by Mike Cobb | Aug 31, 2016 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
My professional life (if you don’t count selling Christmas cards door-to-door when I was a kid and, for a very short while, the most amazing and the last pair of scissors one would ever need to buy) began when I got out of graduate school. I made the transition from...
by Mike Cobb | Aug 24, 2016 | Leadership Culture and Personal Development
Sometimes I think the six hardest words in the English language are “I don’t know” and “I was wrong”. There is often an aversion to admit that we know less than we really do, to owning up to our shortcomings, or to being willing to seek insights from others....
by Mike Cobb | Jan 13, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
It seems that almost every day there’s a new book or article about risk-tolerant versus risk-averse organizations. These authors tell us how it is through taking risks that we change and grow, both as individuals and as companies. However, the most successful,...