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2020 Book Reads: Agile, Innovation, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge. My top books from 2019 included reads about transformation, including The Ride of a Lifetime and The Technology Fallacy, books for entrepreneurs such as Lost and Founder and Inspired, and AI books such as AI Superpowers.

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills. ” The use of role-playing exercises for therapy goes back over a century.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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How Healthcare Can Keep Up with Accelerating Tech Cycles

CTOvision

” And yet in healthcare, we, as consumers are still challenged to book an appointment online and practitioners are lost in the ancient interfaces of the EMR systems that most of the time do not provide the right information at the right time for a patient (and we hope it’s the right patient!).

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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Microsoft turns a new page in the book business with its own publishing imprint

GeekWire

The logo for 8080 Books, a new publishing imprint from Microsoft, announced Monday. Microsoft Image) Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books with its own publishing imprint, 8080 Books — aiming to bring new titles to market much faster than traditional publishing allows.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

The game development startup is now valued at $1.25 We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online. Gaming company or social company? (Rec Room Image).

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