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Is Transportation a Good Career Path?

Talent Anarchy 1

It’s a massive sector that is continually evolving and adapting to the changing needs of society and technology. People and businesses will always need to move goods and passengers, making this industry resistant to economic downturns. In fact, it’s at the forefront of innovation.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

The 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Mumbai, Bali, and London Tube bombings; the attempted bombing of a Delta airlines flight in December 2009; and suicide bomber attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of the personal magnetism of Oussama Bin-Laden and the Al-Qaeda cause. Storage Technology Corporation (“StorageTek”) and U S WEST Inc.

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Apple's Trojan Horse

Harvard Business Review

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. The real damage comes to airlines and hotel chains, the former never robust at the best of times. Will it happen?

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4 Things Successful Change Leaders Do Well

Harvard Business Review

Innovation vs. Regulation. Many organizations, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, are saddled with trying to do business, let along innovate, under increasingly crushing regulatory environments. Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. ” We have known they do since they were introduced among British miners whose industry had been disrupted by new technology. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL. They wanted to hear about Zappos.

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Convincing Skeptical Employees to Adopt New Technology

Harvard Business Review

Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. However, 63% said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency” and poor communication about the strategic benefits of new tools.