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To Beat the Workforce Shortage, Reimagine the Workforce

Business and Tech

She had no background or experience in the construction field when she started her pre-apprenticeship training in September 2013. Leilanna Barrentes is a perfect example of the change that can happen when women are given an opportunity.

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How having children makes fathers’ brains less imaginative

Idea to Value

And these networks of the brain has been shown as important for the development of divergent creative ideas (Source 2013 , 2014 ). So having a child increases the volume of the parts of the brain where a father can plan, form emotional bonds and be protective, as well as decreasing the parts of the brain which lead to original ideas.

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Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power

Digital Tonto

In 2013, the political scientist Moisés Naím published The End of Power, in which he argued that because of the increase in mobility and technology and decrease in poverty, the power of institutions was diminishing. Power hadn’t ended exactly but, as he put it, power was becoming “easier to gain but harder to use or keep.”.

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Diversity of thought can have a higher impact

Idea to Value

In 2013, Brian Uzzi and his colleagues wanted to see which teams produced the most respected work. Now, I just came across another study which sheds more evidence on the value of diversity, as well as building deep links in a domain that you collaborate with regularly.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 2 of 5)

Idea to Value

So in 2013, I started up Improvides , then soon afterwards Ideatovalue.com , and I have made it my mission since then to figure out what actually helps new ideas happen. And after doing this for nearly a decade, I grew frustrated. What I wanted was to help companies actually innovate.

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Top Posts Of 2023

Digital Tonto

Related posts: Top Posts of 2013 Top Posts of 2011 Top Posts of 2017 Top Posts of 2019 Top Posts Of 2020 . “The way it seems to work now, setting a New Year’s Resolution is a recipe for defeat. It has come to be one of the nation’s most […] The post Top Posts Of 2023 first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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New Study: 2018 State of Embedded Analytics Report

Why do some embedded analytics projects succeed while others fail? We surveyed 500+ application teams embedding analytics to find out which analytics features actually move the needle. Read the 6th annual State of Embedded Analytics Report to discover new best practices. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.