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For generations, professional growth followed a predictable, slow-rolling rhythm: enter at the bottom, grind through repetitive entry-level tasks, absorb tacit knowledge from senior colleagues by osmosis, and gradually earn the right to make strategic decisions. It was an expensive, deeply human, and highly localized model. Entry-level jobs were never just about immediate output; they ...
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Guest Post from David Burkus |
Motivation can vary wildly on a team. At any given time, a few people might be highly motivated, while others are totally unmotivated. Ideally, there are times where everyone is motivated at once, but sadly there may be times when everyone is demotivated or burnt out. All this means that an inescapable part of a leader’s job is to motivate the unmotivated.
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For years, the technology world has watched Midjourney dominate the digital canvas, turning text prompts into breathtaking generative art. But in an unexpected, high-stakes pivot, the self-funded AI research lab is shifting its focus from software pixels to heavy medical hardware. Under the visionary direction of David Holz, the company is attempting to ...
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Guest Post from Geoffrey Moore |
Concerns about the potential negative impact of AI on humanity’s future well-being continue to foster discussion across a wide swath of society with pundits weighing in from every imaginable point of view. The fundamental unit of discourse that unites all these efforts is the scenario. As humans, when we ...
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Guest Post from Mike Shipulski
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Much like living organisms continually evolve to secure their place in the future, technological systems can be thought to display similar evolutionary behavior. Viruses mutate so some of them can defeat the countermeasures of their host and live to fight another day. Technological systems, as an expression of a company’s desire to survive, evolve to defeat ...
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Guest Post from Robert B. Tucker |
A curious thing happened at the University of Arizona’s commencement ceremony. The speaker was former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, one of the most influential figures in the development of the digital economy. Addressing thousands of graduates, Schmidt spoke enthusiastically about ...
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Guest Post from Shep Hyken |
If you look up the definition of customer experience in the dictionary, you might find a picture of Lance Gruner, whose leadership, customer service and CX training come from his stints at some of the most recognizable brands on the planet, including Disney, The Ritz-Carlton and MasterCard, where he ...
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Exclusive Interview with Eric Ries |
This candid, wide-ranging Q&A dives deep into what Eric Ries calls the “physics of organizations” — the hidden structural and financial forces that dictate whether a company thrives or decays over time. Moving past superficial business trends, the conversation tackles the intense psychological toll of entrepreneurship, the systemic flaws of shareholder primacy, and the historical reality of alternative corporate governance.
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Guest Post from Art Inteligencia |
We have spent centuries building machines that rely on friction, mechanical contact, and physical wear. What happens when we remove the need to “touch” the objects we manufacture or manipulate? This technology utilizes highly focused, non-contact ultrasound waves to create intricate acoustic fields capable of ...
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Guest Post from Greg Satell |
'In The Knowing Doing Gap' by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton, the two Stanford professors show, in painstaking detail, that most enterprises fail to act on what they know. They point out that many are set up to reinforce the status quo, because mastering conventional wisdom is key to advancement.
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