Mastercuts <div class="alert_message warning"><div class="set_to_page_width"><i class="icon icon-exclamation-triangle icon-large"></i><strong>Please enable Javascript to take full advantage of our site features.</strong></div></div> Mastercuts Edit Label Profile: Label specialised in releasing compilations. Innovation – The Leadership Soft Skills A summary of the role of leadership and soft skills in innovation. ‘A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.’ - Lao Tzu There are a lot of blogs and worthy peer journals, sharing the importance of innovation in business success and survival. We all agree innovation is important, but how do we nurture innovation, as something which is integral to business process, and creates value within an organisation? Exceptional leaders and authors highlight the importance of ‘soft’ skills for successful management and leadership.
The Online Dating Engine that Assesses Your Taste In the Opposite Sex (And Whether They Find You Attractive) Online dating sites have transformed the way that people make friends and find partners. Many dating websites have recommendation algorithms that match people with potential partners based on their mutual likes and dislikes, interests, hobbies and so on. That certainly helps to prune the field but the inescapable truth of the online dating game for most people is that you have to kiss a lot of frogs before finding your prince or princess. 7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain by Maria Popova What Freud has to do with auditory cheesecake, European opera and world peace. Last year, Horizon’s fascinating documentary on how music works was one of our most-liked pickings of 2010. But perhaps even more fascinating than the subject of how music works is the question of why it makes us feel the way it does.
5 Outstanding TED Talks about Creativity According to Sir Ken Robinson, creativity is the " process of having original ideas that have values". Everyone of us is born creative but the milieu where we are brought up and the kind of education we receive have a lot to do with how creative we become as we grow up. In his popular TED talk " Do Schools Kill Creativity " , Robinson argued that students are educated out of creativity. Schools and curriculum do not seem to put a high premium on those elements that are mainly linked to the development of our creative powers including art, music, dance, and drama.
Constructivist Foundations 9(1) Computation, Cognition and Constructivism: Introduction to the Special Issue Alexander Riegler, John Stewart & Tom Ziemke Abstract · Full text in PDF (484 kB) Liquid Metal Printer Lays Electronic Circuits on Paper, Plastic, and Even Cotton One of the dreams of makers the world over is to be able to print electronic circuits on more or less any surface using a desktop printer. The great promise is the possibility of having RFID circuits printed on plastic or paper packaging, LED arrays on wallpaper and even transparent circuits on glass. Or simply to rapidly prototype circuits when designing new products.
Picasso, Kepler, and the Benefits of Being an Expert Generalist One thing that separates the great innovators from everyone else is that they seem to know a lot about a wide variety of topics. They are expert generalists. Their wide knowledge base supports their creativity. As it turns out, there are two personality traits that are key for expert generalists: Openness to Experience and Need for Cognition. Openness to Experience is one of the Big Five personality characteristics identified by psychologists.
LEVAN: Learning Everything about Anything Abstract Recognition is graduating from labs to real-world applications. While it is encouraging to see its potential being tapped, it brings forth a fundamental challenge to the vision researcher: scalability. How can we learn a model for any concept that exhaustively covers all its appearance variations, while requiring minimal or no human supervision for compiling the vocabulary of visual variance, gathering the training images and annotations, and learning the models?