Leadership, Strategy

Progress Doesn’t Always Follow a Straight Line

In an interesting blog post for Strategy+Business, Adam Kahane shares his perspective about solving tough problems. Tough problems or wicked problems are difficult to solve precisely because there is no one right answer and there are multiple root causes and motivations at play. It is wicked for the precise reason that there are seemingly contradicting interests at play, which makes it difficult to solve these problems permanently.  In the post, Adam talks about the fact that trying to solve a complex or a wicked problem as if it were a simple problem will always lead to making the problem even […]

Leadership

Four Ways Projects Get Delivered

As part of my reading list, I always look forward to posts written by Mike Shipulski. He is very wise and has the ability to simplify complex things into easy to understand chunks that help us grasp the concept. He is an innovation expert and has more than 20 patents to his name.  So when I read this post by Mike Shipulski on the nature of projects, I really had to share it with all of you. If you are in the business of leading or managing projects, this is a mandatory read. You can find the post here. If you are […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Podcast

PBTO S2E10: Things that Matter to being Successful with Anne Sugar

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Who is on the show: In this episode, we speak with Anne Sugar. She is an executive coach and speaker who has advised top leaders at companies like TripAdvisor, Sanofi Genzyme and Havas, She also serves as an executive coach for Harvard Business School Executive Education. Why is she on the show:  Dorie Clark recommended that we should host Anne and that she will have a lot of insights that can help us. Anne proved to be all that Dorie said that she will be. She shares a lot of great insights that will help us find success in our […]

Ideas, Personal Growth

Increase your Luck | Tina Seelig

Watch Tina Seelig, a Stanford professor, teaching entrepreneurship, talk about how to make our own luck. Its a simple two step process:  Take small risks and go outside our your comfort zone.  Look at everything you experience through a lens of possibility.  Small 11 min video but when implemented can make a big impact on our lives. Watch it here. 

Ideas, Misc

Being the Best Version of Ourselves…

I was introduced to the body of work created by Joey through Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog www.swiss-miss.com. She is the founder of CreativeMornings, a community of creative pro’s coming together to share and learn from one another. This is now a worldwide phenomenon where some of the most creative people share their perspectives on a specific theme.  Joey’s work is simple, creative and motivating. This particular post caught my eye and spoke to me as we are always trying to compete and out-do each other while the true race is with ourselves.  [bctt tweet=”Are we being the best version of ourselves? If […]