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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

5 Leadership Secrets Of Collaboration Success - Forbes - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Aug 13
     
    post by Meghan M. Biro, July 28, 2013 on collaboration success. Excerpt: The fact is there is nothing more important to leadership and organizational success than collaboration. It exponentially increases the odds of amazing things happening. But it can be tough to achieve. Bringing people together and then igniting and nurturing a collaborative effort is a key test of leadership and workplace culture. Technology provides amazing tools to make this happen. It is nothing short of a game-changing community-builder. 1. Build an online infrastructure for social learning and networking 2. Set limits 3. Get it off your chest 4. Ignite inspiration 5. Be yourself
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The Infrastructure Needed for an Open-Source Project - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Dec 15 - Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 07 Dec 15
     
    resources gathered on open-source projects
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Silicon Valley's Youth Problem - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 21 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • There are more platforms, more websites, more pat solutions to serious problems — here’s an app that can fix drug addiction! promote fiscal responsibility! advance childhood literacy!
  • The doors to start-up-dom have been thrown wide open. At Harvard, enrollment in the introductory computer-science course, CS50, has soared. Last semester, 39 percent of the students in the class were women, and 73 percent had never coded before.
  • I protested: “What about Facebook?” He looked at me, and I thought about it. No doubt, Facebook has changed the world. Facebook has made it easier to communicate, participate, pontificate, track down new contacts and vet romantic prospects. But in other moments, it has also made me nauseatingly jealous of my friends, even as I’m aware of its unreality. Everything on Facebook, like an Instagram photo, is experienced through a soft-glow filter. And for all the noise, the pinging notifications and flashing lights, you never really feel productive on Facebook.
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  • Amazon Web Services (A.W.S.)
  • “But now, every start-up is A.W.S. only, so there are no servers to kick, no fabs to be near. You can work anywhere. The idea that all you need is your laptop and Wi-Fi, and you can be doing anything — that’s an A.W.S.-driven invention.” This same freedom from a physical location or, for that matter, physical products has led to new work structures.
  • Despite its breathtaking arrogance, the question resonates; it articulates concerns about tech being, if not ageist, then at least increasingly youth-fetishizing. “People have always recruited on the basis of ‘Not your dad’s company,’ ” Biswas said.
  • On a certain level, the old-guard-new-guard divide is both natural and inevitable. Young people like to be among young people; they like to work on products (consumer brands) that their friends use and in environments where they feel acutely the side effects of growth. Lisa and Jim’s responses to the question “Would you work for an old-guard company?” are studiously diplomatic — “Absolutely,” they say — but the fact remains that they chose, from a buffet of job options, fledgling companies in San Francisco.
  • Cool exists at the ineffable confluence of smart people, big money and compelling product.
  • Older engineers form a smaller percentage of employees at top new-guard companies, not because they don’t have the skills, but because they simply don’t want to. “Let’s face it,” Karl said, “for a 50-something to show up at a start-up where the average age is 29, there is a basic cultural disconnect that’s going on. I know people, mostly those who have stayed on the technical side, who’ve popped back into an 11-person company. But there’s a hesitation there.”
  • Getting these job offers depends almost exclusively on the candidate’s performance in a series of technical interviews, where you are asked, in front of frowning hiring managers, to whip up correct and efficient code. Moreover, a majority of questions seem to be pulled from undergraduate algorithms and data-structures textbooks,
  • “People want the enterprise tools they use at work to look and feel like the web apps they use at home.”
  • Some of us will continue to make the web products that have generated such vast wealth and changed the way we think, interact, protest. But hopefully, others among us will go to work on tech’s infrastructure, bringing the spirit of the new guard into the old.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 21 Aug 15
     
    Interesting article on the age divide between new guard (Stripe) and old guard companies (Cisco) and why that is so, Yiren Lu, March 12, 2014
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University principal questions the value of lectures (From Herald Scotland) - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • "The concept is simple enough - a lecturer stands in front of an often large group of students and delivers a monologue on his or her specialist topic. "Students take notes and then at some later point there is an examination, during which the students will try to recreate the lecturer's approach to the subject. If all of that works, the student gets a degree."
  • Lectures are not simple stand-alone options
  • They must be combined with small group classes such as seminars, tutorials, lab-based activities as these are often the best way for students to learn. Small group activities are much more resource-intensive than lectures, so universities need to increase their commitment and current levels of investment in staffing and teaching-related infrastructure to deliver more of these."
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Oct 15
     
    Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen asserts that lectures for information transfer are not as effective by itself and needs small group discussion
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 22 Oct 15
     
    Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen asserts that lectures for information transfer are not as effective by itself and needs small group discussion
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