Thu.Sep 17, 2020

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Podcast S4E78: Dorie Clark – the importance of reinventing yourself

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with the world’s #1 Communications Coach and Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World, Dorie Clark. Dorie also teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, and we talk about the importance of reinventing yourself and how best to communicate your value.

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How To Encourage Employees To Develop A Growth Mindset

IdeaScale

One of the problems businesses face today is encouraging their team to have the right mindset. Although people need the right skills and resources to succeed in any career, they also need a positive attitude to guide them in the right direction. Unfortunately, many people have a “fixed” mindset. This essentially means that people believe … Continued.

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Digital Tools and the Future of Remote Work

InnovationManagement

Until about four months ago, remote work was somewhat of a rarity, and, at very least, something most people were unfamiliar with. One of the few COVID-19 silver linings, however, was that many companies were forced to have their employees work remotely due to stay-at-home orders. This meant more time with families, less time in transit, and, for a lot, a surprising sense of comfort at "the workplace.".

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Investors Need to Bet On Startups in 2020

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Entrepreneurs and innovators will lead the way out of this crisis to adapt our economy.

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Turn Payments Into Personalization: Unlock the Value of Transaction Data

Speaker: Loreal Lynch, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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How to Build Kaizen into Employee Onboarding

Kainexus

Much of the information published about establishing a culture of Kaizen is written for leaders who are introducing the concept to their entire organization for the first time. But once the Kaizen mindset is established, the job is not done. Looking for opportunities for positive change may be second nature to your long-term employees, but many new hires will have no knowledge of Kaizen or daily improvement.

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#1,936 – Space Week: Are We Alone?

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It’s one of mankind’s most pressing questions: are we alone in the Universe? Chances are high that we’re not. There may even be microbial life on Venus or even inside stars. But intelligent beings? Those may be fewer and far between. Futurism details the bad news: “A team of scientists hunting for extraterrestrial civilizations just scanned 10 million stars — and came back with nothing.

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#1,932 – Space Week: SpinLaunch

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The work that Elon Musk and SpaceX are doing to develop reusable rockets and bring down the cost of launching payloads into space is invaluable. But there may be another innovative company that ultimately develops an even better way of launching things into space. Space.com explains: “The secretive startup SpinLaunch , which aims to fling satellites into space without a traditional launch pad, has just secured its first launch contract… SpinLaunch is developing a ‘kinetic energ

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Sanofi Pasteur’s Chief Digital Officer on Making Virtual Collaboration Work

Innovation Leader

As Chief Digital Officer for Sanofi Pasteur, Natalija Jovanovic leads a global, cross-functional team responsible for developing and executing the digital strategy of the largest vaccine developer in the world. In late July, the US government awarded Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline up to $2.1 billion to accelerate the development and manufacturing.

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#1,940 – Space Week: Cosmic Consciousness

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

The Universe may very well be conscious but that’s not what this article is about. Rather, it’s about a new mind-blowing form of art, created by Alex Aliume that is something almost otherworldly, with multiple paintings layered on top of one another. Wired explains: “The new painting is called Cosmic Consciousness. When I say painting, though, I actually mean four paintings: I see one thing under normal light, another with 3D glasses, another under black light, and something el

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Mindset Jolt #9 – Motivate innovation by giving, not getting

Values Centered Innovation

Welcome to our 3-Minute Conscious Innovator™ process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicits your unique, innovative potential in life and work? Jolts wake us up. They spur new self-awareness, new capabilities and values, and new actions. Paradoxically, we don’t learn from each Jolt – rather, each Jolt “learns us” !

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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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#1,935 – Space Week: COVID-19 and First Contact

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Other than the idea that COVID-19 may have originated in outer space there’s another way that the current global pandemic is tied to the final frontier: as a means of preparing us for first contact. As Astronomy.com puts it: “Imagine the following scenario: A remote radio telescope detects a repeating signal from a Sun-like star a few tens of light years from Earth.

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Mindset Jolt #9 – Motivate innovation by giving, not getting

Values Centered Innovation

Welcome to our 3-Minute Conscious Innovator™ process! Are you ready for a new, insight-provoking “Jolt” … something designed to “rearrange your molecules” as it elicits your unique, innovative potential in life and work? Jolts wake us up. They spur new self-awareness, new capabilities and values, and new actions. Paradoxically, we don’t learn from each Jolt – rather, each Jolt “learns us” !

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#1,938 – Space Week: Magnetic Field GPS

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

GPS is great. The satellite based Global Positioning System has saved countless drivers from getting lost. Unless of course your name is Michael Scott and you follow your car’s navigation blindly into a lake. But the system could be on the verge of getting replaced by something better: a new approach that would navigate via the Earth’s magnetic field instead.

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5 Great Lessons You Can Learn from Curiosity

Carla Johnson

September 17, 2020 Most successful – not to mention remarkable – discoveries throughout history have come because someone was simply curious. Inventors interested in flight were curious about birds. Curiosity in whales inspired scientists to invest the submarine. A Swiss engineer was curious about how burrs stuck to his dog’s coat and invented velcro.

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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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#1,939 – Space Week: Genetically Modified Astronauts

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

If being a baseball fan has taught me anything its that steroids, human growth hormone, and other unnatural body modifications are bad. Unethical enhancements that ruin the sanctity of the game. But when it comes to space travel all bets are off. For such genetic modifications could be pivotal for enabling humans to travel and live in space. At least if recent testing on mice is to be believed.

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Play Bold: Moonshot Projects with John Saiz

Innovation 360 Group

In this episode, we listen to John Saiz, former CTO of the Johnson Space Center, who explains what it is like to.

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#1,934 – Space Week: Did COVID-19 Come From Outer Space?!

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Is COVID-19 man-made? Or naturally occurring? Did it start in Wuhan, China or somewhere else? Get its start in bats or something else? We’re still not 100% sure. Which is why conspiracy theories about its origins continue to run rampant. Leading us to the best possibility of all. That COVID-19 is not of Earthly origins at all. As Discover puts it: “There are plenty of unusual theories over the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.

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How to Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams in the Workplace

CMOE

A cross-functional team can bring together people and departments that are as different as parts of a body. Accounting is inward-facing, whereas marketing is outward-facing; R&D is focused on change, whereas legal is focused on stability. Yet in a cross-functional team, each seemingly unrelated part must work together, just like the eye and foot work together to help a person walk.

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How Retailers Are Transforming Customer Experiences with Data & AI

Speaker: David Azoulay, Marc Stracuzza, Román Tejada, and Guest Speaker Sucharita Kodali

Imagine a retail landscape where every interaction is personalized, every decision informed, and every opportunity maximized 🤔✨ Join us for an exploratory journey into the heart of AI-driven retail innovation. We’ll unveil the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in shaping the future of omnichannel personalization and e-commerce.

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#1,937 – Space Week: Underwater Space Station

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

There is an unprecedented number of tropical depressions brewing in the Atlantic Ocean. So much so that we’re running out of letters to name them and will soon turn things over to the Greek alphabet. According to the Washington Post : “Twenty tropical storms and hurricanes have already been named in the Atlantic in 2020, with months left to go before the oceans finally settle.

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