Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Rebecca Bruns
Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and the director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, has given us some new terminology in a recent article in The Atlantic and in an interview last Monday on NPR’s “OnPoint” with Tom Ashboork.
A “talent-rich ecosystem” [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Rebecca Bruns
Last week I pointed you to an audio of David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, discussing Making It All Work, his newest book. In this post I point you to a video of the guts of his thinking. It is very east to digest. Good luck in getting Control and Perspective on [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Rebecca Bruns
In Sunday’s Chicago Tribune (February 15, 2009), an article by reporter Barbara Mahany entitled “Your Emotional Stimulus Plan” led me to think about a “Leadership Stimulus Plan.”
We’re most definitely in the midst of “a detectable change in the internal or external environment” (Wikipedia’s definition of stimulus). This blog entry explores whether this is “something that [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Administrator
Years ago one of the consultants I most admire, Steve Buchholz, author of Creating the High Performance Team, introduced the concept of “patient urgency” as an attitude that would benefit high performing teams. He taught that teams must convey a sense of urgency and yet be patient as well so as not to prematurely derail [...]
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