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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. AND then, I became a large team operations leader.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Organizations of all kinds benefit by applying predictive analytics, since there's ample room for operational improvement; organizations are intrinsically inefficient and wasteful on a grand scale. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Success with the Internet of Things Requires More Than Chasing the Cool Factor

Harvard Business Review

With data analytics provided by Microsoft Azure and an informational infrastructure developed collaboratively by Industrial Scientific and Cisco, operators now have a dashboard to remotely monitor the people, equipment, and air quality in the mine in real time. The reason? These groups must work together. Not so cool.

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Five Ways to Ruin Your Innovation Process

Harvard Business Review

It sends the signal that these are not the projects that people should bet their careers on. Build it into good people's career paths. Many organizations were once structured to ensure that each function operated with maximum efficiency. Second, recognize that on-again, off-again innovation is worse than nothing.

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The Social Side of Auto-Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. Trackers include smartphone apps or wireless sensors to collect and monitor yourself over time. PatientsLikeMe and 23andMe are the leading operators of researcher-organized, crowdsourced health research studies. Expert-run communities.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It crashes the latest version of the operating system that just got installed. Wireless Generation, an innovative assessment company, stepped in to help. Previously, these markets operated on a state-by-state basis, and often on a district-by-district basis. It doesn't work on the new hardware the school just bought.

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. computers & peripherals, electronic equipment & components, semiconductors, wireless telecommunication services); and Materials (e.g., But attaining one is far from easy. food, beverage & tobacco, household and personal products); Energy & Utilities (e.g.,