Power to the Pawns! Letter from the Editor Everyone understands the analogy of chess to life and to business. However, I believe it is important to consider each of the roles of the game pieces...
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Empowering Leaders through Connection, Collaboration and Communication
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ICOSA shares stories and profiles about people and organizations that are connecting, collaborating and communicating to build innovative solutions for competitive advantage sharing best practices so that others might learn and apply key findings. Through passionate voices and challenging viewpoints, we create an open forum among a global community to generate and share ideas and dreams, to make a difference in the world around us. A quarterly magazine, ICOSA combines interviews, profiles, stories and more that showcase leaders who are truly leading.
This issue is focused on the 4 I’s– information, ideas, intelligence and innovation. The root of the concept comes from business but perhaps lacks one important aspect–a fifth “I”–ideals Ideals–ethics,...
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My nine-year-old daughter is trying to figure out who to vote for (not that she can vote yet). She was talking with her friends at school the other day about her choice for president. “I vote for Mrs....
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Transformation is a funny thing. Its definition says it all—to change in composition or structure: to change the outward form or appearance of: to change in character or condition: to convert. Oftentimes...
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A visionary has a dream with a plan. An inspirer brings together diverse groups of people to share the common vision. A gatherer pulls the power of many minds and resources towards a common interest....
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The five creature characteristics (infrastructure, resource management, vision, transformation and continuity) are instrumental in making collaboration possible. When two organizations join together to work...
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While an efficient resource management system must have a common structure for all members to utilize, it also requires flexibility in the types of imperative resources it is able to store. Collaboration...
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We are in one of the worst recessions in American history. More than one in 10 Americans is without a job, and the federal budget is driving our country’s debt to unparalleled levels. Because of this,...
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The theme of this issue Big Ideas, Smart People...Changing the World was immediately interesting to me. I thought— lots of people have big ideas, but are they really changing the world? What I found...
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Recently I attended the 2010 Colorado Performance Excellence Quest for Excellence where I heard Baldrige Recipient Dr. Mike Sather, the Director of the VA Cooperative Studies Program present the “Code...
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