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Picasso had to unlearn and so do you
I’ve watched this Ted talk below about 5 times and it is making me think of my kids, my work, and my relationships. It reminded me of the experience I had with my oldest, Zoe, and the way she was...
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Failing just got really easy
The single biggest barrier to innovation is the cost of trying, especially the cost of trying and failing.”Failure is not an option” may be a great mantra for moments when life itself depends on...
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Process…hide the children!
When you say the word process to people what reaction do you get? Do you see fear in their eyes? Do they start looking for the nearest exit? When you talk about process do you ever suspect people...
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The canary in the goldmine
Informatica’s (INFA) stock took a serious nose dive, falling nearly 28% last Friday as the company warned that they would have revenues well below expectations. This doesn’t come as a surprise. The...
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Big Data is so much bigger than that
The following is a guest blog by Simon Hall from Newbury, England. In Simon’s words, “Sales and selling have been my life. I’ve never been more excited than I am now about what the future of technology...
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The new detail of retail
Retail has gone through enormous stresses in the past decade, with more to come. Just the normal ups and downs of local and global economies, supply chains and personal taste are a huge challenge. Add...
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The future is an app
It took us a while to get there, and we had to get mobile first, but apps are about to explode as the best way to do business. It just makes sense to have light-weight, purpose-built functionality...
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Big Data without process is creepy
We used to know the purpose of information before we stored it. In fact, the mere act of defining the storage and retrieval patterns was what made it ‘data’. Going one step further, anything we didn’t...
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When mohawks matter
We watched the Mars Curiosity landing tonight at http://www.nasa.gov. It was fascinating to see cool professionalism erupt into tears and cheers when a one-ton, nuclear-powered vehicle sent back the...
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Lance Armstrong and the death of dreams
We took an 8-year old to see Lance Armstrong win his seventh Tour de France in 2005. He read the biography and was inspired by the story of Lance’s come from behind victory over cancer and rise to the...
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Protecting students is a matter of process
Like everyone that saw the scenes coming from Sandy Hook Elementary last December, I was in shock. It is an unimaginable tragedy that we never hope to see again. The sensational headlines are subsiding...
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Navigating chaos and disruption
We all know them. The people who always find their way through transformation, disruption, and chaos while making it seem easy; just like another day. They are usually the person that you, your family,...
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Benchmark to stay ahead of the disruption curve
Most of the information I read about disruption focuses on the fact it is happening all around us and warns that organizations should be prepared to deal with it. A quick read of the news tells me that...
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Benchmarking type best determined by your need
I’ve really enjoyed the conversations around the series focused on benchmarking, and I look forward to more points of view. One thing that has become very apparent is that benchmarking is defined very...
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Getting valid benchmarking data
In my other benchmarking posts I’ve explained that you’ll never get to a level of precision where you will truly have an exact comparative benchmark value. It has been proven and noted that the same...
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The canary in the goldmine
Informatica’s (INFA) stock took a serious nose dive, falling nearly 28% last Friday as the company warned that they would have revenues well below expectations. This doesn’t come as a surprise. The...
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Big Data is so much bigger than that
The following is a guest blog by Simon Hall from Newbury, England. In Simon’s words, “Sales and selling have been my life. I’ve never been more excited than I am now about what the future of technology...
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Tesla punches NY Times in their Internet of Things
The results are in. Elon Musk has posted a damning response to the NYT test drive report by John Broder which basically points out one glaring fact: it was all a lie. In his blog post, A Most Peculiar...
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How dare you text when I’m speaking
Texting in meetings is considered by many to be unprofessional and rude. If there was any doubt, asking that question recently on LinkedIn released a torrent of emotion that made it clear that some...
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Honey, that’s just your genome talking
This week at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, I had a chance to sit down with Alistair Croll, founder of Solve for Interesting. I had been vaguely aware of the site 23andMe that tests and individual’s...
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