Adapted from Rana Florida’s book, Upgrade. Leaders who inspire, mentor, and teach — rather than dictate and order — will have more productive, more engaged and more loyal teams.
adminSeptember 17, 2013
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Through interviews with many leading figures, not just CEOs and business executives but entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers, and creative leaders, Rana Florida’s research concludes that there are seven key principles to achieving your business and life goals.
adminSeptember 16, 2013
Richard Florida speaks for the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties in Utica, NY.
adminSeptember 13, 2013
Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group and one of the key thinkers on the future of work, has just launched her first book, Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary. After interviewing some of the world’s most innovative thinkers, creative leaders and CEOs – such as Tim Brown, Dan Pink and Zaha Hadid – Florida’s research concluded that there are 7 key principles that make these people so successful.
adminSeptember 13, 2013
Upgrade, 4 out of 5 star rating from Success Magazine. For this book, Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group and a columnist for The Huffington Post, interviewed impressive friends, acquaintances and colleagues, including Daniel Pink, author of To Sell Is Human; Zaha Hadid, an architect and one of Forbes magazine’s World’s 100 Most Powerful Women; John Noseworthy, M.D., CEO of the Mayo Clinic; chef Mario Batali; and singer Nelly Furtado.
adminSeptember 12, 2013
Talent. Technology. Talent. Those are the “three T’s” that Richard Florida, an internationally known urban theorist, says will vault a community toward positive change. Local leaders believe Utica already possesses those T’s, but they need a catalyst.
adminSeptember 12, 2013
It’s time to kill the breakfast meeting.The notion of a 7 or 8 a.m. breakfast meeting is unnatural, exhausting, stressful and completely unnecessary.
adminSeptember 10, 2013
Book of the Month for September: “Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary” by Rana Florida
adminSeptember 9, 2013
In workaholic America seems to grow in popularity topic: how do you find the right balance between work and private life? In her new book, Upgrade Rana Florida comes with a more practical approach based on the philosophies of, among others, tennis legend Andre Agassi, shoes designer Tory Burch, investor Mark Cuban, management and author Daniel H. Pink.
adminSeptember 9, 2013
In her new book, Upgrade, Rana Florida aims to provide readers with the tools to achieve success in work and life. It gathers best practices from CEOs and other business executives, as well as entrepreneurs, innovative thinkers and creative leaders.
adminSeptember 9, 2013
Le Travelist talks to Rana Florida this week as she unveils her new book, Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary.
adminSeptember 5, 2013
It’s a well understood expression in business: Stagnation is regression; businesses either advance or fall behind. Creativity does not just give businesses the competitive edge, according to Rana Florida author of Upgrade and CEO of the Creative Class Group (CCG), it is the competitive edge.
adminSeptember 5, 2013
Twenty-five years ago, Pittsburgh hosted the Remaking Cities Conference, an international gathering of architects, visionaries and dignitaries, including England’s Prince Charles, the honorary co-host and keynote speaker. This year, Oct. 15-–18, 2013, Carnegie Mellon University will host the Remaking Cities Congress, with 300 invited urbanists and thought leaders who will again focus on the post-industrial city in North America and Europe. In that context, they have asked 10 thought leaders to assess the Pittsburgh region’s strengths and weaknesses and to consider what they would like to see in the Pittsburgh of the future. The package begins with a foreword from noted urbanist Richard Florida.
adminSeptember 5, 2013
Richard Florida, journalist, founder of creative group, author and global leader in urbanism, has brought a breath of fresh air to the field of urban renovation, especially after the collapse of the global housing bubble. Florida has been a prominent figure in the economic sphere since 1990, when he wrote his first book exploring the technological boom of Silicon Valley. His theories are characterized by his ability to recognize something many intellectuals had ignored: cultural diversity stimulates the economy.
adminSeptember 4, 2013
The brief was to track down a unique condominium in Miami Beach,
beside the water and preferably near Lincoln Road.Rana Florida,Huffington
Post contributor and author of Upgrade,Taking YourWork and
Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, and her husband called in NewYork
architectural designer Chris Benfield to assist them in their search.
They were looking for a spacious, light home in Miami with a large
terrace and sufficient room for their emerging art collection.
They found it, a modern, light condominium in a walkable urban
neighborhood with a spectacular view of Biscayne Bay.
adminSeptember 4, 2013
Rana Florida, CEO of the Creative Class Group and author of Upgrade, on the
innovations and strategies that make her company top of its class in Porter Airline’s in flight Reporter Magazine.
adminSeptember 4, 2013
Excerpt from Rana Florida’s new book, Upgrade on risk taking. For most people, assessing and accepting risk takes a severe emotional toll; it causes fear and confusion and it can lead to stress and fatigue. Life is already risky, many of us think — why ‘rock the boat?’ But most successful leaders, thinkers and innovators understand that new opportunities and rewards come only after taking risks.
adminSeptember 3, 2013
TELL ME MORE from NPR News interview with Richard Florida on the future of aging in America. By the year 2050, one in five Americans will be over the age of 65. That’s according to the U.S. Census. And when we talk about getting older, most of us think about, what? Saving for retirement, Medicare, Social Security.
adminAugust 27, 2013
Disruptive Women recently sat down with our August 2013 Man of the Month, Richard Florida, Professor, University of Toronto & NYU and Senior Editor and The Atlantic Cities, the world’s leading media site devoted to cities and urban affairs, to chat about what to expect in town near you.
adminAugust 26, 2013
Fashion icons Kimberly Newport Mimran, President, Pink Tartan, and Joe Mimran, Creative Director, Joe Fresh, offer simple tips on how to throw a stylish black and white backyard soiree.
adminAugust 26, 2013
In this groundbreaking new book, Upgrade, Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Rana Florida shares their formula, giving you the tools to achieve unimagined success in work and life.
adminAugust 23, 2013
Rana Florida Rana is the author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary. She also writes the Creative Spaces series for HGTV and the Huffington Post, where she highlights public and private spaces that epitomize creativity, innovation, design and new ways of thinking.
adminAugust 23, 2013
In her new book, Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Florida outlines her seven principles for achieving life and business goals. One of those seven principles is collaboration, which she describes as “understanding that every leader had to engage and inspire a team.”
adminAugust 22, 2013
Florida: With 8 million New Yorkers increasingly divided between haves and have-nots, the next mayor must ward off destructive class warfare.
adminAugust 20, 2013
NYU Global Research Professor Richard Florida, one of the world’s leading authorities on economic competitiveness, cultural and technological innovation, and demographic trends, was recently named among the “World’s Most Influential Thinkers” by a study published in the MIT Technology Review that ranked today’s most influential thought leaders.
adminAugust 20, 2013
Viewed by many as the world’s leading urban theorist, Richard Florida was in Ireland this summer, and told Ann O’Dea that tolerance was a key ingredient in any creative economy.
adminAugust 16, 2013
Entertaining expert Rana Florida threw the perfect end of summer party. Learn how to create the look!
adminAugust 16, 2013
Psychologist Dale Atkins and Rana Florida, author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary, came on the Today Show to talk with Kathie Lee and Hoda about letting go of friends.
adminAugust 13, 2013
“I don’t care when you work, how you work, or where you work.” In an excerpt from her upcoming book, author Rana Florida explores unconventional ideas for letting employees be their best selves.
adminAugust 13, 2013
Reading List by Margaret Jaworski, this book will motivate you to get an Upgrade.
adminAugust 9, 2013
A new network analysis reveals the thinkers who most influence the rest of us and suggests ways to join this elite list
adminAugust 9, 2013
Rana Florida on The Today Show talking about her book “Upgrade: Taking Your Life and Work from Ordinary to Extraordinary,” in which she provides step-by-step tips on how to enhance your life, maximize your productivity and achieve your goals.
adminAugust 9, 2013
LDRLB shares its 2013 top 50 professors on twitter, broken into lists around leadership, innovation, and strategy, as well as five at-large professors.
adminAugust 6, 2013
The Kozouz sisters start a new advice column with the Detroit news where they answer readers’ questions on love, dating and family every Tuesday.
adminAugust 5, 2013
Rana Florida conversations with successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders about how they manage their businesses, relationships, their careers and more. This week’s conversation is with President Bill Clinton.
adminAugust 5, 2013
Is your business just doing OK? Has your job become routine and ordinary?
If you answered yes, then you’re ready for an upgrade, according to Rana Florida, CEO of consulting firm Creative Class Group. “A lot of us are living through a state of managed dissatisfaction,” she laments. Naturally, that’s no way to achieve success.
adminAugust 1, 2013
As high-paying manufacturing work has declined over the past couple of decades, America’s economy has literally split in two. The large and rapidly growing mass of low-wage, low-skill service jobs in fields like food preparation, retail sales and personal care are much the same across the country and these workers have become largely stuck in place.
adminJuly 30, 2013
It’s amazing that some offices have pingpong tables and pet friendly policies, but have done so little to support working mothers, writes the CEO of Creative Class Group, Rana Florida.
adminJuly 30, 2013
It’s summertime and everyone wants to be outside enjoying the warm weather. What’s easier than gathering friends and family for a backyard BBQ? From Memorial Day to Labor Day, grilling is a hallowed summer tradition.
adminJuly 29, 2013
Richard Florida calls Pittsburgh his “base case” for the transition of a formerly industrial city to the creative economy.
adminJuly 29, 2013
Summer is all about getting outdoors. Whether it is lounging around reading a good book, being active, or grilling, your outdoor space can be the perfect place to relax, have fun or entertain. With a little imagination, a touch of creativity, and some muscle an ordinary backyard space can be transformed into a magical oasis.
adminJuly 26, 2013
Throw a dreamy dinner party inspired by the sunny islands of Greece. Learn how to create the look!
adminJuly 10, 2013
”The Creativity index appeared to be one of the best metrics to understand sales performance at Cirque. And correlation are strong, therefor we will be now using this metric to anticipate sales performance and better forecast.
Alexandre AlleMarket Insight Advisor, Cirque du Soleil