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| TerraCycle featured in Wall Street Journal |
| BrightSight Group speaker and TerraCycle founder Tom Szaky are featured in the Enterprise section of today's WSJ. From the article.."In recent months, TerraCycle, which made its mark as a purveyor of fertilizer made from worm castings, has signed deals or is in talks with these and other companies to collect some of their packaging waste and sew, fuse or weave it into new products such as shower curtains, umbrellas, pencil cases, totes, lunchboxes and backpacks -- a process known as upcycling. Many of these items -- produced from old Oreo, Kool-Aid and Bear Naked granola packages among others, are now shipping to Target Corp., OfficeMax Inc. and Walgreen Co. stores or are part of discussions for future sale at retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc." |
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| Amanda Ripley on Fox & Friends this Thursday |
BrightSight Group speaker and author Amanda Ripley is scheduled to appear on Fox & Friends this Thursday, June 26th at 7:30 am. Amanda will be making a remote appearance from Washington D.C. She will be discussing her new book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
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| Sam Gosling receives 2008 APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award |
BrightSight Group speaker and author, Sam Gosling, has been honored by The American Psychological Association with a 2008 APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. He was recognized for his early career contribution to psychology in his research on animal personality. The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award was established in 1956 and consists of a citation and a cash prize, which are presented at the APA Annual Convention.
Dr. Gosling's book, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, has just been published. To read about the upcoming book tour and view the schedule of events go to Snoopology.
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| Space Adventures Charters Entire Russian Spacecraft |
BrightSight Group Speaker and CEO of Space Adventures, Eric Anderson is now a major world player in manned spaceflight. Space Adventures, the broker of the first tourist flights to space celebrated its ten-year anniversary today here at the Explorer's Club in New York with the announcement that it had scored a deal with the Russian Federal Space Agency, or RKA, to buy an entire flight to the International Space Station.....more
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| Google co-founder Sergey Brin books space flight |
| BrightSight Group speaker and Space Adventures CEO Eric Anderson announced the creation of an Orbital Mission Explorers Circle of members who will each contribute $5 million to help finance the company's first private mission to the space station...more |
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| Storytelling and the Art of Persuasion in BusinessWeek |
| BrightSight Group speaker Bob Dickman and co-author of The Elements of Persuasion were featured in BusinessWeek. Marshall Goldsmith talked to Bob about telling your story and making sales. |
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| Andy Stefanovich will be featured on CNBC |
| BrightSight Group speaker and Founder of Play, Andy Stefanovich will be featured on the CNBC series The Business of Innovation hosted by Maria Bartiromo. The show airs Monday nights at 9 pm. Andy will be a guest on the third show, airing Monday, June 16th. Please tune in to hear his perspective on innovation today. |
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| Paul Saffo's latest ABC News Column, "Obama's 'Cybergenic' Edge" |
| BrightSight Group and ABC NEWS Technology & Science columnist Paul Saffo's latest article, Obama's 'Cybergenic' Edge examines the connection between technology and politics. |
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| Susan Jacoby latest article in NY Times |
| Best Is the New Worst, is BrightSight Group speaker and author Susan Jacoby's latest article to appear in this past weekend's NY Times. It criticizes "elite bashing" and the ever increasing trend toward mediocrity in the United States. From the article..."Elite” and “elitist” do not, in a dictionary sense, mean the same thing. An elitist is someone who does believe in government by an elite few — an anti-democratic philosophy that has nothing to do with elite achievement. But the terms have become so conflated that Americans have come to consider both elite and elitist synonyms for snobbish. |
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| How to Survive A Disaster |
BrightSight Group speaker and TIME Magazine senior writer Amanda Ripley's latest article, How to Survive a Disaster is in this month's TIME Magazine cover story. From the article..."Humans are programmed with basic survival skills. When frightened, we get a shot of performance-enhancing hormones, and the blood pumps to our limbs to help us outrun whatever enemy we face. But in modern times, we're hardly aware of such natural skills, and most of us do little to understand or develop them."
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| Chandran Nair in Financial Times |
| BrightSight Group Speaker Chandran Nair was featured in yesterday's Financial Times. From the article entitled, "Grand designs should look to the future" Nair writes, "The seven states of the UAE have one of the world’s fastest-growing economies, expanding by more than 7 per cent in real terms in 2007. Its citizens are among the world’s richest, with per capita gross domestic product of just over $35,000 (€22,452, £17,870)" |
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| Carol Bellamy Essay Featured in Mike Wallace Book |
| BrightSight Group speaker Carol Bellamy is featured in Mike Wallace's forthcoming book, "The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century." Carol's essay, "The Age of the Global Citizen" can be read here. |
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| Laermer: Getting Ahead of the Story |
| mediabistro has featured PR Guru and Punk Marketing wiz Richard Laermer as they weigh in on getting ahead of the next big story. From the article..."The effect PR has goes way beyond people liking you, your product or your company. Always be the first person/company/whatever talking to the press. If it's not you it's your competition. Beat them to the punch; put your brand, your spin and your ideas out there." |
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| Environmental Defense Fund Partners with Kohlberg Kravis |
BrightSight Group speaker Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense Fund, which according to yesterday's NY Times are partnering with Kohlberg Kravis which "has more than $185 billion of annual revenue and some 825,000 employees worldwide through the companies it operates. Its decision to embrace environmental issues could have far-reaching implications for business operations and might put pressure on its top rivals to follow suit." NY Times - Felicity Barringer And Andrew Ross Sorkin
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| Richard Laermer blogs on The Huffington Post |
BrightSight Group speaker and author Richard Laermer is the latest blogger to contribute to The Huffington Post. Laermer is well known as the CEO of RLM Public Relations and the best-selling author of Punk Marketing, in addition to the perennial PR handbook Full Frontal PR and 2002’s TrendSpotting.
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| Richard Laermer on Gawker Media's Blogs up for Sale |
BrightSight Group speaker and author Richard Laermer offers insight into Gawker's decision to sell three of it's blogs.
Richard Laermer is the author of 2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade and Punk Marketing.
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| American Management Association features Dan Roam's book, "Back of the Napkin" |
BrightSight Group speaker and author Dan Roam is featured in the Leader's Edge column.
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| High-Tech Quake May Shake More Than Silicon Valley |
| BrightSight Group speaker Paul Saffo's latest ABC News Science & Technology column, "High-Tech Quake May Shake More Than Silicon Valley" from the article...."There is a major earthquake lurking in Silicon Valley's future, and when it hits, the aftershocks will be felt far beyond California." |
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| Thornton May named one of IT’s Most Inluential People by eWeek |
| BrightSight Group speaker and noted futurist Thornton May joins the ranks of Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell in eWeek's list. |
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| Technorati’s #1 reviewer, "Duffbert" , reviews Richard Laermer’s 2011 |
| From the review..."If you've read any of Richard Laermer's stuff before, you know you're in for a highly irreverent look at whatever the subject at hand happens to be. In 2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade, he takes a shot at identifying the important trends coming down the road, and more important, how to figure them out for yourself." |
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| National Magazine Award goes to Bo Burlingham’s Inc. Column |
| BrightSight Group speaker Bo Burlingham, author of Small Giants was recently named a finalist in theColumns and Commentary category of the National Magazine Awards. This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. It honors the eloquence, force of argument and succinctness with which the writer presents his or her views. |
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| Richard Laermer appears on Fox Business |
| BrightSight Group speaker Richard Laermer, author of Punk Marketing recently appeared on Fox Business, Fast Track: Future Fads. Richard discusses how to plan for the latest trends at work. |
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| Ariel Levy becomes staff writer at The New Yorker magazine |
| BrightSight Group speaker and author Ariel Levy is now a staff writer at The New Yorker. Ariel's first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, is now out in paperback, and has been translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Ariel has also also appeared on The Colbert Report, Oprah, and NPR's Fresh Air. In the new anthology Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers, is Ariel's essay called "Cheating." |
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| Richard Laermer on Bulldog Reporter’s Daily Dog |
| BrightSight Group speaker and PR guru Richard Laermer is featured on Bulldog Reporter's Daily Dog with his article, PR Trends to Watch: How to Thrive When Media Relations Shifts from Clips to Click. |
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| Quest for Global Dominance 2nd Edition released |
| Publishers (Jossey-Bass/Wiley) have just released The Quest for Global Dominance, 2nd edition - a major update to one of the world's most respected guides to how a company can design, implement, and reassess its global strategy. Co-written by BrightSight Group speakers Haiyan Wang and Anil K. Gupta, the The Quest for Global Dominance is based on the authors’ twenty plus years of research and consulting work with over two hundred corporations (including Caterpillar, IBM, Infosys, Marriott, Microsoft, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart), this book addresses some of the most central questions pertaining to global strategy. |
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| Tina Seelig wins the Olympus Innovation Award |
| Stanford professor and BrightSight Group speaker Tina Seelig, co-founders of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which encourages top engineering and science schools worldwide to include entrepreneurship as part of their curricula, won the Olympus Innovation Award. |
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| A Complaint Free World on CBS Sunday |
BrightSight Group speaker Will Bowen was featured on this past Sunday's CBS Sunday. CBS correspondent Bill Geist interviewed Will about his inspirational book, A Complaint Free World.
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| Diamandis's Automotive X-Prize Competition |
BrightSight Group Speaker and X-Prize Foundation Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis are gearing up for the entries in the latest X-Prize Challenge, to find production-ready vehicles that get 100 miles per gallon or more.
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| Outsiders don't make good CEOs |
| Commentator, management expert and BrightSight Group speaker Joseph Bower was recently interviewed on American Public Media Marketplace by Tess Vigeland. Bower says when it comes to hiring a new CEO, candidates within the corporation are usually better at the job than outsiders. |
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| Do CEO's take too much time in replacing key players? |
| BrightSight Group speaker Kevin Coyne is quoted extensively in today's Wall Street Journal Theory & Practice article on determining whether and when to replace lieutenants. Timing is critical. Move too fast and managers risk dumping valuable institutional memory. But move too slow and they may delay much-needed changes.
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"Kevin Coyne, a management consultant and a professor at Emory University's business school, says new CEOs usually decide whom to replace within the first 60 days. CEOs assess lieutenants and place them in one of four categories: stars who will be key aides; other keepers who aren't stars; people to replace eventually but not immediately; and those who should go immediately.
Mr. Coyne says the most common regret among CEOs in hindsight is not replacing mediocre people -- those in the third category -- fast enough. "They wish they had been one step harsher," he says. "Most of them say, 'I was too forgiving.' "
Mr. Coyne says CEOs tell him they hesitated for a variety of reasons: The executive was well-liked inside the company; the CEO feared firing too many people too quickly; or the CEO believed the deputy would ultimately come around to his vision for t |
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| The secret item has been revealed: RUBBER BANDS! |
| When the university kicked off its 2nd annual Entrepreneurship Week on Friday, Feb. 22, Stanford also launched the global Innovation Tournament, a fast and furious competition to see who could create the most value from rubber bands in only five days. Students were told on Friday afternoon that they had until Thursday morning to conceive and deliver their value and submit a short video online to present their results. They could form a team of any size, use as many rubber bands as they wanted and define value in any way they chose. Approximately 300 student teams from universities around the globe participated.
The results were remarkable: a new, more effective and inexpensive mosquito net design for impoverished areas battling malaria; the "Do Bands" campaign to inspire people to get things done, which raised over $500 for charity and spawned a new social network online; hilarious, late-night infomercial spoofs touting new products such as "Shoe Bands" and "The Habit Breaker;" a model used to teach aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity; a new painting technique; a community art project; and so much more. Winning submissions can be viewed at http://eweek.stanford.edu
All entries were viewed and judged by a panel of prestigious Silicon Valley leaders that included inventors, venture capitalists, journalists and executives. They awarded an array of unique, experiential prizes that included dinners and meetings with top executives at Silicon Valley companies; yachtin |
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| Richard Laermer on Victoria’s Secret |

Victoria's Secret's chief executive says the company will tone down the "too sexy" and return to 'ultra-feminine' lingerie.
CNN correspondent Poppy Harlow interviews BrightSight Group speaker Richard Laermer on branding strategy and connecting with their older customers. See the video here. |
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| Haiyan and Anil on Time Mag’s Curious Capitalist Blog |
BrightSight Group speakers Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang are featured prominently in Justin Fox's latest blog post on globalization. Anil and Haiyan have authored....
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| Sweet Dreams are Made of this...... |
Former Eurythmic, environmental activist and creator of Weapons of Mass Entertainment, Dave Stewart is reading "Punk Marketing: Get Off Your Ass and Join the Revolution" co-authored by BrightSight Group speaker Richard Laermer. Variety Article
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| Twilight at Monticello on Washington Post List of Bestsellers |
BrightSight Group Alan Pell Crawford, author of Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson has been listed as one of the best selling books in the Washington D. C. area by the Washington Post.
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| Marc Freedman in Washington Post |
BrightSight Group speaker Marc Freedman's essay, No Country for Old People?
From the article..."It's a tough time for seniors these days, and getting tougher as the economy slumps. How can we enrich Americans' later years?" |
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| Richard Laermer on Marketing Matters Live, 1/30/08 |
The AMA is pleased to present another author series program on Marketing Matters LIVE!, AMA’s online radio program. This series features authors of top-selling marketing authors as they offer strategies on how to put forward-thinking ideas into practice. This interactive show allows you to call in during the show to talk to the authors live or email your questions in advance.. |
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| Made to Stick named 800 CEO READ's Best Business Title of 2007 |
BrightSight Group speakers Chip and Dan Heath are authors of Made to Stick; which has just been named the best business book of 2007 taking the top honor as the year's overall best biz title as well as winning the advertising/marketing category. |
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| The Globe and Mail reviews Peak |
BrightSight Group speaker Chip Conley's book, Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow is reviewed in The Globe and Mail
"Mr. Conley relates in his own book, Peak: How Great Companies get their Mojo from Maslow, that "using Maslow as our inspiration, we created a new psychology of business based on not just meeting the tangible, foundational needs of our key stakeholders but, more importantly, focusing on their intangible, self-actualizing needs. I came to realize that creating peak experiences for our employees, customers and investors fostered peak performance for my company." |
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| International effort to catalog complete DNA of 1,000 people |
Researchers on three continents will join together to catalog the genomes of 1,000 people in an ambitious project that they hope will help determine genetic roots and factors for human disease, the group announced Tuesday.
By harnessing the power of new sequencing technologies and novel computational methods, we hope to give biomedical researchers a genome-wide map of variation down to the one percent level. This will change the way we carry out studies of genetic disease." said US National Human Genome Research Institute Francis Collins.
Francis Collins is represented exclusively by BrightSight Group and is the author of The Language of God
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| Author Alan Pell Crawford's Twilight at Monticello reviewed in Wall Street Journal |
BrightSight Group speaker Alan Pell Crawford's latest book, Twilight at Monticello has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. Based on new archival research and hitherto unexamined documents from special collections across the country, Alan Pell Crawford’s Twilight at Monticello offers a poignant and unforgettable look at Thomas Jefferson in the nearly 20 years of his life that followed his presidency.
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| Forbes Punches In on Alex Frankel |
BrightSight Group speaker Alex Frankel, author of Punching In is interviewed on forbes.com
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| Jeff Howe joins BrightSight Group as Exclusive speaker |

JEFF HOWE – just joined us. He’s with Wired magazine and will have his book, Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business, released in late June. The publishing world sees this as the next Tipping Point and Long Tail. Simply - Crowdsourcing is the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call. This has dramatic implications for any industry that is information based, that can be broken down to a series of 0’s and 1’.
Jeff’s Wired article on Crowdsourcing – which led to the book -
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| Word of Mouth Marketing Blog features Punk Marketing Praise |
Originally found on the Real Quixtar blog, WOMMA found this post and added it to the Womma Word site. The post praises BrightSight Group speaker Richard Laermer's book, Punk Marketing. According to the author, "traditional marketers need to start thinking a little more creatively to reach their intended audiences." |
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| 800 CEO READ names best business reads for 2007 |
A slew of BrightSight Group speakers have been named in 800 CEO READ's list of business books for this past year. Authors named include Chip and Dan Heath, Chip Conley, Doug Tatum, Keith Sawyer and Noel Capon.
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| How much anxiety? Just Enough... |
BrightSight Group speaker Bob Rosen was featured in Sunday's NY Times.
After nearly two decades of research, Bob has uncovered the biggest secret of all. In his words: “The success of great leaders is all about creating just enough anxiety for growth and performance. More than any other leadership quality, this ability propels great leaders to the top. It enables them to embrace uncertainty and manage the ups and downs of a crazy world. It brings out their best performance, enables them to build great teams, and inspires and challenges their organizations. It is the hidden driver of business success.” |
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| A day in the life of a global one trader |
| BrightSight Group speaker Pankaj Ghemawat is featured in EXAME from abril.com. Este artigo está inteiramente em Portugese. |
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| 2007's biggest tech disappointments |
These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired.
BrightSight Group speaker Richard Laermer is featured prominently in the article. |
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| Don Norman in NY Times |
| BrightSight Group speaker Don Norman appears in the Science section of today's NY Times
Dr. Norman comments on the holiday season's puzzling gadgetry. |
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| Colin Beavan - Named one of Most Influential Men of 2007 |
MSN has named "No Impact Man", AKA Colin Beavan, one of the most influential men of 2007. Other influential men include Al Gore, Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez. Colin is represented exclusively by BrightSight Group.
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| Letter to A Christian Nation released in paperback |
BrightSight Group speaker Sam Harris's book, Letter to A Christian Nation can be pre ordered on amazon.com.
From the books new foreword by Sam Harris...
Humanity has had a long fascination with blood sacrifice. In fact, it has been by no means uncommon for a child to be born into this world only to be patiently and lovingly reared by religious maniacs, who believe that the best way to keep the sun on its course or to ensure a rich harvest is to lead him by tender hand into a field or to a mountaintop and bury, butcher, or burn him alive as offering to an invisible God. The notion that Jesus Christ died for our sins and that his death constitutes a successful propitiation of a “loving” God is a direct and undisguised inheritance of the superstitious bloodletting that has plagued bewildered people throughout history. . .
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| 2008 Women of Discovery Awardees Announced |
| Jill is the recipient of the Earth Award: Jill Fredston has logged more than 20,000 miles exploring the rivers and coastlines in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Norway in a 20-foot rowing shell. She is also considered one of the world's foremost avalanche experts, having spent countless hours suspended above fracture lines to examine an icy world that is in constant change. Fredston is the author of two award winning books, Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches and Rowing to Latitude, as well as co-founder of the Alaska Mountain Safety Center. |
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| True North Leadership |
| In his book, "True North," BrightSight Group speaker Bill George discusses developing what he calls an "authentic" approach to leadership.
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| Fast Company names Top 45 Social Entrepreneurs who are Changing the World |
BrightSight Group speaker Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures was named by Fast Company magazine as a leading social capitalist organization. According to the article, "A small organization with big goals, Civic Ventures works as a catalyst, bringing people and organizations together to create bold reactions and make change." Continue reading...
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| Maslow-Minded Merchandising |
OK, it's that time of year when we all become transactional. We overstuff our bellies on Thanksgiving Thursday and then overextend our credit on Black Friday when America's malls remind us that capitalism is alive and kickin' in the good old US of A. But, what if a retailer were to take a more transformational approach to their customers during this busy time of year? Or, what if you or I were to purchase experiences rather than possessions as a way of gifting our relatives and friends?
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| MIT World: A Conversation with John M. Barry |
In conversation with Richard Larson and Sanford Weiner, John Barry, author of The Great Influenza, discusses current understanding of the dynamics of a flu outbreak, and our general state of preparedness. Based on historical patterns, we can expect three to four pandemics per century, of varying severity. In the last century, the 1918 flu was unrivaled in its ferocity, says Barry. Estimates of deaths worldwide run from 50 to 100 million people. Since the world population then was only a third of today’s, should a similar flu evolve in the 21st century, humanity would stand to lose between 175 to 300 million people.
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| SCRIBE INVESTIGATES HOW RETAILERS BUILD LOYAL WORKERS |
| BRAND CAMP
SCRIBE INVESTIGATES HOW RETAILERS BUILD LOYAL WORKERS
By JEREMY BROWN
THE HOURS: Writer Alex Frankel went undercover at UPS, Starbucks andthree other companies to see how they build employee loyalty.
November 26, 2007-- ALEX Frankel was a teenager when he first decided he wanted to work for UPS. It began when a friend who worked there described the day two staff scientists analyzed his every move: how many seconds it took to get from the truck to a customer's door, how long it took a recipient to answer the bell, the exact degree to which he turned his head to look into the side mirror. |
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| Stefan Sagmeister: Creative Genius |
| PICNIC Network
Westergas, Amsterdam
Sep 27th, 2007
Creative Genius: Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far with Stefan Sagmeister.
Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister has a slightly different way of looking at things.
Just as film, art, music and literature have the power to move people, Stefan Sagmeister's innovative work shows that graphic design, too, can cut to the emotional core - PICNIC |
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| Workplace attitudes change toward 'face time' |
| While some bosses are still leery about telecommuting, others are realizing the productivity benefits of these long-distance relationships. |
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| Pankaj Ghemawat on Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria |
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| Send the State Department to War |
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| No Drivers, but a Lot of Drive |
Donald A. Norman, a psychologist and an industrial designer, argues in “The Design of Future Things,” his recently published book, that a new organism is emerging that he calls a “person+machine.”
“Machines have neither motives nor emotions,” he wrote recently in an e-mail message. “Still, machines, appliances and even services have personality traits, if only because they were designed to be conscientious or not, friendly or curt, smooth or abrupt, condescending or understanding, recalcitrant or forgiving.”
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| U. S. News and World Report names Fred Krupp one of America's Best Leaders |
| "The signature achievement of Krupp's philosophy came out of amendments to the Clean Air Act in the George H. W. Bush administration. While other groups pushed for rigid restrictions on sulfur dioxide, an agent of acid rain, Krupp argued for a unique cap-and-trade system that would permit utilities to swap pollution credits to help bring down their emissions as an aggregate. Utilities that found ways to reduce emissions could sell their credits, at a hefty price, to dirtier plants. Utilities favored the idea, which meant that among the green community, "Fred was taking some serious risks," recalls William Reilly, Bush's EPA chief. Reilly made the deal in return for Environmental Defense's support of the legislation. "That helped us in Congress and in the eyes of the public," Reilly says. The plan achieved reductions at one-tenth the estimated cost." |
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| Win Fabulous Prizes, All in the Name of Innovation |
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| PBS Frontline: A Second Opinion |
"Over the years, I’ve covered a lot of territory for The Washington Post, but it’s a book project that brings me to India, a book on how other countries deliver health care," says veteran reporter T.R. Reid, as he begins his FRONTLINE/World report on Ayurveda, a form of medicine that has been practiced in India for three thousand years.
Full disclosure: The 60-something Reid also has a personal stake in the matter -- a bum shoulder that has been bothering him for 25 years since he injured it in an accident in the Navy. |
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