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Q-and-A: Tom Silvestri discusses issues facing the news business
Tom Silvestri, leader of the Richmond Media Group, president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the American Press Institute, spoke with...
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Q-and-A: Marion Blakey on how sequestration will affect the future of aerospace
Marion Blakey is the president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association. AIA dailyLead editor Angela Giroux Scheide interviewed Blakey on her thoughts regarding...
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VIP Corner: Gurbaksh Chahal on how hiring your first employees is key to a company’s success
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VIP Corner: John Kotter discusses the new wave of change for business
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Leading innovation and making ideas happen
Success of innovation is generally associated with ideas. There is little doubt that ideas are core to innovation, but we have also seen time...
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The business case for state-of-the-heart technology
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How a wider perspective makes you a better leader
As leaders become more prominent in their organizations, they tend to have much to do and a few key people to do it with....
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Supermarkets and the social Web
The Coca-Cola Company sponsors this blog and the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council, which serves as an authentic and comprehensive “voice of the customer.” Visit...
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Book excerpt: How strong are your Lego thinking skills?
If innovators have one thing in common, it is that they love to collect ideas, like kids love to collect Legos. Nobel Prize winner...
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The value of visiting other cultures
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Leading innovation requires creative risk taking
The world is changing at an increasing pace. To stay competitive, many organizations are focusing their efforts on enhancing innovation. It’s a worthwhile pursuit....
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Creativity isn’t dependent on building an expensive research center
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Rethinking disease, rethinking health care
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Where associations are failing and how they can succeed
How will your team huddle up, plan levels of constituent value, avoid costly pitfalls and ultimately rise above direct competitors?
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Q-and-A: The Nature Conservancy’s Michelle Lapinski
Coca-Cola sponsors this blog and is committed to water conservation. Visit livepositively.com/#/water_conservation_overview to learn more about how water stewardship leads the list of the...
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Principles that form the foundation of profit
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Are you thinking or just doing?
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The Internet is just one more information adjustment
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Common sense thinking would have rejected “Seinfeld”
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How companies can adapt to scarcity in India and China
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How Organic Bouquet finds success through sustainability
Robert McLaughlin is CEO of Organic Bouquet, a flower company that practices social responsibility and sustainability in its supply chain, packaging and community outreach,...
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Where were you when the channels blurred?
Coca-Cola sponsors this blog, as well as the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing/Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council, which is dedicated to understanding and developing...
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Explore the benefits of customer and supplier partnerships
Many companies have discovered the virtue of partnering. When they don’t have all the skills or resources needed to truly delight customers, it makes...
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Providing inspiration to your employees
It is a truism that people want to believe in causes greater than themselves. That belief is central to the nature of purpose and...
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Envision your Ideal Day to become more productive
“I review my notes for a conference call with a client in Asia; I generally talk with them early morning, my time, about twice...
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In Chinese culture, consumers seek brands that allow them to stand out by fitting in
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5 sure-fire ways to kill your team
The U.S. is known for its entrepreneurial culture, but not all countries are rushing to start a business. In Singapore, for example, even though...
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Why we learn best when others fail
We’re told that experience is the best teacher. We’re reassured that we can learn from failure. In recent years, we’ve gone so far as...
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What we can learn from Apple Maps and Steve Jobs
Fortune recently reported just how bad the Apple iPhone 5 mapping really is. Specifically, the article cited a reader’s analysis of the Apple map...
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Why innovation has to be just as destructive as it is productive
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NYC leverages social media to map evacuation info for Hurricane Sandy
The City of New York utilized its Open Data platform to help residents deal with the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The effort, which is...
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Companies should aim for social relevance, not responsibility
Corporate social responsibility, it seems, is the new black. CSR may not sound sexy, but it’s become quite fashionable for companies to take on...
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Recycling as the gateway to sustainable living
There have been many conversations recently around the efficacy of recycling as an environmentally beneficial behavior, including Alina Tugend’s New York Times article, “Recycling...
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The chemical industry in 2013: A Q-and-A with Paul Hodges and Kevin Swift
Paul Hodges is chairman of International eChem, commercial advisers to the global chemical industry. He also writes the ICIS blog Chemicals and the Economy,...
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5 strategies for engineering a refreshing business perspective in 2013
At the start of a new year, consider what you can do to refresh your business.
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Oprah’s biggest branding failure and what we can learn from it
Brand Oprah was flying high, and then she made one critical branding failure — a failure that caused her to drop in Fortune’s Most...
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Choosing the right approach to an open-innovation strategy
Open innovation is a business strategy to advance technology by fusing external ideas and products with internal research and development. It is a way...
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The entrepreneurial potential of sub-Saharan Africa extends to women
Entrepreneurial activity among men and women is most equal in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 Global Report released this month....
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Swimming with the sharks: Entrepreneurial lessons from reality TV
I must confess to a guilty pleasure — I love the ABC show “Shark Tank,” which gives budding entrepreneurs a chance to realize their...
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“Conscious Capitalism”: A higher calling for corporations
Something’s stinking up corporate America. On Friday, a 3% decline in shares of Wal-Mart drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average into negative territory. This...
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Global behavioral management: The toolbox of a global leader
All too often, business leaders find themselves between a rock and a hard place. Globalization has, once again, placed them in this familiar predicament....
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5 reasons organizations predict when you will die
This adapted excerpt is from “Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die,” by Eric Siegel, released this month...