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In this article from her site, Greater IBMer, engineer and author Renee Weisman talks about what characterizes a truly great manager.
Renee Weisman giving a lecture
“In my 40+ year career,” she writes, “I have had a number of supervisors and I have to agree, I was considerably more productive, creative and energized under certain managers. And there were a handful who made going to work every day a drag. What made the difference?”
Get her list of the key distinctions between the GREAT bosses and …the rest.
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- Posted by Regan Kelly, Editor/Community Manager, The Greater IBM Connection
How do you inspire your students to be innovators in their daily lives? Join today’s discussion to chat about an effort underway to build an integrated educational experience that includes exhibitions, apps, and lesson plans. The IBM THINK exhibit, which recently opened at Epcot in Walt Disney World, extends globally into free, hands-on lesson plans for middle and high school teachers.
Photo credit: Terry Cuffel, Corporate Visual Services
Using the IBM THINK app, students explore how progress is shaped through a five-step process and participate in hands-on lessons to help them become innovators in their own right and to take actions that can help them become forward-thinking citizens of the world. Get all the details, including Guest Experts and Topic List, for today’s event.
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The THINK App (Flickr set of photos)
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- From bbc.co.uk
A robotic sidekick could soon be helping field engineers fix faulty equipment in remote locations. IBM has developed the robotic helper, whose projector can overlay information on equipment to guide repair work performed remotely.
The IBM MRO helper. The projector can display information to guide repair work.
Supervisors and experts back at base can also look and talk through the projector to oversee repairs. Get the story.
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When you wake up in the morning, what fuels you to begin the day? Are you passionate about your work? The triggers that motivate people to achieve are unique for everyone; for some it’s money; for others, it’s wanting to make a difference, writes Glenn Llopis in Forbes.com.
Motivation has been studied for decades, and leaders often use motivational books and other tools to get employees to increase their performance or get them back on track. But if you’re a leader, it’s critical to get to know your employees, and to be specific about how you help each of them achieve their goals, desires and aspirations. To help one another and to accomplish that, you must identify those motivating factors. In this piece from Forbes.com, see the nine things that ultimately motivate employees to achieve.
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Greater IBM, what do you think of these nine motivators? Please share your own story and perspectives by commenting.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that for the fourth consecutive year, IDC ranked IBM number one in worldwide market share for enterprise social software.* Social networking adoption continues to soar as businesses look to transform their organization into a smarter enterprise that is capable of empowering a global workforce and transforming client experiences.
According to IDC, the worldwide enterprise social market segment reached 1.0 billion in 2012, representing growth of 25 percent over 2011.*
Leading IBM social business clients include Prudential Insurance, Fluor Corporation, Lowe’s Home Improvement, LeasePlan and Electrolux. Read more.
* Source: IDC Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, 2H 2012
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Because of safety concerns, today’s solar collectors can concentrate only so much energy: too much in one place means enormous risk. But IBM is collaborating on developing a new collector dish that could avoid that – and it’s a major step forward in solar power efficiency.
The new collaboration between IBM, Airlight Energy and Swiss university partners will develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating, on average, the power of 2,000 suns, onto hundreds of 1×1 cm chips. Read more from IBM Research.
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What do you think of this exciting news, Greater IBM? Let us know in the Leave a Reply field below.
Mobile business is more than devices; it’s what you can do with the data between them.
In other words, the mobile world is open for business. Learn more.
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- from IBM.com
IBM today announced first-quarter 2013 diluted earnings of $2.70 per share, a year-to-year increase of 3 percent. Operating (non-GAAP) diluted earnings were $3.00 per share, compared with operating diluted earnings of $2.78 per share in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 8 percent.
First-quarter net income was $3.0 billion, down 1 percent year-to-year. Operating (non-GAAP) net income was $3.4 billion compared with $3.3 billion in the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 3 percent.
Total revenues for the first quarter of 2013 of $23.4 billion were down 5 percent (down 3 percent, adjusting for currency) from the first quarter of 2012.
“In the first quarter, we grew operating net income, earnings per share and expanded operating margins but we did not achieve all of our goals in the period. Despite a solid start and good client demand we did not close a number of software and mainframe transactions that have moved into the second quarter. The services business performed as expected with strong profit growth and significant new business in the quarter,” said Ginni Rometty, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer.
Virginia Rometty, IBM President & CEO
“Looking ahead, in addition to closing those transactions, we expect to benefit from investments we are making in our growth initiatives and from the actions we are taking to improve under-performing parts of the business. We remain confident in this model of continuous transformation and in our ability to deliver our full-year 2013 operating earnings per share expectation of at least $16.70.”
Read more in the official press release.
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In light of Monday’s global Earth Day, we want to ask: were you aware that IBM Global Asset Recovery Services (GARS) provides IBM Certified Pre-owned Equipment and asset disposal and buyback services to customers in 40 countries?
In fact, in 2011, fully 99.6% of all IT equipment returned to IBM at end of product lifecycle was either reused, remanufactured or recycled.
In fact, IBM Global Asset Recovery Services was the first company to open a re-manufacturing center and offer used IT equipment in China, addressing the issue of increased e-waste in developing countries.
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IBM Global Asset Recovery Services
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