The search for professional services collaboration “zen”

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Communication, collaboration and clarity are prerequisites for business success. However, achieving a state of collaboration “zen” – in which a company communicates effectively internally and externally – requires rethinking the way we work. Consider: We live and work in the … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Lawyer Benny Tai Inspired by Harvard Negotiation Project Authors

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The Harvard Negotiation Project was recently mentioned in the Wall Street Journal by David Feith in his interview with Benny Tai, “China’s New Freedom Fighters.”

Benny Tai, a 49 year old lawyer who has been branded an “enemy of the state,” founded Occupy Central with Love and Peace, a group that promotes civil disobedience in order to promote free elections in Hong Kong.

Among Tai’s inspirations include works from the Program on Negotiation’s Harvard Negotiation Project.

TED: Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime - Heather Barnett (2014)

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Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime mold? Watch this talk to find out.

Is There a One-Size-Fits-All “Giving” Ratio? ~via @InsideCXM

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  Any time a big digital idea comes along, especially an idea that shakes free from the status quo, the marketing masses have one simple question – how does it work? If that question can’t be answered with reams of data, the concept is often dismissed. It’s a pragmatic set-up that often works, but also risks […]

Summer Sales Slow? Five Things to do NOW!

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I don’t know about you, but two days before July the 4th business slowed down and then after the holiday, it seemed to stop!  We do have business, of course – very much like you – but the pace of business, the new leads and especially the urgency of the first half of the year seems gone…
What happened??

Just Whose Job Is It to Train Workers?

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By Lauren Weber Hu-Friedy, a manufacturer of dental instruments in Chicago, says its future hinges on four employees. So, it is paying them to leave their jobs for two years.While their colleagues bend and grind cylinders of steel on the factory floor, the four workers since March have been mastering the fundamentals of metal composition and heat-treating, among other things. The hope, managers say, is that the two years of full-time training will help keep the 106-year-old dental-instruments maker competitive in a mature industry crowded with rivals. What's happening at Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co.

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