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Impact Players Make More Money

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Gayle Hilgendorff  by Gayle Hilgendorff

We got two feet of snow in Boston last weekend.  It was an all out blizzard.  The city shut down on Friday at noon and reopened Monday morning.  It was like Christmas Eve – “Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse”.  As of Friday night, if you were caught driving on the road, you were given a $500 ticket and threatened jail time.  All public transportation closed at 3:30 – ALL of it.  Buses, trains, subways, everything.

There was nowhere to go and nothing to do but sit inside and wait it out.   Continue reading →

Unplug Your Ears and Listen

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by John Beeson

There’s a wonderful scene in The Odyssey when Odysseus prepares himself to steer his ship and his men past the treacherous Sirens, creatures who sing a seductive song that can lead a person astray. It’s a great moment in literature — and an extremely useful image for managers intent on ferreting out the feedback they need for career advancement. To prepare for his challenge, Odysseus orders his crew members to put wax in their ears, but to be able to hear the Sirens’ message, he leaves his own ears unplugged. But he asks his men to strap him to the ship’s mast to prevent him from recklessly heeding the Sirens’ call. Continue reading →

How to Be Mindful in an ‘Unmanageable’ World

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by Tony Schwartz

“I believe this is a very special moment in history, a kind of perfect storm. There is a growing recognition — to borrow language from AA — that our world has become unmanageable.” Those words have been reverberating in my head ever since Arianna Huffington, founder of the Huffington Post, said them over the weekend during the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco. She was introducing an iPhone app called “GPS for the Soul,” which is designed to measure heart rate variability as a window into your stress level at any given moment during the day. Continue reading →

Smartsourcing Requires A New Maturity Model

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By Marc Kauffmann

Since smartsourcing is a relatively new concept, it is important to develop a model/methodology that ensures successful implementation and encourages innovation. This warrants development, management and continuous refinement of a comprehensive Smartsourcing Innovation Model. Continue reading →

Getting Stuck Can Help You Grow

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by Gianpiero Petriglieri

After an accident, there is often a second of calm when you realize that you are seriously hurt. Memory captures the scene in fine detail, as if you’re hovering outside your skin, before pain and confusion pull you right back in.

I can still see myself getting up from a fall, almost exactly thirteen years ago, dusting snow off my tingling left arm. It looks odd, no longer in its usual place. I am somewhere between medical school and settling into my residency, before I could even imagine working in a school of business. Continue reading →