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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S., 2 Degrees of Separation?

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Choice Helps High-End Products, Hurts Low-End Products

Harvard Business Review

Especially in situations where consumers typically refine their preferences at the point of purchase, we can expect that choice engages interest in innovation and quality differences. These auctions included books, carpets, furniture, jewelry, photographs, watches, pictures, and wine, among other items.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what?

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