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Study: Telecommuting can save American households $1.7 billion per year | SmartPlanet - 0 views

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telecommuting business case step 1 data_statistics

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  • n real world terms: currently 40 percent of IBM’s employees telecommute, saving the company nearly $2.9 billion in reduced office space needs since 1995 (this doesn’t even include the energy cost savings).
  • March 16, 2011,
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Elon Musk's Latest Innovation: Bonds Backed by Rooftop Solar Power - 0 views

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operations innovation bonds finance solar power energy step 7

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    game changer in financing and renewables
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How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big - 0 views

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step 7 failure

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    "Increase Your Happy Thoughts Ratio"
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step 7 laughter fun creativity innovation experimentation testing prototype

shared by Suzanne Pinckney on 09 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • So, improvisation and humor really lubricate the skids for creativity as a group, and then, also, allow people to not censor their ideas too prematurely, which is obviously really important.
  • if you’re laughing, you’re more likely to have a more relaxed state of mind and you’re more likely to be in a creative state of mind. Humor removes some of the barriers and some of the self-consciousness.
  • make it so people are very comfortable working with ambiguity and fighting through setbacks and failure, in order to solve problems in more creative ways.
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  • Luck Isn’t Random. It’s A Skill.
  • people who tend to be more lucky have a much more open stance to their world. They interact with people at gatherings or parties who are different from them. They’re just more open to different types of people, and unlucky people tend to just stick to their very own type, people who are of similar backgrounds, similar educational backgrounds, etc.
  • “I’m going to try this for a few weeks and I’m going to see where it gets me. Then I’m going to check in again and I’m going to measure the progress. I’m going to take stock and I’m going to make a decision then about whether to keep going in that direction or to shift.”
  • The willingness to spend 5 to 10% of your time doing experiments will, over the long run, really open up that part of you that can be more creative and entrepreneurial, and yield, hopefully, some new opportunities that you hadn’t thought of before trying something.
  • “Yes. That looks good and what if we did this,” instead of saying, “I don’t like that idea,” and just throwing it out completely.
  • you take the good elements and then you make them better and you constantly do this until you get to perfection.
  • The term for these people is “experimental innovators” – those who learn from each little mistake and piece together what ends up being something great, whether it’s a comedy act or a building or a piece of music. It just doesn’t come without lots of setback and toil.
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