TEDxOtemachiLive 2019 @Miraikan sponsored by SMO This April 27, you will have the chance to join an unforgettable gathering of minds and souls from Tokyo, Japan while engaging in the amazing experience of TED2019 Conference (Vancouver, Canada). https://ted2019.ted.com/ 👉 “When… Continue Reading →
In 2008 three American companies were fighting for their lives. Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler, the Big Three of the automotive industry in US, were running out of cash. To bail them out of the crisis, the government offered them… Continue Reading →
From the overview of RIMOWA in their job description: Welcome to RIMOWA, the first German Maison of the LVMH Group. We are a global lifestyle brand with a mission to create the essential tools for a lifetime of travel. For… Continue Reading →
We are pleased to release “The State of Purpose Among Business Professionals Study”. It is available (in Japanese only) on our website as PDF. With the goal of understanding the mindset of the Japanese workforce, we conducted a survey of… Continue Reading →
The purposeful ads of Super Bowl In case you missed it, here are some of the purposeful ads aired at Super Bowl this year. Google’s beautiful ad 100 Billion Words focused on humanity through the lens of their Google Translate technology…. Continue Reading →
Our annual publication “TOKYO 2019” is available now on our website. Leadership Essentials: Purpose and the Skill of Foreseeing the Future, this is the theme of this issue. It is filled with insights from interviews, original research, and future scenario… Continue Reading →
Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo has been listed as one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2015. At the core of her tidying method and philosophy is the idea of sparking joy, an expression you might have come across… Continue Reading →
Just came across this report from 2014 – The Purpose City: A New Urban Model for a New Generation of Urbanites. The New Cities Foundation, NBBJ and Imperative convened 50 influential policy makers, scientists, start-up entrepreneurs, business leaders, designers, planners and… Continue Reading →
I’m currently reading Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, and I came across this helpful question for setting big goals. Jim Collins and his team came up with the concept of… Continue Reading →
“Vision” is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past. – Simon Sinek We all know having a clear image of our goal, a vision, is important. But… Continue Reading →
LINK: Innovator to Innovator: Apple CEO Tim Cook Interviewed by High School Senior Rebecca Kahn A quick read to hear Tim Cook talk about purpose and philosophy behind how he runs Apple. My favorite quote from the article: Whenever he… Continue Reading →
Jason Fried / David Heinemeier Hansson : When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
I have a friend who loves Pokémon Go. He plays the game and collects Pokémon whenever he gets the chance. I, on the the other hand, collect purpose statements. Whenever I come across one, I add it to my collection…. Continue Reading →
Over at HBR, John Coleman addresses three misconceptions about purpose: Purpose is only a thing you find. Purpose is a single thing. Purpose is stable over time. My favorite quote from the article: In achieving professional purpose, most of us have… Continue Reading →
I had this math teacher in my middle school that wrote a new quote at the top of the chalkboard every week. One quote that stuck with me was the one by Les Brown: Shoot for the moon. Even if… Continue Reading →
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An insightful interview with the CEO of Stanley Black & Deck on becoming Purpose-driven. On how they discovered their purpose: So Loree called on the company’s 45,000 employees to work with him to figure out “the societal need” the company… Continue Reading →
From the feature article, Creating a Purpose-driven Organisation of Harvard Business Review July-August 2018 issue about discovering purpose: At a global oil company, we once met with members of a task force asked by the CEO to work on defining… Continue Reading →
BlackRock is one of the world’s largest investment management company. BlackRock’s 2018 annual letter to CEOs touches on the important of purpose in business. There are lots of good stuff in here. Here are my favorite parts: On the backdrop… Continue Reading →
LINK: Leadership Lessons from Walt Disney: Disrupting Industry Stereotypes | Talking Point | The Disney Institute Blog From the Disney Institute blog about how Walt Disney came up with the idea of Disneyland: When Walt’s daughters were young he would… Continue Reading →
To discover and clarify the purpose for work and projects, here’s a good framework I rely on: Purpose is at the intersection of what we are good at (STRENGTHS), what we love to do (PASSIONS), and the needs of who… Continue Reading →
Speaking at Oxford last fall, one of the topics Tim Cook talked about was purpose: I have begun to think through… What is my purpose in life? I was struggling with a lot of things both professionally and personally at… Continue Reading →
I recently visited the Wirecutter website to look for recommendations for a mobile battery pack. While over there I came across their purpose statement near the top of the page. Wirecutter supports our readers with thousands of hours of reporting and… Continue Reading →
Amy’s Drive Thru is a different kind of fast food restaurant. It’s striving to be the first 100% vegetarian national fast food chain. (Here’s an article about this at Business Insider.) Starting with Why Visit their website and you will first come across… Continue Reading →
Over at IDEO U I recently came across a great article highlighting five reasons backed with research and studies on why purpose matters. It boils down to this: But the research is clear, individuals are more fulfilled and organizations perform better when they’re rooted… Continue Reading →
An important element to uncovering your purpose is understanding your strengths. SYPartners has recently released an app to do just that. The app is called Superpowers, and they describe is as: Superpowers is a tool to help you… Continue Reading →
LINK: Award-Winning Whirlpool Campaign Showed How Clean Clothes Can Dramatically Affect Students’ Success A case study of a project from Whirlpool from Adweek: The goal: provide students with clean clothes in order to boost their confidence, reduce truancy,… Continue Reading →
LINK: Why Reflective Leadership Is the Key to a Successful Purpose Transformation Adam Fridman, Founder of Mabbly, writes for Inc.: Perhaps more than any other generation, purpose is what inspires younger generations of workers to engage and put forth their… Continue Reading →
I came across this article in The November 2017 issue of Inc Magazine. It had stories about how travel was a source of inspiration for big ideas. It included stories from Tatcha, Lyft, TOMS, and Warby Parker. What caught my… Continue Reading →
WeWork’s mission: Create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living. Their values: Inspired Authentic Grateful Entrepreneurial Tenacious Together
Just learned Fiasco Gelato from The Society of Cult Brands. Fiasco was added to their list of Emerging Brands. Here’s how they introduced Fiasco Gelato: The purpose driven team at Fiasco stands by its mission to enrich people’s lives. They… Continue Reading →
Based on interviews with notable individuals in various fields, ”TOKYO 2018” is a publication giving us a glimpse of what is happening in Tokyo in 2018. In this issue, the feature article spotlights the results of SMO’s scenario scanning work,… Continue Reading →
I’d gone through my notes from 2017 and here are info and insights from 2017 that I think you’ll find helpful. White Paper / Report Purpose with the Power to Transform Your Organization (Boston Consulting Group) If I had to… Continue Reading →
Brought to you buy Imperative and NetImpact, the Purpose 2030 conference will be held in October this year in Phoenix. Their goal: BY 2030…we are setting out to ensure the majority of our workforce is fulfilled. Leaders from around the… Continue Reading →
Just came across this white paper from The Boston Consulting Group. Published this year in May, it covers why purpose matters so much today, the definition of purpose, and how an organization can bring it to life. Found the use… Continue Reading →
From the overview on their website: At Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, all of our Cast, Crew and Imagineers across the globe share one vision — to give our guests opportunities to create memories with their friends, families and loved… Continue Reading →
Creativity, Inc. is such a great book. I was looking through it again and found this wonderful nugget about George Lucas: George Lucas liked to imagine his company as a wagon train headed west – its passengers full of purpose,… Continue Reading →
During his visit to JRE Group of Institutions a few years ago, Dr. Philip Kotler spoke about the 5th P of marketing: I’ve added to the 4ps a new p. you know the 4p’s is what marketers put together in… Continue Reading →
Whole Foods’ Purpose as described in Conscious Capitalism: The stores are our canvas upon which we can paint our deeper purpose of bringing whole foods and greater health to the world. I love how they describe their store as their… Continue Reading →
Link: A four-part series on how harnessing purpose can make your company great. Our brand purpose consultant Justin was recently interviewed regarding the role of purpose in marketing. Find out the details in the 4-part series over at Nippon Marketers… Continue Reading →
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