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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open. And from email we added IM, Facebook and LinkedIn where people contact us.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. When I put out that War on the Rocks article, I got emails from very impressive people, with an entrepreneurial bent, who had left the military, but clearly wanted to contribute.

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To Better Understand Innovation, Measure The Right Things

YoungUpstarts

Most of society’s big innovations – from the internet and email to DNA sequencing and solar energy – were created within organizations (and not by entrepreneurs) in which leadership did not particularly ask for or encourage innovation. Consider a bridge built in Laufenburg, a town that straddles Germany and Switzerland. Conclusion.

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Ten On-The-Job Mistakes That May Be Sabotaging Your Career

YoungUpstarts

As long as you check off all the major boxes on your to-do list each day, it’s okay to let a few emails slide, or to go home before listening to those last few voicemails… right? Certainly never let 24 hours pass before responding to an email or returning a phone call. I need you to explain.’. Not being responsive.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

We heard first-hand just how close it was that Facebook had considered locating its headquarters in Switzerland and how the Irish rallied and now host more than 400 jobs locally and growing. He began messaging and emailing me to try and get me to come out to the event, which he was now turning into a conference called Web Summit.

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Colorado Global EIR Program – Applications Open for 2016

Feld Thoughts

Julien Denaes (Switzerland). If you are interested in getting involved and bringing the Global EIR Coalition to your state, send me an email and I’ll connect you with the right person. If you are interested in applying to be part of the Colorado GEIR program, apply by email at GEIR-apply@colorado.edu.

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Don’t lose users for eternity in the first 5 seconds: How to survive the blink test

The Next Web

Twoodo lets your team get rid of internal emails once and for all using an efficient and easy-to-learn hashtag system. A study by the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2012 looked more deeply into the results of the 2006 Canadian study and proved what all tech users know to be commonly true. Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO of Twoodo.

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