January 28, 2010

Interview with Nance Guilmartin, author of the book The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World

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Mike Carruthers:
What I said may not be what you heard, that type of misunderstanding happens all the time.

Nance Guilmartin:
And the faster we go the more behind we get when we don’t take a moment to confirm our understanding and it’s causing us a lot of snafus that take more time to clear up.

Nance Guilmartin, author of the book The Power of Pause...

January 26, 2010

Interview with Sir Kenneth Robinson, author of the book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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Mike Carruthers:
Would you say you’re doing what you truly love and are good at?

Sir Kenneth Robinson:
The way that we can really get fulfillment in our lives is to discover the things that we can do best. And when we find the things that we do best we start to become the best that we can be.
 

Sir Ken Robinson, author of the book The Element ... 

January 22, 2010

Interview with Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

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Mike Carruthers:
People who come up with great ideas typically have something in common.

Frans Johansson:
If there's one thing that characterizes breakthrough artists, scientists, entrepreneurs - it is that they generate and try out many ideas.

Frans Johansson, author of the book Medici Effect, says Pablo Picasso for example…

January 20, 2010

Interview with Daniel Pink, author of the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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Mike Carruthers:
Pay for performance. That’s the model many organizations use to motivate their people; if you perform we’ll pay you money.

Daniel Pink:
And what the science shows that you've got to pay people enough, but once you pay people enough, external rewards like that (If/then rewards) don’t play that big of a role in high performance.