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How Power Powers Ideas

March 14, 2019October 14, 2019

A few months back, the Economist ran an article with the headline “We’ve Run Out of Ideas”. And they were 100% serious. I actually said – aloud, like a crazy person – …

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How to Effect Change at Work When You’re “The First” or “The Only”

November 8, 2017December 1, 2019

An executive was recounting a recent work “failure” and asking for some advice. She had been brought in to a software product company to add her UX (user design) experience. …

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Just How Powerful Are You?

April 30, 2012December 13, 2012

When you write online, no one checks to see if you have a journalism degree before they start to read. If you experience an earthquake and want to report on …

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Don’t Give Up

August 4, 2011August 6, 2011

Life is full of twists and turns and it is sometimes easy to get sick of the many gyrations that are needed to make a business thrive, a project launch, …

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The Success Equation

June 20, 2011December 1, 2019

Human stuff — the soft stuff — is rarely valued. We talk about it, sure. But we don’t change it. We don’t reinvent it. We give lip service to it …

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Three Times You Have to Speak Up

February 3, 2011July 18, 2011

It was said of Abbot Agatho that for three years he carried a stone in his mouth until he learned to be silent. I was thinking about that story by …

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What Surrounds Us, Affects Us.

January 26, 2011October 7, 2011

We are all connected. We mostly know that. Do we also realize that who we hang with affects our moods, what we think about as valid, it shows up in …

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Rogues, Misfits Or Heroines?

December 7, 2010December 1, 2019

Moments define, or rather they let us redefine who we are. We are all familiar with the story of Rosa Parks and how it contributed to the civil rights movement. …

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