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Continue reading →: The New Competitiveness
AIG is falling. Bailouts are flying. All of the rules of business have changed, and the seismic shift is both electrifying and frightening. But there are opportunities to be embraced, and many of them are summed up in this article entitled “Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy“. Here…
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Continue reading →: How to Give a High Quality Presentation
I’m out in Colorado this week working with the NEON cyberinfrastructure team to put together presentation material for a big review meeting they’re having in June. It’s a challenging project, chock full of interesting and complex envisioned science experiments, elaborate engineering to design, construct and collect data from sensors scattered…
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Continue reading →: Innovation through Quality: Insights from Neuroscience
New neuroscience research suggests that an intensive quality assurance “initiative” is launched in the human brain between the ages of 11 and 17. The March 23 issue of LiveScience reports: When a child is born, their brain is not fully-formed, and over the first few years there’s a great proliferation…
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Continue reading →: Innovation with Business Dating
Today around midday, Ron DuPlain (Twitter: @rduplain) asked me if I wanted to catch lunch with him and Michael Davis (Twitter: @yellowfish_md). Only thing is, I don’t know Michael Davis. Don’t worry, Ron said, he’s a cool and interesting guy and you’ll probably find out you have a lot of…
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Continue reading →: Pain Based Change Management
Andrew Grove’s political commentary today in the Washington Post (“Mr. President, Time to Rein in the Chaos”) was interesting to me not because of the opinions presented, but because of his unorthodox suggestion: successful change management can emerge when leaders deliberately allow pain, then rescue the masses once the pain…
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Continue reading →: Systems Thinking Predicts Economic Collapse in 21st Century
According to some researchers, it’s the end of the world as we know it – sometime this century, in fact. Economists and policy researchers have actually envisioned it coming for about three centuries, though. The most recent tap on this subject came on March 7, 2009, when journalist and Hot,…
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Continue reading →: Warren Buffett on Simulation & Modeling
John Hunter shared some excerpts from Warren Buffett’s 2009 Letter to Shareholders. I particularly liked this one part where he reflects on the outcomes of economic modeling and forecasting: Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and…
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