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Why I Love REI

May 12, 2013May 15, 2013

My friend, Professor Terri Griffith sent this Yelp Review of Acme Bakery tonight because the review takes a side trip through REI… Check it out: This is a delightful tiny, …

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‘We need a new language for the collaborative age’

May 1, 2013May 1, 2013

Just realized that I never shared with you an article that was commissioned for, and published in the March 2013 issue of Wired (physical) magazine. Language encodes our thinking. To …

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How do you measure fulfillment at work?

April 24, 2013April 24, 2013

Just earlier this week, I met a fascinating entrepreneur building a desk that you can love — because it helps you to stand more, and optimizes for your health and …

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What is “social”? (An Etymology of Sorts)

February 20, 2013February 24, 2013

Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era – are they all the same, or are they quite different? Do you know? If you don’t know, you might …

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Are You Giving Up Power?

December 14, 2012December 14, 2012

When I spoke at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women’s Summit,  the first question asked in the room was this: “Doesn’t this Mean I am Giving up Power?” And I loved it. …

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Keeper of the Flame… Conversation on Video with Nancy Duarte

December 12, 2012December 13, 2012

Whenever I give an interview, I ask the conversation partner to not tell me any of the questions because I really want it to be a conversation — not some …

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TedGlobal Talk: Banking on Openness

September 5, 2012December 13, 2012

As you might have noticed, I took the summer off. Well, not quite off.  More like away.  I went to Scotland, and gave a talk at TEDGlobal on the topic …

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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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Resilient Organizations & Open Networks

April 23, 2012April 20, 2012

In Philip Auserwald’s recent book, The Coming Prosperity, he mentioned that open networks beat closed networks and larger networks beat smaller networks. As regular readers know, I’ve been talking about …

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