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Are Ph.Ds Turning Their Back On Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

While it’s a logical sentiment, especially in an age in which technology is becoming ever more sophisticated, new research from Osaka University suggests that PhDs are not actually very good as entrepreneurs. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5% ” Declining fortunes. .

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The Widening Gap Between Leaders and Up-and-coming Leaders…and What to Do About It

Great Leadership By Dan

What’s needed to overcome what I call the “leadership crisis,” is not new technology or massive staffing changes. These leaders, old guard and new, must be able to think creatively and critically at the same time. 3) Alignment-“Must Do”.

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* 6 Ideas About Creating Organizations That Value Ideas

You're Not the Boss of Me

A number of longstanding companies who failed to do that are now either out of business or in some serious bother because, either in whole or in part, they have found themselves being outpaced by technology and consumer demand for ever evolving applications. Originally posted in November 2012. That’s what I think anyway.

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To Improve African Education, Focus on Technology

Harvard Business Review

These present drivers of its economy, however, are under threat from technology. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. Education drives technology. publicly traded companies.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team

Harvard Business Review

But she wasn’t showing anywhere near the creativity required to take the business to the next level, and we decided to ease her out of her position. Her clients loved how she could transform a space with creativity and style. So why is it that someone could be so dull and unimaginative in one context and so creative in another?

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Can Your Mobile Customers Afford to Watch Your Ads?

Harvard Business Review

As mobile devices and borderless technology networks like Facebook, Google, and Tencent increasingly connect billions of people around the world, everything about the pace, profile, and application of modern media is changing. It’s the operating system, applications, and, of course, the access to data.