Author, speaker and creative consultant, Annette Moser-Wellman, is coming from a soulful place. In a recent post on her new blog she reminds us that there's much more to life than material possessions, status, promotions, award-winning campaigns and the like. There's a new American dream. Working on projects that matter and pursuing work we are passionate about have become the gold-standard of a life well-lived. …
New Belgium Finds Its Folly And Asks You To Do The Same
"I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell New Belgium Brewing of Fort Collins, CO has reissued a classic motivational line--Follow Your Bliss--uttered by Joseph Campbell to self-realized persons everywhere. The brewer's twist is Follow Your Folly. According to this stray PDF found on e-BusinessEthics.com, the line wasn't a hit …
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John Hardy’s Sustainable Advertising
John Hardy is not your typical captain of industry. In 1997, when Hardy acquired the land in Nusa Penida (near Bali) for his rapidly expanding business, it was still rice fields. Hardy was concerned about converting food-producing land, so the design studio is also an organic farm, complete with livestock—cows, goats, poultry, rabbits—and fish ponds. The paths are paved in river stones and lined with tall sugar cane. …
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The iFix Is In
Subversives working for the larger good make me happy. Therefore, I'm happy to learn that a mere week after the launch of Apple's iPhone, hackers are busy "fixing" its flaws. According to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.), the most popular hack so far is targeted at the requirement that all iPhone users sign a wireless-service contract with AT&T. Several hackers have posted on the Web step-by-step instructions …
Social Media Rumblings
Social media consultant Brian Oberkirch is not fond of TechCrunch's oversimplified Kevin v. Evan post. And Oberkirch didn't like Kent Newsome's post on the 5 stages of blogging much better. So what does Oberkirch like? I actually think the ‘King of the Mountain’ approach to tracking startups is disrespectful to the idea of entrepreneurship. Like every new thing has to be an ‘x-killer’ or it doesn’t merit review. I …
Don’t Assume
Catherine Remoussenard, senior professor in human resources and change management at the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France debunks some myths about organizational change. Don't assume that organizations are naturally dynamic. Organizations reflect the people who constitute them -- as a whole they are inclined to inertia. In part this reflects the fragmented nature of organizations. At every level and in …
A SlideShare Find
Slide by Black Belt Jones According to Wikipedia, throughout his life Buckminster Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to …
In Valley Speak, “Collaborate” Is The Word
Steve Rubel rubbed elbows with technology and media elites in Silicon Valley last week. Here's one of his take aways: Silicon Valley must break bread with the media-industrial complex. The challenge is there is a vast chasm in the culture and ethos between the two sides. Tech and Internet companies develop their products in the open. This is very different in the media-industrial complex, where secrecy rules. He/she …
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