Innovation without Age Limits
Plugged in: A programmer shows his style at a New York area hackathon. Young people entering the workforce today have never known a world without the Web. Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley prefer to fund the young, the next Mark Zuckerberg. Why? The common mantra is that if you are over 35, you are too old to innovate. In fact, there is an evolving profile of the “perfect” entrepreneur—smart enough to get into Harvard or Stanford and savvy enough to drop out.
For Women Leaders, Body Language Matters
Research by: Deborah Gruenfeld, Moghadam Family Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business Published: 2010 Deborah Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some sobering news to share with a group of high-level women executives and entrepreneurs. “When it comes to leadership,” Gruenfeld told the group, “there are very few differences in what men and women actually do and how they behave.
Save Scholarly Ideas, Not the Publishing Industry (a rant)
The scholarly publishing industry used to offer a service. It used to be about making sure that knowledge was shared as broadly as possible to those who would find it valuable using the available means of distribution: packaged paper objects shipped through mail to libraries and individuals. It made a profit off of serving an audience.
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed—and that's too big a question to answer on the fly. Afterwards I realized it could be helpful to look at the problem from this direction. If you have a list of all the things you shouldn't do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating.
How Kai Fu Lee Talked Me Out of Making a Million Dollars Altucher Confidential
Posted by James Altucher The other day on Twitter someone asked me how to make a billion dollars. My response: first make a million. [As an aside: follow and ask me any question on Twitter]. I wanted to make what I thought would be a quick and easy milion dollars at the age of 20. A million dollars was being offered for anyone who could create a Go computer program that could even play as good as a weak amateur.
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch
Get on a Southwest flight to anywhere, buy shoes from Zappos.com, pants from Nordstrom, groceries from Whole Foods, anything from Costco, a Starbucks espresso, or a Double-Double from In N' Out, and you'll get a taste of these brands’ vibrant cultures. Culture is a balanced blend of human psychology, attitudes, actions, and beliefs that combined create either pleasure or pain, serious momentum or miserable stagnation. A strong culture flourishes with a clear set of values and norms that actively guide the way a company operates. Employees are actively and passionately engaged in the business, operating from a sense of confidence and empowerment rather than navigating their days through miserably extensive procedures and mind-numbing bureaucracy. Performance-oriented cultures possess statistically better financial growth, with high employee involvement, strong internal communication, and an acceptance of a healthy level of risk-taking in order to achieve new levels of innovation.
How Parents Normalized Teen Password Sharing
In 2005, I started asking teenagers about their password habits. My original set of questions focused on teens’ attitudes about giving their password to their parents, but I quickly became enamored with teens’ stories of sharing passwords with friends and significant others. So I was ecstatic when Pew Internet & American Life Project decided to survey teens about their password sharing habits. Pew found that one third of online 12-17 year olds share their password with a friend or significant other and that almost half of those 14-17 do.
FeaturePlan - Product Management Software
FeaturePlan FeaturePlan is a central knowledge base and decision making tool that stores all your product information, from new customer ideas and customer enhancement requests, to market and technical requirements. It allows you to identify market problems and define the features and roadmaps to best respond to your customers needs through the products you develop. An agile, enterprise-class solution, FeaturePlan enables collaboration across all of your company's product groups, including marketing and sales, engineering, professional services, support, and product management.
Structural Biology/ Biochemistry 241: Biological Macromolecules 3 credits
MWF 1:00 – 2:30 Room M112 Course Description To truly understand biological processes we must understand the macromolecules that carry out biological function.
Culturematics author – Grant McCracken
Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Grant has studied American culture and business for 25 years. He has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show and worked for many organizations including Timberland, New York Historical Society, Diageo, IKEA, Sesame Street, Nike, and the Ford Foundation. He started the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he did the first museum exhibit on youth cultures.
Teenagers Sharing Passwords as Show of Affection
“The response is the same: if we’re in a relationship, you have to give me anything,” Ms. Wiseman said. In a 2011 telephone survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 30 percent of teenagers who were regularly online had shared a password with a friend, boyfriend or girlfriend. The survey, of 770 teenagers aged 12 to 17, found that girls were almost twice as likely as boys to share. And in more than two dozen interviews, parents, students and counselors said that the practice had become widespread.
