Tuesday was “Improve Your Office Day.” To mark this momentous occasion, Staples.com surveyed 300 workers to find out what would make life at the office better for them. That’s the percentage that cited allowing or encouraging telecommuting as likely to improve American offices. Image courtesy of Flickr user kevinspencer. Sign up for a free trial. MORE >>

Here is a good contest I just learned about. The 2012 Edison Awards, sponsored by the Nielsen Company, Discovery Communications, and USA Today, will present New Product Awards, The Edison Achievement Award™ and The Edison Green Award™ in 2012. The     MORE >>

Not irregularly, when I do presentations or workshops, I get a few accusations of “dropping names” I know what they are talking about (I regularly throw in references to theorists or practitioners), but I think they misunderstand why I do it. Instead, what you do is point to who you are drawing on. Or, worse, presenting stuff wrong. MORE >>

  Later this month I'll be co-facilitating a 6-month Leadership Academy for business and community leaders in an area just outside of Philadelphia. One of the tools we'll be using is Stewart Friedman's Total Leadership model , which focuses on helping leaders become "Real, Whole and Innovative." . Total Leadership Experiments. What happened? .   __. MORE >>

Steve Jobs died this morning aged 56. learned about it via Twitter on my iMac. We knew it was coming probably sooner rather than later. He had been sick for years and, at each public appearance, was looking more and more gaunt. Still, when the news broke, it did come with a jolt. The crowd goes wild – I mean really, really wild. MORE >>