From escapefromcubiclenation.com: Many entrepreneurs dream of starting a business in their garage, scaling it, then selling it to Google for a billion dollars. Such things rarely happen. But scaling happens every day, in our career, our business or our workplace. We are constantly trying to improve ourselves, share our ideas, and put in systems and

by John Acuff: If grit is defined as stubbornness in the face of fear, how do we actually make big decisions? Author and motivational guru John Acuff believes that every grit decision needs 5 essential things Excerpted from DO OVER: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work, and Never Get Stuck. Copyright (c) Jon Acuff, 2015. To

As humans, we are all after a meaningful and sustainable life. Through the lens of the creative process, Sueng Chan Lim (“Slim”), award-winning Designer, Researcher, and Author, has embarked on a journey in his project “Realizing Empathy ” which reframes what empathy is, why it is valuable, and how it can be better realized, developed,

from Eric Zimmer’s popular The One You Feed podcasts: Eric interviews Todd Henry, creator of The Accidental Creative. They discuss… • The One You Feed parable. • What mediocrity means. • The Seven Deadly Sins of Mediocrity. • How little choices become a big choice. • How to pick your battles. • Why “no one

from Deloitte University Press: by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown , Tamara Samoylova & Duleesha Kulasooriya The forces of the Big Shift are driving both fragmentation and consolidation, fundamentally changing the nature of the relationships among businesses. Companies large and small have to be thoughtful about where they position themselves to be sustainable. learn

NPR review of Author Joshua Wolf Shenks’ book on Creativity: Joshua Wolf Shenk doesn’t believe in the myth of the lone genius. “What has one person ever done alone?” he asks NPR’s Robert Siegel. “We think of Martin Luther King and Sigmund Freud and Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs as these great solo creators, but