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Plan a Better Meeting with Design Thinking

Harvard Business

“Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. So many meetings are lost opportunities.” They should, according to these statistics on meetings: Organizations hold more than 3 billion meetings each year. Daniel Day/Getty Images.

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Tired of the Bears? Get Bearcrow!

MishTalk

Best Played Full Screen - Control in Bottom Right of Video Link if video does not play : Meet BearCrow. In the video below, I take a big swing at the Chicago Bears football team and secondarily Obamacare. Watch the video to see the tie-in. If you like this video, please pass it on!

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. The company failed on multiple fronts.

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Driverless technology: a soon-to-be reality?

Tom Spencer

Flash forward over 30 years, much of the tech that the film predicted has come true. Most driverless cars at the moment operate at Level 3, so the car is in control but a human safety driver is present to intervene when required. Another large obstacle that driverless cars must surmount is gaining consumer trust.

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More Robots: Google's "Atlas" Robot Mimics "Karate Kid"; Flying Defibrillator "Ambulance Drone" Unveiled; Fed Has No Answer

MishTalk

The creator, Alec Momont of TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, said that 20% of people can operate a defibrillator without instruction and the number rises when they have prompts from trained personnel. Some 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the EU every year, and only 8% survive," Momont explains.

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A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment

Harvard Business

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. Because, guess what, a lot of these services, they need vehicles.

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