Win Admission To creativeLIVE's “Secrets From Silicon Valley” Workshop
Online education platform creativeLIVE is hosting a “Secrets from Silicon Valley” workshop later this week, where some of the Valley’s best minds will be sharing their wisdom with just a handful of live attendees We tend to do a fair number of giveaways here on TechCrunch, but today we’re giving away something extra special: power. Well, no — it’s more like we’re giving away knowledge, but knowledge is power. So we’re giving away power. Online education platform creativeLIVE is hosting a “Secrets from Silicon Valley” workshop later this week, where some of the Valley’s best minds will be sharing their wisdom with just a handful of live attendees. Only 30 tickets to this event were released, and they can’t be purchased anyway… but we have five of them to give away. Here’s just a sampling of some of the folks who will be leading classes at the event: Reid Hoffman, Founder LinkedIn Tim Ferriss, New York Times best-selling author and founder of 4-Hour Workweek David ...
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Obama Cans Regulator Who Crossed Wall Street
The Obama Administration is quietly firing Commodity Futures Trading Commission head Gary Gensler, who ran afoul of big banks by pushing for greater government oversight.
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4 charged with 1999 murder of Broadview man
Four men were charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the 1999 death of Darryl Green, who authorities said was kidnapped from his beeper store in Broadview, held for ransom and eventually shot to death in a wooded area in Gary, Ind.
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Should the Power of Corporate Innovation Shift Away From Executives?
Lucas123 writes "At the Consumerization of IT conference in San Francisco this week, several speakers agreed the next big shift in the corporate establishment will not be technological but social, away from top-down responsibility for innovation and change. Businesses are on the cusp of a leadership revolution because millennials moving into the workforce are 'the most authority-phobic' generation in history, according to Gary Hamel, a management educator at the London School of Business. Not only should low-level workers be incentivized for being creative, they should be given the power to spend corporate money on research and development, Hamel said. By doing that, companies will diversity their experimental capital. 'If you don't do that, you'll never change that innovation curve,' he said. Hamel was not alone. Kevin Jones, a consulting social & organizational strategist for NASA's Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers, agreed that traditional corporate culture needs a radical shakeup. ...
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Keen On … Antitrust: Why Startup Entrepreneurs Should Fear Google
Nobody can accuse Gary Reback, the acclaimed Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer, of being intrinsically anti-Google. After all, it was Reback, back in the Nineties, who spearheaded the US government's efforts to sue Google's nemesis Microsoft - an enormously consequental event for the tech industry that made it possible for startup entrepreneurs like Larry Page and Sergey Brin to successfully take on the Redmond leviathan.
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