Instead, like the military, nurture an environment of moral courage, one in which team members break stupid rules, and suggest smarter solutions. When Fred Krawchuk was a lieutenant colonel, the U.S. Army sent him to business school
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Lack of focus can be a core competency. Here are six principles to encourage innovative thinking, lots of experimentation, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
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Lack of focus can be a core competency.
Read More »Ohio Agency Says Fracking-Related Activity Caused Earthquakes
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio state agency said on Friday there is evidence that the high-pressure injection of fluid underground related to fracking caused a series of Ohio earthquakes culminating in a New Year's Eve tremor in any area not known for seismic activity. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which overseas the oil and gas industry, said in a report that the state should pass a new law prohibiting drilling at what is called the Precambrian basement rock level (a depth that begins at 9,184 ft) and would require companies to "review existing geologic data" before drilling.
Read More »Popular Opinion on Climate Change Traced to Political Elites
It seems the general public just can't make up its mind about the existence of man-made climate change. Rather than steadily increasing or decreasing over the last decade, the U.S. public's concern over our warming planet has jumped up and down, according to Gallup polls.
Read More »Drought and Warmer Weather Persist in Much of U.S.
By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Weird weather kept vexing large swathes of the United States over the last week, with unseasonably warm and dry conditions melting northern snows and spreading drought through the southwest, even as heavy rains soaked parched pastures in Texas and Oklahoma, according to climate experts. [More]
Read More »Warmer, Greener, Less Icy Arctic Becomes "New Normal"
The Arctic has transformed over the last five years into a region that's warmer and greener, with larger patches of open water as sea ice recedes. [More]
Read More »The Electric Car Has Its Revenge
Chris Paine, director of Who Killed the Electric Car?, is back with the story of the dead vehicle's remarkable resurrection. When Who Killed the Electric Car?
Read More »Infographic: People Are Starving, But There Is Enough Food To Go Around
One in seven people in the world is malnourished. But the solution isn't producing more food
Read More »Video: Spike in sports-related knee injuries: study
A new study reveals a dramatic increase in the number of sports-related knee injuries in young athletes over the last decade.
Read More »FTL neutrinos (or not)
The recent news from the Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA) neutrino experiment, that neutrinos have been clocked travelling faster than light, made the headlines over the last week and rightly so.
Read More »Netflix CFO David Wells On Qwikster Rebranding, Lowering Prices, Subscriber Loss, Blockbuster, Starz
Netflix must feel like captain Billy Tyne in the The Perfect Storm: Just went it's hit by one massive wave, another one soon drowns the company from any possible respite.
Read More »"Missing" Global Heat May Hide in Deep Oceans
(Reuters) - The mystery of Earth's missing heat may have been solved: it could lurk deep in oceans, temporarily masking the climate-warming effects of greenhouse gas emissions, researchers reported on Sunday.
Read More »XOJET: On the Up and Up
Business is booming for private jet charter provider XOJET. To help accommodate its growing client base—XOJET recently announced 40 percent year-over-year growth for the first half of 2011—the San Francisco Bay Area–based company has added more than 40 pilots over the last 18 months and plans to take delivery of ...
Read More »Heat and Fires Scorch South as Drought Toll Rises
By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]
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