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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases. But why stop with industrial assets?

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Taiwan, and South Korea, respectively — agreed to fund a novel technology development program at ASML, a leading equipment manufacturer based in the Netherlands. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

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Consultant Marketing Trust Story

Jerry Fletcher

One connected me to a Pod cast talent search engine that led to 4 pod casts. Here are some of the reasons I’m being asked to present this information: Quotes: In a panel on Lead development I said, “ More is not better. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. What’s Changed?

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How to Turn Today’s Proposal Failure into Tomorrow’s Consulting Success with JT Badiani: Podcast #10

Consulting Success

He started out as a MBA/chemical engineer with years of experience in the design field and great success in operations, but decided that his talents and passions could truly be put to use when he pursued his dream of helping companies achieve success. But his road to consulting success was not a short one.

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Saving the Planet from Ecological Disaster Is a $12 Trillion Opportunity

Harvard Business

How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? In the process, we have developed what we call “the Breakthrough Compass” to map the emerging landscape of risk and opportunity. A brilliant engineer and chemist with General Motors and DuPont, Midgley held over 100 patents. Business models.