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Seligmann believes that China is the future of global environment, a country leading the world on how to preserve its natural ecosystems. He emphasizes that once the relationship between wealth, health and environment is realized by society, people will begin to understand that long-term survival is going to depend upon the availability of resources.
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Tom Kelley, general manager at the world-renowned design firm, IDEO, presents five core practices that enhance creativity. Through entertaining stories and examples, he describes how these techniques help us all become more innovative in every aspect of our lives and lead to more success.
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Liemandt talks about how Trilogy moved on from just producing the best enterprise software in the market to adding and guaranteeing business value for its customers.
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Andy Friere, Co-founder and CEO of Axialent, discusses the three things that he believes build culture: 1) Behavior, 2) Symbols and 3) Processes. To elaborate, Friere suggests that behavior--what firms actually do despite what they say they do--defines what individuals in the organization come to believe. Furthermore, the symbols in an organization, primarily how time and money is spent to reward people, also shapes culture. Finally, the processes an organization has for measuring and compensating performance influences culture.
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The speaker, David M. Kelley (founder and CEO of IDEO Product Development, America's largest independent product design and development firm), believes that you need a language, a process and a framework in order to design. He stresses that experience is key success factor: learn from all the projects you've worked on, distil the knowledge and apply it to your future projects. He recommends reading The Art of Innovation for IDEO's concept of a great process.
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As the president of Yahoo! Inc., Susan L. Decker is a key participant in determining Yahoo!'s business strategy and vision. She is responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo!, including sales, product marketing, and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers, and publishers.
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Quincy Jones III, CEO of QD3 Entertainment, moderates an engaging and entertaining panel discussion on the future of the music industry. Captured during the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, panelists include Chamillionaire, Grammy Award winning & platinum recording artist MC Hammer, and Mistah FAB.
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Kelley believes you start to think about things completely differently when you think your job is to design the experience of using a device as opposed to designing the device itself. Kelley feels that to captivate an audience you need to build a context around the technology you are marketing and take into consideration how outside factors will affect how your product is perceived. He uses methods of transportation as an example.
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Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, which indicates a growing concentration of power. The top 2,000 companies employ and influences a million people in the modern world, says author David Rothkopf. With cross-ownership and networking in all circles--business, military, religion, and the Internet among them--a few succeed, but the majority of participants within any given system are marginal.
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