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Neil Jacobsohn

No room for mediocrity

Posted: 27 January 2012

These comments from Seth Godin remind me so powerfully of something Steve Jobs was quoted as saying in Walter Isaacson's biography: " "You have to be ruthless if you want to build a team of A players. It's too easy, as a team grows, to put up with a few B players, and they then attract more B players, and soon you ...

SETH GODIN: If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom

Photo by Joi Ito. License CC-BY 2.0The way we do business is changing fast and in order to keep up, your entire mentality about work has to change just as quickly.

Neil Jacobsohn

Happy staff and great profits

Posted: 27 January 2012

You would have thought this was pretty obvious, right? And yet how few companies actively and consciously set out to make their staff happy?

Happy employees will help your business thrive | SmartPlanet

Thought-provoking research discussed in the current issue of the Harvard Business Review suggests a link between employee contentment and their abilit

Gabriel Dib

We can imagine a complementary ecosystem

Posted: 26 January 2012

Excellent MindBullet!

We can still imagine the PCs/ servers as home/office Gateways for devices, connected via wireless to the Gateway. Probably we will not put everything only on the Cloud...

When on the move, we connect via wireless (WiFi, BT,...) to whatever dummy device, available everywhere on a self service ...

APPLE AND AMAZON IN RETAIL WAR

Consumers no longer choosing devices but platforms

Dateline: 10 December 2012

Neil Jacobsohn

High-tech jockey shorts for tomorrow's soldiers!

Posted: 26 January 2012

We've said for a long time that military demands will drive the use of smart fabrics. And I guess underpants are as good a place to start as any!

U.S. Marines seek high-tech undergarments | SmartPlanet

The U.S. Marine Corps seeks high-tech undergarments that are comfortable, burn-resistant, bacteria-resistant and able to stop fragments traveling at 6

PUT YOUR BEST FOOT FORWARD

The multi-billion dollar business in 'wired' footwear and smart clothing

Dateline: 20 November 2014

Remember when shoes used to be just, well, shoes? Not anymore! Today's footwear does so much more than cover your feet. Footwear has evolved tremendously ...

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