by Jackie Acho | Jul 5, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Empathy, Feminist revolution, Innovation with a soul, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. “You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 28, 2014 | Creative disruption, Disrupters, Entrepreneurship, Innovation with a conscience, Innovation with a soul, Intrapreneurship, Uncategorized
What is “innovation with soul” vs simply a disruption of the status quo? Do you know it when you see it? Does our society inspire, support, and exalt it as we should? Consider: The new MIT Technology Review: “Hacking the Soul.” In it,...
by Jackie Acho | May 8, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Mergers and Acquisitions
Sharon Sobol Jordan is the CEO of the Centers for Families and Children , as well as a dear friend and client. She writes about institutionalizing innovation and positive disruption on her blog, Innovation Inside. This collaborative post is being simultaneously...
by Jackie Acho | May 5, 2014 | Art, Innovation with a conscience, Innovation with a soul, Science, Technology
The MIT Technology Review is out with 10 breakthrough technologies of 2014. It makes us wonder….. What is innovation with a conscience? Is all science/technology/invention/innovation inherently good? Innovation which is good does NOT: -profit from...
by Jackie Acho | Dec 11, 2013 | Art, Changemaker, Creative disruption, Disrupters, Intrapreneurship
dis·rupt transitive verb \dis-ˈrəpt\ 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Entrepreneurs make money, sometimes lots of it, as quickly as possible. Sometimes even for others. Intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs inside large organizations) make change, sometimes also money,...