By Braden Terry A decade ago, computers were made for work and productivity. Portable laptops were beginning to become mainstream and cell phones were about as personal as a wallet. Today, smartphones do everything a laptop can do while also functioning as a personal connection to the rest of the world. In 2016, global smartphone sales reached 1.5 billion[i] even though the market did not … Continue reading Beginning of the New Smartphone Era

By Hannah Blender Continue reading All Signs Point to Profitability

Book Review by Ammon Kou “Option A isn’t available. So, let’s just kick the <expletive> out of Option B.” Sometimes, we find ourselves living Option B. Our well-thought out plan falls through, and we are forced to undertake out backup. We face trials that tear our world apart. As the mother of a family of four and as Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg … Continue reading Book Review: Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

Book Review by Nick Porter “I used to believe that timing was everything. Now I believe that everything is timing,” says New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink. In his newest book, Pink makes the claim that timing is not an art, but a science. Drawing on emotionally-charged stories and backed up by thousands of pages of scholarly research, Pink grips the reader with compelling … Continue reading Book Review When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Book Review by Richard Rolapp Students sometimes look ahead towards graduation as the chance to forsake education and focus on building their professional career. Josh Waitzkin challenges this idea of compartmentalized learning by describing his experience in two different, yet interconnected fields: competitive chess and martial arts. Waitzkin’s experiences prove to readers that regardless of age, position, trade, or background, everyone can implement small lifestyle … Continue reading Book Review: The Art of Learning

By Ryan Stenquist Morten Hansen’s book, Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results, teaches something many modern government and enterprise leaders seem to have forgotten: running a competitive organization requires cooperating with others. Collaborating, the author acknowledges, often means cutting out inflammatory rhetoric within an organization or even towards competing organizations. Sometimes collaborating well means fewer and smaller meetings. And … Continue reading Collaboration: Why We Need It Today

By Jennifer Ann Goldsberry Today’s world is becoming evermore uncertain. Financial, informational, and job security may begin to look bleak. What is the solution? Innovation is the solution according to Professors Dryer and Furr. While the title, Innovator’s Method, appears to be written to a narrow audience of entrepreneurs, the book is actually written for leaders and employees in all fields. An operating manual is … Continue reading The Innovator’s Method

Book Review by Jennifer Maynard The seeds of greatness are planted within each of us. It is by choice whether or not we harvest success. In his national bestseller, ​Seeds of Greatness, Denis Waitley gives away “the ten best-kept secrets of total success.” By outlining the principles of planted seeds in the context of finding fulfillment in life, his prose, poetry, and storytelling complement any … Continue reading Book Review: Seeds of Greatness by Denis Waitley

By Michaela Tanne Hedgehog Effect: This term comes from an essay by Isaiah Berlin about a fox trying to attack a hedgehog. No matter how many strategies the fox tries, the hedgehog always avoids it by curling up in a perfect little ball of spikes. In business, the hedgehog represents successful companies; “they know one big thing and stick to it.” Successful businesses aim for … Continue reading Buzzwords

By Sarah Romney Continue reading Take the Busy out of Business

By Evan D. Poff It’s a frigid day in Ukraine. Snowflakes flurry by, swirling around a man hobbling his way through the bleary scene. Not every day is so cold and bleak, but miserable weather or not, he must get to his job. All day, he is on his feet, climbing stairs and walking quite a distance to get to work. He winces, wobbling in … Continue reading An Arm and a Leg: Medtech Perspectives on Human-Centered Design

Traveling in uncharted waters can be treacherous and frightening. In Homer’s classic tale, The Odyssey, Odysseus undertakes a long and fearful journey. His realization of his new circumstance makes “[his] knees quake and the heart inside him <sinks>; he <speaks> to his fighting spirit, desperate…’I see no way!’”[1]  As he reaches land and safety, Odysseus flings himself on solid ground and kisses “the good green … Continue reading Uncharted

By Hunter Muse The question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” used to inspire so much excitement and dreaming; now it might make your palms sweaty and your heart rate soar. According to the latest Conference Board survey of U.S. job satisfaction, sixty-four per- cent of workers under the age of twenty-five say they are unhappy with their jobs. You’d like … Continue reading Why Following Your Passion Might Not Be Right For You

By Matthew Erickson If you were to analyze every breakthrough and innovation in the history of man, you would most likely find a question at the heart of each one. Albert Einstein once offered the world a gift arguably greater than all of his scientific contributions combined: a rare insight into the mind of a genius. “It is not that I’m so smart” he said, … Continue reading The Genius of Good Questions

By Andrea Cabrera Whitney Johnson broke the glass ceiling. “I want more. I can do this,” she said. A fire lit inside her—she disrupted herself. Whitney was terrified. She and her husband had moved to New York for him to get his PhD at Columbia University, and she needed to find a job. But there was a problem: Whitney had no career sense whatsoever. Living … Continue reading Executive Spotlight: Whitney Johnson