Sun.Nov 29, 2015

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Repitition is important to leadership because of cognitive bias

The Equity Kicker

Cognitive biases are a great tool for understanding human behaviour, particularly our more irrational behaviours, and although the meme is in danger of getting overdone I continue to find new value in the concept. Today it is in the bias ‘cognitive ease’ and how it explains why repetition is important for leadership. Jack Welch , the legendary CEO of GE in the 1980s and 1990s is famously a big advocate of repeating key messages.

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Web Designer

Transformify

Tired of 9 to 6? Fancy working from home in your pajamas? Then this job may be just right for you. WEB DESIGNER. What you need to have. A keen interest and passion in all things digital. Knowledge of JavaScript and Git. Experience and passion about UX design and SEO. Experience on email marketing platforms and email coding. Proficient in Adobe creative Suit (CS6): Photoshop (or) Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign and Illustrator.

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How Star Wars Will Help You Raise Capital for Your Company

David Teten

When you’re raising money, you’re telling a story. So who are some of the best stories and storytellers? Greek mythology, the Bible, and in modern times, George Lucas and the Wachowski siblings. Star Wars and the Matrix are both modeled on Joseph Campbell’s wildly influential book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In The Hero, Campbell outlines the monomyth, or “hero’s journey,” archetype which is used in countless religions and mythologies around the world.

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From Zero to Building and Flying Drones in a Month

Diego Basch

On October 21st I bought this at a Toys “R” Us because it was on sale for $25. If you have never flown a quadcopter and have the money to spare, I suggest that you buy one right now (today I’d recommend this one instead , it’s more stable and much better outdoors). At first I could barely get it to hover in place. I crashed it countless times until it stopped working, so I bought another one.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Tips On Negotiating A Licensing Agreement For Your Patent

YoungUpstarts

by Andrew Armstrong. Once you have your product patented, you may be disconcerted at the thought of manufacturing it yourself. For many entrepreneurs and inventors, mass producing and distributing products simply doesn’t play to their strengths. Consider Licensing. Most inventers and many entrepreneurs are not prepared for the ongoing struggles with getting a product to market.

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Weekend Favs November Twenty Nine

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs November Twenty Nine written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr or one that I took out there on the road.

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4 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Create More Innovations

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s fast moving world of business startups, learning trumps knowing every time. What established businesses know through experience keeps them from looking for the new and innovative ways to do what they do better, cheaper, and faster. I’m convinced that’s why most mature companies are slowing down or buying their innovation through acquisition, rather than building it.