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Can Leaders Take a Break? :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. One of the concepts we discussed at Purdue was the fact that when stress hits the hot button we all tend to revert to patterns learned in our original organization, the family.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Fifty years ago, we did not have television news anchors, software engineers, web designers, or cosmetic surgeons. Some of the qualities that impact self-awareness are knowing who I am, where I come from, what my strengths are, how well I handle adversities, how well I seek help, and how well I am able to rein in my emotions under stress.

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The Ultimate Productivity Hack Will Be Robot Assistants

Harvard Business Review

There is another seemingly mundane but profoundly important application of this technology: to better managers ourselves and our time. The underlying technology behind all of the advances in robotic technology mentioned above is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). The company was registered as SIRI Inc.

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Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company

Harvard Business Review

Co-founders also bring diversity of talent and high dedication, and mitigate the loneliness and stress of life at a young company. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., most of Nicolai Tesla's inventions; Web 1.0;

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Silver Linings for 2012

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, times are terribly stressful, and I don't mean to downplay the reality that too many employees face. They want to chug ahead, like the Little Engine That Could. Consider George, a CEO of a large building-engineering firm in Silicon Valley. If you pay attention to workplace surveys, the news sounds pretty bad.

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

Janitor | custodian | sanitation engineer. Housewife | homemaker | domestic engineer. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra. Some people mistakenly believe that technology creates the future, or they are willing to abdicate control of their own destinies to outside forces. All rights reserved.