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Beyond Moore’s Law

Daniel Burrus

Moore, cofounder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, Moore’s Law deals with processing power, the speed at which a machine can perform a particular task. For some, the “cause of death” is purely technical—a transistor can only be made so much more powerful and smaller, they say. Moore’s Law Defined—and Reborn. Named after Gordon E.

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Expert Interview Series: Roddy Millar Helps Business Leaders Translate Academic Research to Innovative Leadership

IdeaScale

The research shows that if organizations want to design impactful, emotionally contextual learning events for their employees, they need to create situations that turn up the level of brain awareness. The technical skills– whether the soldier would drive tanks, fix helicopters, become a marksman– are all secondary.

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Whose Job Is It to Manage Freelancers?

Harvard Business Review

And as part of a contingent staffing strategy, emerging businesses and startups can afford access to outstanding technical experts that would otherwise be cost prohibitive on a full-time basis. But business and government leaders have much to learn about designing their organizations to ensure the full benefits of accessing agile talent.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

We recently posed these questions to Harvard Business School alumni founders while designing a new two-year joint degree program that confers both a master of science from Harvard’s Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an MBA from HBS. Cofounders are crucial. ” Negotiations are never-ending.

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Why You May Be Blind to a Good Idea (and What to Do About It)

Harvard Business Review

Since we can't see what we can't see, the speaker showed us a video designed to catch us in the act. I'm cofounder of an organization that develops innovative learning practices and technologies. So we also have meetings designed to see what we're missing. When our team meets, we put on the agenda: "What are we missing?"

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What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?

Harvard Business Review

When web designer Ben Blumenfeld was working for a major TV network, he was responsible for creating websites for mainstream shows. Ben told me, "I knew Mark was going to build the company with or without me, and once I met the design team, I was just blown away. Every designer was insanely talented, both visually and technically."

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Is Innovation More About People or Process?

Harvard Business Review

Into the people camp also falls Michael Schrage, who in the same year wrote a particularly thoughtful account of IDEO, “Playing Around with Brainstorming,” one of the first of many articles on design thinking that have graced the pages of HBR, and still one of the shrewdest.