December 3rd, 2012 
Mary Hladio I recently read a story about social change:
This is an excerpt from the book by Ken Keyes, Jr. “The Hundredth Monkey.”
Making a paradigm shift
The Japanese monkey, Macaca Fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years. And in 1952, on the …
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23 Comments » October 22nd, 2012 Mary Hladio A man lay on his bed at the end of his life waiting to die. His dream came to pay his last respects and bid farewell to the man who had never used it.
Don’t let your dreams die!
September 24th, 2012 Mary Hladio A common mis-perception is cultural change has to start at the top of an organization. However studies have shown that culture change begin with the sub-culture of a
Direct the direction of change
work-group or team where a leader who is one or two levels down from senior management decides …
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The degrees of separation between any one of Facebook’s 800 million users is close to 4, on average—much less than the “six degrees of separation” notion people throw around.
Within the same country, the degrees of separation between any two users declines to nearly 3.
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Everyone wants to be innovative
And guess what?…corporate culture is not the answer!
While many companies dream of becoming Apple, most linger in the same innovation-lite purgatories associated today with RIM, Kodak, and Sony.sumo suit online
Meanwhile, despite their best efforts and historical legacy, countless other organizations are no …
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I have to first say that I have iPad envy or any tablet like devices that is just plain cool. Last week, Microsoft posted a futuristic video which showed future-people working, playing, and living in a world filled with touch screens.
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