Another inspiring piece, that comes via a friend and amazing business woman, Kae Erickson.

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Kudos to Kae and her team at NCOMPASS for winning the EX Grand Prize Award for thier work on  the Call To Duty Actviation.

Here's what a great culture, crazy collaboration and over the top creativity/imagination can do.

Results from the event:

• Generated $775 million in sales  in 5 days
• 40% increase in sales from the two weeks prior to the event
• 32.2 billion impressions
• $25 million in earned media
• Ranks as the second most viewed live streamed event in history.

This is worth a few minutes of your time.

Link to the Web Site

Just recevied a link from a good friend. After reading This Column is Not Sponsored by Anyone, I couldn't purchase the book fast enough on Amazon.

The most powerful message, and something that I have argued against for at least a decade, is the warning against the systematic separation of people along ecomonic lines as a result of increasng commercialization.

Michael Sandel writes:

"When we outsource war to private militar contractors, and when we have spearate, shorter lines for aiport security for those who can afford them, the reuslt is that the affluent and those of modest means live increasignly spearate lives, and the class-mixining institutions and public spaces that forge a common experience and shared citezenship get eroded."

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets is a must read for all socially minded entreprenuers.

Here is great piece about our recent Maniacal Business attack (MBA) in Miami. Myk Likhov does a superb job of articulating how we unlock the potential of businesses, and the people within them.

Read Here

Here's a portion of MLK's last speech. So powerful.

I found myself relfecting on 2011 and all that it was. Here's the one thing that impacted me the most. I tip my hat to the Sean Carasso, Founder of Fallen Whistles for doing shit that matters.

Be a Whistleblower for Peace from Falling Whistles on Vimeo.

A few incredibly inspiring and powerful words that come from C.K. Prahalad's address to the class of 2009 Acumen Fellows.

"The following is something that I tell all of my students. 

Go with humility. Poor people know more about life than you'll ever know.

They suffer, they don't lose faith in themselves and their faith.

So there is a lot more to learn, and therefore,

Pretending that you are educated, is different than having wisdom that comes from long historical suffering.

So, If you can keep that in mind we can create a new world.

Our job is to follow the future, and not to extrapolate the past. 

We have to image the future!"

Here's an intersting article that more or less debunks popular myth about the role of top teams.

Think of the top teams you’ve known that have had the greatest impact. Did their value come from the meetings they conducted and the decisions they made together? Or did it derive from something else? In most companies, the phrase top team is a misnomer. Senior executives throughout the company may clamor for a seat on the leadership committee because that is where the key strategic decisions are supposedly made. But in actuality, the group rarely conducts its work in unison, as a deliberative body or a source of command. Instead, its power comes from its members’ informal and social networks, their determination to make the most of those connections, and their ability to work well in subgroups formed to address specific issues. The most effective top teams are those that recognize this reality and explicitly set themselves up to function as the senior hub of the enterprise.

For the full article, click here.