Starbucks hauled 1,000 lighting instruments, 445 chain motors, 120 speakers, 21 projection screens, and 5,000 live coffee plants to the conference center in Houston and spent three weeks installing a $35 million "Leadership Lab." What Starbucks doesn't spend on commercials, it makes up for with this three-day spectacle. The goal is to mobilize its employees
Young prospects solicit advice, connections and funding from successful entrepreneurs Through a new online community where people invest in each other and share in what's achieved, Pave hopes to help entrepreneurs connect with the next generation of business leaders to invest in their future. www.pave.com
Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review
Getting out of bed and does anyone care. Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that