Month: March 2014
Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) How and why humans and cognitive computing can — and should — collaborate on improving quality of life…
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Geoffrey Moore is Managing Director, Geoffrey Moore Consulting; a venture partner with Mohr Davidow Ventures, Chairman Emeritus, TCG Advisors, The Chasm Institute and The Chasm Group; and a member of the Board of Directors, Akamai Technologies and several pre-IPO Companies.…
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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds Carmine Gallo St. Martin’s Press (2014) How and why a TED presentation resembles “a Cirque Du Soleil for the mind” As Carmine Gallo explains, Richard Saul Wurman created…
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This post by Adam Lishinsky is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers share the best advice they’ve ever received. Read all the posts here. * * * I was 25 years old, had recently returned to my hometown,…
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Marty Neumeier is the Director of Transformation for the Liquid Agency as well as author of several bestselling books in which he explains how almost anyone in almost any organization can help to achieve breakthroughs in creativity and innovation. He…
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Leadership Brian Tracy AMACOM (2014) Great leaders possess and personify “the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.” This is the latest volume added to The Brian Tracy Success Library. Thus far, the others are Motivation (Apr 16, 2013),…
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According to the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics, the average young American has more than seven different employers before the age of 26; the typical 20-something changes jobs every 16 months. Alexandra Levit is the author of They Don’t…
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Long ago, I realized that TV commercials really are an art form. Here are two of my favorites: First. one that touches the heart. Now one that stimulates the mind. Also, TV commercials can dramatize a valuable insight. For example:…
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Here is a brief article featured by LinkedIn Pulse in which Tim Brown shares his thoughts about the value of unstructured thinking that W.H. Auden once described this way: “A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some…
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Americans Call For New Solutions to Make Education Accessible and Affordable
According to new results released recently from the annual Gallup/Lumina Foundation poll, Americans are ready for a renewal of our nation’s higher education system. They overwhelmingly believe that institutions should reduce tuition and fees and want to see a new…
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