Issie Lapowsky, inc.com Inc. magazine The Nerdery, No. 99 on Inc.’s Hire Power list, rose above tragedy to give every employee a personal stake in success COMPANY PROFILE Company: The Nerdery Headquarters: Bloomington, MN Founder: Mike… RT @whatifglobal: Why one company named all its employees “co-presidents”: Another moving read from @Inc’s Hire Power Awards http://flip.it/BH3bP…
Tim Cook’s Attention to Culture Will Grow Apple Even More Paul Spiegelman, inc.com THE CULTURE GAP How Tim Cook treats employees may leave him a legacy bigger than Steve Jobs’. Much has been written about the brilliance of Steve Jobs and the iconic company that he built. Many say that it was Steve Job’s laser…
IBM Imagines Our Five-Year Future: It’s A Touchy, Feely, Smart World By Kit Eaton, fastcompany.com IBM guesses at innovations that will change the world inside the next half a decade, and much of it requires computers that work like your brain. It’s a smart idea to think of IBM as one of the smartest companies…
How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thompson, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…
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Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…
The Cameras and Settings That Captured This Year’s Best Photos Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com Every year, Reuters publishes a list of its best photography, and you’ll recognise plenty of the 95 iconic images that capture this year’s biggest news stories. One keen Redditor, though, wanted to know more—so analyzed the EXIF data of all the… The…
Google’s cloud-based music-matching service has arrived… and it’s free Cyrus Farivar, arstechnica.com This is what Ars editor Cyrus Farivar sent to Google Play this morning.Cyrus FarivarGoogle has announced its own music-matching locker service, but unlike Amazon’s Cloud Player and Apple’s iTunes Match, this new service is free. Google Play, in th… RT @arstechnica: Google’s cloud…
Green Blog: What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change Conversation By RACHEL NUWER, nytimes.com What’s the counterpoint to “Drill, baby, drill”? In the emerging field of meme science, researchers try to figure out what language and ideas resonate when it comes to the warming of the planet. What’s Your Meme? Changing the Climate Change…
IQ tests ‘do not reflect intelligence’ By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent, telegraph.co.uk IQ tests are misleading because they do not accurately reflect intelligence, according to a study which found that a minimum of three different exams are needed to measure someone’s brainpower. For more than a century our intelligence quoti… RT @TelegraphSci: IQ tests ‘do…