Posted by admin on 13 Jan 2009 at 10:26 pm under Recommended
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Advanced praise for Creative Intelligence– “Organizations will not be in the phone book five to seven years fromnow unless they understand the significance of creativity and creativeleadership. Rowe’s useful and readable book provides rich insightsabout how creativity affects the bottom line.” –Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor [...]
Posted by admin on 29 Dec 2008 at 8:50 am under Recommended
The story of supercomputing is only partially about technology. More than anything, it’s about the gifted, brilliant, and often eccentric individuals who knew how to use that technology in new ways to do amazing things. Perhaps the most amazing of the bunch was Seymour Cray, the bureaucracy-intolerant genius with [...]
Posted by admin on 25 Dec 2008 at 11:35 pm under Recommended
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the [...]
Posted by admin on 25 Dec 2008 at 6:11 am under Recommended
Based on voluminous corporate records and extensive interviews with key employees, Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902-1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the [...]
Posted by admin on 23 Dec 2008 at 12:12 pm under Recommended
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HOMETOWN BOY TELLS TALE OF HOW TECH REVOLUTION CHANGED WHERE WE LIVE
Michael S. Malone proudly casts himself as a native son of Silicon Valley.
In his latest book, he declares himself a “hometown boy” who is [...]
Posted by admin on 08 Dec 2008 at 9:43 am under Recommended
Vannevar Bush, the engineer who designed the world’s most powerful analog computer, predicted the development of a new kind of computing machine he called Memex. For many computer and information scientists, Bush’s Memex has been the prototype for a machine to help people think. This book contains Bush’s essays, and original essays by [...]
Posted by admin on 30 Nov 2008 at 8:45 pm under Recommended
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Hindery, the CEO of the YES Network, the New York Yankees’ cable channel, has handled some 250 deals in his 25-year career with considerable success. Along the way he’s learned lessons like “do more homework than the other guy” and “read the fine print.” [...]
Posted by admin on 16 Nov 2008 at 11:15 am under Recommended
Editorial Reviews
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“Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the industry, the authors offer some answers and also explain how the industry base can flourish against lower wage competition.” -Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionized our economy and [...]
Posted by admin on 12 Nov 2008 at 8:04 am under Recommended
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The word “wiki” means “quick” in Hawaiian, and here author and think tank CEO Tapscott (The Naked Corporation), along with research director Williams, paint in vibrant colors the quickly changing world of Internet togetherness, also known as mass or global collaboration, and what those [...]
Posted by admin on 29 Oct 2008 at 8:20 am under Recommended
Editorial Reviews
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“Drawing on a lifetime of experience in the industry, the authors offer some answers and also explain how the industry base can flourish against lower wage competition.” -Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment
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