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On Undo's Undue Importance

Harvard Business Review

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Back in 1982 Norton Utilities launched its "Unerase" product. It's telling us that software as a service just blinked into being mainstream in 2010. The feature? If we listen to "undo", what is it telling us now?

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. And it quite effectively served its murderous goal.

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Grandiose, Narcissistic, Impulsive E-Personalities — and What They Might Do to the Economy

Harvard Business Review

As the Internet and related technologies have turned money into an even less tangible and further removed concept than the plastic of credit cards, the result may be a new and largely unacknowledged contributor to our economic woes. Norton & Company, 2011).

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Grassroots Leadership through Social Power

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We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S. Trucks clocked a cumulative 5.2

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