The Hustle of Owning Your Own Company
So, many of you have asked me recently what owning a small business is like. Without a doubt, it is the most rewarding and fulfilling thing I have ever done in my career. I never thought I could top the feeling of getting a second degree, but running my own business has been exhilarating. There are days when I feel like I am on top of the world, and there are others that are really tough.
Open Innovation's Next Challenge: Itself - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison | 10:43 AM February 4, 2010 Let’s face it. Executives are under a lot of pressure to follow the latest management trends. Columbia business school professor Eric Abrahamson, who has written about the diffusion of managerial innovations, calls this the “norm of progressivity”: the expectation that you either follow the latest management innovations — even if they later prove misguided — or suffer a diminished reputation among your peers, the press, and your shareholders.
Budget 2015 - Growing Jobs and Small Business - Youth Employment Strategyk
Helping young Australians overcome challenges to participating in work and study Young Australians need the right assistance and encouragement to learn new skills, become job ready, get a job, and stay in a job. The Government will provide over $330 million to implement a Youth Employment Strategy.
Blogging Innovation » Why Open Innovation is Not for Small Companies
It is difficult to find good cases on how smaller companies have engaged with open innovation. It is also difficult to give strong advice on how such companies should engage with open innovation. I have reflected much on this and I am approaching a conclusion that is slightly provocative: Open innovation is for big companies; not small companies.
New employment programmes available from 1 July
The Australian Government has introduced a number of new initiatives starting from 1 July 2014 to help more Australians to move away from welfare dependency and into a job. Employers can receive up to $10,000 through Restart if they hire an eligible job seeker aged 50 or older. Young job seekers may be eligible for a Job Commitment Bonus of up to $6500 if they find and keep a job.
Biomimicry Institute - Home
The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators of all ages who can use those models to create sustainable technologies. The Institute was founded in 2006 by science writer and consultant Janine Benyus in response to overwhelming interest in the subject following the publication of her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. See Janine’s TED Talk video for her groundbreaking introduction to biomimicry. Today, the Biomimicry 3.8 Institute focuses on three areas: Developing our online database of nature’s solutions, AskNature.org.Hosting our annual, international Biomimicry Student Design Challenge.Growing our Global Network of regional biomimicry practitioners.
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