Blog Posts in January 2011

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Jan 24

By John Wonak

One of the most important keys to success is having a highly functioning, cohesive and productive executive management team.  Most organizations, however, plow forward with their underperforming, ineffective leadership teams, and consistently underachieve their expectations.

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What Employees Really Want

Jan 24

By Jay Goltz

What I Used to Think: You have to develop sophisticated motivational programs if you want employees to love working for your company.

Nobody Told Me: The issue is demotivation, not motivation.

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Ideas for Impact Challenge

Jan 13

This winter, Spring into Action is sponsoring the $25,000 Ideas for Impact Challenge, in order to generate ideas for a business that can be consistently profitable in the New York City area, while employing people who need a second chance in life.

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2011 Forecast: Mobile Technology, Social Media & Engaged Healthy Behavior Converge

Jan 10

By Kevin Masi

Now that the decade is coming to a close we’re inspired by trends we see emerging in 2011 that may affect the nation’s health. Each December trendwatching.com publishes its list of trends for the upcoming year. One of these is the increase of health-related lifestyle products and technology. With such products as mobile devices and applications, social media websites as well as consumer goods aimed at heath and wellness, we think there is a compelling reason to believe that key factors are aligning, which promise to have a significant, lasting impact on peoples’ health.

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DePaul University Innovation Awards

Jan 10

The DePaul Center for Creativity and Innovation is calling for nominations for the inaugural DePaul Student Innovation Awards, which recognizes the innovation and ideas of DePaul undergraduate and graduate students. Submission deadline is February 4, 2011

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Deaf Entrepreneur Wakes Up and Hears Customers

Jan 06

By Jeffrey Weber

Remarkably, as a deaf entrepreneur I was able to start a business, create marketing materials and a lead-generation method and receive orders.  Lots of orders.  So many that my company grew from zero to over one million in sales by year two and became profitable.

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Entrepreneurs Unpluggd

Jan 06

Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is a new event that brings together successful entrepreneurs to share their lessons from actual experiences in an intimate, “unpluggd” format. This event will take place at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago on February 8, 2011 at 6:00pm.

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