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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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Rules for The Social Era

February 15, 2012February 15, 2012

I mentioned in a prior post that I would soon update what has been keeping me heads-down. For months now, my Harvard editor and I have been planning on a …

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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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5 Steps To Reach the Boardroom

February 8, 2012February 8, 2012

This was a post that I did for my friends at Women 2.0. It’s meant as career advice and a way to #changetheratio in the long-run. Once again, the topic …

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Sneak Peek at TEDBookstore

February 6, 2012February 6, 2012

Last week, I had my very own ‘Sophie’s Choice’ moment, but not for children… but for books. TED (the conference) offers an onsite bookstore with handpicked titles. The Bookstore is …

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Must-Reads This Week

February 1, 2012

I’ve been rather offline for most of January, and I thought you wouldn’t notice. But, a bunch of you – including people I barely know —  have been dropping emails …

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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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