leadership

for those about to rock, i salute you

by Farrah Bostic April 17, 2010 leadership

i posted this over on robots, too, but i had to put it here. it belongs here. it’s reflecting a lot of what i’m experiencing lately, and planning to experience soon. via robin sloan at snarkmarket, this amazing piece, called Less Talk More Rock.  i have a lot to think about with this one, and parallels i’d [...]

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stop chasing: do brand-led everything

by Farrah Bostic March 26, 2010 innovation

You’re definitely going to see this as a key theme to what I hope to explore here – that in the quest to get ahead, most companies and brands find themselves mired in cultures and processes that actually can only truly accomplish keeping up.  And keeping up is what they can do when the engine [...]

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when all else fails, act like a grown-up

by Farrah Bostic March 23, 2010 creativity

Harvard Business Review’s blog The Conversation is doing more and more interesting stuff and I don’t read it enough. But check this out – absolutely worth it: The Anti-Creativity Checklist.  Use it on yourself, try to use it as leverage with your clients and colleagues, work hard to avoid the traps.  The title of this one is, [...]

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we all have the technology to be famous

by Farrah Bostic March 17, 2010 leadership

About a month ago I posted the piece that follows on another blog.  Yesterday, a BBC Radio producer posted a comment inviting me to come on World Have Your Say yesterday with Clay Shirky.  I haven’t been on the radio since college, so this was definitely a little nerve-wracking, but also a load of fun. [...]

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a book idea (for someone else)

by Farrah Bostic March 16, 2010 leadership

The central question of this post is this:  are realism and vision mutually exclusive worldviews for ‘CEOs’? For the purposes of this post, when I say “CEO” I mean “person in charge/owner”. This is something I said to a friend of mine after listening to her talk about her work environment: You should write a [...]

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