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Flash Point: The Medici Effect
Frans Johansson shares stories and ideas about how an open mind and a willingness to explore ideas outside your field of expertise can help break down barriers that inhibit new discoveries.

Frans Johansson shares stories and ideas about how an open mind and a willingness to explore ideas outside your field of expertise can help break down barriers that inhibit new discoveries.

Frans is known for making the business case for diversity. Beyond lip service, he packs his programs with plenty of examples and gives people what they need to know and what they need to do to break down silos and bring out the best that everyone has to give to any challenge or opportunity. Regardless of rank or where they reside on the org chart. Even if they aren’t on the org chart!
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  1. Mattingly 12 Jun

    Gabriel – 1) point taken2) It seems to me that the ODHI paper is presenting the HDI and MPI as complements, not substitutes, much as you would present the income poverty rate and GDP together. (also I wasn’t picking on the connections you drew specifically, but more seizing an opportunity to talk about the functional differences between the two). Jeisheng - as far as I know, no one really looks at “global” HDI, mostly because technically development doesn’t really have an upper limit the HDI is good for comparisons between countries, but at least one of its components (income) is boundless. I hope the same holds true for life expectancy. new jersey car insurance online auto insurance quotes

  2. Millicent 20 Jun

    Jeff, I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the past couple days. You’ve done a great job of engaging a lot of thought leaders to weigh in on this important/evolving topic. It’s also very impressive to see David Meerman Scott give his opinions on this! He’s definitely the expert.What’s been going through my head is…what would I do if I were MPI? I applaud them for leveraging live content to a virtual community. I’m definitely a believer of…by giving a virtual community a taste of the live event, you will benefit by converting those folks as future attendees plus, of course, build loyalty for the brand/membership.As this is an evolving issue, if I were MPI I’d probably take more of a middle of the road approach. Here’s how:1. Stream a number of sessions LIVE for FREE to members and non-members. Pick some good ones to make sure the desire to be there in person increases.2. Solicit sponsors for all recorded sessions. The value that they will get for being the ones that helped bring this education to the community (good guy thought leaders) is very valuable. Collect contact info for the sponsor for maximum benefit and for future target marketing by MPI.3. Hold back two handfuls of recorded sessions. One set would be offered free later (maybe one a month) the 2nd set would be considered premium sessions that would be offered for a nominal fee in a webinar series. If the sessions are received well on site, word of mouth for those attending live will help drive traffic for the deferred online showings. The paying live attendees should not mind these free or discounted offerings because they heard it 1st and also experienced it live. MPI would benefit by extending the life of their conference and come across as delivering value to the community vs. trying to make a quick buck. They may even attract a few more bodies to Cancun.Any way, we should expect our industry associations to lead the way with best practices. I believe MPI’s intentions are good here, but don’t agree with the deployment and pricing model.Dave LutzVelvet Chainsaw Consulting MBA degree college degree online

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