Wed.Nov 16, 2016

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Unleashing Innovation Within Your Company

Imaginatik

Is innovation embedded into every thread of your company? Or is innovation still something that is truly yet to be realized? Most companies have a huge untapped potential that they are not fully utilizing. Your employees, partners, customers and vendors have a plethora of ideas. However, ideas are not enough. You need to figure out how to cross the chasm from idea to reality.

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How To Read (And Watch) The News

Digital Tonto

It is our responsibility as citizens to do more than just follow our tribe and believe anything that reinforces our prior beliefs. Related posts: The Problem With Data Journalism. The Data Delusion. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Social Skills Are Trumping Cognitive Skills

Innovation Excellence

From roughly the time of Jesus to Napoleon, life changed little. Then the industrial revolution replaced muscle power with steam power and human existence was transformed. Incomes, life expectancy and population, which had long been locked in Malthusian conflict, began to reinforce each other and rise in tandem. It’s hard to overestimate how profound that change was.

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Where there’s fun there is no fear.

Mike Shipulski

For those who lead projects and people, failure is always lurking in the background. And gone unchecked, it can hobble. Despite best efforts to put a shine on it, there’s still a strong negative element to failure. No two ways about it, failure is mapped with inadequacy and error. Failure is seen as the natural consequence of making a big mistake.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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A Recent Study Shows Intellectual Property Supports 30 Percent of Jobs in the US Economy

BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are the primary mechanism for establishing ownership rights to the creations, inventions, and brands that generate tangible economic benefits to their owner. Intellectual property protection helps commerce in the US economy by providing incentives to invent and create by protecting innovators from unauthorized copying.

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Design Your Way to a Better Life

Michael Roberto

Dave Evans and Bill Burnett have written a terrific new book titled, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. Evans and Burnett discuss how people are often encouraged to find their passion and pursue that vocation in their life. They point out that it can be very difficult to discover one's passion simply by sitting in a dorm room or apartment dreaming up potential visions of the future.

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