Thursday, August 29, 2013

Paul's Update 8/29

The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It?
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Is the Census Bureau On Track For Another Estimating Fiasco?
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Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
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Retailers Take Note: Young Shoppers Don't Care About Owning Your Stuff
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The "Dematerialization? of Society in the Digital Age
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Caffeine Spray: Brought to You By Peter Thiel's College Dropout Challenge
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Jamie Dimon: The Essential Hallmarks of a Good Leader
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Wait, What's That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wanddering
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Paul's Update 8/28

Employee Engagement:  Who's Sinking Your Boat   (video  4:16)
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Why Milenniels are Ending the 9 To 5
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RIP, Elmore Leonard: The Beloved Author's 10 Rules of Writing
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Beware of the Giraffes in Your Data
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The Nudgeniks Can't Save Us From Ourselves
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20 Inspiring SlideShare Presentations Every Marketer Should See
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5 Ways to Unleash the Power of Your People
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Morality is Missing From The Debate About Sustainable Behavior
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Paul's Update 8/27

The Solution Revolution    (video  2:00)
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Debunking the Myth of Innovation
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Synthesis: A Critical Leadership Skill
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Google Couldn't Kill 20% Time Even if it Wanted To
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10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Measuring Your Management Strengths
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A Majority of Black Americans Think They're Treated Unfairly By Just About Every Civic Institution
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The Digital Freedom Challenge
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Why We Need Radical Change for Media Ethics, Not a Return to Basics
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Paul's Update 8/26

Remember PIE-Up on 8/29.

Corporations will Emulate Collaborative Economy Startups   Jeremiah Owyang
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Open Innovation: Top-Down Meets Bottom Up
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The Ten Elements of a Winning Culture
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The One Easy Daily Habit That Makes Life More Awesome
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American's Say U.S. Schools Should Teach "Soft" Skills
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Training the Talented, The Ritz-Carlton Way
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Now This is Live-Streaming: An Interactive Map of Every Stream in The U.S.
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Geeky Student Gives Possibly the Most Amazing University Welcome Speech Ever  (video 2:00)
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Paul's Update 8/22

Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie  (3:47 video on our favorite topic: Pie)

Leading Equals

What Amazing Leaders Do Differently

Checking In With Americans at the Grocery Aisles

Paulo Coelho: Manual for Climbing Mountains

Crosswalks Painted in Brightly-Colored Patterns Make Crossing the Road Fun

The Shocking Stats About Who’s Really Starting Companies in America

Where Should I Go To College?

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Paul's Update 8/21

7-Steps to Handle Criticism at Work Well
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The Secret to Unleashing Genius
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The Art of Looking: What 11 Experts Teach Us about Seeing Our Familiar City Block with New Eyes
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Professional Network Mapping
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Antifragile System Design Principles
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Simon Mainwaring: Why Business Must Become the Third Pillar of Social Change
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The Open Talent Economy
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Innovating For Shared Value
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Why The College Degree Will Be Obsolete in Fifteen Years
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Paul's Update 8/20

Character, The Decisive Factor in the Life of a Leader
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Building Resilient Communities: An Online Training  RAND
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Top 5 Leadership Videos Less Than 5-Minutes Long
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Fix Your Posture With This Animated Guide to Sitting Right   (video:  2:51)
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Accelerating Serendipity
(Any article that includes serendipity, sagacity, and zemblanity has to be included.)
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The Most Important Phrase You'll Ever Say in a Meeting
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Puffed:  The Magic of Cereal
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In Praise of Laziness
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Paul's Update 8/19

PIE-Up on Thursday, 8/29

Ashton Kutcher Speech at Teen Choice Awards  (video)
(This is a "must watch", especially given the audience.  Paul)
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Play With Antimatter from the Comfort of Your Home
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How Women Decide
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Leadership Teaches Us The Steps
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The Eight-Minute Test That Can Reveal Your Effectiveness as a Leader
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What Role can Serendipity Play in Learning, Innovation and Building Networks?
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Discovering the Unexpected
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Journalism Has Entered a Golden Age
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12 Ways to Nail Your Presentation in the Last 30 Seconds
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Paul's Update 8/15

Waiting for the Digital Electrical Grid

Working Backwards to Unleash Your Creativity

“Feminine” Values Can Give Tomorrow’s Leaders and Edge

The Missing Half of the Education Debate

Memo to CEO’s: Go Social or Go Home

Psychology’s Brilliant, Beautiful, Scientific Messiness

How Using 15 Minutes of Downtime at Work Can Realign Your Work-Life Balance

7 Reasons Extraordinarily Productive People Get More Done
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What’s My Motivation? A Q&A with E. Tory Higgins
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Paul's Update 8/14

Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread
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Tom Kibble: 'It Didn't Seem Very Special at the Time'
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Behind The Whiteboard: The Risk Bites Story    (video: 6:00)
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How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work     (podcast and transcript)
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A Restless Workforce that Isn't Going Anywhere is a Recipe for Disaster
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Serendip-o-matic
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A John Hagel Review:
Getting Stronger through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You      Link Here
A Contrarian View on Resilience       Link Here
The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context    Link Here

Smooth Move Smoothies         (PDF)
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Paul's Update 8/13

Why Cycle Cities are the Future
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Author Steven Johnson to host new PBS series, 'How We Got to Now'
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If Your Leader Departs, Preserve the Company's Story First
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Engaged Leadership: Going Beyond Vision and Values
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Once Upon a Time at the Office: 10 Storytelling Tips to Help You Be More Persuasive
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7 Things Really Persuasive People Do
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Top 10 HR Technology Trends for 2014
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Ten Things Extraordinary Bosses Give Employees
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Paul's Update 8/12

Next PIE-Up is 8/29.

Game Changers: Five Opportunities for US Growth and Renewal  McKinsey Global Institute
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Can Computers Write Music That Has Soul?
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Every Child is an Artist
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Low Employee Engagement: The Cost and the Cure
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Jeff Bezos Bought the Washington Post for One Thing: Distribution
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5 Things All Conference Presenters Must Stop Doing Right Now
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How Medium is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers
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Why Companies Are (Finally) Falling All Over Each Other to Become Best Places to Work
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The Toobin Principle   (Be aware. This is politics related to NSA and Snowden. I think it is thought provoking so I included it.  Paul)
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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Paul's Update 8/8

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) announces its 2013 class of Sloan-C Fellows. Recognizing exceptional professional excellence, the Sloan-C Board of Directors confers the distinction upon individual members of the Sloan Consortium who have: 
  •     outstanding and extraordinary qualifications in the field of online learning;
  •     significant experience in online learning or an allied field;
  •     a record of distinguished service to Sloan-C or the field; and
  •     extraordinary contributions or leadership in the field of online learning.
 Christine Marie Geith, Michigan State University, for outstanding leadership in promoting a wide array of technologies and policies needed to advance global online education.
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What Does Post-Bureaucratic Leadership Look Like?
(Although my usual practice is to read everything before sharing it, I have not read these finalists yet. Paul)
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Crumbling American Dreams    by Robert Putnam
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Thinking Long Term in a Short Term Economy
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5 Ways to Kill a Great Idea Fast! And How to Avoid Them!
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The Ten Myths of Innovation
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'Intersection' of Race and Other Factors Shapes Success in College
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The 5 Secrets Of Storytelling For Social Change
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Rearrange the Process
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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Paul's Update 8/7

Your Brain at Work
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Susan Cain on the Power of Introverts, Live-Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
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What if You Never Had to Pay for Parking at the Airport Again?
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Empowering Women in Business with "1K in 1 Day", August 11
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Women in Community Colleges: Access to Success
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US debate on possible US Nudge Unit
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The Power of Seven Simple Questions
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Think you know how kids use social media? Think again. [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Yesterday this blog posting of curated articles went over 10,000 page views.  Wow.   Paul

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Paul's Update 8/6

Shelter From The Storm: Why Brainswarming is the Future of Collaboration
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The New Art of Brainswarming  (PDF)
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How Rich is Congress
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Embrace the New Academic Freedom: Technology, Not Tenure
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Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity
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A Simple Rule to Eliminate Useless Meetings
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This Fun Tool Teaches Kids To Program With Pictures
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4 Things That Keep Employees Loyal (Hint: It's Not Money or Perks)
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Monday, August 5, 2013

Paul's Update 8/5

The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
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How Copyright Makes Books and Music Disappear (and How Secondary Liability Rules Help Resurrect Old Songs)
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Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals
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7 Employees You Should Promote Now
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‘Bucking the system’ by Patrick Le Quément
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A Study of Women's Lives, Lifestyle and Marketplace Impact 2013  (PDF)        FleishmanHillard, Hearst Magazines
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Wave four: 2012   Link Here

How to Complete Your Creative Masterpiece Without Quitting Your Day Job
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Leading Locally: A Difference Maker in Increasing Employee Engagement
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5 Reasons Employee Engagement Programs Fail
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Paul's Update 8/1

The Hardware Revolution is Upon Us and Why it Matters
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Brené Brown: 'People are sick of being afraid all the time'
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Three Critical Innovation Roles: Broker, Role Model, Risk-Taker
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Half of Companies Will Require BYOD By 2017, Gartner Says
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30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back
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Daniel Pink's New Pitch
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54% of Managers Use Only One Style When Providing Direction and Support for Their People
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The 12 Habits Of Highly Collaborative Organizations
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Establishing Credibility
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