All Entries in the "Business Development" Category
Open source for the mind on Culture & Tribes.
Why should culture be important to you? Because it’s the invisible glue that holds a group of people together – a business, an organization, any group, your family, your online community, etc. Culture is the system of agreements, the experiences, the beliefs, values, attitudes, that are subscribed to, that are bought into. A group so aligned is a “tribe” (aka community). Here’s open source knowledge for the mind – a free audio book on “Tribal Leadership” about organizational culture.
Wise Words for Wannapreneurs
Wannapreneur: A person who talks about organizing and managing enterprises, esp. businesses, usually with considerable initiative and risk, but never actually does. If you’ve decided the answer to your economic situation is to move from government or corporate work to become an entrepreneur but haven’t taken the plunge, you may be a wannapreneur. Here’s a [...]
“The most inspirational event I’ve ever attended.”
“The most inspirational event I’ve ever attended.” That’s what was said about this year’s Positively Powerful Women Awards Luncheon. It’s a different sort of luncheon. And like all things new, started with a dream. With the support of personal and corporate friends who believed in it too, this year’s Awards Luncheon inspired, empowered, entertained, and educated a filled to capacity audience at the Ritz-Carlton Phoenix. It began when [...]
Wal-mart – Smarter then Smart
Wal-Mart the worlds largest retailer has done something that conceptually may ease the pain and cost of getting a college education and degree. Wal-Mart to Offer Its Workers a College Program The point of the program, they said, was to help employees get more education and to build a better work force. This move by [...]
Debbie Paine, First Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Executive Winner
Debbie Paine, Executive Director, Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix is the first Positively Powerful Nonprofit Executive Award Recipient for her vision and programs that bring together art, artists, and businesses as well as her organization’s “Business On Board” program that prepares diverse executives to serve and lead boards of directors. Debbie, mother of Brian, [...]
What Happened to Human Potential?
For over two or more decades, large corporations have taken the concept of Human Potential and filtered it through the sometimes impersonal process called Human Resources. What has survived in the corporate world is the rhetoric of change, the managing of legal issues, and making differences for the organization good with all too often none of the substance [...]
You may hate this message! But if you manage people read it anyway! Plz.
Dan Pink’s articles on business and technology have appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Wired. He worked previously as Vice President Al Gore’s chief speechwriter from 1995-97, and before that as an aide to Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. (Source) Recently Dan Pink gave this talk at TED. If [...]
Creating New Jobs. Who Does This? The Good News.
True or false? “Small Business is What Creates Jobs”. Some of the hurdles that are placed on entrepreneurs are things like: Loans: If you are starting a business that requires “blue collar” workers, which may be many people out of work these days, banks may not be keen on lending money for this type of [...]
Congrats Outrageous Leaders
Congratulations to the new graduates of this new company! Here’s to your continued success. Entrepreneurs, perhaps now is the time to live your dream. DBI Education graduated their first Breakthrough Course Sunday July 12th. It was delivered by international trainer, consultant, author, and coach Joel Martin, PhD. With the support of a team of coaches [...]
Two Points! Coaching + Feedback.
Can you imagine learning how to ski without a teacher? Bowling and not knowing how many pins you knocked down? Flying a plane without any instruments? Being in the basketball playoffs without a coach and without knowing whether the ball was going into the hoop? How frustrating that would be! Lebron needed to know that [...]
