On the recent anniversary of the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln I serendipitously was re-introduced to an ancient text by the Greek leader Pericles which has uncanny similarity to Lincoln’s famous speech in a similar context. Both wrote of their current struggles and the glory that was the nations they fought to preserve. “We throw open our city […]
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Typically when I read a story to my kids I don’t respect punctuation all that much. This is probably because I approach reading to them as I approach reading to myself; consuming a lot of content in a short time. Now I must say I am mindful of correct tone with those potent punctuations; exclamation
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Two relatively recent tweets helped formulate my thinking about our mobile workforce. The first a vision, the second a reality. “The firm of the future may be ten million people working together for ten minutes” – @EskoKilpi “Hans: It would be ridiculous for my company to invest in me, where I expect to change job
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“To be called an innovation, an idea must be replicable at an economical cost and must satisfy a specific need. Innovation involves deliberate application of information, imagination, and initiative in deriving greater or different value from resources, and encompasses all processes by which new ideas are generated and converted into useful products.”
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The Internet Time Alliance always seems to inspire my thinking and remind me of what really matters; from Jane’s Pick of the Day to Clark Quinn’s mind mapping of keynotes. Mostly though, through their writing, I have had a new vision of organizational learning and I actively spread this in the organizations I support. Charles Jennings articulated
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