The good people at Series B[uffalo], a new entrepreneurship storytelling initiative from that upstate New York region’s innovation-led economic development org 43 North Foundation, interviewed me for their newsletter. I shared that below, and encourage you to check them out.
My perspective is informed by Technical.ly’s ‘case for storytelling.’
Continue reading Local stories shape how people in that place feel about their homeIn my practice, storytelling has a definition and a strategy. Helpfully the research is clearer too: gathering people’s lived experiences, sharing them and then collecting the feedback to share back — on and on — gets you closer to the truth. That definition: Storytelling is a process that uses character and plot to share ways to navigate a complex world.
Continue reading Storytelling isn’t just an output of stuff you do, it’s an input into why you do itPrompted by Technical.ly’s year-long THRIVING reporting series, I joined the CityCast podcast. We’re interviewing hundreds of people from a half-dozen other cities, plus following 10 Philadelphians for a full year to help understand: What are the obstacles and opportunities to economically thrive?
Listen here.
I spoke about what I’ve learned about being a small company CEO, a startup founder and a team leader on the Ideas Elevated podcast from Lift Labs unit at Comcast NBCUniversal.
Listen to my interview on “Philly Pod Who.”
I gave some honest advice from entrepreneurship experience. Thanks Kevin!
I’ve been writing, speaking and thinking a lot about modern talent-attraction strategies.
Not long after speaking at a DisruptHR event to define passive jobseekers, I recently joined an Employee Cycle podcast episode to dive deeper into the conversation. Listen to it here.
Continue reading Employer Branding is central to your passive jobseeker strategy
A relatively new video-focused local video news site called My New Philly kindly came to our new Technically Media offices and interviewed me about our work and entrepreneurship generally.
Watch it below or on their site. (They also covered Philly Tech Week.)
How are so-called innovation clusters happening across the country and in Philadelphia specifically? Alongside Dilworth Paxson law firm CEO Ajay Raju, I was interviewed on the subject over drinks at Parc on Rittenhouse Park.
The interview was for Temple University law school’s blog and came in a two-part series from a Temple law professor and transcribed by a precocious law student.
Read part one here, in which we talk about Philadelphia’s own development of a tech and entrepreneurship communit
Read part two here, in which we talk about what that development can mean for the rest of Philadelphia.
Sometimes when a word is really powerful, it gets over-used enough that its power dwindles. This happens in cycles, like how “collaboration” was sorely stretched in recent years as institutions got hip to open source culture, and now as “innovation” is being slid into the name of any new effort from any organization aiming to look forward-thinking.
That over-use doesn’t mean the word isn’t effective. It is. But it should mean it requires defense. So when I was asked to submit to business marketing magazine SmartCEO my own definition of the word and my process for employing it, I tried to do just that.
Continue reading Innovation is taking a risk on a new approach for an old challenge
