Each of us has a “learning edge” – our own personal frontier in which we are rapidly, and sometimes uncomfortably, learning about ourselves and the world. At this frontier, we may be outside of our comfort zone, but it is here that we have the greatest gains to make.
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Presenter Kate Ebner, CEO, The Nebo Company Date Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Time 12:00pm – 12:45pm EST
Presenter Kate Ebner, CEO, The Nebo Company Date Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Time 1:00pm – 1:45pm EST
The Myth of Innovation A common myth in popular culture is that the world of startups – and innovation by default – belong to the young. The myth goes like this: younger people are more capable of disruptive thinking, are relatively unencumbered (no kids or mortgage), and have more energy. Take the 2010 Oscar-winning movie The Social Network, which […]
Building a brand and gaining the trust of customers is one of the hardest things to do, yet that trust is also easy to lose; as Warren Buffet once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Amazon had a big year in 2017. With its $13.4 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Markets; fierce competition for its new HQ2 and accompanying promise of 50,000 new jobs; reaching $500b in market capitalization, rivaling Facebook, Google, and Apple, and potential to reach $1 trillion in the next year; capturing almost 50% of U.S. online retail sales and […]
Financial Outcomes Are Not Longer Enough As corporate leaders lookout across the economic, social, technological, and environmental landscape in front of them in 2018, Larry Fink, founder and CEO of Blackrock, has given them something to think about.
Since assuming the role as Microsoft’s CEO in February 2014, Satya Nadella has transformed the culture of one of the largest and most influential tech companies. Microsoft has changed from an organization of “know-it-alls” protecting their fiefdoms to a company of “learn-it-alls” that has embraced the growth mindset and places empathy and diversity at […]
In 1995, Daniel Goleman popularized the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) in his seminal book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Matters More Than IQ. More than 20 years later, it’s more relevant than ever for leaders to tap into their own emotional intelligence capabilities. In fact, Goleman argues that emotional intelligence is the differentiator of […]
Hal Gregersen, the executive director of MIT’s Leadership Center, has spent his career researching the difference between good and great leaders. He’s interviewed over 200 senior business executives— including Elon Musk of Tesla, Ed Catmull of Pixar, Sara Blakely of Spanx, and Marc Benioff of Salesforce — on how leaders become insulated from […]