Archimedes’ Hot Tub

My second post in The Big Think looks at whether networks are more important than connections when it comes to business. It draws on the ideas of Michael Stallard and his book Fired Up or Burned Out. As I note in the blog,

Stallard’s theme is connection, and he doesn’t mean connection of the social networking kind. He thinks businesses, from the CEO on down, need to develop a culture that encourage employees – all employees – to feel like they’re valuable. He argues that it comes down to connecting with employees, and helping them connect with customers and partners. Stallard says that takes a vision, an ability to make other people feel valued, and to give employees a voice.

Here’s the full post of The Importance of Connecting with Colleagues.

My new blog on BNet, The Big Think, kicks off with a post looking at the entrepreneur as missionary.

The theologian Juergen Moltmann wrote of the adventus (the ideal future) and the futurum (the expected future), and it made me think that every entrepreneur I’ve ever met, and plenty of managers at established business, has both an adventus and a futurum in mind.

For more, read Managing toward the ideal future.