Principles & Goals of ABV
Lessons from Traverse City
It’s been over a week since I had a conversation about social entrepreneurship with twenty like-minded individuals in Traverse City, Michigan–people who believe in the idea of "doing well and doing good." What I took away from that experience: Lesson One: Dive in, the water’s fine. A Bigger Voice sometimes requires that we act in…
Read MoreBiggest Mistake Made By Event Organizers, Concert Producers, and Corporate Trainers
I’ve been obsessed recently by the words, front end and back end. Front end is the focus of traditional publicists and marketing professionals, conference organizers and producers of musical events, and workplace trainers. They focus on visibility, the Big Splash, and memorable experience. They delight in airtime, broadcast mediums, and media coverage. Getting on Oprah…
Read MoreThe Long Tail
I finished The Long Tail by Chris Anderson a couple of weeks ago but have been procrastinating writing a post about it. Maybe it’s because there’s so much that resonates with me that it’s hard to pick one or two things to talk about. It was the same when I read Clay Shirkey’s Here Comes…
Read MoreGood to Great = Letting Go of Control
This post from the WSJ is a familiar story: Passionate entrepreneur starts a company, grows the biz to where what made them successful starting out is now a liability. Hires a president to run the company and scale it. Founder has trouble letting go, afraid that her original vision will be changed and that her…
Read MoreThe Scarcity of Hybrids
I previously posted about the power of hybrids–how "both/and" thinking takes the conversation to a new place and how vibrant communities, where a many viewpoints are put forth, are ideally suited to take create hybrids. Jeremiah Owyang has a great posting about how it’s difficult to find hybrids that fill a real need in the…
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