Simon Sinek: Why Bettering Yourself Beats Bettering The Competition
World famous marketing and leadership guru Simon Sinek spoke in Sydney yesterday and B&T’s Nancy Hromin was there. Here are the choice nuggets from his talk…
Leadership guru Simon Sinek presents to a crowd of 2500 his words of inspiration. It’s just a bummer he’s preaching to the converted. People swarmed into the sold out Darling Harbour event to listen to Sinek speak. An unassuming character, dressed in faded blue jeans, a chambray shirt and black adidas sneakers, it’s not long before I also felt the evangelical love for the man along with my 2000-plus friends.
Lessons in Tenacity from the Co-Founder of Foursquare
In 2013, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley walked into a bakery and bought a cake. Almond, with meringue on top. It was sweet — but the milestone was sweeter.
For more than a decade — since his grad school days — he’d been pursuing one big idea: a product that understands how users move through the world so well, it can deliver timely, personalized tips. That idea had evolved through several iterations, from a startup called Dodgeball to the founding of Foursquare. When he bought the cake, the company best known for “checking in” was several years into something bigger, developing mobile software that would recognize users’ locations and automatically push tailored recommendations.
Anti-Money Laundering - Silver Bullet?
SHARE TWEET SHARE SHARE EMAIL As banks and payments companies endeavor to meet anti-money laundering (AML) regulations to avoid hefty fines for non-compliance, easily identifying customers in the digital channel becomes paramount to their success. Some “old school” methods that worked in the past aren’t working anymore. Sarah Clark, GM of identity at Mitek, joined Karen Webster to discuss what process and technology can do to help meet AML requirements to truly authenticate who people are.
Why CIOs Make Great Board Directors
According to Korn Ferry unpublished data, there has been a 74% increase in the number of CIOs serving on Fortune 100 boards in the past two years.
It’s no wonder CIOs are the fastest-growing addition to the boardroom: They can help address a host of issues of crucial importance to boards, including using technologies to create operational efficiencies and competitive advantage; identifying opportunities related to cloud computing, digitization, and data; addressing threats and risks associated with information security; and using their experience and judgment to oversee, question, and provide input on technology budgets.
Fast forward: How technology will affect future employment options | The National Business Review
Imagine you’re a chief executive and someone offers you an idea to simultaneously cuts costs and boost productivity. What’s more, they’re not small numbers – you could reduce overheads by 13% while boosting efficiency by nearly the same amount. It’s too good to ignore.
Inside the Hunt for Russia's Most Notorious Hacker...
AMERICA’S WAR WITH Russia’s greatest cybercriminal began in the spring of 2009, when special agent James Craig, a rookie in the FBI’s Omaha, Nebraska, field office, began looking into a strange pair of electronic thefts. A square-jawed former marine, Craig had been an agent for just six months, but his superiors tapped him for the case anyway, because of his background: For years, he’d been an IT guy for the FBI. One of his nicknames in college was “the silent geek.”
Alexa and Cortana May Be Heading to the Office - WSJ
The next assistant in many offices could be named Alexa or Cortana.
In 2016, Silicon Valley obsessed over how text-based bots in apps like Slack could make employees more efficient, turning complicated tasks or forms into conversational texts. Now, following the success of Amazon Inc.’s Alexa and Alphabet Inc.’s Google Home, people in the technology industry are increasingly thinking about how such voice-activated devices can be made useful in the workplace.