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It’s all who you know. http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2011/30-under30-12/30-under-30-12_technology.html

30 Under 30 - Technology - Forbes

One of the most often overlooked aspects of leadership is the need for pursuit. Great leaders are never satisfied with traditional practice, static thinking, conventional wisdom, or common performance. In fact, the best leaders are simply uncomfortable with anything that embraces the status quo.

This One Leadership Quality Will Make or Break You - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2011/12/19/this-one-leadership-quality-will-make-or-break-you/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15970019 19 December 2011 Last updated at 00:25 GMT

BBC News - Touchless smartphones and TVs could be on sale in 2012

50 Economic Numbers From 2011 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don't make dramatic changes immediately.  If we do not educate the American people about how deathly ill the U.S. economy has become, then they will just keep falling for the same old lies that our politicians keep telling them.  Click here to see the 50 numbers > http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-economic-numbers-from-2011-that-are-almost-too-crazy-to-believe
Linkedin is at least as powerful at driving traffic per click as a Twitter Tweet or a Facebook Like, according to Clearspring, a provider of those sharing buttons you often see at the top and bottom of web pages. Clearspring makes AddThis, a tool that allows brands and publishers to select and install buttons for Facebook Likes, Twitter Tweets and Linkedin Shares on their web sites. http://www.businessinsider.com/linkedins-share-button-the-secret-behind-disproportional-power-2011-12

Linkedin's 'Share' Button: Here's The Secret Behind Its Disproportionate Power In Social Media

Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/11/secret-software-logging-video/ The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/14/engineering-engineers-science-new/ From vacuum tubes to transistors to semiconductors, from the telegraph to smart phones, technological innovation has been essential to America’s economic growth and global competitiveness.

Engineers Who Can Lead | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

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This article originally appeared at American Express OpenForum Business travel is no vacation. In fact, it can be quite the uncomfortable journey.

How This Entrepreneur Launched A Second Career By Making Business Travel Bearable

On weekdays when I am at home, and not travelling, I get up early, get connected to the rest of the organisation through mails and calls, do an hour of yoga, and then drive to the office, arriving there around 10:00 a.m.

Twenty Questions I Ask Myself Every Day | Management Innovation eXchange

5 career-destroying email blunders - CBS News

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Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine

The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford shirt and jeans, is sitting in a conference room at his company’s spiffy new headquarters just north of downtown Seattle. It is mid-September, exactly one week before he will introduce a new line of Kindles to the world. He has already shown me two of them—one with a touchscreen, the other costing just $79—but that’s not what’s truly exciting him.