James Ream

“The new foundation for scaling a large org is providing authentic value that inspires your community (formerly known as customers) so much that they cannot help but become vested in your cause and become your ambassadors, your teachers, and your leaders.”

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Andrew Kortina

Read the full post entitled: Community and Camaraderie are the Foundations of 21st Century Business

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October 12, 2009, 5:15pm

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You might be innovative — but are you awesome? For most, the answer is: no. Game over: in the 21st century, if you’re merely innovative, prepare to be disrupted by awesomeness.

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If you don’t know how to be awesome, ask your customers, ask your children, ask your employees. go to bioneers.org. find out how to be better. your employees will love you for it.

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— The Awesomeness Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (via davemorin) (via papilicious) (via hiten)

September 23, 2009, 12:35pm

“The first step, then, is for designers to begin to imagine themselves as leaders – of design firms, of communities, of cultural organizations, of corporations, of government, of society. Designers do not need to position themselves as second to anyone. Tall order? Remember, big changes are easier to make than small ones. You have a secret weapon: Why, in novels and movies, does the architect always get the girl? The psychologist doesn’t. It’s not because the architect knows how to fix electric plugs. It’s because architects have a special mystique. Throughout history architects are associated with greatness, with creativity and beauty and strength and the courage and drama of designing and building a great cathedral or thrilling skyscraper or a lush park or an exciting and beautiful city or a simple, elegant home.”

— http://www.theoverlap.org/blog/?p=43

July 02, 2009, 10:19am

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So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words — within our borders, and around the world. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum — “Out of many, one.”

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— Obama’s Cairo message to Muslim world. Transcript - Lynn Sweet (via rahmin)

June 11, 2009, 1:57am