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innovation through crowdsourcing

How To Unlock Your Potential For Innovation Through Crowdsourcing

The human mind has an incredible capacity to learn, recognize patterns, and connect pieces of information together to find new ways to approach old problems. Unfortunately, our problem-solving abilities are limited by individual knowledge and experience. When problems are large and complex, we might not have the right data available to have any hope of […]

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still hate our jobs

Still Hating Our Jobs

Written by Todd Putman and Lori Sparger Well, nothing has changed. We all still hate our jobs. Wait, that’s not quite right. A third of us are engaged at work. We love our jobs. But the other two-thirds, according to the most recent State of the American Workplace from the Gallup organization, are “actively disengaged”

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technology can save your company culture during expansion

How Technology Can Save Your Company Culture During an Expansion

As any business expands — either domestically or internationally — it can be a challenge to maintain a consistent company culture. Communication might suddenly need to bridge time zones, and messages will need to stay consistent despite language or cultural barriers. An expansion can affect organizational design and the centralization of resources, potentially making employees

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how to fail successfully

How to Fail Successfully

Written By Mike Irwin My youngest daughter is a skateboarder.  With her, I’ve spent a fair amount of time at skateboarding events and at skate parks.  While I’ve been wowed many times by bold and amazing stunts, I’ve also noticed one thing:  skateboarders fall.  A lot.  Pros, beginners, veterans and young rippers all hit the

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