Interviewed by Seth Kahan, February 2003 In San Francisco, at the Braintrust 2003 knowledge summit, Seth Kahan interviewed Rory Chase about trends in the knowledge field and his view on the contribution of storytelling. Rory is Managing Director of Teleos, which conducts the internationally recognized Most Admired Knowledge Enterprises – MAKE – research program. More […]
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Interviewed by Seth Kahan Shelley is a Chicago-based branding expert. She has led major initiatives for McDonald’s, Frito-Lay, Pepsi-Cola, and Chevron Oil, among others. She launched Airlift Ideas, Inc. to help companies create strong identities for new or existing brands. Previously, as an executive at McDonald’s Corporation, she directed major efforts in new business development,
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Interviewed by Seth Kahan I first met Steve at the World Bank in 1994. Two years later he became my boss, directing the team that introduced Knowledge Management (KM). Under his watch our 5-person group, with no budget, successfully implemented the large-scale change initiative, transforming an old-style bureaucracy of 15,000 professionals. In just two years
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Seth is a motivational speaker and keynote speaker. He uses storytelling and communication exercises to help build strong business communities and ignite positive organizational change. Case Study by Seth Kahan Written for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs Download this case study Download the entire report: Managing Knowledge to Improve
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For a business community to generate good returns, three forces must be optimized: business benefits, community concerns, and participant payoffs. 1. Business Benefits Why does a beekeeper build beehives? For honey. Why does a business invest in a community? For returns. Examples of business benefits include: Improved operational performance Better product and services development Increased
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The global mindset, Internet of Things, pay equity for women, cultural diversity as a core asset, emerging nations coming online, and the corporate shift from profit-centric to knowledge and impact centric. These are some of the coming trends HR has to be ready to face, support, and enrich. Read more at RiseofHR.com
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What is it that pierces our understanding of the world and opens new horizons, especially those we are resistant to yet which mean greater freedom and ability? Have you ever thought you could not do something and when someone insisted you could, you refused to believe? Then, they showed you beyond a doubt that you
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Robert Nelson was CEO of the National Coffee Association for 18 years. He has unique experience designing and running Grand Challenges for the NCA and elsewhere. Today Robert is principal of NCS Strategies. Robert will be joining us all day at the Grand Challenge Summit on March 20.
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All night long my wife is getting texts that say, “Woot Woot!!” What is this? I am not familiar with this term. So, I looked it up on the holistic brain trust, the Internet. Turns out its origin is ambiguous. One source says it hails from a contraction in Dungeons & Dragons of ďż˝wow, loot!ďż˝
Chris McEntee, the American Geophysical Union’s CEO and executive director, talks with me about the Thriving Earth Exchange, which is their Grand Challenge. She shares about how the idea began, its purpose, how she knew it was the right thing to pursue, and what it will do for AGU.
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