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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? However in comparison to what it could have achieved, Yahoo serves as an important business failure case study. These two yahoo software engineers would go on to become the founders of Whatsapp.

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The Productivity Paradox: Why Meaningful Work is the Key to Mental Well-Being

Tullio Siragusa

Social media, news, videos, and podcasts provide endless streams of information, making us feel like were always learning. Instead of making us happier or more connected, it often leads to feelings of inadequacy, comparison, and wasted time. Did you learn something new today? Were consuming, not creating.

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When Generosity Breeds Animosity: Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Resentments

Tullio Siragusa

What can I learn from this moment, and how can I apply it to my own personal or professional development? Heres how: Practice Gratitude Over Comparison Instead of focusing on what you lack, appreciate the qualities you admire in others. Is this an insecurity or limitation within myself that I havent yet acknowledged?

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Capabilities and Leadership Close the Skills Gap in Manufacturing

Innovation 360 Group

The industry will need to add manufacturing software engineers, robotics specialists, machine learning specialists, automated systems engineers, cybersecurity specialists as well as designers, product engineers, developers, analysts, pricing strategists and procurement specialists, many of which are forecast to be in short supply in years ahead.

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How Bad Leadership Spurs Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

There are at least 500 start-ups with French founders in the San Francisco Bay area, and there are over 50,000 Germans in Silicon Valley, where salaries for software engineers are much higher than in Europe (or elsewhere). In the past two decades, they created 25% of all American venture-backed companies.

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When a Fancy Degree Scares Employers Away

Harvard Business Review

As I reported in an earlier piece for HBR.org : A software CEO I spoke with recently said he avoids job candidates with advanced software engineering degrees because they represent an overinvestment in education that brings with it both higher salary demands and hubris. Here’s the rub.

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Don't Live Your Life, Lead It

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, "live life" has been inexorably increasing in popularity over the last century, as my Ngram comparison of usage in English-language books shows. If I had my life to lead over I presume I would still be a writer but I am sure I would give my first attention to learning how to do things directly with my hands.