Are you learning as fast as the world is changing? A constant state of change requires a constant state of learning. Only a handful of companies, and people, cultivate learning as a skill.
Put simply:
Cultures of innovation = Cultures of learning
With that said, there is one skill that will always be relevant in the future: continuous learning.…
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Digital technologies, powered by the internet, are disrupting every industry. According to Pierre Nanterme, CEO of Accenture, digital is the main reason just over half of the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2000.
It’s safe to say that you’re either a digital business or a dead business.…
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The end of Twitter? Nice title, but Twitter isn’t in trouble if it sticks to, and evolves on, what makes it essential.
Joshua Topolsky’s piece on the New Yorker triggered responses from various users pointing out why Twitter isn’t dead, what it could be, what it isn’t and some fact checking.
It really frustrates me that people keep comparing Twitter to Facebook, and that it’s failing because it’s business doesn’t look like Facebook’s. If everyone wants Twitter to be like Facebook, then Twitter has a long way to go and most likely is in trouble. But Twitter isn’t Facebook, and shouldn’t be Facebook.
That’s the fundamental problem with Twitter: it’s trying to be like other social networks.
Twitter is different, and that’s what makes it great. How so?…
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Nick Bostrom calls artificial intelligence the modern day Doomsday invention. Luminaries such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking agree with him. Why? Because the possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues.
For example, we’re designing software that works like us, that learns like us, and that we can even fall just a little bit in love with. We’re making computer programs that can kill like us, too.
In short, we’re creating the future in our image.…
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I admit that I’m of the particular mindset of looking out into the world and find flaws— glitches in the system— and construct logical paths in my mind to fix them.
And, if I can start crafting a solution with a blank slate the better. Who doesn’t like thinking about what’s possible!
But, are all problems worth fixing?…
There comes a point in time when all business compete for the same thing: sameness.
It shouldn’t be this way, because competing to be the best at what everyone else does leads to mediocrity. On today’s episode we discuss how to escape mediocrity; not mindlessly pursue it.…
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The corporate innovation struggle is real, they all want it. So to make their innovation dreams real, companies are now making innovation everyone’s job by making it a prerequisite for job searchers, and also putting “innovation” related words and activities in existing employees job descriptions.
Good try, but it’s not enough.…