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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Ideas Plus Influence by Starbucker on December 2, 2010 (This is Part 1 in a two-part blog series which I’ve worked on with a colleague, Denise Lee Yohn. and public opinion.”

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While anyone can have a social media presence, not everyone possesses social media influence. You might have something to say, but without influence, nobody will be listening. Put simply, having a social media presence without influence is little more than an exercise in frivolity. News Flash: you can’t.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. Make sure for your organization, for your hiring and your development programs, that the ‘elitist criteria’ of your potential new hires do not become a determining factor on who’s successful or not.

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How Much Margin Do You Have? | Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer

The Recovering Engineer

To explain what I mean, I’ll lean on my background as an engineer. In my engineering design classes, I learned about the concept of design or safety margin — a factor built into design calculations to allow for minor errors, miscalculations, under estimations, and other variables that are difficult to accurately determine.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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New Game Lets You Solve Real-World Eco Puzzles

The Horizons Tracker

The game engine is modelled on the same equations scientists use to understand real-world ecosystems, which the developers believe gives the game a high level of realism. This is a fun opportunity to contribute to research that could change policy and affect our natural world,” the developers say.

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The Path To EVs Might Not Be Smooth Sailing For Uber And Lyft

The Horizons Tracker

This initiative aims to address the issue of tailpipe pollution by replacing traditional internal combustion engines with electric vehicles (EVs). To evaluate the impact of EVs, the researchers specifically examined the size of the battery packs and how it influences vehicle-related consequences.

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