Tue.Apr 12, 2016

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The seven stages of innovation grief

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm writing this a bit tongue in cheek, but the point of this blog is very serious. There are a number of phases that innovators go through, accepting what they can about innovation based on what the executives and corporate culture allow. Growing as an innovators is something like experiencing the seven stages of grief, only it's often in reverse. When we experience grief, as when we lose a loved one, psychologists note that many people progress through a number of stages.

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Charting Change – Now Available on Kindle

Braden Kelley

I’m super excited to announce that my new Charting Change is now available for Amazon Kindle! Charting Change has been the number one new release on Amazon for at least “Business Management” and “Production & Operations” so far.

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What Does Emotional Intelligence have to do with Productivity and Innovation?

Innovation Excellence

Elon Musk, much like Steve Jobs, couples his drive and ingenuity with a fluid charm and charisma, making him and leaders of his caliber something like the Ubermensch. The amount of things that people like these accomplish might even make the common person wonder if they’re robots--but it turns out they may actually be even more human than the rest of us.

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Internal Branding Strategy – 1 Way to Stop Horrible Executive Videos

BrainZooming

Internal executive videos are funny things. Well, actually, they are rarely funny things. More frequently, internal executive videos are boring things. Or odd things. Or cringe-worthy things. A friend working at a university sends me links occasionally for internal videos featuring a university leader trying for a “rah-rah, pick them up, congratulate and challenge them, but leave them feeling good about themselves” videos.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Innovating on the Critical Path

Innovation Excellence

Two words to live by: Critical Path. If you can’t work the critical path, don’t work on anything. Working on a non-critical path task is worse than working on nothing.

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Comment on Good Ideas, Bad Results by Chris Budd

Stephen Shapiro

The entire UK pensions framework is an example of this ever since a gentleman named Robert Maxwell fell off his yacht and drowned in 1991. It was discovered he had plundered his newspaper’s staff pension scheme, and many Mirror Group employees were left without a pension. In reaction, successive Governments brought in legislation to prevent this from happening again, which all added significant costs to employers for running such pension schemes.

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China ring roads

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Locating Near Talent Pools

Michael Roberto

The Wall Street Journal writes today that firms are increasingly weighing availability of talent as they make location decisions. Here's an excerpt: Fifty years ago, companies opened new locations to be near lumber, copper, or resources needed for their businesses. “Today, people are the natural resources,” said Meredith Amdur, an analytics expert at advisory firm CEB.

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China ring roads

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