Cantoche : The Living Actor™ Avatars humanize interfaces. Moteur de recherche sémantique & text mining. Executive function - effects, person, people, used, brain, personality, skills, Definition. Photo by: ktsdesign Definition The term executive function describes a set of cognitive abilities that control and regulate other abilities and behaviors. Executive functions are necessary for goal-directed behavior. They include the ability to initiate and stop actions, to monitor and change behavior as needed, and to plan future behavior when faced with novel tasks and situations. Executive functions allow us to anticipate outcomes and adapt to changing situations. Description As the name implies, executive functions are high-level abilities that influence more basic abilities like attention, memory and motor skills.
Executive functions are important for successful adaptation and performance in real-life situations. Executive function deficits are associated with a number of psychiatric and developmental disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder , Tourette's syndrome, depression, schizophrenia , attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder , and autism . Resources. The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast. Editor’s note: Mark Hendrickson is the founder and CEO of Plancast, a social site for planning events, which he has decided to stop working on full-time. In this guest post, Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis of why it never took off and what he learned. He is also a former TechCrunch writer. Nearly three years ago, I left my position at TechCrunch to start my own Internet business, with the idea of creating a web application that’d help people get together in real-life rather than simply helping them connect online as most social networking applications had done.
Plancast was the service conceived a few months later from that basic inclination. Along the way my team built a minimum viable product, launched from obscurity here on TechCrunch, raised a seed round of funding from local venture capitalists and angel investors, and worked like mad to translate our initial success into long-term growth, engagement and monetization. Sharing Frequency Consumption Frequency. What tech execs are saying about your privacy. RIM Co-CEOs Are Out, Heins Is In. Following weeks of speculation, it appears Research in Motion (RIM) is finally ready to oust Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis.
The two are, according to a press release from RIM, stepping aside on Monday and will be replaced by company insider and former COO Thorsten Heins. Heins, who also joins the company's board, is already listed as President and CEO on RIM's executive bios page. The change in leadership may have come at the behest of Lazaridis who explained in a statement, “There comes a time in the growth of every successful company when the founders recognize the need to pass the baton to new leadership. Jim [Balsillie] and I went to the Board and told them that we thought that time was now. " SEE ALSO: "RIM’s New CEO: No ‘Drastic Change’ Needed" The company has also steadily slipped down the ladder in smartphone market share as Android competitors and Apple released more and more innovative and well-received handsets.
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