8:15 a.m.: Greetings from the World Business Forum (#WBF10) at Radio City Music Hall! Stephanie and I are in the Bloggers Hub, anxiously awaiting today’s program. The Forum is starting in about a 45 minutes with author and management expert Jim Collins. The rest of today’s line-up is as follows: Bill McDermott Jack Welch Carlos [...]
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World Business Forum Day 1
Designing Value for Decades to Come, Follow Up
Last May I wrote about a contest that is very important to me as a St. Louisan. You see, our city’s beloved National Park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (JNEM) – home of the Gateway Arch needs reshaping. So the National Park Service (NPS), the city, local business and academic leaders, and park advocates set [...]
Congratulations to the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010!
FH Innovation is pleased to announce that our two full-time bloggers made Blogging Innovation’s Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010. Kathie Thomas came in at No. 28 and Stephanie Susman took home No. 37. We are two of only five women to make the list. First, we want to congratulate the other bloggers. It is [...]
How Might We Transform the World? Invest in Girls.
An adolescent girl stands at the threshold of adulthood. In that moment, much is decided. If she stays in school, remains healthy and gains real skills, she will marry later, have fewer and healthier children, and earn an income that she’ll invest back into her family. But if she follows the path laid down by [...]
Welcome Back Kathie!
On June 1, I began a three-month journey of self-discovery. This morning I returned to Fleishman-Hillard eager and ready to share my learnings – both professional and personal – with you, my colleagues and my clients. Among my many educational experiences this summer were piano lessons. I’ve never been particularly musical, but I wanted my [...]
The “Age” of Innovation
Today is my birthday, and as someone of a certain age (let’s just say I’m smack in the middle of the baby boom era), I began wondering: Do I have more chance for innovative thinking and accomplishments in the future than in the past? A lot of people might say your best hope for innovation [...]
Happy Social Media Day!
After work today I’m heading over to Gio’s Ristorante in downtown St. Louis to join other local social media junkies in celebration of the first ever Social Media Day. Established by Mashable, “the No. 1 social media blog in the world,” Social Media Day honors “the technological and social advancements that have allowed us to [...]
Expand Your Thinking by Looking for Invisible Gorillas
Watch this video and follow the instructions. Did you see the gorilla the first time around? If not, don’t worry, neither did 50 percent of the people in Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons’ 1999 experiment on the nature of attention. According to the New York Times Book Review, “when you direct your mental spotlight to [...]
World Innovation Forum Day 2, Continued
I am back in St. Louis and wanted to post overviews of the last two talks from Day 2. Jeffrey Hollender on Building a Better World Hollender shared three principles for increasing the business case for “doing the right thing:” Look at things from a holistic, systemic perpective. Be radically transparent. Make sure your company’s [...]
World Innovation Forum Day 2
2:45: Joel Makower on Green Business “Green innovation shouldn’t be different from innovation, just as green business shouldn’t be different from business.” Makower spoke of three types of innovation – product, process and business model – and shared a number of examples of companies that are becoming more sustainable in these spaces. But, as good [...]