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Why Aren’t Smartphones Making Us More Productive?

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An estimated 130 million smartphones are roaming U.S. streets, but economists haven’t been able to measure how they improve worker productivity. (With 130 million smartphones in U.S., economists have yet to detect an increase in our productivity.
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Resolutions 2012: are these 10 tech enabled business trends still that relevant
https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Clouds_big_data_and_smart_assets_Ten_tech-enabled_business_trends_to_watch_2647
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Trend 1: Distributed cocreation moves into the mainstream
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Trend 2: Making the network the organization
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Trend 3: Collaboration at scale
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Trend 4: The growing ‘Internet of Things’
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Trend 5: Experimentation and big data
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Trend 6: Wiring for a sustainable world
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Trend 7: Imagining anything as a service
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Trend 8: The age of the multisided business model
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Trend 9: Innovating from the bottom of the pyramid
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Trend 10: Producing public good on the grid
What do u think?
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- Big data and the semantic web (radar.oreilly.com)
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- Futuristic Tech Interiors – The IBM Executive Briefing Center Looks Like a High-Tech Spaceship (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com)
Seth’s Blog: Self directed effort is the best kind

After a two-months break I recently started again working in the gym. The effect of my exercise is better than stated here. But the underlying principle is so true.
Found at Seth’s Blog: Self directed effort is the best kind.
How much are you paying for a drill sergeant?
Perhaps you can burn 500 calories on the treadmill before you give up for the day. With a personal coach, though, you could do 700. The trainer gets you to exert more effort.
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- Seth’s Blog: Wonder and anger (serve4impact.com)
- Seth’s Blog: Who’s responsible for service design? (serve4impact.com)







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