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Imagine a card you can attach to your golf bag that allows the clubhouse to know you've begun your round, without ever having to check in. Or park paths that coordinate with the walking sticks of the blind to allow them to safely tour the area unassisted. And what about a chip, surgically implanted under
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Many people involved in organizational design still tend (or, at least, strongly desire) to think of organizations as collections of components, some of which are people whose primary characteristic might be the specific skills for which they imagine them to be programmed. These designers further suppose
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Ryan Walicki of National City Bank leads a procurement team with some very aggressive savings goals. With their focus on indirect spend (a bank, after all, can’t print money), they’re tasked with a 500 percent ROI on their efforts this year and a whopping 700 percent next year!Despite those massive
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Growing a business and creating a wonderful life aren't easy. If they were, we would all be huge successes. We would all be rich. Nevertheless, even those who understand life forces are difficult and require hard work, all too often look for the easy way and find all kinds of reasons to justify their
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It seems more common these days to do a Google search on a potential new hire. In doing that, the most authroitative links will come up, generally pointing to a person's personal networking profiles. Should an employer find a person's MySpace or Facebook account, how much should they rely on the information
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First, what is leadership? There are as many definitions of leadership as there are authors. That is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of agreement about whether leadership is a position, a person, a behavioral act, a style or a relationship, as much as it is due to the lack of agreement about exactly
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Hybrid-powered vehicles have become more and more common at the consumer level—with Toyota having sold more than a half million of its iconic gasoline-electric Prius model in the U.S. alone—but uncertainty over fuel prices and rising concern over carbon emissions has spurred a second hybrid revolution,
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Some years ago I worked with a fellow who came from a reasonably privileged background, had enjoyed a fashionably elite education, and who was clearly on—and viewed himself as fully entitled to be on—the fast track to dizzying heights in his career. For all that, he wasn’t a particularly unpleasant
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In 2007, the computer staff at the venerable New York Times faced a daunting task: quickly convert 11 million articles, all previously scanned from newspaper editions published between 1851 and 1980, into Adobe Acrobat’s PDF format.In scanned form, the NYT’s article archive comprised a hefty four
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Recently, Mack Collier and I had a rousing one-hour Twitter conversation about ROI. And that has led me to today's post. The problem: ROI as it applies in the ROI business world and as understood by C-level executives means but one thing—how much money was returned on our investment.Simply put ROI =
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A popular idea in business over recent decades is that employees should be given “ownership” of the decisions they are charged with carrying out. It is believed that this will better distribute the actual intent of the decision throughout the organization, and enhance the energy and efficiency of
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I arrived early for my meeting with Paul Millman, one of the founders of Chroma Technology Corp. a manufacturer of interference filters mostly used in bio-science research. Instead of leaving me to leaf through old magazines and stare at the powder colored walls of this single story plant in Rockingham,
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One would have thought that in the 21st century the discourse about the role of gender in leadership would have been a story of the past. Nothing is further from the truth. Just in the recent U.S. presidential election, gender was used in the discourse to define effectiveness as a leader. Leadership has
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I have come across many executives from various countries and diverse backgrounds and it seems that they fall in either of 2 categories: those who love and those who hate Social Media (née Web 2.0). To many a big logo, social media is fascinating in more than many ways, to others it’s a no go area
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One of the more entertaining scientific exercises to observe is the never-ending struggle to identify the capacity or characteristic that separates humans from animals. And one of the more amusing things about it, is how involved we are with each new development in the search.We cheer the announcement
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When Sarah Thompson-Peer cooks dinner, she likes to watch Jeopardy. It's just a little old TV with rabbit ears on top, but it fits in the kitchen of her tiny Boston apartment.And, as of June 12, it won't work anymore.For more than ten years, broadcasters, television manufacturers and the government have
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The origins of the celebratory view of individual leadership lie deep in pre-modern times. For millennia prior to contemporary social, political, and commercial developments, leaders were identified, admired, and mimicked—but where did they come from, and who sought to follow their example?Not you or
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The world is embroiled in a financial crisis, an economic downturn, the worst recession in decades.The heart of the crisis, the spark that lit the blaze, is the sub-prime mortgage crisis. In oversimplified terms, banks bet on risky loans to make more money—and they lost the bet. If this were a children's
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In our previous article about social media, we have described the 8 reasons why managers love social media and we have also debunked a few commonplace myths. In this new instalment we’ll look at the flip side of corporate social media perception, the negative one, and we will also discuss the rationale
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In nature, there are a variety of ways that organisms can disappear. There are those associated with predation and competition, of course. But there are two others that are integrally related to the processes of natural selection and evolution.The more interesting of the two from the perspective of organizational
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In Parts 1 & Part 2, we covered myths and realities around perceptions, responsibilities, technology and change management. So, in our final post of the series, let’s look a bit more at the solutions, ROI and budgets.Myth: Services are so unique, the best way to manage them is through point solutions.Reality:
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Today’s markets are dominated and driven by commoditization. Every consumer knows that an insurance policy is an insurance policy; a mortgage is a mortgage; a bank service is a bank service; and every product and service is pretty much the same as every other like product and service.Although differentiation
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Some years ago, at an early peak in the frenzy stirred up by the modern leadership movement’s gurus, doctorates in fields generally related to leadership began to appear in universities across the United States. Most of these were designed to create PhDs in something called “leadership studies;”
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The World Wide Web was supposed to make life easier. And it has, but increasingly, it may seem like too much of a good thing: too much information, too many moving parts, too many options, not enough structure. Say you’re trying to plan a family vacation on the West Coast and all that entails. In the
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Catharine P. Taylor wrote a good article at Social Media Insider, on Wednesday of this week, discussing the power of the Mommy bloggers. Specifically, she was referring to the gathering of Blogher women in Chicago. Quoting from "packaged-goods reporter, Jack Neff" of Advertising Age, Taylor shared this,
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It is said that Samurai warriors trained specifically to not fear death, in order to clear the way to victory. In a perverse sort of way, that sounds magnificently martial. But it’s wrong. Whether you fear failure, or purge yourself of that fear, you are focusing on yourself, and not the fight into
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When you begin each interaction, encounter, or relationship at work with an examination of what result you want to flow from it you will eventually, as we have been discussing, find it necessary to investigate what your colleagues want to accomplish, as well. If you pair this with a resetting of the perspective
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One is often told that getting the buy-in for a Social Media initiative requires some solid ROI calculation. One would have to weigh the pros and cons, how much it costs, try and evaluate the effort which is required, measure it and translate it into pounds, shillings and pence. And profit should also
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In a 21st century world where jobs can be shipped wherever there's an internet connection; where a child born in Dallas is competing with children in Delhi; where your best job qualification is not what you do, but what you know – education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity and success; it
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Almost immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, huge expectations were placed on the technology of biometrics: Political pundits, security experts, and seemingly every variety of talking head called for using computers more intensively to automatically recognize individuals and identify
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