Failure: The Secret to Success

Failure: The Secret to Success

How embracing failure drives innovation and breakthrough success There's something profoundly counterintuitive about celebrating failure. Our educational systems, career paths, and social norms often train us to avoid mistakes at all costs. Yet some of the world's most innovative organizations and individuals take a radically different approach—they view failure not as something to be feared, but as an essential component of breakthrough success. The video above offers fascinating insights into Honda's racing philosophy, where failure...

Inside Best Buy’s Communication Revolution

How one of America's largest electronics retailers is using video and dialogue to transform its corporate culture The impressive Best Buy Corporate Headquarters in Minneapolis, MN - home to innovative corporate communication strategies I recently had the opportunity to attend the CMMA Professional Development Conference at Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The agenda for the events today were as follows: Keynote Dialogue: Video Fueling Culture. Brad Anderson, Vice-Chairman and CEO, Best Buy Fueling...

Concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book

@danielabarbosa is a superstar, she posted these "pictures from the working session when the concept of the Conversation Corporation e-book was first discussed" on her Flickr account.  "The Conversational Corporation examines the new ways your employees, the outside world and future generations will communicate and collaborate. From public conversations to social media projects started behind the firewall, social media tools are changing the way we work and altering the expectations of customers and colleagues.  This...

Coca-Cola’s Revolutionary Freestyle Soda Fountains

One Machine, Over 100 Flavors Coca-Cola is debuting a new soda fountain that can hold more than 100 sodas. That's ten times more than current soda fountains. Currently, fountains work through syrup bags. The restaurant buys a bag (actually, a bag in a rectangular box) from Coke or Pepsi, hooks it up to a soda line and then the fountain combines the carbonated water with the syrup to create your soda. The machines are limited...

The Future of Education

Free, Digital, and Accessible to All My First Long Form Blog I've been writing down a few topics in draft form and adding to them as I have time. That may be good news or bad news, depending on if you like to read long posts. Please know with all blog posts that my ideas are just that, ideas. Society tends to want to think the way it has always been taught, but change is...

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