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This is 40? Bill Gates crams into recreated Harvard dorm for Mark Zuckerberg’s milestone birthday

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Bill Gates, left, and Mark Zuckerberg in a recreation of the Facebook founder’s Harvard University dorm room. Instagram Photo via @zuck ) Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on Facebook.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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In November, Impinj introduced new tag chips, which work with automotive parts, pharmaceuticals and food products. from China at 3 years old, and went on to earn degrees from Stanford and Harvard Business School. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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Technology Short Take 153

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I asked a question about Git, Git tags, and releasing versions of a project on Twitter the other day (here’s the tweet ), and this article on Git branching was shared with me. Here is an article from the Harvard Business Review on some strategies for motivating yourself when that happens. Career/Soft Skills. I think we all have.

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The Six Mindsets of Adaptive Leadership

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For two of their major client leadership development programs, Madston Black also brought out Professor Ron Heifetz , Founder of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, to run workshops. Tags: Enterprise 2.0 It was the first time I'd come across Heifetz's work.

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The state of enterprise software: Andrew McAfee and Leo Apotheker of SAP with Charlie Rose

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Here Charlie Rose interviews Leo Apotheker, co-CEO of SAP, and Andrew McAfee from Harvard Business School (who spoke at our Enterprise 2.0 At the outset of the interview Rose mentioned an article I often refer to: Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference by McAfee and Brynjolfsson in Harvard Business Review July-August 2008.

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How do you make talent shine in a world of distributed work?

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Tom points to three ways in which talent is contextualized: The team: Harvard Business School’s Boris Groysberg has documented the impact of teams on individual performance. Tags: Business relationships Crowdsourcing Global economy. The core theme of Tom’s article is that the “value of talent is highly dependent on context”.

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Metrics That TRULY Matter: Combat Analytics

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The recent passing of the iconic Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara brought to mind an article I read by Tom Davenport in a Harvard Business Publishing blog about analytics in the combat theater in Afghanistan. Tags: Articles Business Intelligence.