The Value of Dissent

The halls of TalentBridge (ok so really it’s more a baby-boardroom, but hall makes it sound grand) were home to one of the more important discussions of my life today.  I’m going to keep this quick because I have a date with the gym that is really pecking at me (I get cranky when I’m [...]

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OIC: Talent-Searching’s New Secret Sauce

Fantastic.  Fantastically Powerful?  Fantastically Powerfully Inspirational?   Perhaps we’ll just toss out a new word here – Fantastirational.

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Listening and Hearing – One is Expected, the Other is Innovation

The baseline; provide your customer with some manner of a feedback channel by which they can, in the very least, believe their concerns are being heard.  

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TEDx – Independently Organized TED Events

TED is a nonprofit organization formed in 1984 with the motto of “Ideas Worth Spreading”.  The acronym TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.  TED is now a global community knowledge – an international, interdisciplinary think tank that provides an avenue for people to present and learn in a stripped down, welcoming, and highly accessible fashion.  [...]

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Startup Spotlight Issue 2: SunPower

Start Date:  1985 Location:  Palo Alto, California, USA

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Entertainment and Negative Marketing – An Unexpectedly Effective Tool

Organizations such as the UFC are defined on two distinct levels.  The corporate level includes overall messaging, policy, rules, company vision/direction, etc. as defined by the organizations president Dana White.  In conjunction with the high-level decision-making and the macro-product (organizing fights, selling tickets and pay-per-views) there exist a slew of individual and uniquely marketed micro-products, [...]

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