Here’s some advice from Harvard Business School about managing when you don’t know exactly where you’re going. The fact is these days managers usually have only an approximate goal for many things. So the conventional wisdom that you should plan every step is not realistic. With innovation this is especially true. In certain kinds of work, even if you can ...

Okay, so Kurzweil’s “singularity” is hard to swallow. But even without big breakthroughs in nanotech and AI, it seems to me current technology pushed to new levels is going to change things a lot. For example, here’s links to articles that have appeared quite recently that point toward the availability in the pretty-near future of a kind of total personal ...

Boston.com / News / Nation / Keeping patients connected The VA is starting a test to monitor chronically ill patients with telemedicine. It’s no joke; they’ll have 25,000 plugged in. The VA program, which is being rolled out over the next few months, will offer telephone- and computer-based technology to patients, ranging from automated medication reminders and hand-held vital sign ...

An interesting Europe-wide coalition of cancer patients has been formed. We see the coalition as becoming the same kind of potent political force for good, and achieving results, not just for those who have been diagnosed with cancer, but for those in whom it can be prevented before it starts.