«Αρχίζοντας από τον εσωτερικό μας κόσμο: Μαθήματα από ένα βουνό (Climbing Kilimanjaro)

Πραγματοποιήθηκε με μεγάλη επιτυχία, την Παρασκευή 19 Απριλίου (12:00 – 13:00 μμ.), η 14η συνάντησή μας, με την ονομασία “Shots of Inspiration”. Στη συνάντηση μας, η κα Χριστίνα O’Neil, μας μίλησε για το πώς, χρησιμοποιώντας το βουνό σαν δάσκαλο, μπορούμε να μάθουμε για τη δύναμη της σκέψης που συνοδεύεται από έντονο συναίσθημα. Τη δύναμη της που κάνει τον άνθρωπο να είναι δημιουργός της δικής του πραγματικότητας.

Intrapreneurship: 10 Lessons from the Trenches

Lean Elephants is not the name of a weight loss program for pachyderms. It’s Telefónica’s world renowned intrapreneurship program and it’s definitely making elephant sized waves in the world of business innovation. Flashback to 2012. After applying Lean Startup methodologies to a couple of innovation projects and an ideation program, Telefónica completely redefined their innovation model, turning it inward and adopting the methodology as their core way of working.

7 Habits of Highly Innovative Companies

Innovation is a top priority for almost any company. More and more companies start to realize they must adopt proven habits or best practices to infuse innovation culture into their DNA. But creating an innovation culture is more than just launching an innovation lab, hiring an Innovation Officer or establishing a new innovation team. Building a culture of innovation takes time, efforts and dedication to persistently develop healthy habits to accelerate innovation.

The Greenhouse Approach: Flourishing Organizations Through Intrapreneurship

Innovation is infectious. Its roots lie in debate and contention and it flourishes in an environment that welcomes the challenging of assumptions, risk taking, and creativity. That’s the focus of Chitra Anand’s new book, The Greenhouse Approach: Cultivating Intrapreneurship in Companies and Organizations, which re-imagines what corporations can and should be. The book also examines the psychology of businesses and challenges current ways of thinking that inhibit us from truly being creative, fearless and innovative.

15 Mistakes Successful Leaders Know to Avoid

Richard Branson's 8 Keys Happiness and Success

20 Albert Einstein quotes that will remind us to never give up in life

Leaders who affirm their team's strengths and potential are rewarded with high performance and overall success. Much of what a business leader does can be boiled down to a handful of important skills. These include tackling workplace issues and problems, setting reasonably high expectations, and understanding how to motivate and manage people while effectively communicating with everyone. Though there is no perfect formula for doing these tasks well, there are definitely practices you should avoid. The most successful leaders strive to develop a positive management style while avoiding negative leadership characteristics. Use this list of “don’ts” to create your own best practices as a successful leader.

It boils down to family, friends, fun, purposeful work and money -- in that order. By nearly any measure, Richard Branson is at the top of the success-o-meter of life. The multibillionaire launched his first business as a teenager. By 20, he had started a mail-order record business and by 22 he was running a chain of record stores. He has since founded a slew of companies and conglomerates, including Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, Virgin Express, Virgin Mobile, Virgil Hotels, Virgin Cruises and Virgin Galactic. But it’s not just his ability to create entrepreneurial success that sets him apart. Branson seems perpetually set to “happy” mode. When he’s not engaging in some outdoor sport or extreme hobby, he’s spending time with family and friends he truly seems to adore.

We all know him today as the man behind the Theory of Relativity. He was also awarded the Nobel Prize for his explanation of the Photoelectric Effect. Lesser known is he was the husband of his wife Elsa Einstein. But who would have thought that this renowned scientist was once a teenager people assumed didn’t have a bright future. He was a high school dropout and ran away after being drafted in the military. One of his teachers even told him he would not amount to anything. He suffered because the education system stifled his originality and creativity. After college, job hunting was difficult because of the animosity from one of his professors.