How can you increase your business IQ by getting to the heart of daily financial matters? Emotional Reactions and Business Decisions Business etiquette does not favor evidence of feeling. It’s as though emotional reactions signify a lack of control — and therefore cloud our ability to identify, consider, or present the truth. Those who seem [...]
I’ve seen a bit of discussion about funding models recently, and have been playing around with an interesting experiment in crowdsourcing products called quirky. For creative or product-focused businesses, it seems crowdfunding is really taking off as a concept, though I’ve yet to hear much in the way of actual success stories. The idea’s fairly [...]
I talked to business leaders across contexts for over three years about how they could identify a talented learner. This sample included prominent educators, psychologists, small business owners, parents, and corporate giants. The results I published in the last post. So if international leaders — from primary school teachers to CEOs — want to develop [...]
…entrepreneurs find any excuse to work outdoors instead of indoors. If only a laptop existed that wasn’t entirely unusable in a bit of sun, with an infinite battery, and with the ability to pick up WiFi signals from the middle of the Meadows. Fortunately, I’ve been doing a lot of planning lately, and planning is [...]
Every child is an artist. The Problem is how to remain an artist once (s)he grows up. –Pablo Picasso Continuing from the last few posts: What about the relationship between observation and analysis — the space between sight and insight — demands attention for successful business practice? Executives are not the only ones who are [...]
A couple of years ago, I attended Pop Tech in Maine, and I had the pleasure of meeting Carl Honoré, one of the speakers with whom I seemed to agree vociferously — in particular, on the benefits of going slow. I told him I’d share in more depth some ideas we began discussing back then. [...]
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