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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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When the Grasshopper Teaches the Master | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

Some of us are totally immersed and intrigued by what can be accomplished in a wireless world, (including all the cool toys that come along with it). It is the core facet of how humanity has operated since history began; to share resources, to learn, and to instruct in kind. There really isn’t anything new about that at all, in effect.

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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 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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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

After using it for a few days I bought a wireless keyboard. And as many companies begin outsourcing at least parts of their R&D, they are creating space for professional "inventers" operating through websites like Innocentive. The world is coming apart in many interesting ways. I recently bought an iPad.

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Building Data Discovery into Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Bell Labs led fundamental work in physics, information theory, computing, wireless telephony, and quality control that underpins much of today's economy. I started my career as what would now be called a data analyst, focused on network performance, essentially trying to get more bits from calling to called party.