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Big Hit or Big Flop: Extreme Outcomes for High-Status Project Leaders

Michael Roberto

A project manager has had a remarkable track record. Surely, it makes good sense to assign him or her to lead the next high-profile project in your organization. They find that high-status project leaders may be prone to extreme outcomes: perhaps another blockbuster hit, but just as likely, a major flop. Not so fast.

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The Book that Took 9 Years to Publish

Stephen Shapiro

The database would be supported by flashcards, videos, and an expert system. January 2012: Although I planned to fully develop the Challenge Toolkit in 2012, it got sidetracked by other ideas that launched that year, including my 30-day Innovation Challenge , new branding, a new website, and a Personality Poker® revamp.

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Now Streaming: Extreme Creativity with Vickie Howell

BrainZooming

With the help of over 1200 individual and company backers, Vickie successfully raised $83k in 30 days on Kickstarter to fund the project. I’m always sending him videos and stuff and he’s like, Oh…yeah…I kind of clicked on it…. Anybody can post videos. Photo: Harper Point Photography. EAG: Exactly!

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Robots in Retail

Innovation 360 Group

Check out these robots from Kiva Systems (that was acquired by Amazon in 2012). This is a concept video for Amazons current trials of using drones: Similar experiments are currently performed by Google X in Project Wings , and by DHL delivering medication to German island Juist. But still, it is basically a clever forklift.

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Insurance and Data Value

Information Playground

Jim and I have been studying the industry as part of a joint research project. One recent example is LinkedIn's acquisition of Lynda.com , which was primarily fueled by Lynda.com's video assets.as s video game online network in 2011 led to the theft of names, addresses, and credit card data belonging to about 100 million users.

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Artificial creativity (A.C.): Can a computer be creative? It’s scarily close

Idea to Value

For example, Skype is now able to translate a video chat between two people speaking different languages, in real time. As explained in the video below, this will be a $5m prize to the team which develops an AI which creates its own convincing TED talk, to be held in 2020. Writing its own TED talk.

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10 Survival Rules for Workshop Facilitators

100%Open

Participants might project the image of a schoolteacher onto you. Check out this video we made. Always warm-up your voice before starting, and learn how to project your voice so that you don’t force it. What will your participants will remember after the workshop? What are your expectations? What are your client’s expectations?