It’s rare to hear about creativity in sports. Here’s an interesting story by Kelly Whiteside, USA TODAY: BOISE — As the college football world knows, Boise State does things differently, from its blue turf to a roster full of players who were too short or too slow or simply overlooked to its offensive wizardry. So where does [...]
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Having a personal career coach for C-level executives is expected as part of their continuing professional development and it also makes great business sense. Coaches can also be helpful for non executives in various stages of your career. A coach can help polish your communication skills, develop and implement effective leadership strategies in your workplace, [...]
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In today’s environment, career resilience is an essential attribute for success, even for survival. “If you identify with your job or career, you’re in trouble, because that changes,” says Ms. Naiman. “But if you know who you are and can take a stand for what you believe in – your values – you have a ‘north star’ to guide you.”
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Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. His movie traces the history of our current economic debacle back to the Middle Ages, and how current crisis is actually an opportunity to reinstate commerce and communities based in creating value for one another, rather than [...]
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This newsletter is dedicated to Arthur (Andy) VanGundy who passed away May 5, 2009 Dr. Arthur (Andy) VanGundy, was a pioneer in business creativity, a friend, colleague, and my co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work. He died May 5, following heart surgery. I posted some of my memories of Andy on my blog and would [...]
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How long is now? A visit last month to The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco inspired the theme for this newsletter. The term was coined by Brian Eno, who noticed when he first moved to New York City, here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here [...]
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By Dianne Legro Do you know what builds trust within the first crucial moments of meeting someone? If you are marketing to other professionals, or mentoring or fostering conscious growth in any of its forms in the corporate arena, humanities, arts or sciences you know that there is nothing as fast or as transformative as [...]

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