Your Funding Partner Could Actually Kill Your Company — Here’s Why

Given the buzz about funding from VCs, angels, and other sources, it may be counterintuitive to say that your funding partner could actually kill your company.
Adapt Or Die: Your Business’s Only Options In An Evolving Economy

With a little forethought, leaders can create organizations that are agile, resilient, and consequently better equipped to experience sustained success.
5 Classic Books That Have Inspired Innovative Thinking Throughout Time

“Innovation”, “mindfulness”, and “creativity” are terms we hear a lot these days, but where did they come from? These five books helped shape generations of thinkers, and their lessons still apply today.
Review of “Everything Connects” on IEDP Developing Leaders Magazine

The connections that the authors allude to here are more profound than the just those between people and organizations – they are also about how one’s actions are intricately and inevitably related to one’s experiences and state of mind.
How to Increase the Odds of Success for Venture-Backed Companies

An operating blueprint allows principals and a management team to work together based on converged intelligence of market opportunities, execution capabilities and business model differentiations.
Why Are Some People More Creative Than Others?

The short answer is, it’s complicated. But there are some tangible traits that separate a bank teller from an artist.
10 Essential Principles for Reaching Your Ultimate Potential

Happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated.
How Your Biases Make You Blind

We best empathize with people—be they colleagues or customers—that we have some shared experience with.
Here’s How To Keep Your Company From Getting Crushed By The Next Big Thing

Innovation is not a single moment of catharsis, upheaval, or revamping. It is not a change in the form of a one-hit product; instead, it is a continuous process.
Leadership Involves Poetry As Well As Plumbing

The headlines scream about leadership failure after failure around the globe every day — at the world’s biggest companies, in government agencies, non-profits, academia and at startups. So why does leadership fail?