We are all artists is the thrust of this Harvard Business Review article. By thinking like an artist we can get develop like artists do. Turn Your Career into a Work of Art - Gianpiero Petriglieri - Harvard Business Review

Stop, Breathe, Notice, Reflect and Respond. Google's Search Inside Yourself (SIY) internal course has already educated 1,000 of their employee's on mindfulness. The New York Time's takes us through some of the in's and out's of the approach. Eckhart Tolle would be proud.  Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath - NYTimes.com

We assume that if someone can make a decision they can also tell us why they have made that decision. In the video below from Malcolm Gladwell he points out our naivety in this assumption and from it we could make the case, that the exploration of why we make decisions is best done by somebody objective and outside of the decision making process. We aren't the best judges of our own decisions.

Have you got what it takes to be a strategic thinker? Here are 6 habits that make all the difference:AnticipateThink criticallyInterpretDecideAlign LearnYou can read the full descriptions in the INC article.

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Bill Donius, author of 'Thought Revolution: How to Unlock Your Inner Genius' explores the link between our right brain and our inner genius.

The class of business science students that I teach strategy are heading out into the world in January. They have a unique outlook on life which they will need as they head into a world as uncertain today as anytime that I remember in my 44 years. We need to stop looking businesses to work for. I meet a lot of people every month and a lot of people are asking how they will get a job or get a better

All the usual suspects have written living eulogies of Steve Jobs (Economist, Bloomberg, HBR, Forbes, WSJ, Washington Post) since he decided to step down as CEO of Apple on August 24th for health reasons. In this day and age it's great that a CEO get's to quit on his own terms, many wait until they are pushed and then it is all about their golden handshakes rather than what they have achieved. Steve

Using 3m in the same sentence as innovation is pretty cliched these days. They are one of the companies that are held up over and over again for their success at innovating. What is less known is how they get it right. Bottom line, a lot of common sense. The big question, why do so many companies have so little common sense?

The old retirement worked on the basis that you work your whole life and save like mad so you can get to 60 and 65 and then hope like crazy that you don’t live longer than you have money to live because if you do you are so far out of the market that you can never recover. Keywords - mad and crazy. The new retirement says retire today. Retire from work that is not meaningful and a life which