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June 22, 2016 in True Strength, Strengths & Weaknesses, Intent, Mindset, Action, Resilience, Truth, My thoughts, True Strength Podcast

Andy Johnson – True Strength Podcast – Episode 7

Ian Pettigrew, Comments Off on Andy Johnson – True Strength Podcast – Episode 7

As part of my True Strength project, I'm featuring interviews that dig deep into how people succeed and I was delighted to interview Andy Johnson of Andy Johnson Media. The interview has lots of insig ...

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November 7, 2013 in Events (live blogging), CIPD Annual Conference 2013

#CIPD13 – The end of competitive advantage

Ian Pettigrew, 3 Comments

One-sentence summary: HR has an opportunity to step up and help create new ways of working which aren't just essential for the survival of HR, but are essential for the survival of organisations.

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November 7, 2013 in Events (live blogging), CIPD Annual Conference 2013

#CIPD13 – Developing internal entrepreneurs to innovate within your organisation

Ian Pettigrew, 1 Comment

One-sentence summary: An entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial mindset is messy, risky, disruptive, and mahoosively powerful.

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July 13, 2011 in Book reviews

Business Model Innovation

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A summary of an excellent workshop on Business Model Innovation - run by Corridor Connections at the Manchester Digital Development Agency on 12th July 2011

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June 27, 2011 in Book reviews

The Lean Startup

Ian Pettigrew, 7 Comments

Eric Ries gave an excellent Authors@Google presentation on his forthcoming book, The Lean Startup.

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June 25, 2011 in True Strength

Are you following the unclear path?

Ian Pettigrew, 1 Comment

Reflections on a talk by Tara Hunt on what it takes to be an entrepreneur and face the unclear path.

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March 25, 2011 in Book reviews

A Portfolio of ideas?

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In the light of Seth Godin's advice to "Poke the Box' and implement our ideas, here are some musings about how we can treat our multitude of ideas like an investment portfolio.

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March 25, 2011 in Book reviews

Poke the Box

Ian Pettigrew, 2 Comments

You can't optimise your way to surprising growth and many industries face extinction as a consequence of stifling innovation; Poke the Box is a manifesto from Seth Godin which examines what we need to ...

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February 22, 2011 in My thoughts

Shelve an idea to make it successful

Ian Pettigrew, 2 Comments

When I hear that an idea has been shelved, I (mistakenly) assume that it means that the idea has been killed and will never see the light of day, but a recent lecture by Jack Dorsey (co-founder of Twi ...

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August 25, 2010 in Book reviews

Linchpin – Are you Indispensable?

Ian Pettigrew, 1 Comment

Seth Godin's latest book - Linchpin - argues that our employment prospects are bleak unless we're prepared to do something about it and be remarkable!

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