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Niko Canner founded Incandescent in 2013. His work spans the firm’s three major areas of…
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Are You Committed to Meaning What You Say?
Are You Committed to Meaning What You Say?
One of the things long friendships teach us is that one needn’t say everything at once. Old friends are beautiful to us…
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The Shape of a Year
The Shape of a Year
In the higher levels of the game of work, we are presented with a question: How can we grow into powers we don’t yet…
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Money with Meaning
Money with Meaning
Every now and then, someone who has lived deeply and sought to do hard things sits down and writes a book that…
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Management thinking is like jazz in that learning it with any quality whatsoever can only be done through having the opportunity to jam with great…
Management thinking is like jazz in that learning it with any quality whatsoever can only be done through having the opportunity to jam with great…
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Lessons from the King of Flight A few weeks ago, I received a wild invitation: Richard Branson invited me to a gathering of changemakers to explore…
Lessons from the King of Flight A few weeks ago, I received a wild invitation: Richard Branson invited me to a gathering of changemakers to explore…
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Last night, I was elected board chair of DRC/Danish Refugee Council. For more than 60 years, DRC has helped refugees and displaced people around…
Last night, I was elected board chair of DRC/Danish Refugee Council. For more than 60 years, DRC has helped refugees and displaced people around…
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Beyond the Holacracy Hype
Harvard Business Review
In this article, we have aimed to contextualize self management historically, to weigh the benefits and challenges of self management at both the work unit and the enterprise level, looking at the two imperatives of reliability and adaptability, and to get beyond the either/or of “traditionally managed” vs. “self-managed." The article points the way to a range of hybrid models.
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Impact Hiring: How Data Will Transform Youth Employment
The Rockefeller Foundation, Incandescent and Knack
This paper outlines the findings of our recent study to assess the potential for game-based assessment technologies to expand employment opportunities for disadvantaged youth. Recently featured in the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/00685148-a7dd-11e5-955c-1e1d6de94879.html
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China Sales Force Effectiveness -- Building Pride and Performance
Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company)
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You asked for it, so here it is... Emergence released our Beyond Benchmarks report last week, and many founders reached out to share that they were…
You asked for it, so here it is... Emergence released our Beyond Benchmarks report last week, and many founders reached out to share that they were…
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