Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Paul's Update 7/31

Strategy Made Simple - The 3 Core Strategy Questions
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Swedish Researchers Create an Impossible Material’ by Mistake
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The Powerful Mystery of Serendipity
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The Driving Forces of Change
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Employee-Led Innovation
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Conant: What Derails Most CEOs Is the ‘Soft Stuff’
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Inception- Mice prove it's no myth.
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Four Ways the Crowd Gets What they Need From Each Other –Without Buying from Companies
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Paul's Update 7/30

Top 10 Certifications With Staying Power
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Innovation Isn't an Idea Problem
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The Supreme Lesson of Education is to Think for Yourself
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Volvo Sees Crash-Free Car by 2020
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To Change Behavior Focus on a Single Situation
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John Hagel on How Businesses Build Around Innovation
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12 Ways to Spot a High Achiever
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Why Great Ideas Get Rejected      (video)
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Monday, July 29, 2013

Paul's Update 7/29

Improve Your Memory
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How Detroit Really is Like America
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The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions
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How Criticism Creates Innovative Teams
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The MOOC That Roared
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How To Find Out Whether You’re A Good Cultural Fit At Any Company
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Innovation Culture: The Big Elephant in the Room   (PDF)
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Roll Out The ELF In Your City
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Paul's Update 7/25

Did the networks not have any real news of importance?
Gladwell: Why College Football is Like Dog Fighting

The Psychology of Storytelling: 10 Proven Ways to Create Better Stories (and Why Stories Sell)

Learning and the Emerging Science of Behavior Change, aka 'Nudging'

John Cleese on the 5 Factors of Creativity  (video)

Communicating Change: What People Want To Hear And What They Need To See

Who Ruined the Humanities


The Blip

How Design Legend Irving Harper Created the Herman Miller Logo

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Paul's Update 7/24

5 Clever Product Packages That Dissolve After Use
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Use Catalytic Questioning to Solve Significant Problems
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The Rise of the Niche Social Network
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Rethinking the Work of Leadership  (Lots of good comments)
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The Storytelling Animal      (By Update group member Harold Jarche)
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What Could You Do With a $100 Computer
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The Case for Paying People More
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Detroit's Importance: Economics of Place
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Paul's Update 7/23

108 Years in 108 Seconds: Herman Miller
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The MOOC is Dead! Long Live Open Learning!
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To Beat the Chaos, Take a Thinking Day Off
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Broke in the Burbs
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Cascading Change vs. Viral Change
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Morality is Missing from the Debate on Sustainable Behavior
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Why CEOs Don't Focus On People - Even If They Say It's Important
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Engagement Encouraged at All Levels Ensures a Thriving Company
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The Invisible Gorilla Strikes Again
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Private Plan to Put a Telescope on the Moon
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Paul's Update 7/22

Your Guide to Interacting With an Introvert
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Social Strategy and the Engagement Funnel
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Ask the World a Question
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Hunger Makes People Work Harder, and Other Stupid Things We Used to Believe About Poverty
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Good Companies are Storytellers. Great Companies are Storydoers
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Surprises are the New Normal; Resilience is the New Skill     Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Clayton Christensen: Still Disruptive
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The Basics of Influencing People
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Disengaged Employees?  Do Something About It
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Paul's Update 7/18

Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind?

How to Build a Company Culture that Fosters Creativity and Sustains Innovation

When You’ve Done Enough, Do More

Leadership Tip: Hire the Quiet Neurotic, Not the Impressive Extrovert

The Making of a Steinway Grand Piano, from start to finish

The Wise Leader

2013 Noel Levitz Report Findings for Higher Ed

Scientists Think Cavemen Painted While High on Hallucinogenic Drugs

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Paul's Update 7/17

The Unspoken Key to Finding Meaningful Work
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Engagement at Work: Its Effect on Performance Continues in Tough Economic Times
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How does a CEO or founder go about improving — and measuring — company culture?
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Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life Balance and Income Equality
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Avoid the Deadly Temptations that Derail Innovators    Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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How Reframing a Problem Unlocks Innovation
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Curiosity: It's The New Black
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Understanding Society: How Do We Change Behavior  (PDF)
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The Happiness of Pursuit
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Disruptive Innovation, Change Management & Taking the NO Out of InNOvation
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Paul's Update 7/16

Maybe Bowling Alone Isn't So Bad After All
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How Millennials Think, and What To Do About It
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Think You Know Millennials? Think Again
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A Strategy For Promoting Resilience In Children
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A Conversation With Gary Hamel: Transformation of Leadership, Step by Step  (video 5:00)
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Expecting More From Business — Common Wealth Contributions By Business
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Sir Ken Robinson's Radical Question: What if Education Was Rooted in Diversity? (video  2:45)
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The Backlash Against Standing Desks Has Begun
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Paul's Update 7/15

LinkedIn Exposed
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Don Tapscott: We Need Fundamental Change In All Our Institutions
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7 Actions That Drive Sustainable High Performance
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Helping Your People Find Purpose In Their Work
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The Pyramid of Purpose
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"I Regretted the Minute I Pressed Share": A Qualitative Study of Regrets on FaceBook
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How Nudge Theory Can Change the Way You Behave
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Company Culture is No Accident
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Why Employee Engagement Is Not Just The Job Of Management
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Paul's Update 7/11

Network Era Fluency       by group member Harold Jarche
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How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe)     Umair Haque
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Why Business Must Become A Third Pillar of Social Change
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10 Signs Your Employees Are Growing Complacent In Their Careers
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Most U.S. 10- to 12-year-olds have at least one social media account and are unsupervised
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Resilience over Burnout: The Neuroscience of Compassion vs Empathy
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Why Workplace Leadership Is About To Get Its First Major Makeover In 100 Years
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The Power of Purposeful Strategy
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Why Organizations Are So Afraid to Simplify
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Paul's Update 7/10

10 Mindblowingly Futuristic Technologies That Will Appear by 2030
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Haute Couture: Hadid & United Nude’s Nova Shoe  (video)
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Your Brand Is the Exhaust Fume of the Engine of Your Life
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Social media and behaviour change: applying theory
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Take Social Collaboration To Next Level       John Hagel and John Seely Brown
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Knowing The End Goal Increases Productivity
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Companies Look at the Wrong Things When Using Facebook for Hiring, Study Shows
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Emotional Intelligence in Action: Recognizing, Regulating, Resonating, and Responding.
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Data is Worthless if you Don't Communicate It
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How Walkability Shapes Political Activism       Richard Florida
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Paul's Update 7/9

The Morality of Meditation
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How Millennials Think, and What to Do About It
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What is Resilience?
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Democracy: Five Ways You Can Make It More Meaningful
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10 Mind-Blowing Products Google is Working On Right Now
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Douglas Englebart Obituaries: The Real Inventor Of The Stuff Steve Jobs Sold
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Why I Support My Son's Decision To Put College On Hold ... To Surf
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11 Reasons To Ignore The Haters And Major In The Humanities
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Should the U.S. Have a Secretary of Culture?
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Paul's Update 7/8

Memory, Social Cognition, and Predicting the Future
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Shifting from SMART Objectives to RISKY Ones
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“A Little Night Music” with Clayton Christensen
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On the MOOC Challenge to Traditional Higher Education
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Using Affirmations: Harnessing Positive Thinking
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My Quest To Create Self-Building, Self-Tooling, People-Free Manufacturing Plants
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A Beautiful Notion: That Caterpillars Killed Off The Dinosaurs
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So, Did Nudging Work?
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Connect, Then Lead
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Paul's Update 7/4-5

One Nation, Divisible
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The Fire of Human Potential: Developing a Purposeful Life and Career
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Antifragile   Nassim Talib  (video)
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Chief Resiliency Officers Versus Antifragility
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American Time Use Survey
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Investing in People: How Crowdfunding Works
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Five Ways It's Your Fault When Employees Slack Off
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A Harvard Economist's Surprisingly Simple Productivity Secret
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Paul's Update 7/3

Unintentional Knowledge  (Fun read.  Paul)
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If You Don't Like Your Future, Rewrite Your Past   Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Marissa Mayer's 9 Principles of Innovation
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10 Employee  Conversations That Managers Hate to Have
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MIX: Is big the enemy of good? How to grow without crushing agility and creativity
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The Business Case for Motivating Your Employees  (Ken Blanchard PowerPoint Executive Summary)
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Study Appears to Overturn Prevailing View of How the Brain is Wired
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From 'Yes, but' to 'How can we?' and 'Why not?'
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Starving the Squid
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Paul's Update 7/2

Culture and the Chief Executive
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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things
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Not All To-Do Lists Are Created Equal -- Here's How to do Yours
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Let's Give Up On Advertising And Do These 6 Things Instead
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The Key to Changing Organizational Culture    John Kotter
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4 Questions To Identify Your Innovation Killers (Hint, Answers Point Back At You)
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Picture This: It's The Key to Your Success
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6 Tips for Building Innovation Into Your Company DNA
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Sir Ken Robinson on Discovering Your Passions
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Monday, July 1, 2013

Paul's Update 7/1

Healthcare is Broken. And This Designer Thinks She Can Fix It
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Beyond Retrofitting: Innovation in Higher Education (PDF)
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A Promise is a Promise
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Put Customers at the Center of Your Organization
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Sustainable Behavior Change: After Nudge, 'Tweak'
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How Drucker Thought About Complexity  John Hagel
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Why Grumpy People Can Be Super Productive
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National Service Can Become a Rite of Passage  (video)
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Innovation in the Collaborative Economy
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