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Retire These Metaphors & Reframe the Discussion to be More Effective

Johanna Rothman

“Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. See Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.) Pregnancy to explain the indivisibleness of some work. But these metaphors no longer serve us. I'm a woman.

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Dark Vision for Jobs: Jobless Future? Is It Different This Time?

MishTalk

History suggests innovation will at some point create more jobs. Reader Andrew asked me to comment on the ComputerWorld article Gartner''s Dark Vision for Tech, Jobs. The job impacts from innovation are arriving rapidly, according to Gartner. Moments ago, I responded to a reader James from the UK regarding automation on farms.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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We Need to Ask How We Can Make Economic Growth More Inclusive

Harvard Business

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide.

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Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship?

Harvard Business

A sizable body of research establishes that these “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurs, those that are “creatively destroying” the old in favor of the new, are critical for breakthrough innovations and rapid advances in productivity and standards of living. productivity growth overall. productivity growth overall.

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There’s No Such Thing As an Average Business, Just Average Ways to Do Business

Harvard Business

The New York Times recently published a fascinating overview of creativity programs and innovation spaces on college campuses across the country. It described a unique living-working space at the University of Utah called Lassonde Studios , where students embrace the 24/7 innovation lifestyle of geeks in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas.

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