“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” – The Captain from ‘Cool Hand Luke’ This week’s topic touches just about all of us who work — meetings. Whether you’re attending one, arranging one or orchestrating one, the next interview will be of value to… Read More »Data-Driven Ways to Help Work Meetings Not Suck with Steven Rogelberg
If you have one of those voice-activated devices like Google Home or Amazon Echo in your house, you either have one at work, or you will soon. The integration of machines and humanity to create the work force of the future is already happening, that’s… Read More »Merging and Molding the Workforce of the Future with Alexandra Levit
Book titles can be a lot of things: tantalizing, funny and punny, cryptic … and sometimes a book titles is just perfectly placed aside its content. The book is “Undaunted” and it is the true-life story of being left for dead after five bullet wounds,… Read More »From Jonestown Massacre to #MeToo: Undaunted with Jackie Speier
We try to cover the spectrum of opinion on the impending and growing use of artificial intelligence. This week we’re adding gene editing to that conversation. And we’re doing it with a science fiction writer and multi- best selling author. The gene editing tool, known… Read More »Science Fiction as Human Lens for New Health, Appearance Technology with Arwen Elys Dayton
When it comes to Silicon Valley and the modern way we use new technology, it’s more than a little helpful to ask: How did we get here? We’ve had the internet for about 50 years. The world wide web for ~30 years. This week on… Read More »How Did We End Up with the Internet We Have? with Brian McCullough
There are book blurbs, and then there are book blurbs. Here are a few of the blurb-authors who are featured on John Chambers’ first book, “Connecting the Dots”: – JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon – Other Silicon Valley Legend Meg Whitman – Former Secretary… Read More »Silicon Valley Legend Offers First Leadership Book with John Chambers
Let’s say you wanted to build a high rise apartment building. Say this project is in a foreign country. And you need some help clearing the paperwork and red tape. Now, there are two ways to look at the offer of gifting a fifty million… Read More »A Culture of Corporate Kickbacks, Graft with David Montero
About 10 percent of America’s population either has or is leaning toward diabetes, either type 1 or type 2. That said, physical devices that monitor and share data with doctors as well as patients are seeing huge advancements — so why aren’t they being prescribed… Read More »Taking Diabetes Tech from Theory to Practice with Dr. Saleh Adi
Hello and welcome back and as always thanks for listening. This week: tech run amok. We’re spending much time with Dr Ian Mitroff, author of Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age. Dr Mitroff combines advanced education and training in engineering, industrial engineering… Read More »Tech Run Amok: Using Crisis Management to Pull It of the Ditch with Dr Ian Mitroff
When recycling rare-earth minerals is 100 percent supported, if we skip the recyclying process we’re simply the problem. A recent California Product Stewardship Council survey reported that of 26 surveyed waste facilities from all over California, 83 percent had a fire at their facility. Sixty-five… Read More »Call2Recycle’s New Bay Area Battery Campaign with Carl Smith
