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Do We Still Thirst For Knowledge As We Age?

The Horizons Tracker

Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of this ageism revolves around the notion that older people are less innovative and less able to learn new skills, especially surrounding new technologies. And these may result in reward-driven learning in some and cost-driven learning in others.”

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There Is No Silver Bullet For Solving Global Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

The government wanted to improve the performance of the program, so teamed up with the researchers and partners at the World Bank to devise some additional interventions. The team focused on a sample of just under 5,000 households who were already in the existing program. Promising results.

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How Does Public Transport Affect Greenhouse Gases?

The Horizons Tracker

The data collected allows them to understand where riders enter and exit the public transport system, which even though not all passengers use the technology allows the team to provide a reasonable estimate of total usage patterns. “Now we can truly quantify trips in both time and space,” they explain. ”

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Millennials Are the MacGyvers of Business

Harvard Business Review

While writing our book Jugaad Innovation , we've come across many innovators in the U.S. Not surprisingly, a significant number of the innovators we met were Millennials, many of whom are cynical about large corporations. it is relatively inexpensive, with current SwipeSense devices projected to cost only $1.50

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. And there are other people who are great at following orders but cause teams to fail because of their reluctance to step up into leadership roles.

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Don’t Talk Yourself Out of Trying a Second Career

Harvard Business Review

You and Your Team Series. As a consultant, you might be self-employed, but if you are an innovative problem-solver, you can find work. Since they are starting “late,” they believe they should do a cost benefit analysis to see if their reorientation is “worth it.” I have seen it happen.

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