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How to manage up at work: drive change & make your boss love you

If you’re watching this, chances are you fit the persona of the change agent. But here’s the problem: most organisations on the planet are designed with an immune system to change. This means the innovator often finds themself with a target on their back. If this sounds like you, read on to learn how to get out of the cross-hairs.

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Amer Iqbal hosts a new documentary from Meta

Has the past decade seen a shifting trend towards technology innovation originating in Asia and then filtering out to the rest of the world? This is the question explored in The Future of Connected Retail, a new documentary film from Meta, hosted by Amer Iqbal from 5 Ways to Innovate.

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How Facebook Innovates: An insider’s guide to their metaverse transformation

February 3rd 2022. That was the date I lost $100k in a single day. But don’t feel bad for me, it could have been a lot worse. My boss actually lost a lot more than I did - he lost $30m on that same day!

Sorry - did I say $30 million? I meant $30 BILLION!

You see it was the day Facebook, now known as Meta, announced their quarterly earnings and had reported a decline in user numbers for the first time in over a decade. To make things worse, the company had also spent $10b building their new metaverse business - and so far they had nothing to show for it but a new name and logo.

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