A friend of mine, Godfrey Sullivan, …

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Be a Better CEO

May 17, 2010December 1, 2019

Dear Leader, You say you want all of us within the company to innovate. But you haven’t enabled us to do so. You need to work with us so we …

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Flat is the New Black

December 7, 2009September 7, 2011

Ever wonder why big organizations act so darn slow? It’s not because of size alone. It’s because our modern day organizations are designed and optimized for the “what is” rather …

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