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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. You know this company. But there was much more than that.

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3 Startup Financing Myths You Should Avoid

Leading Blog

Like Jerry Yang who started Yahoo, as investors we are looking for entrepreneurs who are obsessed with a new technology. Of course, you will take the higher valuation, because you’ll give up less of the company, right? Of course, you want the bar to be set low rather than high, to guarantee that you’ll make it over.

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Karl M. Kapp: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

CFPIM, CIRM, is a scholar, writer and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He is a graduate professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. Kapp, Ed.D.,

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Michael Nanfito: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Michael Nanfito is the executive director at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). He has a background in networked information resources and technology-related entrepreneurial activity, ranging from the development of large data-driven web environments to consulting for […].

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Karl M. Kapp: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

CFPIM, CIRM, is a scholar, writer and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He is a graduate professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. Kapp, Ed.D.,

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Taking Care of Busyness to Improve Your Business

The Practical Leader

In 1891, the Anglo-Irish playwright and author, Oscar Wilde, wrote, “We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.” Disruptive technologies are stressing, distressing, and misdirecting many teams and organizations.

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Karl M. Kapp: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

CFPIM, CIRM, is a scholar, writer and expert on the convergence of learning, technology and business operations. He is a graduate professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. Kapp, Ed.D.,

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