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Today I was listening to one of those leadership development professionals who sprout like weeds at all the conferences and seminars these days. But he said one thing charming. "Of course business is personal. If people don’t take their work personally, it’s not worth much." And then I find this wonderful story from a new…

Not in mainstream media: Christopher Orlet has a perceptive commentary at The American Spectator about Rolling Stone magazine’s refusal to run a Bible ad. Link: The American Spectator. The offending ad features a thoughtful young lad and a caption that reads: "In a world of almost endless media noise and political spin, you wonder where…

Every other month, someone calls me and asks me if FastHouston is a good place to come and network. So I immediately tell them about the content of our meetings: we discover and discuss new ideas and how to put them to work. Then they ask me "can I find customers there?" And at that…

From Gary McWilliams at the Wall St. Journal, here’s a nice round-up of social groups formed around toys and electronic gadgets. Link: WSJ.com – It All Connects — and Converges (subscription required) Join the Club Weaving social networks around electronics products — once just for hard-core gamers — is going mainstream. By offering events and…

You will have to register to read this story by Karl Vick in The Washington Post, but don’t miss it. I love stories about people who ‘bounce back’ when faced with adversity. Link: Even in the Wake of Suicide Blast, ‘They Didn’t Want to Go Back Home’ (washingtonpost.com). Nawar Khadim Ahmed had gone home after…

Thanks to Tim Manners of Reveries for a heads-up on this article by Elizabeth Esfahani in Business 2.0. Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is joining retail powerhouses like Zara is engaging its store employees in figuring out how to delight customers. The latest technology helps managers customize their inventory for their most loyal customers and ‘team…

Over at Business 2.0, Eric Hellweg reminds us that Bob Hurwitz has a license to innovate for Warner Music Group at the Nonesuch label, which is bucking the industry trend with growing revenues. At the web site, you can listen to the tradition 30 second snippets or load Nonesuch radio and just float along with…

More great stuff on creativity: Grant McCracken observes that sometimes you observe something unexpected… Link: This Blog Sits at the Intersection…. Stray impressions are not one of the places from which ideas come. But they do have a role to play. They are about the “departure” on which creativity depends. They persuade us that things…

Cory Doctorow has a great entry on creativity over at Boing Boing. I’m not a frequent reader of that blog, but when rock’n’roll is blaring in my headset, it’s hard to read serious stuff… Link: Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things. How computers change writing Steven Johnson (author of the fantastic Mind Wide Open…