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Novoloop says it’s worked out how to upcycle plastic waste, raises $11M Series A

TechCrunch

Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. Novoloop is setting out to transform plastic waste into high-performance chemicals and materials.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Gradually, then suddenly

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

I stopped in at an Oakland sports bar recently, and what did I see on the menu but an Impossible Burger. Genetic engineering is an important driver of food innovation, but it’s also a huge part of the possible response to climate change. Could we replace chemical dyes with bacterial by-products ? Genetic engineering.

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Guest Post: Four Leadership Lessons from the Gym

Lead on Purpose

The innovations that allow us teleconferencing, emails, and phone conversations wherever/whenever should increase our free time, but ironically, they’ve just turned our 40-hour work week into a 140-hour work week and caused us to ignore the most innovative, powerful tool in our leadership arsenal: our bodies.

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Looking for disruption? Don't look to technology

The Agile Manager

School sports is big business at the high school and collegiate levels. Of course, sports is big money to the institutions with limited compensation - scholarships pale in comparison to the television revenues - to the athletes. Another is that team activities like sports and music extend the educational experience beyond fact mastery.