We are back from the very exciting and informative two-day http://www.cocastl.org/subpage.cfm?vSection=cocabiz&vPage=bizcamp hosted by St. Louis’ own COCA (Center of Creative Arts). We learned a lot and will share our insights with you on this blog over the coming weeks, but first I wanted to share the contents of the box that I won from Monday’s [...]
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On Monday and Tuesday, I will be live tweeting from COCAbiz’s Business Creativity Conference 2011 “Play @ Work.” COCAbiz is the newly formed business training division of St. Louis’ Center of Creative Arts (COCA). Its mission is “to build a more creative, engaged and effective workforce by delivering innovative classes, workshops and events that pair [...]
Declare Your Support for Innovation in the United States
On July 4, 1776, our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. On July 4 this year, we ask that you sign the Declaration of Innovation. Sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovation Movement (CEA), the Declaration of Innovation is an online pledge, open to Americans, in “support of policies that ensure innovation remains the [...]
Raising Money Requires Critical Thinking
Two weeks ago, St. Louis City residents voted overwhelmingly to extend an earnings tax applied to anyone who lives or works in the City for five more years. This 1 percent tax is the City’s single largest source of revenue, accounting for about one-third of its budget. Without this revenue, St. Louis City would be [...]
An Interview with the Most Creative Person in Canada
Last week we announced that our colleague Steve Coppola at High Road Communications (a Fleishman-Hillard sister agency) in Ottawa had been named the most creative person in Canada by Marketing magazine in its annual Great Canadian Creative Faceoff of 2010. I had the pleasure of talking with Steve this morning about what this honor means [...]
Congrats to Steve Coppola, Marketing’s Most Creative Canadian!
We are pleased to congratulate our Innovation teammate Steve Coppola who won Marketing Magazine’s Great Canadian Creative Faceoff of 2010 in November! According to the call for nominations, the Faceoff is a “search for the cream of Canada’s creative crop, from across all sectors of our industry-agency, marketer, media, PR.” A “creative force to be [...]
To Initiate Change, Leverage the Six Sources of Influence
This morning I had the pleasure of interviewing bestselling author, entrepreneur and business expert Joseph Grenny. I heard Grenny speak about influence at the World Business Forum (#WBF10) last month and I was eager to learn more about it. At #WBF10, he said everyone has a theory of influence, but most of us don’t know [...]
What Does Tuesday’s Midterm Election Mean for Innovation in the United States?
For a couple years now, I’ve been receiving weekly e-mails from the Innovation Movement, a “coalition of Americans who believe innovation is the key to reviving the global economy and creating new American jobs,” sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Generally, the e-mails act as newsletters sharing the latest on innovation in government, business [...]
The Rally to Restore Sanity (and Innovation)
“Our Differences Make us Interesting not Enemies,” read a sign in the crowd at Saturday afternoon’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Comedy Central political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, the rally “pok(ed) fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.” But it wasn’t [...]
Would Privatizing Water Create Value for the Consumer?
Across the globe, some 1.1 billion people currently live without clean water. As the world’s population continues to grow (it’s expected to increase by 40 to 50 percent in the next 50 years), and increased industrialization, irrigated agriculture, urbanization and standards of living jack up the demand for water, world leaders are starting to wonder [...]