Issy Sharp, the Canadian hotelier, noted in the early days of his career that there were two types of hotels in Canada, his homeland. The first type was small, with a limited number of rooms. These little facilities provided highly customized service to their guests. As there were only a few rooms it was easy […]
An XPRIZE is “an innovation engine”, awarding large prizes for grand challenges that spur tremendous change. An XPRIZE captures imagination and inspires others to undertake audacious goals that spur positive change. Dr. Peter Diamandis leads the X Prize Foundation. Here’s a list of past prizes (as of this writing): Ansari XPRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight Progressive Insurance
Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” – by Fortune Magazine. Dr. Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation set up to bring about exponential change by incentivizing Grand Challenges
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Take a particular goal you are working on – could be personal or professional. Most people plot out what it’s going to take to get from here to there, but that doesn’t take into account all of the bottlenecks, exceptional circumstances, deviations, obstacles or logjams that are part of life. If you want to blast
The well-known story that illustrates the above point is Apple releasing the first iPhone while the iPod was still so popular, essentially cannibalizing their bestseller to sell something else. And the rationale, someone was going to take out the iPod, so Apple figured it ought to be them. You see they wanted the next bestseller
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When CVS went tobacco free they were chided by Wall Street and the media. How they could be so stupid as to give up a multi-billion dollar revenue line? But CVS knew something that Wall Street apparently didn’t – America had already given up tobacco usage! In November 1998 the four largest United States tobacco
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Here is Part 1 of 3 of my plenary presentation to the Leading Learning Symposium of 2015.
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Christina Economos is a researcher and activist. She led the research in 2001 that documented 10 key attributes of a national movement (documented in this paper). Her city-wide intervention, Shape Up Somerville, was studied as a key success and helped form the Collective Impact model. Today she directs ChildObesity180, with a mission to reverse the
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There are so many ways our world can use assistance, from energy to water to food to space exploration to the environment to mental health to… the list appears endless. And there are ways to choose where to focus your efforts so as to push the frontier towards health, well-being, improved distribution, and healthy alternatives.
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This article by myself and Julie Jordan Avritt tells the story of Chris Economos, a co-founder and co-executive director of ChildObesity180. Chris is a university profesor, research and social activist. Her work has been studied extensively and used to formulate effective interventions including the Collective Impact methodology. She led research in 2001 which identified 10
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