Grand Challenges are bold and powerful goals that leaders take on to make the world a better place. I am now working with five leaders helping to define and launch their organization’s Grand Challenges. Our world’s biggest challenges are also our biggest opportunities. My mission is to help launch 100s of Grand Challenges over the […]
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John Sydnor is an expert in venture acceleration with a broad and deep background in technology, financial services, and venture economic development. In this short video he covers the three factors that lower risk in innovation, the profile of a Chief Start-Up Officer inside an organization including their role and behaviors.
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The genesis of Floosh: Ruchi, my 12 yr old daughter, and I are driving home from picking up our dog, Sita. Sita puts her paw on the divider between the passenger and driver seat. I discipline her: “No, Sita.” Ruchi says, “Why can’t she put her paw there?” Me,”Because it is the first step into
There are three important ways that associations are different from private sector organizations. These need to be taken into consideration when going through the strategic planning process.
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I was perusing a book once in a bookstore – cannot remember the name – in which the author said something like, “Family vacations are not about vacations. They are about family dynamics.” It was a reframe that stuck with me. Of course, there are plenty of personal catastrophes that came to mind. But, right
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Communities are a unique resource in organizations when you are leading change. Learn why.
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My best friend once attended a zen retreat in a sparse buiding in the mountains. It was cold. For seven days he sat with about eight other men cross legged. Sounds pretty horrible – but he was glad he went. About half way through the experience the instructor slapped the floor and yelled, “Wake up!”
Here is what good innovation feels like to the customer.
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When my wife and I travelled to India and met our newly adopted daugher, we thought she was about six years old. Her facial features and height seemed like a little child’s. Over the course of the last three years in our home she has grown six years! We recently confirmed this with a bone
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I love Robbie Baxter, Silicon Valley guru and author of the Amazon bestseller, The Membership Economy. In this 3 1/2 minute summary, a number of the book’s most important points are strung together in a coherent, easy-to-follow, potent and rapid sequence – it added to my learning and I have read the book twice!
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