Tag: bill gates
Has your strategy just gone out the window? 7 ways to double down on...
Businesses that have already executed with speed and pivoted are either seeing the rewards, or have taken measures to reduce the impact on their business.
Will we soon see the MBA be replaced by a Master of Fine Arts...
Today’s successful engineer should be driven by business and technical knowledge together with art. We are living in a transition time and this time calls for new models, a new management mindset and new management tools.
The ‘Aha!’ moment: How 15 famous start-up founders got their brilliant ideas (INFOGRAPHIC)
One of the hardest part of starting a business is finding the idea itself. Yes, ideas are all around us but spotting that one...
Branding Bill Gates style: How can a startup build a brand? You need more...
What is a brand?
To be clear about what we mean by brand - it is more than a mark emblazoned upon your butt. It...
How to become a wizard of the future. Why everyone needs to know how...
For anyone who has ever coded anything, you will know that smug sense of self satisfaction that you get when it actually works. That sense of achievement. The sense that you created something.
Extra, extra: Wow, the Mayans got it wrong – get back to work!
Well, here we are. Having made it past 21 December, perhaps now would be a good time for us to look back and reflect on the year that was so we can relax over the holidays and think about plans for the coming New Year. I’d like to share with you some advice from a morning that I spent last year with the Wizard of Wow himself, Paul Dunn. I think you might find these insights to be worth pondering over your happy holidays.
The life of Steve Jobs (No Bill Gates here)
The value of this work lies in its ability to attract a completely new set of readers, when compared with other books on Jobs. Let me cite a personal experience. My nine-year-old daughter, who uses the iPad on a daily basis, was struck by the design of this graphic novel. She then proceeded to pick up and read it with fair interest. As far as I can tell she is able to appreciate Jobs’ life in her own way.
Say no to handshake deals. Get the fine print instead
When a person enters into a business relationship, particularly with family members, friends and acquaintances, the use of legal contracts is often perceived as a sign of mistrust. It does not have to be that way.
Steve Ballmer vs Alan Greenspan. Product marketing 1985-style [VIDEO]
I've always been a little afraid of Steve Ballmer. This video doesn't help. In 1985, on November 20, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer, ever the affable chap, stepped in front of the camera to sell this amazing new product.
The Evolution of Business Movies, Part 6: The Social Network
What can’t be denied is the film's assertion that the business world is now the domain of Gen-Y entrepreneurs, who have the smarts and creativity to bring their billion-dollar ideas to life. Spurred on by the success of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, young men such as Zuckerberg have created successful businesses all through the typing of code on a computer screen.
A kinder, gentler Bill Gates dishes on taxes, charity and… Steve Jobs?
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, long removed from his days as soulless overlord of the company that ruled our PCs, warms up for his appearance at the G-20 with this interview, in which he talks about taxing the rich, helping Third World nations and... Steve Jobs.
Could the Khan Academy’s video-based learning transform Australia’s schools?
Would Salman Khan's revolutionary approach to learning work in Australia's schools? The former hedge fund analyst's web-based Khan Academy wants to turn education inside out. At its heart, it bring the lectures home and moves the homework to the classroom.
The 15% Solution: who’s willing to take the pledge for a better tomorrow?
Those of us who are Baby Boomers will, over the next 15-20 years, be the beneficiaries of the greatest transfer of inherited wealth the world has ever seen. What if 10%, or 15%, or even 20% of that inheritance pool was diverted to charities? Can you imagine the positive impact this would have?
How to become a billionaire in 10 steps
We’re led to believe that success is a formula, but all too often ignore the silent evidence that contributes to that success. Take Bill Gates, for example.
2016 ‘millennium’ glitch delivers text messages from the future
We'd barely concluded our 2009 Dumb Report rankings earlier this week when the Twittersphere lit up with reports that a "sizeable" number of Bank of Queensland and BankWest ATM and eftpos machines had malfunctioned due to an internal glitch of 'millenium' proportions.
2016 'millennium' glitch delivers text messages from the future
We'd barely concluded our 2009 Dumb Report rankings earlier this week when the Twittersphere lit up with reports that a "sizeable" number of Bank of Queensland and BankWest ATM and eftpos machines had malfunctioned due to an internal glitch of 'millenium' proportions.
Videos from D6 Conference
Sick of sitting through tedious events (oh, I don't know, say, ones where the speakers repeatedly define "innovation") and then wishing there was some...
