The productivity imperative
First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Peter Bisson, Elizabeth Stephenson, and S. Patrick Viguerie for The McKinsey Quarterly.
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What Is The Job Metaverse Is Trying To Do?
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1
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When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2012
Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. Gordon's productivity research.) It was only as new factories were built that took advantage of the unique properties of electric motors that a productivity boom ensued.
Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction
Harvard Business Review
JULY 14, 2017
Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality. They make us more efficient and productive. William Gibson famously coined the term “cyberspace” in his 1984 masterpiece Neuromancer.
The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2014
OnLive’s product enabled high-end video games to be hosted in the cloud and played from any device. Regardless of where they started their careers, most decision makers spend the majority of their days dealing with macro issues and are unlikely to have the expertise required to have a detailed understanding of your company or product.
To Stay Relevant, Your Company and Employees Must Keep Learning
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2016
As AT&T CEO and Chair Randall Stephenson, recently told the New York Times, “There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop… People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with the technology.”
Can Being Overconfident Make You a Better Leader?
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2018
Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. There was also no way that Apple could have met its tight product timelines, or kept its products shrouded in secrecy until launch, without fierce commitments from its employees. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”
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