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Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and former Senior Vice President for Global Sales Operations for SAP. There is no question that the arrival of a fragmented and divided internet is now upon us. The “splinternet,” […]
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Google famously allows employees to use 20 percent of their work week for any project. This “20 percent time” is a force for innovation; it led to Gmail and Google Maps, to name just two products. But why does it work? Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, explains in this very first animation from Mashable and Masters of Scale, the Webby-winning podcast hosted by Reid Hoffman.
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