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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Ready Player One

Joseph Lalonde

Any time a director tries to translate a New York Bestseller to film, they face an uphill battle. Released in 2012, Ready Player One tells the story of teenager Wade Watts. Leaders give people a place to go: Do you know why the OASIS virtual reality environment created by James Halliday and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg) was so popular?

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). Currently, Geologists like Jan Grygar are using drones to take high-definition photographs, while Simon Jardine and his business, Eye In The Sky, are using drones to sell aerial photography.