Sun.Jul 21, 2013

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Working Remote. Yeah. About That.

crowdSPRING Blog

'On any given day at the crowdSPRING HQ, we will have anywhere between 1 and 6 people working in the office simultaneously. Of late, 1 is the more common number and 6 is becoming a rarity. Why is that? Well a year or two ago we instituted a policy (I say “instituted,” but really it was more of an evolution) whereby people could come and go as they please.

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The Need For Speed

SVPG

'I''m always badgering teams about moving faster. Yet I continue to meet people and teams that not only move very slow, they don''t understand the relationship between speed and innovation, or speed and quality. In fact, many people still think those goals are at odds. I attribute this mainly to a deeply rooted Waterfall mindset. Do you remember the old: "quality, time or scope - pick any two"?

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7 Reasons Startups are for the Young and Positive

Startup Professionals Musings

'To be an entrepreneur, you have to be navigate lots of unknowns, and the path is fraught with risk. Once you are past a certain mental age, you know too many of the things that can go wrong, so you never start. Sort of like the old saying that if we didn’t have young men to fight our wars, we could achieve world peace in no time. People who are young, or young at heart, don’t know all the negatives, or don’t worry about them.

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The Difference Between Good And Great Business Colleges

Mike Michalowicz

'Good colleges prepare you for success. Great colleges prepare you for failure. Failure business school.

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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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Three Examples of Practical Innovation

Life Beyond Code

'Having an insight is to see what everyone else is seeing but notice only what a few will notice. | Tweet This. [ Poster available at Sparktastic ]. Here are three examples of practical innovations where you will see “insight in action.” 1. Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store. This is where Tesco a supermarket in South Korea brings a shopping mall to train stations.

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Refreshing Your Search For Work – The Five Key Questions

YoungUpstarts

'by Karen Okulicz, author of “ Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment “ Many people look to make changes in their career the same way they pick up the beach chairs and towels and get ready for the fall. They begin to start anew with a fresh attitude towards their job search whether it is for a change of work or to ramp up a current, stagnant search from unemployed to employed.

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