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Finding The Energy To Do More With Less

Lead Change Blog

Last week I received a cartoon by Artell, over social media. The cartoon showed a group of people sitting around a conference table with this caption: I need your sales forecasts by Monday, your updated client list by Tuesday, your expense reports by Wednesday and your budget plans by Thursday.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day. Specifically, the state is pinning its hopes on small business, with a portion of federal R&D funds “set aside for small business to develop and commercialize innovative technology.&#

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story. Mobility is another area where smart cities are reshaping the playing field.

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Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class

Harvard Business Review

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. There was no similar breakthrough success at this year's conference. A fleet of Chevy Cruzes and Volts provided attendees with transportation between 9 am and 10 pm every day. Apple's "Pop-up" store.

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business Review

The report’s beginnings trace back to 2009, when the annual UN global climate conference resulted in an agreement that the world should hold warming to 2.0°C Or, even more radical, how can we work together to greatly increase the availability of all public mobility and transport?” °C (3.8°F) Getting to 1.5

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Get More from Your Event Spending

Harvard Business Review

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Technology to do this exists, and it has implications for what managers can do before, during, and after the events they sponsor or attend. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

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Case Study: In Search of a Second Act

Harvard Business Review

It looked like a stuffed animal — a cartoonish plush bird with a beetling brow and goofy eyes — but it contained a microphone, tiny speaker, headphone jack, computer chip, and enough speech-recognition and voice-generation technology to engage in sassy banter in Mandarin. But the Brrrd's heyday had come and gone.