Monthly Archives: April 2017

Writing is the Right Thing to Do

Retaining employees

Back at the end of 2008 I was asked to give a talk at a Singaporean university about the likely impact of President Obama’s election on international relations. A couple days before, one of the organizer’s assistants wrote and asked me for a bio. She wrote, “I was going to pull something from online, but […]

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Go Have a Drink

Employees in class

When you work in a growing organization it is easy to get really wrapped up in your work, so involved, in fact, that you might not have much of a life beyond the office. You start by working hard when you’re at the office, then you cannot help but think about things while you are […]

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What Kind of Change?

Online learning

When you think about creativity in your organization, are you talking about making small changes to what’s already there, or do you mean discontinuous innovation, the idea of coming up with something brand new?? Do you think about how to do things differently, or do you think about how to do different things? Are you […]

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