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  • Listen In -> Tech Changes #2: Gadget Obsession or Early Adoption?

    Innovation is a double-edged sword. New gadgets can enhance effectiveness or undermine focus.

    In this week’s interview with software developer, Jorge Rosas, (a self-confessed innovation addict) we discuss the difference between the type of early adopter—whose play leads toward multiplied productivity—and those whose fascination with new gadgets results merely in distraction and loss of focus.

    The point is not to label ourselves so much as to help those of us fascinated with all things new to recognize when this passion is serving us well and when it is luring us off track.

    Listen in.

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  • Listen In -> Technology Change: New Tools or New Obstacles?

    Friend or foe?

    Our new podcast series helps us think about a constant business reality: technology change.

    Do you leap headlong into every innovation or upgrade? Or do you avoid the expense and disruption of learning something new as long as you can?

    There are advantages and disadvantages to both strategies. Instead of adopting a rigid stance, listen in to my conversations with Jorge Rosas, tech guru, software developer and confessed obsessive early adopter of all things new.

    1. Technology Change: New Tools or New Obstacles? (playing now)
    2. Tech Changes #1: Gadget Obsession or Early Adoption?
    3. Tech Changes #2: The Upgrade Investment Quandary
    4. Tech Changes #3: Leaders Lost in Database Hell
    5. Tech Changes #4: Swamped by the Communication Tidal Wave?

    Listen in.

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