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"Success Built to Last", with entrepreneur and author Mark Thompson.

It is an interesting paradox in our business lives that we often spend our careers chasing success without taking the time to think more deeply about what it really means to us. In this episode of Stranova, you’ll hear some of the insights that Mark Thompson and “Success Built to Last” co-authors Jerry Porras and Stewart Emery learned in their interviews with over 300 successful people – as to how to cultivate a more profound understanding of success – and how to achieve it on both a personal as well as professional basis.

"Success Built to Last", with entrepreneur and author Mark Thompson.

It is an interesting paradox in our business lives that we often spend our careers chasing success without taking the time to think more deeply about what it really means to us. In this episode of Stranova, you’ll hear some of the insights that Mark Thompson and “Success Built to Last” co-authors Jerry Porras and Stewart Emery learned in their interviews with over 300 successful people – as to how to cultivate a more profound understanding of success – and how to achieve it on both a personal as well as professional basis.

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 14, published October 18, 2006. "The Process Advantage". We’ve heard so much about the latest gadgets, new business forms, and the concept of “disruptive technology”, that many of us have missed the most significant of all categories of strategic innovation: those in which customers are given the opportunity to change the way they used to do something in a profound and different way. In our latest episode, learn how and why this approach to innovation can be in fact the most transformative of all strategies -- by exploring examples from Toys ‘R Us ® to Intuit’s Turbo Tax ® to Apple’s iTunes ®.

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 14, published October 18, 2006. "The Process Advantage". We’ve heard so much about the latest gadgets, new business forms, and the concept of “disruptive technology”, that many of us have missed the most significant of all categories of strategic innovation: those in which customers are given the opportunity to change the way they used to do something in a profound and different way. In our latest episode, learn how and why this approach to innovation can be in fact the most transformative of all strategies -- by exploring examples from Toys ‘R Us ® to Intuit’s Turbo Tax ® to Apple’s iTunes ®.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 3, Published October 7, 2006.

In this the third podcast in our “Voices from 2020” series, our intrepid time travelers FireHawk and Bill Veltrop once again visit an ideal year 2020, this time to interview Tom Atlee, who for many years has been one of this planet’s most articulate champions of our potential to turn our social and environmental challenges into positive developments for our society. Tom is a founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute. His 2003 book, The Tao of Democracy: using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All, introduced us to what it takes to tap into our capacity for wise democracy.

In this interview Tom reveals how, in 2020, we have collectively begun to awaken, not only to face up to our various global challenges, but also to learn how to use the energy of global crises to fuel our conscious evolution as a people. His stories reinforced the importance of societal feedback loops as advanced by Gil Friend and Jeff Saperstein in our second Voices from 2020 podcast. He also highlighted the role played by some pioneering corporations in actively supporting our moving toward social and environmental wholeness.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 3, Published October 7, 2006.

In this the third podcast in our “Voices from 2020” series, our intrepid time travelers FireHawk and Bill Veltrop once again visit an ideal year 2020, this time to interview Tom Atlee, who for many years has been one of this planet’s most articulate champions of our potential to turn our social and environmental challenges into positive developments for our society. Tom is a founder of the Co-Intelligence Institute. His 2003 book, The Tao of Democracy: using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All, introduced us to what it takes to tap into our capacity for wise democracy.

In this interview Tom reveals how, in 2020, we have collectively begun to awaken, not only to face up to our various global challenges, but also to learn how to use the energy of global crises to fuel our conscious evolution as a people. His stories reinforced the importance of societal feedback loops as advanced by Gil Friend and Jeff Saperstein in our second Voices from 2020 podcast. He also highlighted the role played by some pioneering corporations in actively supporting our moving toward social and environmental wholeness.

"The Knowledge Web", with author and entrepreneur James Burke.

For hundreds of years, we have built our learning systems in celebration of and in support of the “knowledge specialist” as perhaps the most valued member of our organizational teams. The problem with such specialization is that it often ignores a far more significant source of innovation, one which draws from the insight of interconnecting two or more seemingly unrelated ideas or disciplines to create a truly novel “new” one. In our episode this week, James Burke, the world-renowned author and creator of the “Connections” book and related TV series, suggests a way out of the “reductionist rut” of placing too much faith on “specialists” for critical thinking AND strategic innovation. With his Knowledge Web project – and more than a few pointed concepts on how our educational and learning systems haven’t really grown up much since the 17th century, Mr. Burke’s ideas should provide some exciting “food for thought” on how you may want to change the way you manage innovation and learning in your own organization.

"The Knowledge Web", with author and entrepreneur James Burke.

For hundreds of years, we have built our learning systems in celebration of and in support of the “knowledge specialist” as perhaps the most valued member of our organizational teams. The problem with such specialization is that it often ignores a far more significant source of innovation, one which draws from the insight of interconnecting two or more seemingly unrelated ideas or disciplines to create a truly novel “new” one. In our episode this week, James Burke, the world-renowned author and creator of the “Connections” book and related TV series, suggests a way out of the “reductionist rut” of placing too much faith on “specialists” for critical thinking AND strategic innovation. With his Knowledge Web project – and more than a few pointed concepts on how our educational and learning systems haven’t really grown up much since the 17th century, Mr. Burke’s ideas should provide some exciting “food for thought” on how you may want to change the way you manage innovation and learning in your own organization.

Stranova Strategic Edge Vol. 13, published September 17, 2006. "Reflections on 9/11". Now, some five years after the horrific acts of terrorism on September 11, 2001, we are only just beginning to understand the full implications of the event in all aspects of our lives. In this special edition of Stranova Strategic Edge, we explore how direct consequences of 9/11 have impacted the world of business at large, with discussion of the airline, oil, automotive, publishing, and movie industries, among others. We also close with some thoughts for all of us to consider as what our legacies from this could be going forward into the future.

Voices from 2020, Vol. 2, Published September 5, 2006. In this second of the “VOICES FROM 2020” series, Bill and FireHawk interview Jeff Saperstein, who has worked extensively in both business and academia and is passionately committed to coming up with measures that help us make the shift towards wholeness, and Gil Friend, President and CEO of Natural Logic, who comes at the measurement opportunity from years of engagement and innovation in the intersection between economy, ecology and community -- on the subject of how changing the metrics we use to measure success can lead to deep transformations in business and all parts of life.