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How to Succeed With Limited Resources

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve seen this first hand, when I look back at the most creative times in my career and in how I’m approaching my business now, the best solutions came when we felt the most stretched. I also watched the evolution at Verizon Wireless in this regard. Identify the minimum viable product– a prototype to test.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Acting on these predictions was shown to successfully convince more voters to choose Obama than traditional campaign targeting.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business.

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A celebration of consistency. A legacy of insight.

Strategy Driven

It was the turning point in my career. If you’re old enough to have been in the working world 20 years ago, you have seen many evolutions: cell phone, computer, laptop, software, internet, email, wireless connection, the rise and fall of CompuServe and AOL, car phones (remember them?) Allocate productive use for each hour of the day.

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Four New Tools for Brain Workouts

Harvard Business Review

Take-away: This provides a targeted way to improve a weakness that's bothered you throughout your career, such as poor recall of facts in a meeting, or an inability to remember faces that would help improve your networking skills. Neurofeedback tools require users to wear an EEG headband with small sensors that track brain waves.

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Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies

Harvard Business Review

Chamber of Commerce emphasized flex-time as one way to do this — it found that three out of four Millennials reported that work-life balance drives their career choices. Loosen up the notion of the career ladder. A 2015 report on Millennials from the U.S. Embrace technology and make collaboration a way of doing business.

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

Potential future customers can't scream about not getting a product they don't know they would love.) It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. Makes perfect sense in a world of steady-state production. It's easy to ax innovation.

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