by Mike Cobb | Feb 16, 2017 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
Free The Radicals A friend recently sent me a link to a Chicago Ideas presentation by Alexa Clay, Leadership Lessons from King Pins, Hackers, Gangsters and Misfits. I highly recommend it. Ms. Clay’s talk deals with leadership lessons from black market innovators,...
by Mike Cobb | Jan 13, 2017 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, better known as G.K., once said: “We are perishing from want of wonder, not from want of wonders.” I think about this quote a lot. And when I think about it, it is in multiple contexts. I think about it theologically, as G.K. no doubt...
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 17, 2016 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
I recently read a report, “How Millennials Want to Work and Live”, published earlier this year by the Gallup organization[1]. The findings, resulting from extensive research, identified six changes that leaders must make to effectively lead those members of the...
by Mike Cobb | Mar 16, 2016 | Entrepreneurism Innovation Creativity
Visit any Google campus, from Mountain View, California to Dublin, Ireland, and you will be struck by the efforts the company has made to create a fun, spirited, sensory rich environment. Replete with ski gondolas in Zurich, a sidewalk café in Istanbul, vegetable...
