February 2012
6 posts
Huffington Post: Can CEOs Solve The Climate...
Can CEOs Solve The Climate Crisis? STOCKHOLM (AP) â” As governments bicker over who should do what to slow the pace of global warming, the U.N.’s climate chief is increasingly looking… Good initiative and absoluely nessary to create action and commitment. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Huffington Post: ANNIE MCKEE: Balance
ANNIE MCKEE: Balance Learning to live mindfully and to focus on hope and compassion will help you to ward off stress and balance yourself. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Sustainability for CEO's
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Newness keeps you up to date and marketable.
When many organizations have a job opening, they will look for someone who is preferably a clone of the person who is being replaced. The only exception is when you are laid off because there was a total misfit. So, they look for the same education, age, gender, and experience. They really want someone who did almost exactly the same job in a similar organization. Their thinking is that...
Wisdom
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Why complicate life? - KISS!
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January 2012
17 posts
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company
Long-term success is dependent on a culture that is nurtured and alive. Culture is the environment in which your strategy and your brand thrives or dies a slow death. ———— http://bit.ly/xcIBhf Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Infographic: How Napping Can Help Your Business :...
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How One Bank Rethought Automated Customer Service...
via fastcocreate.com Hopefully the service itself was just as ‘beautiful’! Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Creating behavioural change
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Creativity needed to create start-ups.
From the quote below, it is very clear that we urgently much create new jobs. “Despite strenuous government efforts, the jobs crisis continues unabated, with one in three workers worldwide – or an estimated 1.1 billion people – either unemployed or living in poverty”, said ILO Director-General Juan Somavia. “What is needed is that job creation in the real economy must become our number one...
Global Employment Trends (ctd)
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Global Employment Trends
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How To Follow Your Passion (When You're Just...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN: How To Follow Your Passion (When You’re Just Trying To Pay The Bills) During tough economic times, many people think they need to sacrifice passion and focus solely on earning money. From a spiritual perspective, this is the exact opposite approach to generating real abundance. Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
We are Heart Soldiers
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Let 2012 be sparkling for you and others
Currently we are bombarded with messages, research and predictions that 2012 will be a tough year. While that may be the case, there is always another side. Or like our most famous footballer Johan Cruijff says “Every disadvantage has and advantage in it”. There is so much complaining going on about the level of service which companies and government provide. So, why don’t you make sure...
Great Products Are Nice. But Great Businesses Add...
Firms should look at services as a means of distinguishing themselves from a field of object-centric competitors and learn the methods of service design that will enable the conception and execution of compelling and effective user-interaction experiences.———> http://bit.ly/AfpSul Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
The Creative Process | Visual.ly
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The future belongs to the curious
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Managers have to change as well
It is nothing new that a lot is happening in the world and that changes are rapidly having an impact. There are many publications about the need for employees to change. Also is a lot is being written about how organizations in itself should change their culture, structure and approach to technology. Mostly managers are telling their employees that they have to change and do things differently....
Boxing the Compass of Intangible Value Creation
I think it’s fair to say that we live in an economy that is largely made up of intangibles. A world of brands; relationships; causes; ideas; business models.— http://bit.ly/xCRtEK Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE by TO-FU
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Job rotation for innovators
It is very attractive to let always the same people be involved on your innovation projects. These are the people who are experienced in the innovation tasks and you know what you get. This leads to two potential hick ups. The innovation people can become complacent themselves, as the innovation activities become routine itself. Continuously following the same steps and processes to do...
December 2011
17 posts
The chance of a lifetime by Seth Godin
The thing is, we still live in a world that’s filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity — we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being...
A fresh perspective needs a time-out and...
In medium to large organizations there is a need to standardize procedures and to have habits. Here are some examples of habits: every monday morning there is a team meeting; R&D is done in-house; managers are senior men; we focus on addressing faults, mistakes and individual weaknesses. Most leaders are not even consciously aware of these practices. They are so ingrained in the the...
Making social media pay - Accenture
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Did You Know 3.0 (Official Video Edition)
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Dare to dream and let go!
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
What is your passion?
Here are three questions to ask yourself: If you did not have to worry about money, what would you do with your time? What kind of work would you want to do? What cause would you serve? Source: Blake Mycoskie (TOMS) Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
Success - poem
Success He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of...
Future Work Skills
Global connectivity, smart machines, and new media are just some of the drivers reshaping how we think about work, what constitutes work, and the skills we will need to be productive contributors in the future. This report analyzes key drivers that will reshape the landscape of work and identifies key work skills needed in the next 10 years. It does not consider what will be the jobs of the...
How do you persuade a billion people to change...
Businesses leading the way on sustainability now accept that they need to take responsibility for the social and environmental impacts of their products, and that means helping their customers use them more sustainably.Behaviour change is a hot topic, and the International Green Awards www.greenawards.com, held at a glittering ceremony at the Natural History Museum last month, provided many...
Are you really being customer-centric?
Yesterday I had to accompany my mother to the doctor. The roles reverse, as she did go with me while I was young and now it is the other way around. She had to perform a lung test. The outcome was that she has to use a certain medicine for six weeks. Why is this relevant in the context of innovation? Well, the medicine has to be inhaled via a complicated tool. So, we went to the pharmacist...
The Muppets: Animal's Holiday Guide - YouTube
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VIDEO: The High Price of Materialism
VIDEO: The High Price of Materialism In this short animation, psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America’s culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that “the good life” is “the goods life,” they not only use up Earth’s limited resources, but they are less happy and less inclined...
Your story is your differentiator
It is very hard to distinguish your products and services, if you only focus on the features and/or the price. Even if you have a differentiator it will not last very long, as your competitors will catch up very soon.One way to differentiate yourself in a sustainable way is to have a compelling story about your company, your self and your product/service. Here is an example from TOMS’ Blake...
Create a Culture of Greatness - Guest post by Jon...
To build a winning a team and a successful organization you must create a culture of greatness. It’s the most important thing a leader can do because culture drives behavior, behavior drives habits and habits create the future. As the leaders at Apple say, “Culture beats strategy all day long.” When you create a culture of greatness, you create a collective mindset in your organization that...
Live with passion!
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November 2011
14 posts
Africa: market entry strategies
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Superpowers and Kryptonite | Josh Linkner
Let’s start focusing on our strengths and stop obsessing over our weaknesses. Developing your superpower is your most important step on your journey to success. Don’t let your nemesis get in the way of reaching your true potential. Each of us has incredible things to accomplish and a gigantic impact to leave on the world. Now is the time to seize that opportunity. http://bit.ly/ui2Cu9 ...
Service Thinking
Our thinking is often a product of the past. The future demands fresh perspectives. Service Thinking provides just that. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were all about industrialisation. Mass production and economies of scale tackled many of the issues of the day and meant that people in the developed countries saw their standard of living leap. Workers were also consumers of the goods...
Treat people like humans!
via theproperway.com There are only (huge) benefits in humanizing the business! Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
YOUR BEST ASSETS ARE UNDER-UTILIZED
In my last post I did mention the need to (regularly) look outside of the walls of your organization.In addition to that , there is another very obvious area which is very often neglected, YOUR PEOPLE! In these challenging times the focus is on survival and mostly on cutting costs. This means that people are laid off, trainings are skipped and hours worked are increasing towards a very...
11-Year-Old Explains His Take On The Food System -...
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Market savviness requires the use of social media
Recently I have visited a couple of large, traditional Corporations. This means that they are used to doing business in a certain way and that it is very difficult to have them change that way. Change for change sake is of course not good. Globalization and the Internet Business demand that you are on top of your game, rather than a laggard. But these big companies are not used to looking...
55 Jobs of the Future
The jobs and occupations listed above are just scratching the surface. This list is intended to help stretch your imagination and start you down a path of imagining your own future.I do like: global system architect and business colony manager.Which ones do you like?——— http://bit.ly/udf8pl Posted via email from THE PROPERIST | Comment »
How to address the status quo
This week I have read two excellent articles about obstacles for change (http://huff.to/w1QHev) and obstacles for innovation (http://bit.ly/uU3OvQ). They clearly indicate that - as an innovator- you also have to be creative how to deal with the status quo. You can’t just give all your time and energy to the new idea; you also have to design a strategy to address the status quo. And the longer...
The Future workplace: How technology,...
Predicting the future is not an exact science. However, in these days of rapidly changing technology, it has become more imperative than ever for companies to look ahead and try and predict how technological advances, globalisation, environmental concerns and people’s desire for more flexible working will affect the way business is carried out. And this future of work matters not only in the way...