The Megacommunity Approach to Tackling the World’s Toughest Problems - Booz&Co - Strategy+Business

Three projects in Rome are showing how companies, governments, and other organizations can work together to increase their effectiveness. Here is "Innovation" continuing to push the envelope of management practice.

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The Author 

Fernando Napolitano is a senior partner at Booz & Company based in Rome. He is managing director for Italy and leads the firm’s organization and change practice there. He specializes in the telecommunications, media, and aerospace industries.

How To Design A Blog To Monetise without A Business Model - Foolhardy or Not - Darren Rowse

Earlier this week I launched a new blog: FeelGooder. This post will give some of the backstory behind it (expect another one next week with more). feelgooder.png What? Another blog? Are you crazy? One of the most common reactions I get when I mention that I’m starting a new blog is something along the lines of, “How are you going to fit that in?” Two months ago I wrote about the process I’d gone through to hire Georgina Laidlaw to work on content development and strategy for me. One of the reasons I expanded my team in this way was to create for myself some head space to dream and develop new projects. You’ve already seen some of these rolled out (the Free Getting Started Blogging course (with over 5000 participants already) and the soon-to-be-released ProBlogger Academy).

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How Social Networking Has Changed Business - Bill George - HBS Faculty - Harvard Business Review

Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year, social networking morphed from a personal communications tool for young people into a new vehicle that business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year.

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How artforms can address business issues - Tim Stockil - Arts and Business UK

This 45 comprehensive report analyses the characteristics and attributes of a number of different art forms and evaluates what each art form offers to business in the field of creative training and development. It provides a model to show how arts-based training and development can make a significant impact on a wide range of business issues. Although it is not an academic paper, the report draws on a range of academic publications as well as the experience of practitioners in the field.

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10 Steps To Susccessful Brainstorming - Paul Williams Circa 1957 - How Something Old is A New Again

10 Steps to Successful BrainstormingI found these great brainstorming tips in the June 1957 issue of The Rotarian magazine via Google Books. The original article was entitled: “Got A Problem? Brainstorm It!” by Lyman Judson. It is no surprise that what we read about in 1957 is what practice today. As Judson’s article points out – even though brainstorming dates back to Plato, much of what they did in 1957 and what we do today is based on work by Alex Osborn.

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