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Our engineering ratchet

Seth Godin Blog

Quietly, over the last thirty years, engineering has become dramatically more efficient and effective. Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine. Chemical Innovations.

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

Harvard Business

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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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. These conflicting pressures are especially present when the product provided by the asset is not very differentiating (think, for instance, of commodity steel products or container shipping services).

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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. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. Scientists have found 8 management behaviors that use Oxytocin balance to make people more productive. Each summit generated other opportunities. Dates on hold.

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

Harvard Business

” The world, he has argued, has lots of resources – water, energy, and so on – but we’re hampered because we can’t access it efficiently. A brilliant engineer and chemist with General Motors and DuPont, Midgley held over 100 patents. ” It could help us solve our resource constraints.