Leadership

The firm is a fundamental economic unit of contemporary human societies. Studies on the general quantitative and statistical character of firms have produced mixed results regarding their lifespans and mortality.

Madeleine I. G. Daepp , Marcus J. Hamilton , Geoffrey B. West , Luís M. A. Bettencourt. The mortality of companies. Royal Society Interface, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0120 ;

Just launched out of beta, Attentiv aims to streamline meetings, cut down on useless chatter, and submit anonymous ideas and questions.

A simple change to your day can unleash the creativity you never knew you possessed.

Author discusses new book on 'creativity crisis' in science
Inside Higher Ed
By some measures -- Nobel Prizes over time, graduate programs the best students globally aspire to be part of -- American science is the envy of the world.

As the world struggles to leave behind a period of weak demand and poor productivity growth, many business and government leaders are looking to the next wave of technology innovation to revitalize their economies.  The Industrial Internet of Things...

PTC may well be the Internet of Things’ best-kept secret. In the last five years, PTC has been going through a transformation, not unlike the products it helps its customers create, operate, and service.

Conformity vs. authenticity in the office
Chicago Tribune
“There's real tension between authenticity and conformity,” said Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation, a Manhattan-based think tank.

The three are different, though their boundaries are hard to draw.

Change is inevitable. To cope with the everyday office fires that arise out of the depths of nothingness and to sustain progress, there’s one trait that allows you to bridge the gap between the all-assuming and the all-knowing.

The following guest post is by Victoria Schramm of UP Global. Let’s face it: courses in entrepreneurship at the undergraduate university level aren’t turning out entrepreneurs.

How do people get new ideas?

Move over Maslow, here's hierarchy of social engagement
The Australian (blog)
I sometimes wonder whether as a general principle successive generations haven't settled further up Maslow's hierarchy.