Innovating Through Artistry
Here are 5 articles I selected that will strengthen your creative & strategic thinking and leadership skills. 5 Lessons From Warren Buffet's Office Hours http://tinyurl.com/bvuqltb To Scale Up, Don't Spread Your Organization -- Coach The Future Leaders Of Your Field http://tinyurl.com/d4pe84r How Great Leaders Make Their … [Read more...]
For companies to pursue innovation, they must have workers with the right skills to conduct research, develop novel processes and products, and operate increasingly complex equipment. Occupations in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields are among the most integral to innovation and yet without the creative capacity … [Read more...]
Last night at iaeou- Chicago we had our 2nd Creative Women Taking Charge networking/speaking series event. Our keynote was delivered by Jill Salzman, the founder of FoundingMoms.com. Her current business, Founding Moms, is a paid meet up type of networking event to support Mom entrepreneurs. She currently has 43 meet up networking … [Read more...]
Good ideas take time. They often come from the collision of good ideas that can take as long as 10 years to incubate.To be able to make an idea come to life we need systems that routinely encourages the co-mingling and the exchange of ideas. In this 4 minute video Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History … [Read more...]
In the world of social enterprise, profit cannot be a dirty word. A Social enterprise must be financially viable to create social value to those they want to serve. Linda Rottenberg and Rhett Morris, in a recent Harvard Business Review article, make the case why the scalability of social ventures requires putting financial results ahead … [Read more...]
Which scent do you like more? The fresh baked bread aroma from the Subway Shop, or the fusion of smells that radiates out of the Yankee candle store when you pass by its open doors at the mall? While retailers for a long time have used the power of scent to entice you into their shops, a recent study has proven that not only will a … [Read more...]
For social entrepreneurs access to capital is still a big problem. Traditional funding sources like bank loans and access to venture capital are not an option.Traditional investors see the social component of a business as a discount on their return on investment. And most do not understand (yet) how a social venture that is developing … [Read more...]
What is breakthrough leadership? Are you willing to not know and continue to not know to innovate? Are you willing to stand true to your vision and continue to refine it while you lead AND struggle to find your way forward to realize it? Mitzie Hoelscher, Chief Leadership Officer of Gap International, talks about Breakthrough … [Read more...]
In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they attempt to integrate traditionally separate organizational … [Read more...]
Written by Lisa Canning Every second two new blogs are created. According to a fairly recent statistics from blog-tracking site Technorati, the blogosphere has doubled every six months for the last three years. That's 175,000 new blogs per day worldwide. Blogging is a great way to build an audience of readers who care about what you … [Read more...]
