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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters. While this position may seem a bit harsh, it is nonetheless true. I could go on ad nauseum with similar questions, but my guess is that you get my point… Now let’s examine the flip-side of the coin by looking at the positives associated with strong design.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Case in point…have you ever witnessed an employee throw a fit of rage and resign their position in the heat of the moment? Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Thanks for commenting.

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Delivery Robots Unlikely To Provide Carbon Savings

The Horizons Tracker

Not only are delivery robots not appearing to make any practical inroads into the last-mile market, but research from the University of Michigan also suggests they don’t even make a positive contribution to lowering our carbon footprint. Carbon footprint. Optimizing the last mile.

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. Darren on Why MANY smart people think they deserve a better position at work?

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Tackle Conflicts with Conversation

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with a problem or dispute, we either move away (flee the scene, rely on others for resolution), move against (quietly using positional power to quell opposing arguments) or move toward (make nice, give in). Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. This is natural. And it hurts your image as a leader.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. The operative question for them is, not “How confident am I that this investment will yield a positive return?” Ideas with positive discounted cash flows get investment.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on? Where will this period of discovery take the company?