Alli Polin | Break The Frame
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My daughter took a Business Innovation class in high school this year and needed to pick a business to analyze for one of her units. She came home and informed me that everyone was using their …
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Often, we think of vision and purpose in an organizational context, yet organizations are powered by people. It's the marriage between the individual and organization that creates value. …
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Everyone’s talking about the Varsity Blues scandal. In a nutshell, it’s parents paying to cheat their kid’s way into college. I’m a parent, and I want to see my children have wildly happy and …
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I sat down to write about getting unstuck, but there’s one thing that doesn’t get enough attention…What happens when you get unstuck, do that thing, and fail? Failure hurts no matter how strong you …
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My kids have a big standardized test coming up in a week that will tell us if are they working at, above or below grade level. Unfortunately, at school, they've spent the past months teaching to the …
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We love innovation. We think it's the most gosh-darn important and super-sexy thing in the world. We want it and we want it now but oh, we're not going to fund it fully until we absolutely know that …
