What happens when egos get too wrapped up in work? When we confuse our title, position and even our organization with our sense of self? The Ego in Business – the latest article in Alchemy of Change’s successor site, The Vital Edge.
The Vital Edge
Disruptively good business for world-changing companies and the humans who build them.The Alchemy of Change is no longer active, but its spirit lives on at The Vital Edge.
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The Soulful Company
TEDx talk on The Soulful Company
Category Archive: Humanity & Soulfulness
Announcing The Vital Edge!
Welcome to my new website, and the “disruptively good business” of The Vital Edge.
Soulful Work – My Interview with Big Life
An interview with Shelly Immel from Big Life, where she helps me cut to the essence of my work on making business a better force for good in the world.
We Are The Filter Bubble
Computer algorithms aren’t the only thing contributing to the “Internet Filter Bubble.” Who we choose to connect with in our social networks deeply affects who is “curating” the content we consume. Here’s why diversity in your social network matters.
My TEDxRainier Talk on The Soulful Company
Watch the TEDxRainier talk on “The Soulful Company” — a new generation of firms that won’t just tap the soul, but feed it too.
Trust in Luck
“If you ever have to choose
between hard work and luck:
choose luck.
But remember…
Luck doesn’t like a schmo.”
- Joseph Rosenblatt
Why Our Software Needs Social Context
There will soon be a day when the majority of our online social interactions will occur through mobile devices, and we will face a much more intensely social world than we can even imagine today. When that day comes, our software will need to be much smarter at recognizing people’s social context.
Four Ways to Improve Our Online Emotional Intelligence
It’s one of the great tragedies of modern life that our amazing capacity for emotional intelligence gets short-circuited online. We need software that helps us not only retain, but augment our online emotional intelligence. Here are four areas to focus on and a plea for injecting anthropology into our software development process.
How the Web Transforms Consumerism and What That Means to Organizations
The web has changed a lot of things about the way we consume media. It’s flipped our primary communications infrastructure from a one-way, to a two-way flow of information – and that change in the way we communicate is redefining who we are. Businesses and organizations of all types need to understand that their customers …
Love Hurts – That’s a Good Thing
One day it dawned on me that my romantic relationships felt a bit like two hearts on a teeter-totter. Staying out on the edge was exciting and fun, but love at the center is more mellow and sweet – it’s deeper. It is the stuff of the soul and I can no longer really imagine a world without it.
