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The Case for Examining Organizational Resilience

April 23, 2010

photo credit: rachel_thecat I was scheduled to fly to Amsterdam this past Tuesday — as you can imagine, that didn’t happen. As I wait out the next few days before my new departure and rearrange my schedule on the other end of the Atlantic, my thoughts turn to that one little volcano, waking up after [...]

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Beyond push-ups: Resilience as a test of fitness

April 8, 2010

For individuals, organizations, and society, the only certainty is change. Once that is accepted, we can turn to developing ways of mitigating the effects of the change, of embracing and dancing with whatever presents itself next. Once we shift to accept that change is a constant, we can embrace opportunity and mitigate negative effects by [...]

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Help Wanted in a Tough Business: Must be Collaborative and Kind

March 11, 2010

Sara Livingston is guest blogger for The Idea Hive. She is an Associate Professor in the Television Department of Columbia College, Chicago and is the Director of the Television Arts Learning Community. Sara holds the title of Distinguished Teacher, and had been the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award. She is a nationally exhibited video [...]

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Fed up with rhetoric: Can the health care debate become a main dish?

March 6, 2010

While watching Congress wrestle with issues at the health care summit, I started to worry…have we crippled this government with our lazy palate for dialogue? What if the shock of modern media has blunted our taste buds to the point where real content now seems boring? Is this just another example of the original not [...]

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Hey! Used Cooking Oil is sexy, gargantuan and here, now!

February 23, 2010

The event’s title caught my attention: Biofuels 2.0 from Garage to Gargantuan. “Wow”, I thought, as I scanned the details of the event hosted by The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), “This is exactly what I am doing: helping to usher in the next generation of biofuels.” My boss and I represented Sirona Fuels at the [...]

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One Business’s Healthy Lunches Make Healthy Kids

February 17, 2010

photo credit: DavidDennisPhotos.com The innovative food company, Revolution Foods, (aka: RevFoods) makes thousands of nutritious lunches every day for students all over the Oakland area. They also recently expanded their business to serve schools in Los Angeles and Baltimore. RevFoods demonstrates a sound financial and socially responsible business model in the school lunch industry. Their [...]

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Celebrating Our ‘Inner Girl’

February 6, 2010

On the eve of Super Bowl Sunday – a day that celebrates, in excess, everything that is overtly masculine — I offer a shift in perspective to reveal one of the most powerful forces on the planet next to Mother Nature herself — the power of young girls! Yes, I will be rooting for the [...]

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Biodiesel Business Helps Earthquake Victims Start Fresh

February 2, 2010

When most people go on vacation, they try to get as far away as possible from anything that reminds them of work. Not me– on my recent trip to Peru, I visited two biodiesel production facilities. The first refinery I toured was in Pisco, located four hours south of Lima. Pisco had been in economic [...]

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The Case of the Stuck Consultant

January 13, 2010

As one of the more practical Bees, Kas Neteler has decided it’s high time to share some insights from all the buzzed out coffee dates that we attend on a regular basis. We enjoy getting together with potential clients, collaborators and the like to share experiences and offer suggestions for tough organizational issues. If you [...]

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Swimming Against the Tide: Assessing Salmon’s Life Cycle from Spawn to Bagel

January 6, 2010

A first-time comprehensive study of the lifecycle of salmon consumption brings into question some notions about how to think about what we eat, especially in terms of long-term sustainability: “Even food has a lifecycle, and the world must learn to comprehend the full costs of it in order to design reliable, resilient food systems to [...]

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