Category: Boost Economy
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What does it mean to “Boost” another business?
A few weeks ago I sent my book proposal draft out to a few colleagues to get their feedback on the ideas. [**Trigger alert, for all you academics.] Asking for other people’s feedback is almost as hard as responding to their feedback, especially when the feedback is surprising. In this case, I was expecting…
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3 Jobs Where You Can Lead The Boost Revolution
Hankering to lead the Boost Revolution in your own company? You can boost other businesses while you build your own no matter what job you hold in your organization. All you need to do is shift to more generative practices for your day to day work. But if you really want to get out…
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What’s a Generative Organization?
What word captures the central quality of a Boost organization? Generative. What word seems weird to a whole lot of business people? Generative. Funny how that works. Now, what to do about it? I had a very smart friend read over my book proposal, and he said that the word ‘generative’, along with the corresponding…
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My TEDxHoboken Talk: The Boost Revolution
It is a truth universally acknowledged: … that watching yourself on a grainy video talking about the ideas closest to your heart is rather mortifying. So, with a little cringing, I’m excited to be able to share the video of my TEDxHoboken talk, The Boost Revolution: Expanding Possibilities for Business. It took some time to…
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Boost Practice: Offer To Eat Their Dogfood
Just this week I’ve started a conscious experiment with a really easy boost practice: “Eating Their Dogfood”. Normally, I just go ahead and stick my nose into other people’s businesses. But this time, I’m being more deliberate. I’ve asked my students to use a social collaboration tool that’s in beta, and I’ve been tracking…
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How Coworking Fosters Boost Relationships
As a person who works more than half her time from a home office, I sometimes daydream about renting a desk at a coworking space in the city. It would be in one of those cool spaces downtown, maybe connected to an accelerator, where I could work on my own stuff and be surrounded by…
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What would YOU call this kind of Boost Economy sharing?
Gift. Investment. Venture. Share. Starter. Karma. Proactive Reciprocality. Productive Altruism. Investment Sharing. B2B Freemiums. ‘Give’N Maybe Get’. Networked Sharing. Expectant Generosity. Why don’t we have a word for Boost Economy sharing? I have tried each and every one of these words to describe a behavior in the Boost Economy, and none of these labels has fit.…
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The Correct Answer is: Build Capacity
“Fire him”. That’s the business school student’s default answer to the question that starts nearly every case conversation: “What should the manager do?” My role as a professor is to teach management students why “fire him” is almost never the correct answer — and to understand what always *could be* the correct answer. Management students,…