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Author: Dwayne Nesmith
Work Life Balance Takes the Team
Harvard Business School professor, Leslie Perlow, in this TED talk shares how project teams in high performing environments are able to work together to carve out personal time in ways that individuals attempting this alone almost always fail. Every team is different and it’s critical that at the very beginning of a project, the group…
US moves to smart credit cards in October, 2015. What took so long?
MasterCard and Visa have indicated October, 2015 as the timeline for the big shift from swipe and sign credit cards to EMV or smart cards requiring a PIN. The EMV system comes out of an early 1990’s joint project by international payment processors to set standards for smart-card specifications. Most of the world has already…
Big Data for Good and Bad
Daniel Honan, writes in Big Think that Big Data is neither good nor bad but it may be used for either. He and Rick Smolan suggest it’s time individuals, the data creators, get more control over how their data is used. In another Big Think article in their Predictive Analytics series, Eric Siegel, author of…
Apple’s Topsy turvy deal
The speculation about Apple’s motives in the Topsy deal started as soon as Apple announced they were buying the self-proclaimed realtime search engine for the social web. So why did Apple buy them? Or better yet, why isn’t it clear why Apple bought them? If Twitter had bought Topsy, there would be little of this…
It’s Time for an Answer to our Growing Debt
It is past time for a long term solution that stops America’s debt from growing as a percent of GDP. Both sides are offering options that do this, providing ample possibilities for rational people to reach a compromise. We will see if such people have been elected. The foundation for a deal is there. Now…