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Managing Distraction in the Digital Era

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Amy Blankson: In 2013, the National Center for Biotechnology Information reported that the average attention span of a human has dropped to a mere eight seconds , one second behind that of a goldfish. If you can’t step away from technology completely during work, consider limiting how often you check email.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: If any doubt existed that Disney’s magic was back, it was put to rest with the 2013 release of the blockbuster movie Frozen.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

His new book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments , takes you through his research and best practices to show how to experiment and test before acting. Five years later, Apple opened its App Store, which empowered anyone, anywhere to design and distribute novel applications. There must be a better way.

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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. IT companies, in particular, need to be deliberate in getting out in front of change or risk being surpassed by advancing technology. About the Author. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. We’re glad to hear that you thought the article worked as an entire book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world. percent to 7.5