Fri.Dec 07, 2018

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Discussing Your Failures as a Leader

Michael Roberto

Source: Wikipedia Allison Wood Brooks and her colleagues have published a new working paper titled, " Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful People Should Reveal Their Failures." These scholars argue that leaders need to discuss their failures openly. They should avoid simply talking about past success, because focusing only on past achievements can stir up "malicious envy" on the part of team members.

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Why Leaders Shouldn't Lead Brainstorming Sessions

Idea Champions

Here's one of the dirty little secrets of corporate brainstorm sessions: When they are led by upper management, department heads, or project leaders, they usually get manipulated. Because honchos and honchettes are so heavily invested in the topic being brainstormed, it is common for them to bend the collective genius of the group to their own particular point of view.

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Top 5 Innovative Technologies That Will Disrupt and Dominate 2019 and Beyond

Innovation Excellence

With every passing year, innovations on this planet abound. Just 30 years ago, the internet was a rarity, and few could have ever imagined just how extensively this new technology would disrupt and dominate our lives. As we move toward 2019, the rate at which we are producing these innovations is only increasing, meaning that.

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A deep dive in Bosch startups platform Grow

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Peter Guse co-developed the concept of the Bosch Start-up Platform, Grow, since 2013: it's the internal incubator for corporate start-ups, and an open space for entrepreneurs inside of Bosch.

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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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Four Lessons About Business Model Innovation We Can Learn From MoviePass

Innovation Excellence

When it comes to innovation, it takes more than a new business model to drive commercial success. MoviePass is the latest startup to attempt to disrupt the market with a new business model, but it needs to do more to truly move the innovation needle. A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a.

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Lyft COO Talks Tesla, “Peak Car,” and the Future of Mobility

Innovation Leader

Lyft's COO Jon McNeill has spent his career scaling companies in the mobility industry. McNeill discusses the innovative culture at Tesla, Lyft’s mission, and the future of mobility.

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The Psychological Importance Of Employee Uniforms

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. image source. The first experience most of us have with uniforms tends to be school uniforms – and it’s fair to say the memories are not particularly exciting. As a student, you likely felt that a school uniform was uncomfortable, constricting, and denied you your own sense of style, and you embraced the own-clothes policies at college with a sense of freedom and excitement.

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Innovate or die! What does innovation mean in your company?

Articles from GroundControl

Apart from the well-known adagium, it is the most common answer I get when talking to companies about their most urgent reasons to innovate. “We need to! Our industry is being overtaken by startups left and right”. “We need to! How else are we going to survive when everything around us is changing so fast”. For most companies, it is that pain of realizing that the product lifecycle also has an end (or renew phase).

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Big data is dead – a throwback to Data Natives Conference

etventure

At the Data Natives Conference in Berlin for three days it was all about data, technologies and innovation: 4 stages, more than 100 speakers and around 1,600 visitors. This year etventure was also part of the event, represented by Principal Marc Weimer-Hablitzel. In his speech “Big Data is dead” he explained how companies can generate real added value from their data.

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How To Successfully Run A Mobile Business

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Unlike a regular business, a mobile business is constantly on the move to make their customers lives easier. Whether you’re a hairdresser that visits your clients homes to do their hair, or you’re a distribution company that needs to cart deliveries here, there, and everywhere, it’s important to clue yourself up on how to make sure that you’re doing things properly.

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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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Unlocking Creativity

Michael Roberto

My new book, Unlocking Creativity , will be released one month from today, on January 7th, 2019. You can pre-order the book now. Thank you for taking a look at my new work! I look forward to hearing what you think!

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Strategies for Building Good Business Relationships

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Running a successful business not only requires hard work, dedication and a good, knowledgeable team, but it also relies on a good network of relationships. Despite what you might think, you can’t run a business on your own, and you need connections to help and empower you to confidently and aggressively take risks, continually innovate, and recover from losses and setbacks along the way. image source.

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Your Brand Event Made Easy.

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. Brand events are one of the best ways to get a lot of industry people together, and get them talking about you, and what you do. When you start to imagine what your event might look like, it is tempting to think about the biggest bash possible. But, the truth is something big and glitzy might not match your brand, and it’s worthwhile to stay authentic to you.

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Factors to Consider When Starting a Business in the New Year

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. image source. As the New Year approaches, many people are starting to reflect on their dreams and consider taking action on things they have been putting off for many years. Whilst starting a business isn’t a New Year’s resolution in the conventional sense, it is certainly in the spirit of the energy and optimism the new year brings.

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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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Are You Taking Advantage of Outsourcing For Your Business?

The Human Factor

Contributed post –. When you own a business, you need to always be on the lookout for new ways of doing things, that can help things run more smoothly and improve the processes that you have. And one of the things that is becoming more and more popular in business, perhaps through the rise of the internet, is contracting with an outside person or another business to have them take care of certain assignments or tasks.