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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Billons of Dollars Wasted, Part Two - What Happened Next.

Building Personal Strength

Apking, High-Impact Learning (Perseus, 2001) Calhoun Wick, et al , The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning (Pfeiffer, 2006) Fourth , my enduring interest in the cognitive neuroscience of learning led me to understand why the post-training follow-through is absolutely essential. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

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How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation

Harvard Business Review

Technology, of course, has also been a powerful influence on the Re-Generation, so much so that Bill Gates proposed that we call this next wave Generation I, for Internet. This is the generation of mobile technology, wireless communication, and clouds of constant content. Mobile technology. In November 2001, U.S.

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Failing Toward Success at Google

Harvard Business Review

Google Audio Ads (January 2006 to February 2009). This hugely expensive venture (which I actually mention in the article) attempted to import Google's technology to the world of radio advertising and make money the same way the company does on the Internet. Google Notebook (May 2006 - January 2009). That didn't work out so well.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. They are not. Bubbles and forecasting. It didn’t happen. It’s not there.