Many of us have experienced the importance of efficiency and speed in the workplace. We can blame technology for most (or all) of it. Email replaced phone calls and fax machines. It literally changed the expectation of communications to working around the clock. versus time zone specific. Here’s an argument for how speed is destroying […]
Tag Archives | Innovation
Culture Before Business
Four of us, a few years back, made a pinky pact to create change in corporate America and around the world, and we formed a company to help make that change. Two years later, with several projects and one big huge beast of a project, we are now looking at ourselves and each other, and […]
Professional Home-dwellers
As I hammer through proposals and emails, make several phone calls, and set up multiple meetings…I am finding more and more smiles in my life, and less and less guilt about mid-day errands. Today I had to pick up my daughter and her friend in the middle of my work day for an hour-and-a-half lunch […]
Transforming the Work Week
I want to make a prediction. The workweek as we know it will shift for the corporate masses in the U.S. And I’m not talking about a “work from home day”. With enough studies to prove the ineffectiveness in the office, and enough technology to evolve how we work and collaborate, my prediction is that […]
Did I mention Coursera?
I feel like the new marketing maven of Coursera.org – an online consortium of universities with a ton of classes. I am becoming a junkie – on my fifth course – and evangelizing like crazy! One that I found helpful was Developing Innovative Companies – which Agent N and I took together. Every teacher is […]
Fabulous Clients
We just got one of the most amazing clients. This kid, well he’s in his 20’s, but really an amazing entrepreneur who started as a kid, is probably the next Mark Zuckerberg. Today he said to us that our team was known as some of the smartest, most innovative people in our industry… and I […]
Just Say No
Remember the First Lady Nancy Reagan and her campaign to combat drugs? Just say no? Well, I had another epiphany this evening. I was checking out this blog article from HBR about the importance of appreciation. And, if you’ve read my Power of 3 blog, you’ll understand that I’ve generally had a bad day. So […]
Conceiving Project X
At some point or another in your career, you may feel that your current job has no future, but that the prospects for finding anything better are also slim. This can be frustrating and depressing. It happened to me. There were a lot of factors that led to my unease and discomfort with my position […]
