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The Neuroscience of Leadership
Breakthroughs in brain research explain how to make organizational transformation succeed.
Mike is the CEO of a multinational pharmaceutical company, and he’s in trouble. With the patents on several key drugs due to expire soon, his business desperately needs to become more entrepreneurial, particularly in its ability to form internal and external partnerships to reduce time-to-market. Yet his organization has a silo mentality, with highly competitive teams secretly working against one another. How can Mike change the way thousands of people at his company think and behave every day?
Mike is the CEO of a multinational pharmaceutical company, and he’s in trouble. With the patents on several key drugs due to expire soon, his business desperately needs to become more entrepreneurial, particularly in its ability to form internal and external partnerships to reduce time-to-market. Yet his organization has a silo mentality, with highly competitive teams secretly working against one another. How can Mike change the way thousands of people at his company think and behave every day?
Joel
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NISH National Scholar Award
The National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design was founded by NISH to encourage the development of creative technological solutions for barriers that prevent people with disabilities from entering or advancing in the workplace. The National Scholar Award is open to any college student or student team at the graduate or undergraduate level. The National Scholar Award program is a great service learning opportunity for engineering, computer science, industrial design, physical therapy and occupational therapy students.
Book on learning through video games
My friend Doug Hall wrote me: I am wrapping up the following book and thought your readers might benefit from it:http://www.gadgetsgamesandgizmos.com/
It has some good stuff on making e-Learning courses interesting and the different mindsets between boomers and gamers, and some about the generations between them. He also talks about the knowledge boomers are retiring with and solutions on getting it to the gamer generation in an efficient manner.
It has some good stuff on making e-Learning courses interesting and the different mindsets between boomers and gamers, and some about the generations between them. He also talks about the knowledge boomers are retiring with and solutions on getting it to the gamer generation in an efficient manner.
The Mobile Future Conference 2008
They've posted slides and videos from many of the sessions of that conference I wrote about last week. I especially recommend David Pogue's presentation.
Read "Breaking the Rules"
This is one of the most powerful books I have ever read! I just finished "Breaking the Rules," by Kurt Wright. (Go here to order the paper or electronic versions.)
This is the best book I have ever read about the power of asking "right questions"; about how judging is hurting you, and what to do about it; about finding your creative energy; about articulating your life purpose; about the power of questions as goals; about getting to effortless high performance; and so much more.
Highly recommended.
EETimes.com - 'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?
Anyone interested in electronics owes it to themselves to understand this amazing invention/discovery (Thanks, Jon Peddie!)
- Joel
The long-sought after memristor--the "missing link" in electronic circuit theory--has been invented by Hewlett Packard Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs (Palo Alto, Calif.) Memristors--the fourth passive component type after resistors, capacitors and inductors--were postulated in a seminal 1971 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory by professor Leon Chua at the University of California (Berkeley), but their first realization was just announced today by HP. According to Williams and Chua, now virtually every electronics textbook will have to be revised to include the memristor and the new paradigm it represents for electronic circuit theory.
- Joel
The long-sought after memristor--the "missing link" in electronic circuit theory--has been invented by Hewlett Packard Senior Fellow R. Stanley Williams at HP Labs (Palo Alto, Calif.) Memristors--the fourth passive component type after resistors, capacitors and inductors--were postulated in a seminal 1971 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory by professor Leon Chua at the University of California (Berkeley), but their first realization was just announced today by HP. According to Williams and Chua, now virtually every electronics textbook will have to be revised to include the memristor and the new paradigm it represents for electronic circuit theory.
Creation of the first thermal nanomotor - UAB Barcelona
Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have created the first nanomotor that is moved by changes in temperature. The carbon nanotube is capable of transporting cargo and rotating like a conventional motor, but is a million times smaller than the head of a needle. This research opens the door to the creation of new nanometric devices designed to carry out mechanical tasks which in the future could be applied to the fields of biomedicine or new materials.
The "nanotransporter" consists of a carbon nanotube - a cylindrical molecule formed by carbon atoms - covered with a shorter concentric nanotube which can move back and forth or act as a rotor. A metal cargo can be added to the shorter mobile tube, which could then transport this cargo from one end to the other of the longer tube or rotate around its axis.
Researchers are able to control these movements by applying different temperatures at the two ends of the long nanotube. The shorter mobile tube thus moves from the warmer to the colder area and is similar to how air moves around a heater. This is the first time a nanometer sized motor is created that can use changes in temperature to generate and control movements.
The "nanotransporter" consists of a carbon nanotube - a cylindrical molecule formed by carbon atoms - covered with a shorter concentric nanotube which can move back and forth or act as a rotor. A metal cargo can be added to the shorter mobile tube, which could then transport this cargo from one end to the other of the longer tube or rotate around its axis.
Researchers are able to control these movements by applying different temperatures at the two ends of the long nanotube. The shorter mobile tube thus moves from the warmer to the colder area and is similar to how air moves around a heater. This is the first time a nanometer sized motor is created that can use changes in temperature to generate and control movements.
More on Siemens' Synchronous Technology
ConnectPress has published a good review of Siemen's fascinating new technology by CPDA.
The Museum of Unworkable Devices
Thanks, Sam!
- Joel
This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended.
- Joel
This museum is a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures. Watch and be amazed as we bring to life eccentric and even intricate perpetual motion machines that have remained steadfastly unmoving since their inception. Marvel at the ingenuity of the human mind, as it reinvents the square wheel in all of its possible variations. Exercise your mind to puzzle out exactly why they don't work as the inventors intended.
NAFEMS to host analysis/simulation conference in Hampton Roads, VA, 10/2008
I'll be attending - and possibly speaking, if my paper proposal is accepted - this meeting. Hope to see you there!
- Joel
NAFEMS 2008 North American Regional Summit - events - engineering analysis and simulation - FEA, Finite Element Analysis, CFD, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Simulation
NAFEMS, the premier global organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of engineering simulation, is hosting NAFEMS:2020 in Hampton, Virginia during October 29-31, 2008 to bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, to explore common themes, and to address these issues in an open forum. The goal is to provide attendees with the best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over the next several years.
- Joel
NAFEMS 2008 North American Regional Summit - events - engineering analysis and simulation - FEA, Finite Element Analysis, CFD, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Simulation
NAFEMS, the premier global organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of engineering simulation, is hosting NAFEMS:2020 in Hampton, Virginia during October 29-31, 2008 to bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, to explore common themes, and to address these issues in an open forum. The goal is to provide attendees with the best “food for thought and action” to deploy CAE over the next several years.