Paul's Update 12/31

Top 10 US travel destinations for 2014: Number 1 Destination is Grand Rapids and Michigan's Gold Coast

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PlacePlans

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30 Outstanding Websites to Fuel Your Creativity

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The Most-Read Leadership Stories of 2013

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After the Board of Water and Light Indicated How Hard it Would be to Track Outages a Student Put Up a Crowdsourced Map of Outages

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Micro-serendipity: Meaningful coincidences in everyday life shared on Twitter

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Our Favorite Long-Reads of 2013

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This is America's Most Apocalyptic, Violent City — And You’ve Probably Never Heard Of It

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How You Can Conquer Any Deadline

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Four Qualities of Game Changers

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Solving The Pathetic Meeting Problem

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10 Rules For Using the Apostrophe

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The Lunch Table: The Low-Tech Management Tool You're Not Using

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Paul's Update 12/30

The Eight Archetypes of Leadership
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Detroit's Gone Broke. Now Can It Go Smart?

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Why Understanding the Forces Behind Social Practices Could Change Behaviour

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Recognising the True Potential of Technology to Change Behaviour

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Innovation: It's Not The Idea, It's What You Do With It 

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They're Watching You at Work

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The South Is America's High-School Dropout Factory

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Hacking Human Potential - Takeaways From the Quick Mix

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Thriving Online – Rheingold’s Digital Literacies

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The 3 Legs of Sales Success

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Cities Try to Lure Young Professionals With Cheap 'Micro' Units

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Paul's Update 12/26

A Path Forward: Game-Changing Reforms in Higher Education and the Implications for Business and Financing Models (PDF)
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Why Transformation Is The New Innovation
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The 7 Most Popular Leadership and Communication Blog Posts of 2013
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When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change
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The Myth of America's Great Stagnation
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DoorBot Lets You Answer the Door When You are Not Home
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Toward Place Governance: What If We Reinvented Civic Infrastructure Around Placemaking?
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Paul's Update 12/23

Reflection: An Essential Leadership Practice
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Colleges and Universities Can't Cut Themselves to Sustainability
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Moonshot
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Public And Collaborative New York City  (Poke around)
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It's All In Your Head: How to Train Your Brain For Leadership and Better Decision-Making
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There’s No Such Thing as a Culture Turnaround
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The Real Benefit of Socially Conscious Companies
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The Dynamic Capabilities of David Teece
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Paul's Update 12/20

IBM Reveals Its Top Five Innovation Predictions for the Next Five Years
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The 12 Business Books to Read in 2014
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Plan to Eliminate Blight in Detroit May Top $1 Billion, Task Force Says
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A Look Inside the "Wild West" of Life Coaching
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How to Encourage Employee Creativity
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Generation Y: How to Deal with Motivationally Challenged Younger Workers
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Why Knowledge is Not Power
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The Amazing History of the To-Do List -- And How To Make One That Actually Works
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Paul's Update 12/19

America's Wealth Is Staggeringly Concentrated in the Northeast Corridor
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Why You Should Treat Laughter As A Metric
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Silicon Valley Is Living Inside A Bubble Of Tone-Deaf Arrogance
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After Deal With AT&T Fizzles, San Francisco Builds Its Own Free Wi-Fi
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8 Essential Online Tools for Getting More Work Done
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McKinsey: Giving US Energy Efficiency a Jolt
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Education is a Public Good
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Pause to Make a Smarter Next Move
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Paul's Update 12/18

10 Ways to Lose Your Best Employees
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Give Me My Data
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The Three Pillars of the Innovation Economy
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Does Higher Education Make You Think?
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Five Things Leaders Should Do In December To Ensure Success In The New Year
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Building Your Executive Team: 3 Valuable Lessons from Andrew Carnegie

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The Innovation Story of the Year

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The First Step to Being Powerful   Nilofer Merchant

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Nesta:  A Manifesto for the Creative Economy

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Paul's Update 12/17

Millennials And The Fifth Age Of Work
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11 Books that Every Leader Should Read (according to Bob Sutton, Stanford Professor and Author)
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The Importance of Optimism: Leadership Lessons from Walt Disney
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Why Storytelling Can Make The Difference Between Successful And Failed Leadership
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Why Productive People Work On Sundays
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11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader
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Why Understanding the Forces Behind Social Practices Could Change Behaviour
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Celebrating Marc Newson, The Master Of Futuristic Minimalism
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Paul's Update 12/16

Michigan in Motion: Building The Case
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The 7 Psychological Functions of the Art of Placemaking
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25 Tips for Making Your Neighborhood Better
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The Future of Everything According to Ford
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The Coming Age of Innovation in 2014 and Beyond
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Senior Year Transfer: Retiring in a College Town
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Six Unconventional Tools for Quicker Creativity
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Why Companies Are Terrible At Spotting Creative Ideas
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Paul's Update 12/13

Yes, It really is Friday the 13th.

MIT Actually Reinvented the Wheel
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Why Big Data Won't Cure Us
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Britian's Ministry of Nudges
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Why I Wouldn’t Mind Waiting A Long Time To Cross The Street In Germany
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Pinterest Founder Ben Silbermann on Why The Best Talent Goes After Adventure, Not Success
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Brian Halligan, Chief of HubSpot, on the Value of Naps
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The Science of Great Ideas -- How To Train Your Creative Brain
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How to Measure What Matters
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Paul's Update 12/12

Why Won’t Big Automakers Build the Car of the Future?
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How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here's How To Tell
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Peter Higgs: I Wouldn't Be Productive Enough For Today's Academic System
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Find Your Inner Mandela: A Tribute and Call to Action     Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
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Desparately Seeking WOW
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Collaboration & Six Ways to Make It Work
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12 Most Emboldened Questions to Live Life on Purpose
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Paul's Update 12/11

Why One Female Board Member Isn't Enough
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Stop Me Before I "Innovate" Again
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The Web Site That Ruined President Obama -- A Message To All Politicians
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How To Build A Boundaryless Organization
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Patent Trolls are Gobbling Up Restaurant Innovation
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How MasterCard Enlists Employees in Social Media
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10 Ways to Be a Student of Life
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10 Strategies for Increasing Your Creativity
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Creative Commons 4.0 Has Arrived
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Paul's Update 12/10

7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature
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How We Hate On Architecture Now
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Mindreading 101: The 10 Questions You Need to Ask Your Team Every Week
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Who Belongs to the Lower Middle Class and Why Does It Matter
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Make Yourself a "to Become" List
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How Men's Brains Are Wired Differently Than Women's
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The Surprising Science Behind What Music Does to Our Brains
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Why Tinkering Around Is The Key To Success
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27 Innovation and Creativity Techniques Explained
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Paul's Update 12/9

The Science of Great Ideas -- How to Train Your Creative Brain
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The One Thing That Truly Motivates Creative Talent -- and How to Foster It.
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These Are the Most Popular College Degrees Earned by Millionaires
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How Da Vinci-Like Thinking Helps You Imagine Future Success
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Deloitte Shift Index 2013, v4 The burdens of the Past
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What is Innovation
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The Secret to Changing Your Habits: Start Incredibly Small
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Malcolm Gladwell on the Advantage of Disadvantages
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What's Next Health: BJ Fogg
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Paul's Update 12/5

Change, Kotter and Antimatter
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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies
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Stay Focused: 8 Ways To Boost Your Attention Span
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Heading for 2014, Will Innovation Change?
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Why Insecurity May Be The Key to Success
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What Are Some of the Principles Underpinning Behavior Change?
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Strategy is One of the Most Misused Words in Business
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Accidental Engineering: 10 Mistakes Turned Into Innovation
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Paul's Update 12/4

Is Capitalism in Trouble?
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How US Airlines Are Profiting from Your Frequent Flyer Miles
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The 5 New Rules That Will Change The Way You Run Your Business
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14 Telling Signs You Love Your Job
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How to Be a Hero to Your Employees
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Ogilvy CEO Chris Graves on Neuroscience vs. Behavioral Economics  (video 4:38)
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Social’s Role in Remaining Relevant in Business
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The Eureka Moment (and Nine Other Creativity Myths)
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Paul's Update 12/3 and Free University of Chicago eBook

Assessing a Healthy Economy with Gross National Happiness
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This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading
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How I Almost Blew My Big Chance by Forgetting Everything I Know About Innovation
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Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour
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Leading in the 21st century: An interview with HCA CEO Richard Bracken
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Why Every Organization Needs Some Misfits
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How Diversity Can Drive Innovation
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Dangerous Ideas Are the Key to Innovation
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How One Bad Thanksgiving Shaped Amazon
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Paul's Update 12/2

Germ-killing nanosurface opens up new front in hygiene (Serendipitous discovery)
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Learning to Say "No" is Part of Success
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Nine Box Grids for Talent Management
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6 Things That Undermine a Strategic Communications Plan
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TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats That Prove It
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Saving Your Team With Constructive Dissension
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Creating Social Marketing That's Actually Social
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How America’s Largest Historic Public Market District Is Resisting ‘Commercial Gentrification’
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Paul's Update 11/27

5 Simple Steps to Be a Super-Confident Leader
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Finally, A Company That's Really, Truly Both Innovative And Disruptive
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Mentally Strong People: The 13 Things They Avoid
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The Signs of a Leaders' Empathy Deficit Disorder  (Article mentions book Focus, I have the book and have read it. I wasn't wow'ed by it. If you'd like to borrow it just let me know.  Paul)
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Why I am Not Canceling Class Tomorrow    (Thanks to Scott Westerman for pointing out this excellent open letter)
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16 People On Things They Couldn’t Believe About America Until They Moved Here
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Twenty Tips for Interpreting Scientific Claims
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11 Characteristics of Meaningful Work
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Paul's Update 11/26

What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)  Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Who Wants to Work for a Woman?
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3 Girls Smash Gender Roles to Smithereens in Toy Company's Glorious Debut Ad  (Video Ad is 2:06) (There has been controversy whether it perpetuates gender roles despite being a traditional male industry.  Paul)
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When Disaster Strikes: Putting Together A Basic Emergency Toolkit
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You're Not Alone: Most People Hate Open Offices
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Hierarchy is Overrated
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Where Your Customers Will Be in 2014
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Are Your Employees Connected to a Common Good?
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Innovation: It's Not The Idea, It's What You Do With It
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Paul's Update 11/25

Get the Strategy You Need — Now
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5 Ways Leaders Win People Over
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Imminent Peak Oil Could Burst US, Global Economic Bubble - Study
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Disrupting Yourself, Whitney Johnson   (video  4:36)
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Google Reveals It's Nine Principles of Innovation
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Handle with Care: A Conversation with Maya Angelou
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Changing Behavior: How Deep Do You Want to Go?
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Scientifically-Backed Reasons Why Being Creative Can Make You Happier
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Paul's Update 11/21

This Thursday post is early because I am having surgery Thursday morning. Paul

Gross Domestic Freebie   James Surowiecki
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Tactical Serendipity
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Research: Cubicles Are The Absolute Worst
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AUDIO: Be The Change That You Want To See In The University
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Can Visually Creative Storytellers Change The Way We Think?
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Essential Qualities of Highly Promotable Employees
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McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory
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Use Technology to Shape Your Company’s Future
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World-Famous Swedish Ice Hotel Forced to Install Fire Alarms Despite Sub-Freezing Temperatures
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Paul's Update 11/20

Remember:  PIE-Up Monday 11/25, 8am, GT Pie, Hagadorn and Grand River

Disruptive Innovation: Explained in Under 2 Minutes
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Why Workplace Leadership Is About To Get Its First Major Makeover In 100 Years
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Don't Leave College Without These 10 Digital Skills
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If You’re Going to Change Your Culture, Do It Quickly
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Three Ways Your Mission Can Become Your Best Employee Engagement Tool
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Employees Make It Clear: Here’s What They Need to Really be Engaged
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Finding Strength in Humility
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Serendipity: Accidental Discovery Dramatically Improves Electrical Conductivity
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Paul's Update 11/19

The Glass Floor: Education, Downward Mobility, and Opportunity Hoarding  (PDF)
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Innovation: An Outside-In Approach
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The Surprising Reason To Set Extremely Short Deadlines
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Women See Slow Progress In Leadership
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5 Maps That Could Help Solve Some of the World’s Most Daunting Problems
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Relearning The Lost Skill of Patience
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The Four Lenses of Innovation – A Great Concept!
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Universities Must Not Repeat Music’s Costly Online Errors
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Don't Forget PIE-Up Monday 11/25, 8am, GT Pie, Hagadorn and Grand River

Paul's Update 11/18

Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather of Free Education, Changes Course
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Creative Wisdom from Middl-School Metal Gods
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Michigan Future, Inc Says Knowledge Economy is Path to Prosperity in New Report
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16 Articles on Defining Brand Strategy and Business Branding Topics
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Umair Haque's FaceBook Page
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Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits
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Leadership: Why Everything You Know About It is Wrong
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The Mindful Business
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Paul's Update 11/15

5 Ways New Employees Reveal They're Exceptional

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Teach Kids to Daydream

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New Council To Develop Standards, Best Practices for Online Learning

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Feeling Insecure? Because Your Passwords Are

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The Brand Pyramid: Building Customer Loyalty

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The Future Of Branding Is Creating Real Connections Between Consumers And Products

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How to Make Team Meetings Less Painful Than a Root Canal

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Communication: An Integral Part of Change Management

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Paul's Update 11/14

Pepperidge Farm’s Irene Chang Britt: ‘Take the Crappy Assignments

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Insight the Core Element of Serendipity

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Innovation the Business Buzz Word of the Decade

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Why Cities Are Our Most Important Innovation Platform

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8 Different Ways to Get Great Ideas

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Crowdfunding Science: Could It Work?

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Getting unstuck: Why some people get out of poverty and others don't

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Detroiters Work: The Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper Regeneration of a Great American City

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Paul's Update 11/13

Nancy Duarte's Resonate, Multimedia Version
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A Conversation With Prof. Noam Chomsky
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Is It Too Late To Prepare for Climate Change?
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Maybe We're Making It Too Easy For The Machines To Take Over
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Six Drucker Questions that Simplify a Complex Age
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The 7 Psychological Functions of the Art of Placemaking
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Interview: Greg Lindsay on Engineering Serendipity and Harnessing Chaos
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20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life
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Paul's Update 11/12

How To Turn Around Nearly Anything     Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Where Does Leadership Live?
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The State of Workplace Productivity Report
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The Work of ColLABORation
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To Make Your Lists More Productive, Make Them Way Weirder
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Control is For Beginners      Deborah Mills-Scofield
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Engaging Employees With Recognition
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Detroit is Making Digital Justice a Reality
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Paul's Update 11/7

How General Motors Was Really Saved: The Untold True Story Of The Most Important Bankruptcy In U.S. History
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How To Prepare: Checklist for Great Talks   (PDF)
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The Workplace Holy Grail: Successful Collaboration
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Value of a Free Degree - shared by Mark Sullivan
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JM Coetzee: Universities head for extinction
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Authenticity is the Key to Successfully Leading Change
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The Single Greatest Reason The World’s Workforce Is Disengaged
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Using Emergence to Take Social Innovations to Scale   Margaret Wheatley
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Paul's Update 11/6

Meet Shiza Shahid, the Woman Powering the Malala Fund
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Accreditation: Ally or Obstacle as Higher Education restless With Change?
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The State Department Partners With Coursera to Support Free Education in Over 30 Countries
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The Five Guiding Principles of Transforming Company Culture
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The Dangers of Denial
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MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete
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Your Company Vision: If It's Complicated, It Shouldn't Be
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15 Famous Business Books Summarized In One Sentence Each
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Paul's Update 11/5 and Free eBook

Here Are The Strengths And Weaknesses Of Millennials, Gen X, And Boomers
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8 Lessons From Fortune’s Most Powerful Women
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Has Architecture Lost Touch With the People?
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Eastern Market is a Prime Example of Urban Placemaking According to MIT
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Using Chaos Theory to Predict and Prevent Catastrophic ‘Dragon King’ Events
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Five Neuroscience Concepts You Need to Understand
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McKinsey Quarterly Interview:   The Art of Strategy   Link Here
Mastering the Building Blocks of Strategy    Link Here

A New Workplace Manifesto: In Praise of Freedom, Time, Space and Working Remotely
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Paul's Update 11/4

The Science of Storytelling
How Narrative Cuts Through Distraction Like Nothing Else   Link Here   (Repeated from 10/24)
Infecting an Audience: Why Great Stories Spread    Link Here
Story 2.0: The Surprising Thing About the Next Wave of Narrative   Link Here

How to Sell Ideas Like Gladwell
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The New Futurism  James Surowiecki
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Science Has Lost Its Way, at a Big Cost to Humanity
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This Isn't Capitalism -- It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us    Umair Haque
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Product Design: Do It With Dematerialization
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Exceed Customer Expectations—and Get Home for Family Dinner
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To Survive in a Volatile World Businesses Must Build in Resilience
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Paul's Update 10/31

A fun and informative PIE-Up this morning. The next one will be Monday 11/25. We will continue this morning's discussion.  Plan on it!

Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Reinventing higher education – MOOCs, SPOCs and hubs
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The Psychology of Online Comments
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15 Tips For Motivating Gen Y In The Workplace
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Six Complimentary Training Modules Covering Three Key Issues: Global Leadership, Developing and Engaging High-Potential Employees, and Critical Thinking
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A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit
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Are Smartphones Turning Us Into Bad Samaritans?
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All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
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