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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate. Innovate more: Employees who know the boss has their back think outside the box without fear of failure or retribution.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Open-source operating systems, accessible design tools, and 3D printing are making development and prototyping easier, and the crashing prices of microchips, sensors, and other components now make it possible for a small company to design sophisticated, commercially relevant devices at reasonable cost.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

It is often costly to career momentum and earnings as much as it is a boon," says Amy Wrzesniewski, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management and coauthor of " Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want." While the former might require approval from your manager, the latter often doesn't.

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When It Comes to Digital Innovation, Less Action, More Thought

Harvard Business Review

So, like good innovators, we began working on a solution to our colleague’s problem by building an automatic liquor inventory-management system. What successful companies are doing right. Our failure highlights a hidden challenge facing innovators today. Sponsored by Accenture. Who is your first customer?

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.