Author: Bob
Originally posted on the Inc. website by Francesca Louise Fenzi & Penelope Trunk, excerpts below: Do one thing every day that scares you; that was Eleanor Roosevelt's advice. The idea being that the more you venture outside your comfort zone, the more you will learn and grow from the unexpected. Here are three great reasons to...
My Story: Act One by Katie Schafer My childhood consisted of writing stories on construction paper, performing plays for a tolerant audience (my parents), and memorizing my favorite children’s books so I could recite them to anyone who would listen. In the summer of 2006 the IDEAS team graciously took me...
Originally posted on the Inc. website by Steve Tobak, excerpts below: Tired of searching for the secret to a fulfilling career and a happy life? Look no further. What if the key to becoming successful and happy is to quit trying to be either? Would that throw a wrench into your career goals? Make a...
Poor innovation. It's a word that's right up there with "producer" and "empowerment" in terms of having had its core meaning diluted and usurped until its own mom wouldn't recognize it anymore. By way of perhaps giving it back some dignity, here are 5 thoughts from my perpetually evolving work...
IDEAS Chief Storytelling Officer Bob Allen will be part of a panel about "Our Digital Future: Innovation at the Intersection of Creativity and Technology" on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 from 11am - 12:30pm at the Enzian during the Florida Film Festival. From production to parking, from marketing to multichannel interactivity, new digital applications are...
In 2006, the IDEAS team was tasked with helping one of America's great vacation destinations reinvent itself. The Pocono Mountains is a region of over 2,400 square miles in Pennsylvania and home to extraordinary mountains and rivers. It offers four full seasons of calm re-connection in the woods and adventure with biking,...
Recently the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, made an interesting decision. She rescinded the company’s almost wide-open policy about working from home (click HERE for details). Whether it's work hours, work location, choice of tools or dress, decisions like this should and do keep leaders awake at night. These cultural...
I went to school in the stone age so imagine how pleased I was to hear that people still major in Communication. Last week I got a chance to talk with some of those folks in my friend Lucia's class at Florida State University and it was both astonishing and...
Today, Team IDEAS is on its way to Tallahassee to deliver our next milestones and brief the Workforce Florida Board on our re-branding assignment for Workforce Florida, Inc. The team will attend a reception with Governor Scott on Wednesday evening and make a presentation on the results of our initial market research, Culture Mapping,...
This week we're throwing the IDEAS story-makers into a great local project. The Dr. Phillips High School Visual and Performing Arts Magnet program has evolved over the last 25 years in to one of America's best. The theater track has had great success, turning out Hollywood celebrities like Joey Fatone...
Originally posted on the TechCrunch website, excerpts below: Just when you think that we’ve innovated all that we can, something new comes along and completely blows our mind. It could be an advancement in hardware, software or just a new way of thinking of things. Humans are pretty resilient when it comes...
Our roots in Florida’s production industry go back to about 1980 when a bunch of us came from California to finish up what we’d started with EPCOT and then decided it would be a real good idea to try to stay. In 1984, we began the preparation in earnest for...
