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Social innovation is basically the process of securing support for and implementing novel solutions to social needs and problems.  The question is do we see a place for social innovation given the world’s new challenges – such as new markets in emerging nations and increasingly urban, interconnected and dangerous societies? Further, the US has …
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I am always fascinated by the concept of philosophical schools--especially when applying that philosophy to leadership.  The last school we looked at was the Jedi Praxeum, I am sure no one will have any trouble connecting the Praxeum to Plato's Akademia. THE SITE The Akademia was a school outside the city walls of ancient Athens. It …
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I spend a lot of time pondering the question: "What is leadership?" It's really not that complicated, until we spend time to really think about it. A friend of mine Steve Cockram of GiANT Worldwide talks about how a leader's responsibility is to take the simple, understand and acknowledge this "simple" in all it's complexity, and distill the complexity back …
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by J. William DeMarco Walking Montparnasse in Paris one Christmas--I caught the ghost of Hemingway sipping a cafe au lait at the DĂ´me. I was struck by all the great minds that had walked the streets of the Left Bank.  I recall having the same thoughts walking the streets of Florence Italy, eating Thai with the boys in Mountain View CA or …
Okay, or die might be a  stretch, maybe be miserable, or really stressed out.  Amor fati is a Latin phrase translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate". It describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at least, necessary.  Lately I have been …
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