Short Takes: Chris Meyer

CEO of Monitor Networks and author of It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business, and Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy, Meyer is enabling free agent networks of innovators that will change the way we think about human capital.

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Christopher Meyer

Chris's mission is to anticipate and shape the future of business. He has pursued this goal as entrepreneur, executive, consultant, author, and as leader of a think tank. His fourth book, Standing on the Sun, will be published by Harvard Business School Press in July, 2011. His previous books include the BusinessWeek Best Seller Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth— the book on which Monitor Talent is based. He blogs on the Harvard Business Review site, and has contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Fast Company, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek.

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    Professor, Stanford University; Behavioral Scientist, Author, Proponent of Interactive Gaming & Virtual Worlds in the Workplace

    Byron is the Paul C. Edwards Professor in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, and is Co-Founder and Faculty Co-Director of the H-STAR Institute (Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research) and its industry program, Media X. He is an expert on the psychological processing of media in the areas of attention, emotions, learning, and physiological responses, and has published over 100 scientific papers about media and psychology. His research has been the basis for a number of new media products at companies such as Microsoft, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard, in the areas of voice interfaces, automated dialogue systems, and business process simulations. He is currently working on the application of multi-player game technology to behavior change and the conduct of serious work, and is Co-Founder of Seriosity, Inc., a company building enterprise software inspired by game psychology. His latest book is Total Engagement: How Games and Virtual Worlds Are Changing the Way People Work and Businesses Compete.

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