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CSR—Where Do You Draw the Line?

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has famously limited his company’s growth to avoid having too large an environmental impact. (The brand has even run ad campaigns asking people not to buy stuff from Patagonia unless they really need it.) Would you make a similar decision if your company scaled up? When would you know the time for such a decision had come?

John BradleyJune 27, 2014

Career Technology

Come On, Silicon Valley, You Can Do Better Than This

Forget building silly apps such as Yo. Silicon Valley needs to take on a grand challenge, such as serving the millions who go without clean water.

Vivek WadhwaJune 25, 2014

Career Failure

Pascal’s Wager: Bet On Yourself

You have this one lifetime of potential happiness, and you'd be a fool to bet on anything less than going for it! Are you willing to wager on your happiness?

Pascal FinetteJune 25, 2014

Career

Why You Should See Uncertainty As Opportunity

Compartmentalization might speed things up on an assembly line, but it forces us into silos. And silos destroy creativity, context, and perspective—all things we need to thrive in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Design for social innovation is the answer to that dilemma.

Cheryl HellerJune 20, 2014

Debunking Metrics & Evaluation

Shooting Down the Theory of Disruptive Innovation

If you haven’t already, go read Jill Lepore’s surgical evisceration of “disruptive innovation” theory and of the theory’s leading proponent, Clayton Christensen. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone even remotely interested in startups, innovation, and business theory.

John BradleyJune 19, 2014

Career Failure Mentorship

What’s the Worst that Can Happen?

Fear of failure is why some of the best companies are never built, why some of the most important discoveries are never made and why people spend forty years in jobs they hate. So, ask yourself: what's the worst that can happen?

Pascal FinetteJune 19, 2014

Career

Four Strategies for Listening to Your Gut

Giving your "gut" reactions credit for being your "faster intelligence" is the first step toward making morally astute and accurate decisions. Read this post and learn mechanisms to make this "faster intelligence" louder, more lucid, and more pronounced.

Daniel EpsteinJune 18, 2014

2013 Voyage @Sea Career Full Interview Interview Leadership Team

Interview with the Serial Entrepreneur Who Helped Bring Us Priceline.com, uBid.com, and ColorJar

The founder of Priceline.com talks about how to break into any industry, and why we should not listen to the naysayers.

Unreasonable MediaJune 14, 2014

Career Failure Wellness

Fake It ’til You Make It

Success takes time, fortitude and a certain measure of self-esteem. If you're in short supply of any of these things, sometimes it's worth "faking it to make it."

Ann GarvinJune 11, 2014

Career

Listening to Your Gut – Let’s Give it the Credit it Deserves

When was the last time you regretted a decision you made based on "going with your gut?" Probably never. That's why it's time to think of “listening to your gut” as “listening to your faster intelligence.”

Daniel EpsteinJune 6, 2014

Career Failure

The Discipline of Staring Death (& Failure) in the Face

It’s a good discipline to look failure in the face, to study it, to spend time living in that place of losing. So you can make different choices. But also so that when it comes, you can get through it.

L. Hunter LovinsMay 15, 2014

Balance Career Productivity

Creating Our Way To Wellbeing

Of all the advice available to us on wellbeing – what to eat, how to manage stress, how much exercise we need, what we should get from relationships, the idea that we can create our way to being well sounds too simple.

Cheryl HellerApril 30, 2014

Branding Career Failure Management Scaling Team

A Warped Perspective on Failure—Why We Need to Rebrand the Word Entirely

Fear of failure has prevented people from falling in love, becoming artists, telling friends the truth, and chasing dreams without apology. If we are going to continue to shy away from failure, it's time we redefined it.

Daniel EpsteinApril 18, 2014

Education Policy

An Unexpected Revolution in Higher Education

There’s an unexpected revolution in higher education growing every day that will shape the course of history in the 21st Century.

Eric GlustromMarch 21, 2014

Career Wellness

Which is More Deadly – Zombies or Vampires? How To Determine Your Risk

Everything needs to be put into context. When you are wondering what should be prioritized, related to your business or your health, you need to ask the last question in Ann Garvin's 3 part series.

Ann GarvinMarch 20, 2014

Management Team

Why We Fired Our First Client In Our First Month Of Business

One month in, one client down. Thirty three days ago we formed our new business. On day thirty one, we fired our first client.

BenandAndrewMarch 11, 2014

Career Failure Full Interview Interview

That “Oh Sh&*!” Moment and How To Get Through It

Watch this video as Manoj Sinha, founder of one of the successful energy startups in emerging markets, gives advice to anyone wondering what to do during those "Oh Sh&*!" moments.

Unreasonable MediaMarch 7, 2014

Career Failure Negotiation

How To Know When a “No” Is Not a No-No

Starting up is scary. This post explores perhaps the most persistent trigger that will bring your fears on: when someone says “no” to you.

BenandAndrewFebruary 24, 2014

boldness Archives - Page 3 of 5 - Unreasonable

CSR—Where Do You Draw the Line?

Come On, Silicon Valley, You Can Do Better Than This

Pascal’s Wager: Bet On Yourself

Why You Should See Uncertainty As Opportunity

Shooting Down the Theory of Disruptive Innovation

What’s the Worst that Can Happen?

Four Strategies for Listening to Your Gut

Interview with the Serial Entrepreneur Who Helped Bring Us Priceline.com, uBid.com, and ColorJar

Fake It ’til You Make It

Listening to Your Gut – Let’s Give it the Credit it Deserves

The Discipline of Staring Death (& Failure) in the Face

Creating Our Way To Wellbeing

A Warped Perspective on Failure—Why We Need to Rebrand the Word Entirely

An Unexpected Revolution in Higher Education

Which is More Deadly – Zombies or Vampires? How To Determine Your Risk

Why We Fired Our First Client In Our First Month Of Business

That “Oh Sh&*!” Moment and How To Get Through It

How To Know When a “No” Is Not a No-No

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