Entries Tagged as 'Talents, Innovators'
In a recent powwow, I was asked about my takeaway for entrepreneurs from the Winter Olympics. As I was starting to discuss the make-up of a champion, mentally ranking key characteristics, I changed gears and realized that what struck me the most, ultimately, was the victory of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in pair figure skating. Not […]
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Tags:2010 Winter Olympics·Chen Lu·Delbourg-Delphis·Entrepreneurship·Fail-forward-fast·Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up·innovation·Leadership·Luan Bo·Pair Figure Skating·Reinventing the future·Shen Xue·Tamara Moskvina·Tom Peters·Tradition·Yao Bin·Zhao Hongbo
We are so used to doing everything via the Internet that we think we have paid our dues when we paypal a donation, or inform all our friends of what’s happening around us via our social networks. Yet, we need to continue to help in the real world and to make sure that we volunteer […]
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Tags:Citizen Logistics·Common Good Corporation·Corporation-funded programs·Delbourg-Delphis·Entreneurship·Event management·Governance & accountability in non-profits·Groundcrew·Joe Edelman·Leadership·Non-profit organization·Organizer·Social Web·Stanford Social Innovation·Volunteer Economy·Volunteer Match·Volunteer retention·Volunteering·Volunteering in America
If you are interested in Jewish studies and read French, here is a fascinating book: Survies d’un Juif européen: Correspondance de Paul Amann avec Romain Rolland et Jean-Richard Bloch. This correspondance is put together, presented, annotated, and introduced by my sister, Claudine Delphis-Goettmann, and is published by the University Press of Leipzig (Leipziger Universitätsverlag). A […]
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Tags:Andrée Jouve·Bill Graham·Claudine Delphis·Eva Irrera·Friderike Zweig·Georg Brandes·George Duhamel·Jean-Richard Bloch·Jewish studies·Paul Amann·Peter Amann·Romain Rolland·Stefan Zweig·Thomas Mann·Wilhelm Friedmann·Wolfgang Asholt·Wolfgang Grajonca
I had a cup of coffee at Il Fornaio earlier this week with Olivia Fox Cabane. The short story is this: she is a consultant, speaker and leadership coach who has worked with a number of large corporations such as Deloitte, Citigroup, or Veracity Worldwide. She has given lectures at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, MIT and […]
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Tags:360-review·Charisma·First impression·Influence·Leadership·Olivia Fox Cabane·Persuasion·Robert Cialdini·Robert Gass
Last week at a famous bookstore chain, the young lady at the cash register asked me if I had a coupon. “Yes,” I said. “It should show on my account.” “No, it doesn’t work that way,” she replied tersely. “You have to print it.” “Kind of a waste of paper,” I remarked. “It’s not my […]
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Tags:Adam Smith·Change agent·Entrepreneurship·Factories and Workshops·Factory·Leadership·Linchpin·Personal development·Pyotr Kropotkin·Seth Godin·socio-political pamphlet·Tribes·Wealth of Nations
No Ars Poetica ever created poets. Creative writing classes rarely generate novelists. Do “how-to-write-a-post” recommendations work better? Yes, for posts that report industry messages (how to best sell a soap, promote or describe the latest and greatest products or trends, etc.) – i.e. when “blogging” is the expanded version of an annotated PowerPoint presentation, mini-tutorials, […]
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Tags:auteur-blog·auteur-film·Blogger·Blogging·Darryl Rehr·Dave Winer·Innovator·Julia Child·Literature-grade blogging·Matt Mullenweg·Scott Rosenberg·Scripting News
Guest writer: Mark Vernon Warner Bros Studios in Burbank : This past summer my son Gage and I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Warner Bros Studios in Burbank. Unlike the glitzy Universal Studios Tours, at Warner they put you in an electric golf cart and drive you around the studios like a star, […]
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Tags:AOL acquisition of Time Warner·Atari·Atari 2600·Atari 5200·Coleco·Donkey Kong·Jack Tramiel·Jack Warner·Leadership·Magnavox·Mark Vernon·Mergers and Acquisitions·Minoru Arakawa·Nintendo·Nolan Bushnell·PacMan·Ridge Vineyards·Universal Studios·Warner Bros Studios·Wii
I was at Back Bay Station, waiting for the train to NYC when I noticed a young guy with the Cluetrain Manifesto in his hands. I couldn’t resist asking him of he liked it. “It’s old, but it’s great,” he responded enthusiastically, adding that the authors should give it a new title: “Welcome to the […]
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Tags:Bing·Christopher Locke·Cluetrain Manifesto·David Weinberger·Doc Searls·Erik Qualman·Google WiFi·John Dvorak·Live Search Cashback·Luther's 95 theses·rick levine·Social Media·Social Networks·Social Web·Socialnomics
In her book, The New How, Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy, published by O’Reilly, Nilofer Merchant addresses a difficult topic: the common discrepancy between what is called “strategy” in the one hand, and what is labeled “execution,” on the other. In between, you have what she calls the “air sandwich.” The gap is not […]
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Tags:business cartoonist·Business Strategy·Collaborative strategy·Employeeship·Hugh MacLeod·Leadership·Marylene Delbourg-Delphis·Medarbetarskap·MurderBoarding·Nilofer Merchant·Rubicon Consulting·Strategy and Execution·Vision
Guest writer: Amita Paul “Most Fortune 100 Companies Don’t Get Twitter” – this statement referring a study published on Mashable intrigued me enough to write this article. This study was conducted by Weber Shandwick and presented a report on how well Fortune 100 companies use Twitter. The stats led to conclude that a majority of […]
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Tags:Amita Paul·Guy Kawasaki·Mashable·Objective Marketer·Social Media·Social media channel·Social Media Marketing·Twitter·Twueless·Weber Shandwick