Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Paul's Update 4/30

What If We Never Run Out of Oil?
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A Catalyst For Business Transformation
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In Defense of Henry Kissinger
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Data Science of the FaceBook World         Stephen Wolfram
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Great Innovators Think Laterally
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Defining and Prioritizing Idea Streams
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A Catalyst For Business Transformation
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The Social Progress Imperative
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Monday, April 29, 2013

Paul's Update 4/29

Creating The Best Workplace on Earth
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Are we reducing the magic of serendipity to the logic of coincidence ?
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Stunning Laser Scans That Could Help Us Reuse Aging Buildings Better
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Here's How Little Math Americans Actually Use at Work
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Getting Your Employees to Share Their Best Ideas On Yammer, Chatter, Jive, and Enterprise Social
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Pew Internet: Civic Engagement in the Digital Age
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How Not To Die
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Why Aren't Younger Americans Driving Anymore?
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Paul's Update 4/26

Change Management Needs to Change
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Getting Your Employees to Share Their Best Ideas on Yammer, Chatter, Jive and Enterprise Social
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The World is not Global, its Local
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Too Much Like-Mindedness Hurts Companies, and the Country  John Hagel and John Seely Brown
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People are Not Resources
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Can “Good Design” Eliminate Competition?
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In Collaboration We Trust
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Nestle CEO Seeks to Control the World's Water
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Talent and the Generations (Part 1): Gen Y and technology in today’s workplace  Link Here
Talent and the Generations (Part 2): What’s working and what’s not when companies recruit Gen Y?
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Talent and the Generations (Part 3): Does today’s talent feel entitled to great jobs?  Link Here
Talent and the Generations (Part 4): Where does Generation X fit in today's workforce?  Link Here
Talent and the Generations (Part 5): How should talent practices develop moving forward?  Link Here

 

 


 












Thursday, April 25, 2013

Paul's Update 4/25

Paul's Update went over 7,000 page views yesterday. I'm glad you find it worth looking.  Paul

Top US food retailers in talks to roll out merchandising scheme helping shoppers make ‘more informed choices’
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Using Scenario Planning to Prototype the Future
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Six Ways to Improve Your Long Term Thinking
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The One Skill Most Leaders Lack
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive, Creative Genius  (TED Talk video)
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The Discipline of Managing Disruption    Clayton Christensen
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The "Sandwich Approach" Undermines Your Feedback
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A Manifesto for the Creative Economy
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Paul's Update 4/24

Three Phrases That Will Get You Noticed
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Sand Dancer...  for Your Enjoyment
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It's Time For Colleges to  Teach Creativity
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Amazon's Letter To Shareholders Should Inspire Every Company In America
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Leadership Tips for Cross-Silo Success     John Kotter
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How Reframing a Problem Unlocks Innovation
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Saving the Tip Jar in a Credit Card Economy
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Serendipity: Let's Talk Numbers
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A Review of Crowdstorm: The Future of Innovation, Ideas and Problem Solving
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Paul's Update 4/23

Power and Influence by John Kotter
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The Case for Ending Student Loans
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NPR: Intersection of Education With the Arts   (with audio)
Creative Classes: An Artful Approach to Improving Performance    Link Here
More Than 50 Years of Putting Kids Creativity to the Test     Link Here
In D.C., Art Program Turns Boys' Lives Into 'Masterpieces'    Link Here

Good Employees Make Mistakes. Good Leaders Allow Them To.
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Are You An Introvert? That's an Asset
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The Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change, and Some Ways You Can Fix Them
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The Rise of the Invisible App
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New Way to Integrate Real and Virtual World
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Paul's Update 4/22

Gary Hamel from 2009:  Outrunning Change -- the Cliff Notes Version Part 1   Link Here
Outrunning Change -- the Cliff Notes Version Part II   Link Here

9 Illuminating Lessons on Creativity
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Anticonventional Thinking in a Nutshell
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The Thin Envelop Crisis
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5 Attributes of a World Class Workforce
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Implement Big Ideas With Baby Steps
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Stanford Researcher Offers Modest Proposal for Food Relief
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Leaders Everywhere Challenge Cheat Sheet
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Paul's Update 4/18

Stanford scientists develop new type of solar structure that cools buildings in full sunlight
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Communicating Sustainability: Lessons from Public Health
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Oddly Shaped Benches That Encourage a Change in Social Behavior
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Resiliency, Risk and a Good Compass: Tools for the Coming Chaos
(Check out the nine principles at the end.  Paul)
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How to Spot Disruptive Innovation Opportunities  (8 minute video)
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The Role of a Facilitator
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Forget GDP: The Social Progress Index Measures National Well-Bein
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The Agility Factor
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Prototyping: Engage in a (Buckminster Fuller) Dialogue With Reality
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Pail's Update 4/17

Conversations Can Save Companies
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Powering Lifelong Learning Relationships
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Your College Major is a Minor Issue, Employers Say
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Change of Self Changes Team Behavior
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Think 3D Printing is Cool? Try 4D   (video)
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How to Make Better Business Decisions
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Making Great Decisions  (May require free registration)
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Resilience      Jo da Silva Keynote at RAEng Global Grand Challenges Summit  (video)
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Can Employees Really Walk Through Your Open-Door Policy?
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Paul's Update 4/16

Your Least Engaged Employees Might Be Your Top Performers
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The Future of Innovation is in Ideas, not Products
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iNudge You Does Health Nudge Experiment on Buffet Arrangement
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Why You Should Take the Blame
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More Self-Sufficient Cities in a 3D Printing World
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University Rankings Proliferate, Along With New Uses for the Data They Collect
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Customer Service is Not a Department   Lee Cockerell
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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems   Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Monday, April 15, 2013

Paul's Update 4/15

PIE-Up Thursday, 8am, GT Pie Company, Hagadorn and Grand River

Class Divided Cities: Detroit Edition       Richard Florida
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Big-Bang Disruption: Why Classic Business Rules Don't Apply
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Learning to See the Whole Elephant in Innovation
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From Knowledge Stocks to Knowledge Flows   John Hagel
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Ron Johnson's 5 Key Mistakes at JC Penney, in His Own Words
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Next to Use 3D Printing: Your Surgeon
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Trendwatching: Clean Slate Brands... Heritage is the New Baggage
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"Actually" she said, "He works for me."
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Paul's Update 4/11

How One Company Taught It’s Employees How to Be Happier, and What Happened Next
Getting Stronger Through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You
Engineering Serendipity
Social Networks and Engineering Serendipity in the Workplace
Innovation Teams Don’t Work. Here’s What Does
The One Conversational Tool That Will Make You Better at Absolutely Everything
The Leadership Employee Index
Why CEOs Should Focus on Low Probability Projects
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Paul's Update 4/10

Facebook Home revamps any Android phone to make it about 'people, not apps'
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Home: FaceBook's Bold New Vision For Social Smartphones
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If Your Company Targets Millennials, Read This Now
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35 Speeches on Creativity
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Seven Rules for Managing Creativity People
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Watch This Man Help Save The Environment Through One Simple Act   (video)
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Thinking About Future Rewards Reduces Impulsiveness
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The Death of Jobs
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An Innovation Economy Through Partnership
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Paul's Update 4/9

The Ten Biggest Issues In Business Today     John Spence
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It’s Not Just Semantics – Managing Outcomes Vs. Outputs
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10 Things Really Amazing Bosses Do
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Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim (TED Talk)
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A Contrarian View on Resilience    John Hagel
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5 Archetypes Who Get In The Way of Big Ideas
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The 10/10/10 Rule for Tough Decisions
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Announcing The Leaders Everywhere Challenge   Gary Hamel and Polly LaBarre
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Great Leader?
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Paul's Update 4/8

This Pie Phone is a reminder that we have a PIE-Up Thursday, 8am, at GT Pie, corner of Hagadorn and Grand River...   Pie Phone calling


Six Reasons Why Resistance Challenges Those Responsible for Organisational Change
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Building Molecules: Serendipity Pays Off
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An Introduction to the Internet from 1995
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The Concept of "Office Freedom" and How It Fixes Age-Old Organizational Problems
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Why Your Company's Worst Performers Are Happy As Clams
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A Leader of Obama’s New Brain Initiative Explains Why We Need It
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Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain?
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When It’s Brains, It Pours ($$$$$): Obama’s Big (Neuro) Science Project
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Ten Steps Toward a Simpler World
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Paul's Update 4/4

A New Kind of Crowdsourcing for Innovation: ProblemSourcing
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Detroit Leads The Way on Place-Centered Revitalization
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The Imminent ShakeOut? Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education
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Jay Forrester's Shock to the System
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The Imminent Shakeout? Disruptive Innovation and Higher Education
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The Coming Evolution in Higher Education
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The Intrapreneur's Playbook
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How Serendipity Fuels Online Collaboration and Innovation
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The 177 Myths of Innovation: Mega Web Summary
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Paul's Update 4/3

Children whose Minds Wander 'Have Sharper Brains'
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Pulling Campbells Out of the Soup
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10 Skills for the Future Workplace
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The HubSpot Culture Code
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12 Fresh Ideas For Transforming the Places We Live With Open Data
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Can Income Inequality Destabilize the U.S. Economy
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21 Principles of Persuasion
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A Videogame That Teaches Kids to Code
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Paul's Update 4/2


Digital Disruption: Short Fuse, Big Bang
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Big Bang Disruption: How To Cause It and Survive It
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University of Chicago FREE eBook for April
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An Introduction to the Book No Straight Lines: Making Sense of our Non-linear World
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The 3 Companies That Bill Gates Thinks Are Shaping The Future Of Food
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The Next Big UI Idea: Gadgets That Adapt To Your Skill
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The Connected Consumer and the New Decision-Making Cycle
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Here’s A Google Perk Any Company Can Imitate: Employee-To-Employee Learning
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Let's Go Back To Grouping Students By Ability
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Modern Parenthood
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Monday, April 1, 2013

Paul's Update 4/1

How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future
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How To Create Resilience Through Big Data
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No Future: Present Shock and Why Our Now-Fixation Has Changed Everything From Advertising to Politics
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Crowdfunding's Future: Local Online Ecosystems
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How To Maintain Motivation When Your Goals Are Epic
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Why Storytelling is the Ultimate Weapon
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Sprawling and struggling: Poverty hits America's suburbs
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How Criticizing in Private Undermines the Team
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