Category: Business
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Revolution: the Business and Brand of Sustainability?
The Seattle Times recently ran a Washington Post article on how Steve Case pushes symbiotic relationship of business principles, green ideas. This was particularly interersting to me, given that a few days earlier, Case‘s new company, Revolution, LLC, had flexed its muscles to grow Flexcar, whose [now] former CEO, Lance Ayrault, had shared some of…
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Social Entrepreneurship at NWEN: Doing Well by Doing Right (via Flexcar)
Lance Ayrault, CEO of Flexcar, gave a great talk at the Northwest Entrepreneur Network (NWEN) Venture Breakfast at the Bellevue Harbor Club yesterday on the topic of social entrepreneurship (a topic near and dear to my heart … and blog). Flexcar is an interesting exemplar of a non-traditional social venture, in that they are a…
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The Network Effects of Awareness, Energy, Trust and Serendipity
The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations, by Rob Cross and Andrew Parker, illuminates far more than I expected about the different types of social networks that exist within and across organizations, and the way those networks impact, and are impacted by, the organizations in and through which…
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Workspace Personalization: Physical, Digital and In-Between
I’ve encountered a number of articles lately about organizational and personal aspects of ubiquitous cubicles (UbiCubes?), and these have brought to mind a number of ways that people have explored personalizing their workspaces with atoms and/or bits. Fortune recently posted an article, Cubicles: The Great Mistake, providing an historical overview and future predictions for the…
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The Art, Science, Business and Politics of Happiness
The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled "Happiness, Inc." in this week’s Weekend Edition, which described how research into happiness is being applied in business contexts. I’ve encountered a whole bunch of happiness-related pieces recently, and this one prompted me to weave them together. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living, by His…
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Chaordic Leadership Principles
In anticipation of the possibility that week’s Seattle Times article about Interrelativity might generate increased interest in the company, I updated our web site … including my curriculum vitae (CV, aka resumé), both the short and long versions. I decided to include a section in the latter document about my approach to leadership, which I…