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Category Archives: Talks

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What is Corporate Board’s Role in Value Creation?

November 23, 2012November 30, 2012

When I was in NYC a few weeks back, the NYSE group asked me to sit down and talk about the impact of Social Era as it relates to the …

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40 Days and Lessons Learned

November 21, 2012November 21, 2012

I’ve just finished 40 days on the road, delivering talks for people who have been kind enough to invite me to share the ideas of the #socialera. Corporate events, and …

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What I Learned from My TEDTalk

October 27, 2012October 28, 2012

I told you a few months ago I would write about what it felt like to do a TEDtalk. I published my perspective earlier this week at my Harvard blog …

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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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Not Checks, but Purpose

October 3, 2011October 4, 2011

This video montage was made from a series of questions/answers on collaboration and management. It contains some vignettes and ideas that matter. Filmed during The Art of Management Conference (where …

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Curating Greatness

July 18, 2011July 19, 2011

The engineers who become CEO do so because they’re artists of technology. The marketers because they’re sculptors of identity. The finance guys because they’re maestros of money, conductors of cash. …

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TEDx: How We Deny Innovation

June 21, 2011December 1, 2019

Innovation! Isn’t it Great?! We just love talking about innovation and thinking about innovation, and tweeting about innovation. But we actually suck at it, for entirely human reasons. There are …

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MurderBoarding™

June 20, 2011July 18, 2011

It’s not about how many ideas we have, it’s how many we kill so that we end up with 1 unifying, clear answer for what matters to us and why. …

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Superheroes R Us

June 15, 2010December 1, 2019

You have all the power you need for the task you have ahead of you! This talk takes you down the streets of Gotham in the batmobile exploring the stuff …

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