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Red, Right, Returning.

Mills Scofield

This phrase was drilled into my head as a kid when I learned to sail, leaving the secure confines of our harbor for the big wild sea. Every business, organization, entrepreneur, C-suiter, yes, humans need ballast - guiding principles, missions and core values to help navigate the big wild sea.

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Is Your Business's Digital Communication Culture Working?

Great Leadership By Dan

The dysfunction is directly related to technology and our perceived human need to "respond." Business leaders need to address the hierarchy of communication within their organizations by examining and questioning the culture that exists. Within most organizations, I see a cultural communication hierarchy that is often broken.

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Scan for the 3 key ingredients of trends to survive in the Expectation Economy

Strategy Driven

The good news is that you don’t need a PHD in anthropology to spot trends in the wild. Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. The first stage involves mastering the art of Scanning for new trends. Innovations.

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Three Creativity Challenges from IDEO’s Leaders

Harvard Business Review

As the map progresses, your mind will open up, and you’ll likely discover some wild, unpredictable, dissociative ideas. What, if any, latent human needs emerge? . While lists help you capture the thoughts you already have, mindmaps help to generate wildly new ones. See illustration.). Keep going. What seems new or surprising?

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Having Work Friends Can Be Tricky, but It’s Worth It

Harvard Business Review

Research shows that, after food and shelter, belonging is a fundamental human need. Given that we spend between 8 and 9 hours of our day at work (not including commute time), we have significantly less time to fulfill our social needs outside of work. This phenomenon seems to be particularly American.