Category: creativity
Crowdsourcing Strategy
The McKinsey Quarterly has a piece on organizations that have used wikis and other crowdsourcing technology to create open strategic planning processes (registration required). As the article points out, this approach sometimes requires a change in the nature of leadership roles: Taking these principles to their logical conclusion suggests a shift in the strategic-leadership role [...]
Poughkeepsie is One of the Top Cities in the US. . .
. . . if you’re a family with children looking to live in a midsize region. Creative Class guru Richard Florida‘s site “Who’s Your City?” has a series of “top city” lists for different demographic groups. Poughkeepsie is number three for midsize regions for families with children, right behind Bridgeport, CT and Worcester, MA. You [...]
Crowdfunding Goes Mainstream
Want proof? How about a big story in the business section of the New York Times? Here’s what it had to say about the recent growth of Kickstarter: “This year marks the year that we’ve seen Kickstarter enter the real world in a number of ways,” said Perry Chen, one of its founders. “At Tribeca [...]
Fun Facts for Friday: Literary Division
The video above illustrates this important literary insight from blogger Kevin Drum: “[Did] you know that most of Emily Dickinson’s poems can be sung to the tune of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”? It’s true! Go ahead and give it a try.” It makes one wonder if the same applies for the poems of Czeslaw [...]
Can Social Media Improve Leadership Skills?
That’s the question being addressed Alexandra Samuel over at the Wall Street Journal. A few tips she offers: Create a Leadership Dashboard Don’t just monitor the Web for intelligence about your business and brand; mine it for ideas, news and research that will help you develop as a leader. Use iGoogle, Google Reader or an [...]
