Challenge, Develop and Include Positive Change
In 2015, our CEO, Anand Vadapalli, gathered a group of 11 female leaders at Alaska Communications.
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Problem Solving, Barefoot Style: 5 Steps to Approach Any Problem
The success of the Barefoot Wine brand is living testimony to the problem-solving methods Bonnie Harvey and I employed in our early days.
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Building a Purpose-Driven Innovation Culture
Sometimes we find ourselves so immersed in the day-to-day that strategy and innovation fall by the wayside.
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BeachCorps: Turning Sustainable Travel on Its Head
Sometimes familiarity blinds us to the beauty we know best. That insight led me to an improbable career shift from bureaucrat to entrepreneur.
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An Invitation to Thinkers
I am often asked: Who is STRIVE’s target audience? The answer is thinkers. Those who ponder the greater possibilities and imagine the previously unimaginable. Those who are driven to seek and manifest something better than the current circumstance. Their vision can be as simple as a community garden or as grand as a solution for global… Read more »
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Facing Our Fears: Taking the First Step in Innovation and Business Transformation
I got the call from my mom a little before midnight. My dad had fallen — the untreated skin cancer on his face was bleeding profusely, and he’d lost so much blood he’d passed out.
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Creativity Paves the Way to Self-Sufficiency
If you had told me 17 years ago when I came to work for Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) that one day I’d be talking about how to create the world’s first indigenous-developed video game, I never would have believed you.
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Consciousness Crisis – A Call for Evolutionary Leadership
Most of us recognise the obvious – that the world is undergoing a period of dynamic disruption driven by many factors, including technology, globalization, and the current transition into the “imagination age”… a paradigm shift requiring significant transformation.
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Timeless Leadership Qualities
We live in an amazing era, marked by rapid economic and social change, fantastic technological advances, and dynamic business opportunities. Simultaneously, faith in institutions is eroding and the future is uncertain.
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