Alan Hall has contributed a number of great articles to Forbes.com from which great pointers regarding leadership, mentoring and learning can be taken.  Among them is this great article which gives tribute to Stephen Covey as one of his mentors. It begins: “Expert advisors are a business builder’s best friends and resources. We might also

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 Todd Henry’s Accidental Creative: This podcast is about the 3 core responsibilities of a creative pro, and how small actions in any one of them can lead to eventual brilliance, or decline. It’s easy to forget the compounding effects of small things done well and consistently, or the cumulative degenerative effects of small things

from Deloitte University Press: by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Alok Ranjan & Daniel Byler Up to 87.7 percent of America’s workforce is not able to contribute to their full potential because they don’t have passion for their work. Less than 12.3 percent of America’s workforce possesses the attributes of worker passion By cultivating

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