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
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
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
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
I had lunch with Dominique Gibert earlier this week at one of my favorite Parisian haunts, the Brasserie Lipp, Boulevard Saint-Germain. Dominique is the founder of Diateino, the French publisher of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start and Reality Check as well as of Seth Godin’s Tribes, three books that I translated for her. […]
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Tags:4D·ACIUS·Brasserie Lipp·Brixlogic·Chauvin·Diateino·Dominique Gibert·Entrepreneurship·Guy Kawasaki·Leadership·Les Techniques du Succès·Marylene Delbourg-Delphis·Reality Check·Say Chic to Say it in French·Seth Godin·The Art of the Start·Tribes
When famous CEOs tell their stories, you are never quite sure if they their goal is self-aggrandizement or an authentic desire to recount something that will be of real interest to others. Marc Benioff has lots of reasons to be very proud of accomplishments, but his book Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com […]
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Tags:Carlye Adler·Cloud Computing·Entrepreneurship·Leadership·Marc Benioff·Microsoft·NGO·SaaS Model·Salesforce.com·Siebel Systems·Tom Siebel·Upshot
It is simply a great pleasure to step into a class of some eighty highly motivated students: when I asked who planned to start a company one day, at least half of them raised their hands! The name of the course for which I was a guest speaker is “Leadership and Networking,” taught by Bob […]
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Tags:Bob Lowry·Bueno y Sano·Dale Carnegie·Entrepreneur·Entrepreneur Journeys·Guy Kawasaki·How to Influence People·Leadership·Networking·Positioning·Reality Check·Sramana Mitra·Storytelling·The Art of the Start·UMass Amherst
Written by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust is for everybody, including folks who think that they have already achieved the status of being “trust agents,” and who believe they know all the ropes and tricks of the social media business. I say this from […]
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Tags:Agent Zero·Alan Schaaf·Chris Brogan·Entrepreneurship·Internet Personas·Julien Smith·Leadership·Principle of the lever·Social Media and Customer Service·Social Media Marketing·Social Media Marketing Campaign·Trust Agent