Whatâs Offline: How Great Leaders Juggle Ideas
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When we look for ways to improve our life at work or how we can make better decisions, one thing we do is look at what great leaders have done.
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Nothing gives your principles a workout like a business trip. Taking a stand for your beliefs isnât easy when youâre outside of your comfort zone, but the rewards can be significant.
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Looking to make a smart start? Consider these ideas.
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You don't have to dig too far to find winning ideas.
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It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making good on technological breakthroughs in the enterprise.                                                      It is in that spirit that we revisit last year's level-headed look at crackpot technologies that could transform the enterprise, putting the screws to a new rack of could-be enterprise contenders. But before you write off nanotech or direct brain interfaces as the next big enterprise thing, consider this:  [ For an in-depth look at last year's crackpot tech assessments, see: 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise ]  Of the dozen technologies we examined last year, several made significant enterprise-minded strides since we first assessed their IT prospects. Desktop Web apps, for one, lent credence to the conjecture that fat productivity suites might just have a shorter future than previously thought; solid-state drives popped up everywhere, from ultramobile laptops to the datacenter; and Sun's datacenter-in-a-box proved compelling enough for Google to move first to patent it. Even quantum cryptography received a vote of confidence, with Switzerland tapping the technology to protect parliamentary election transmissions.   Sure, some of this year's out-there technologies may prove fruit for future high-profile tech flops lists, but without forward-thinking, there would be no worthwhile enterprise advancement. So raise your eyebrows or your suspicions as you deem fit, and join us in assessing the potential each of the following technologies has to earn IT's respect or derision.  ? Nanotechnology ? Optical computing ? Pervasive computing ? Wireless power ? The $100 laptop ? Direct brain interfaces ? Enterprise supercomputing ? Virtual worlds
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Make Leadership Not Too Salty, Not Too Bland
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(Source: Adobe) Informal learning is often the most effective learning, but until recently it's only worked face to face. Now Web conferencing is at the point where dynamic, memorable virtual interactions can transform enterprise learning.
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InfoWorld - It doesn't take a genius to catch on to the fact that in IT, innovation is a mandate. Push the envelope of what's possible, or find yourself relegated to wayside. But, to borrow a favored David St. Hubbins Spinal Tap aphorism, there's a fine line between clever and crackpot when it comes to making good on technological breakthroughs in the enterprise.
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Chasing relative performance leads to a short-term orientation.
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THE Internet has changed the way political campaigns are run.   In 2004, Howard Dean showed that the Internet can be a great way to connect directly with voters and target grass-roots fundraising.
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In his latest book, âThe Future of Management,â Gary Hamel offers a way for business leaders to face a new avalanche of competition from China and India.
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By Krell, Eric  IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, TECHNOLOGY MATTERS-EVEN IF SOME HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL THOUGHT LEADERS MIGHT SAY, OR WRITE, OTHERWISE.
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A new word-of-mouth research firm is attempting to demystify chatter about brands in the offline world.
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Your virtual candidate calling Comment Politicians long ago gave up on politics. Instead of articulating great ideas, the choice that faces voters today is between identikit managerial bureaucrats who've never had a job outside politics. Most of their adult lives have been spent in the hermetic world of wonkdom. So it's little wonder, then, that they have trouble distinguishing between fiction and reality.â¦
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these remarkable people offer hope for the future
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By Beggs, Bill Jr  Nearly every established or up-and-coming company has an online component, but plenty these days have eschewed bricks and mortar to go virtually "virtual." Or they've been Internet-based from the get- go.