HSM Inspire Blog

Dan Rockwell writes a popular blog called Leadership Freak which turns two years old in January.  Billed as a way to "help leaders reach higher in 300 words or less" the blog is now just one online channel for Rockwell.  He's also gained a large Twitter following and runs a vibrant Facebook community known as the Leadership Freak coffee shop. His most recent Facebook question "How important is being liked to effective leadership?" elicited 15 in-depth responses.

We invited Dan to participate in World Business Forum 2011 as part of the bloggers hub and then after his stellar job covering the forum, he was invited to attend our Elite Leadership Program -- the only blogger to do so.

If 27-year-old Joshua Filgate managed to turn Twitter into a valuable networking tool -- so can you. How to "tweet" your way to a new job has loads of tips for you.

Dan Rockwell a.k.a. Leadership Freak recently attended our Elite Leadership Program and has a fresh post up called: The Question A.G. Lafley Didn't Answer. For more on the ELP, see his Secret to Powerful Leadership post.

Cisco obtained such interesting results when researching the next generations work priorities, that we had to share. Check out this infographic for more details.

We all know how powerful our brains can be, but can we train it to be more successful? Leadership tycoon Warren Bennis once said, “We seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven’t devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.”

What inspires you? Can you inspire others? If you do what inspires you, would that inspire others? According to Simon Sinek, the answer is yes. Simon a trained ethnographer and author of Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, has held a life-long curiosity for why people and organizations do the things they do.  

Did you know 81% of the U.S. online adults use social media? If you think about it from a business perspective, you could say that social media is a B2B marketing channel. So if it is a marketing channel, how can we use it to advertise?

With Halloween festivities over, I couldn't help notice the gobs of money that fueled it. Not surprising because, apparently, Americans spend more and more on Halloween each year. All the costumes, decorations, candy and cards add up to big business and have even given rise to a crop of Halloween pop-up stores that are able to cash in during the two months a year they are open. Check out this crafty infograph for more details. Almost spooky, isn't it?

An adorable NASA engineer named Mark Rober (pictured) came up with a bloody expensive and bloody brilliant Halloween costume featuring two iPads, fake blood and scissors. Watch iPad2 Bloody Gaping Torso video to see the magic.