July 2010
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jackmason asked: From 1-2pm ET tomorrow, our "v-panel" webcast will look at social entrepreneurship and other issues related to the next generation coming into the workforce in the next few years.
Is Generation Y, the Echo Boomers, or the millenial generation got what it takes to be the next great wave of innovators? Can they drive the kinds of deep changes the world needs in energy,...
Is Generation Y, the Echo Boomers, or the millenial generation got what it takes to be the next great wave of innovators? Can they drive the kinds of deep changes the world needs in energy,...
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Inspiration and Hope from Echoing Green Fellows in... →
I am currently in Nairobi, Kenya as we work to build what will be the first in a series of leadership development initiatives around the world. In the next ten years, we plan to invest in thousands of leaders who are building and driving groundbreaking social change initiatives as entrepreneurs and also as intra-preneurs within businesses, public sector organizations, and leading NGOs. We...
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Can you name a leader under 40 solving social...
Even at the risk of making some broad generational generalizations, there’s little question that Millennials across all sectors share something in common — a burning desire to make a positive impact in the world. It’s built into our DNA and it’s something that is becoming more and more apparent as the blurring of lines among sectors creates enormous opportunities to collectively solve some...
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“FedEx CEO Fred Smith wants the lead plane piloted by a human, with a squadron of...”
– FedEx’s dream of a robotic plane fleet (via 2020)
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The Role of the Corporation in Citizen Diplomacy
lauriefriedman:
by Laurie Friedman:
One the hottest trends in corporate responsiblity is company-sponsored international volunteerism. At IBM, employees work in teams in emerging markets like Ghana, Vietnam and Brazil, helping NGOs and local businesspeople drive economic and societal change. Read about it in an article by Brookings Fellow David Caprara and Stan Litow, president of the IBM...
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Millennials Won't Change Work; Work Will Change... →
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What do Albert Einstein and Keith Richards have in...
jayolson:
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
- Albert Einstein
“If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you may as well use two feet”
- Keith Richards
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Watchthequietleader:
Effective leadership can transcend social boundaries. Yet today, more and more Americans tend to automatically associate “leadership” as being necessarily intertwined with vast power and money. Worse, they associate our modern elected leaders as being self-concerned, elitist, corrupt, and greedy.
In 2009, only 17% of Americans polled said they would encourage their...
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“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their...”
– Colin Powell (via jayolson)
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The Schizophrenic CIO →
futuramb:
Is it harder to be a CIO these days?? Yes, according to this post by Chuck Price…
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A Great Boss is Confident, But Not Really Sure →
nostalgicdrifter:
This article by Robert Sutton, Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, offers an interesting analysis of leadership.
I’ve always thought that it is much better to offer a confident answer in making decisions, since your followers would feel more comfortable with certainty. But I suppose it also is true that feeling comfortable with certainty on...
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Five Ways Pixar Makes Better Decisions - Tom...
cankoklu:
How did Pixar make that and other good decisions? There seem to be several factors going on:
Its managers give its directors a lot of autonomy. The studio prides itself on being “director led” and gives them a high degree of autonomy. “Managers like to be in control,” but Pixar fights it, according to an interview with Catmull at an event The Economist put on in March.
Even though...
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“Go right from the inspiration — the vision — to actually making it. Don’t think...”
– “More Rock, Less Talk” - Boing Boing (via designinginnovations)
“The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says,...”
– E. M. Kelly (via clongetch)
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8 Tips for Managing Your Time
jodyearley:
I came across this article online via @CatalystLeader and it had some real practical tips on managing your time. Below is the bullet point version, but I encourage you to check out the full article here. It will be worth you “time” (pun intended).
Evaluate your time.
Set daily goals.
Design your own to-do list.
Group similar tasks.
Break down daunting tasks.
Make meetings...
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What Belongs in a 21st-Century Classroom? Faculty... →
infoneer-pulse:
The most popular tools cited by professors were e-textbooks and online documents, with faculty members reporting far less enthusiasm for other electronic tools. Under a quarter of faculty members surveyed use wikis or blogs in their teaching, and only 31 percent of professors surveyed considered online collaboration tools “essential” to today’s classroom, compared with 72...
Igniting Ideas: How to think about thinking →
Innovation and creativity start with ideas. We have to think before we can have an idea. To be creative, we must start by thinking about thinking. To be innovative, we must do something with our ideas. Take time out to think. Don’t just do something, sit there and think. Give up worrying and…
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“Lesson 1. Leadership is everyone’s business.
We keep finding leaders everywhere...”
– The Top Ten Leadership Lessons (via Naval Leadership Blog and sourcesofinsight.com) (via mk1civilian)
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Igniting Ideas: Asset-Based Thinking →
How do you see the world? Are you focused on opportunities or problems? Strengths or weaknesses? What can be done or what can’t? Kathryn Cramer (psychologist and founder of The Cramer Institute) and Hank Wasiak (marketing guru from The Concept Farm) present a simple idea that can make a huge difference—Asset-Based Thinking (ABT). In their books Change the Way You See Everything (2006) and...
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“Creativity isn’t about freedom from concrete facts. Rather, fact-finding and...”
– Po Bronson and PopTech speaker Ashley Merryman on The Creativity Crisis. (via poptech)
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Millennials, leadership and the art of...
by Laurie Friedman
My colleague Rawn Shah wrote this piece in Forbes.com on how collaboration is shaping the next generation of leaders. “Millennials are the leaders of the future,” he writes, “but today’s leaders still need to guide them in the ways of the workplace. They also need to encourage all generations to become involved in common enterprise-wide platforms that...
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Watchtechspotlight:
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you’ll see).
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WatchWatch our first ever “VPanel” — a four person webcam interactive discussion on globalization and sustainability — on demand http://bit.ly/cUt7Jk via the IBM New Intelligence channel.
The webcast discussion is an outgrowth of the Future Leaders study — http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders — with 3600 graduate and undergraduate students around the world that was...
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Northeastern U's Prof. Allan Bird on new skills...
lauriefriedman:
I recently talked with Dr. Allan Bird, Professor of Global Business at Northeastern University’s College of Business Administration in Boston, Mass. We discussed how the next generation of leaders can prepare to be successful in the global economy, and what skills they will need to compete.
IBM’s new study, Inheriting a Complex World, found that Millennials see globalization...
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“CEOs now realise that creativity trumps other leadership characteristics....”
– IBM - 2010 Chief Executive Officer Study - Insights - United Kingdom
(via parkparadigm)
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Are social networks eroding our abilities for... →
subcreation:
This is a long but worthwhile read. It makes some interesting points about the necessity of quiet time (that is; turning off the constant barrage of information that is social media), forming your own ideas, the importance of deep and independent thought in leadership, and the nature of bureaucracy (something that has taken me almost 15 years to understand the legitimate importance...
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How Remarkable Women Lead - Forbes.com →
hellodoctorkitty:
As we dug deeper, we discovered a recurring theme: These women approached new situations for their possibilities. When they had job offers in new fields, they leapt, believing that they could learn and grow.
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“Leadership does not have the monopoly on wisdom.”
– Paul S Allen (via thewaterside)
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“IBM announced a major enhancements to its performance management software...”
– New Business Analytics Software From IBM Helps CFOs Drive Smarter Business Decisions
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The Smarter Leaders VPanel: July 13, 4pm | A... →
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IBM's Transformation--From Survival To Success →
IBM’s Transformation—From Survival To Success - Forbes.com
As organizations around us, in every part of the globe, struggle to cope in a recessionary environment, we’re reminded of the near-death experience IBM rebounded from several years ago. It’s a good lesson to look back upon the strategic shifts we made as a company and the leadership that got us to where we are today. And a good...
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How to work outside your comfort zone
One of the hardest aspects of working on global teams (which I do every day) is heading off misunderstandings and differences of opinion. It’s impossible for me to walk in the shoes of someone living in the Netherlands, or Shanghai, and I have to step back and think through their local issues - what does their local management want? how do they perceive me? Sharon Nunes, the head of...
Despicable Me Movie Highlights The Green Future Of... →
In recent years, movie studios have used huge server farms to provide the data-crunching power required for rendering the imagery, but a series of breakthroughs by IBM is bringing down the cost and energy requirements.
For Illumination Entertainment, the three-year-old developer and producer of Despicable Me, IBM technologists assembled a single, refrigerator-size computer–think of it as a...
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For a New Generation, an Elusive American Dream →
infoneer-pulse:
“I don’t think I fully understood the severity of the situation I had graduated into,” he said, speaking in effect for an age group — the so-called millennials, 18 to 29 — whose unemployment rate of nearly 14 percent approaches the levels of that group in the Great Depression. And then he veered into the optimism that, polls show, is persistently, perhaps perversely,...
