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Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business, and I talked about the phenomenon of using crowds to do work.
In this 33-minute podcast, you'll hear about Jimmy Wales and the founding of Wikipedia, Procter & Gamble using crowds for innovation, and the British Crown -- one of the first examples of crowdsourcing (around the 11. 45 minute mark).
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Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing is now out. I planned on starting this post with an F. A.
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You may have missed the news we buried inside the Kotter post from yesterday.
InBubbleWrap is back.
If you are new to us, we have a sister site that gives away free books.
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The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis. In this new book, Leadership and the Sexes gender experts Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis show what the latest scientific studies reveal about male/female brain differences, and explain how these differences impact the ways that men and women negotiate, communicate, lead, and run meetings.
Chapter 1: Understanding the Science of Gender
Human evolution has created two different types of brains (male and female) designed for equally intelligent behavior.
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There's a new excerpt up on our Excerpts blog. It's taken from Chapter 1 of Leadership and the Sexes: Using Gender Science To Create Success In Business by Michael Gurian and Barbara Annis.
From the publisher: "Men and women lead differently.
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