NetWork Kansas Case Study
September 9, 2017
OVERVIEW: By connecting entrepreneurs and small business owners with expertise, education, and economic resources, NetWork Kansas promotes an entrepreneurial environment throughout the state. Its initiatives to build assets and infrastructure include matching loans and educational courses. Also, a network of Entrepreneurship (E-) Communities that help local residents start and grow businesses. The network has grown to 75 E-Communities. Over the past 20 years, they have been established in the state’s 105 counties, providing $21.5 million…
Read moreHarvard Business Review’s Latest Articles
September 3, 2017
Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) was founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University, reporting into Harvard Business School. Their mission is to improve the practice of management in a changing world. Their thought leadership is focused on higher education and corporate learning. Read the articles here.
Read moreFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
September 8, 2017
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous investigations of “optimal experience” have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state of consciousness called flow. During flow, people typically experience deep enjoyment, creativity, and a total involvement with life. Flow teaches how, by ordering the information that enters our consciousness, we can discover true happiness and greatly improve the quality of our lives. Buy the book here
Read moreAdam Grant’s The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers
September 9, 2017
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a…
Read moreThe Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
September 8, 2017
by Charles Duhigg In The Power of Habit, Pulitzer Prize–winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature…
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