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Once a frustrated corporate minion, Andrea Emerson writes about the unconventional principles that thrust her into a fulfilling career (and straight up the chain of command) at espressoshots.com .

The Time Out Conference is an extraordinary peer-led men’s retreat that occurs once a year to stimulate a deeper relationship with God and with others in the marketplace. Go to the Time Out Conference website.

Diego Rodriguez, a partner at IDEOand professor at Stanford, writes at the intersection of design, innovation, leadership. He explores how art and science come together to bring "cool stuff to life." Visit metacool.typepad.com

His newest work is The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, the first American business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. (In 2007, he won a Japan Society Media Fellowship that took him to Tokyo to study the manga industry.

Richard Florida is founder of the Creative Class Group. His bestsellers, Who’s Your City, The Rise of the Creative Class, and The Flight of the Creative Class, introduced us to concepts of how businesses, communities, and nations develop, compete, thrive. Visit creativeclass.com

Brand futurist, Martin Lindstrom’s video blog. See the latest in branding strategies from around the world to gather creative ideas and insights. Visit martinlindstrom.com

David Wolfe journals about the ideas behind, The Center for Ageless Marketing, which specializes in developmental relationship marketing. As their site says "DRM is a marketing platform that integrates stage-of-life changes in needs and behavior with recent and often astonishing findings in brain research concerning how our brains detect and react to incoming information and how our conscious minds form perceptions, thoughts and decisions.

Stanford professor, IDEO Fellow, author, Bob Sutton studies the links between what managers know and how organizations behave and perform. His research and insights often skewers the prevailing wisdom. Visit bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog

Marvelous podcast by students at Stanford University’s Business and Design Schools of interviews of experts, authors, and business leaders in a wide variety of industries. Great for insights and ideas. Visit iinnovate.blogspot.com

Springwise is a leading resource for new ideas for business. They are powered by a network of over 8,000 spotters who report on trends that are emerging around the world. Free weekly newsletter. Visit springwise.com

George Gilder is a leading technology thinker and philosopher. His newsletter provides weekly insights and news on technology, the markets, economics, politics, and the new economy. Visit gilder.com

Whether the paper issue or the digital version, subscribe and get some of the best economic reporting and analysis in the world. Visit the Financial Times website.

As the founder of The Totally Fit Life, he manages the development of innovative vitality and performance improvement programs for organizations such as Cisco Systems, NIKE, Silicon Graphics, and AT&T.