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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design. I Think Not.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Zimbardo and colleagues are interested especially in temporal biases in which these learned cognitive categories are not “balanced&# according to situations, contexts and demands, but one or another are utilized excessively or underutilized. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Thanks for commenting. I Think Not.

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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

Around the same time, Chinese companies like Foxconn were developing less expensive approaches to manufacturing, and opening those facilities up to product designers across the globe. New platforms abound: Facebook and Twitter for social marketing, YouTube for video distribution, and iPhone and Android for mobile. That has now changed.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. People are also being asked by their bosses or HR to attend conferences, read case studies, watch videos, and try their hand at simulations, all with the goal of picking up new ideas and techniques. Make it a stretch.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. The innovation portfolio. The investment portfolio.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. In our HBR article “Big Bang Disruption ”, we describe the devastation of arcade pinball machines wrought in only a few years by Sony’s PlayStation home video console.