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3M's Sustainability Innovation Machine

Harvard Business Review

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. In the sustainability realm, 3M pioneered what now seems like an obvious idea: avoiding pollution before having to clean it up.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But I'm not willing to give up on these firms. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital. They get it. They live it. Conversations, not chains.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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The Big Picture of Business – Communications Reflect Your Strategy

Strategy Driven

Failure to pick up subtle clues. Rather than admit areas where information is lacking, employees often cover up, disseminating erroneous data, which comes back to hurt others. This resurgence in photography comes after a conversion of the industry from film to digital. Wrong facts. Denial-avoidance of the real issues.

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Linds Redding’s Short Lesson in Perspective

In the CEO Afterlife

Linds gave up the studio and spent his remaining days walking Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, taking pictures, drawing, making music and writing about living and dying. Before trotting off to Clarks Bar to blow the froth of a pint of Eighty-Bob, our last task was to pin everything up on the walls of our office. That was always a good feeling.