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Women Will Come To The Fore In The Feeling Economy

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a transition that is largely driven by improvements in technologies, such as AI and robotics, which mean that both physical and thinking economy work can be done more effectively by machines than by humans. Indeed, the leadership capabilities of powerful women were diminished the more outspoken they were.

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Why Your Social Media Metrics Are a Waste of Time

Harvard Business Review

They're what Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup , calls "vanity metrics.". That's what Ries calls an "engine of growth.". Seek out what Ries refers to as "actionable metrics." Internally, your team can use social technologies to share information, build relationships, and get work done. Are You Giving up Power?

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. This cleans out the junk in the startup ecosystem — an ecosystem that powers tomorrow's economic future.

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The Danger of Celebritizing Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

There's no doubt technology entrepreneurship is becoming its own kind of celebrity. Eric Ries has recently become fond of saying, "Entrepreneurship is not cool, it's not sexy and it's totally uncomfortable. This cleans out the junk in the startup ecosystem — an ecosystem that powers tomorrow's economic future.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain. Governance.

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How GE Stays Young

Harvard Business Review

Chief Marketing Officer Beth Comstock told me they looked to see how they could take this battery technology to new markets. After first targeting backup power for data centers, they settled on providing backup power for cell phone towers in countries with unreliable electrical grids, such as in Africa and India.