Thursday, October 31, 2013

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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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Paul's Update 10/30

The Great Pumpkin might come to PIE-Up Thursday, 10/31 ...

8 Ways To Spot Great Leadership
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think
(I love his description of how he does email: Hofstadter spends four hours a day writing e‑mail. “To me,” he has said, “an e‑mail is identical to a letter, every bit as formal, as refined, as carefully written … I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite all of my e‑mails, always.”) 
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How to Seamlessly Merge Teams in Different Locations
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The Six Principles of the Psychology of Growth
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As Price of College Rises, How Will Higher Education Evolve to be Affordable?   (PBS video 6:39 w transcript)
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Shift Index Report II: From Exponential Technologies to Exponential Innovation
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Why Companies Waste Billions on Innovation
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Educational Uses of Digital Technology
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Paul's Update 10/29

Can Witches Fly? Tell us what you think at PIE-Up Thursday 10/31 ...

How to Sidestep the Excellence Trap
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Tech CEO Eva Chen Dares Staff to Fail
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4 Reasons Why the CEO Should Contribute Content Regularly
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Why Women Collaborate, Men Work Alone, and Everybody's Angry
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How a Darling of the New York Tech Scene Gives Back
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Why Did Apple Lose Its Humanities?
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The Battle for Power on the Internet
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Robot City: How the Machines Are Driving the Cities Future
(What is driving the future of Michigan cities?  Paul)
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Monday, October 28, 2013

Paul's Update 10/28

PIE-Up Thursday 10/31... even if you never came before, no costume required.

The Top 10 Workplace Trends Of 2013
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8 Tips for Using Social Media to Make Your Event a Success
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Why We Are Wired to Connect
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The Global Innovation 1000: Navigating the Digital Future
(Last Section: The Importance of Being Bold)
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The Myers Briggs States of America
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Peer Review Needs to Expand so That More Scientists are Reviewing Papers
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Americans Vastly Overestimate How Diverse the Country Really Is
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Galaxy Soho Project by Zaha Hadid Architects
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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Paul's Update 10/24 and notice of next two PIE-Ups

Your calendars please!  Today we are scheduling TWO, not one but two, PIE-Ups... 10/31 and 11/25.  As usual they will start at 8am at the Grand Traverse Pie Company, corner of Grand River and Hagadorn!

Will Power Alone is not Enough

The Counterreformation in Higher Education

The Science of Storytelling: How Narrative Cuts Through Distraction Like Nothing Else

The Lonely Crowd of Social Media

New Toolkit Provides Cities with Innovative Street Design Guidelines

Is Your Country Despodic?  A 1946 Film from Encyclopedia Britannica

Deming’s Five Diseases of Management

Why Suburban Sprawl is the Worst Idea America Has Ever Had     TED Talk video by Jeff Speck (16:56)

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Paul's Update 10/23

8 Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Everyday -- And How To Avoid Them
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Higher Education: The Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong
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McKinsey: Avoiding the quicksand: Ten techniques for more agile corporate resource allocation
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Why the "Sit-able" City is the Next Big Idea
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The Three Decisions You Need to Own
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Zookal Will Deliver Textbooks by Drone in Australia Next Year
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Sheryl Sandberg: The Real Story
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Lessons Learned From Messy Leadership
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Paul's Update 10/22

This New Smart Wheel Will Instantly Make Your Bike Electric
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Five Ways Leaders Bridge the Generational Divide
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Are You Edgy Enough?
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The Case for Cul-de-Sacs
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What the Shutdown Revealed About the Economic Divides in U.S. Politics
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Newton's/Laws (of) Emotion  (If you know who Wayne Newton is, don't pass this by.  Paul)
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Why Food Should be a Commons not a Commodity
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How a Perfectly Good Idea Turned Into Cubicles
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Paul's Update 10/21

8 Tips For Creating Great Stories From George R.R. Martin, Junot Diaz, and Other Top Storytellers
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          Join "The Future of Storytelling" MOOC (Starts October 25.)  Link Here

The Business Case for Nature
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5 Developments That Could Change The Face of Television Broadcasting (summary/report)
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A Simple Science-Backed Way to Solve Employee-Engagement Problem
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How To Develop That Precious Thing Among Employees: Longevity
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Higher education in 2020: three key forecasts from new report
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Work - Life Balance is a Hoax   Christine Bronstein
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The Future of Marketing is not about Marketing ... It's about You!
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Paul's Update 10/17

How Higher Education is Vulnerable to Disruption
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Embracing Your Crazy Ideas
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How to Invigorate Innovation in a Stagnant Organization
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How to Listen When Your Communication Styles Don't Match
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TED Talks Are Lying To You
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Empower Your Employees and They Will Power Your Brand
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Adblock Plus: The Tiny Plugin Threatening the Internet's Business Model
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An Uncommonly Cohesive Conglomerate
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Paul's Update 10/16

We've Gotten The Pursuit Of Happiness All Wrong, Until Now
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3 Ways To Effectively Communicate a Strategic Plan
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How To Grow Fans, Create Relevant Content and Increase Engagement on Facebook: Case Study
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Do Digital Billboards Have Any Place in  Public Space?
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The Social Enterprise: Building a Digitally Driven Business to Gain Competitive Advantage
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The 10,000 Hour Rule Is A Myth
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The Single Best Overview of What the Surveillance State Does With Our Private Data
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The Embarrassment of Complexity
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Monday, October 14, 2013

Paul's Update 10/14

Employees Will Work Longer Hours, Just Don't Waste Their Time    John Kotter
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6 Ways To Implement Climate Change In The Workplace
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How To Become as Interesting as Malcolm Gladwell
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Sustainable Consumption and Behavior Change
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The Beth Comstock Way To Make Strange, Serendipitous Connections
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The Immediate Climate Threat Isn't Rising Sea Levels, It's Water Scarcity
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To Motivate, Better to Take Away Than to Give
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4 Steps to Connecting—and Engaging—with Generation C
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Paul's Update 10/10

Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman on Making Smarter Decisions    (video 6:35)
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A Manifesto for Active Learning
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The Winners Of Our 2013 Innovation By Design Awards
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10 Ways To Lose Your Best Employees
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How to Remember Literally Everything
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177 Myths of Innovation:  Mega Summary
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The biggest lesson from the flipped classroom may not be about math
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What Makes Malcolm Gladwell Fascinating?
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Book review - David & Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Paul's Update 10/9

Self-Cleaning Clothes Invented By The Military Could Make Laundry A Thing Of The Past
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Alan Lomax’s Music Archive Houses Over 17,400 Folk Recordings From 1946 to the 1990s
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The Human Side of Leadership
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Why Structured Creativity for Business?
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21 Ways to Be a Better Leader Without Breaking a Sweat
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Brené Brown: The Most Valuable Gift You Can Give To Another Person   (video included 2:24)
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Strategy Storytelling: A Primer
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What We Eat Affects Everything
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TED Talk Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong   (video 18:51)
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Paul's Update 10/8

The Re-Education of Jim Collins
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Sir Ken Robinson: How Do You Define Creativity   (video: 1:25)
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How to Build a Faculty Culture of Change
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To an Analog Banker in a Digital World
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Malcolm Gladwell: The Unheard Story of David and Goliath  (video 15:41)
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The Power of "Why"
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TIVLI Rebrands as PHILO. Is It Harvard's Next FaceBook?
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How Can We Increase Insight?
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Mark Zuckerberg:  Making the Internet Affordable
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Paul's Update 10/7

Creating a Leadership Advantage: Announcing the Winners of the Leaders Everywhere Challenge
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The Serendipity Economy: How Spontaneity Plus Social Networking Drives Innovation
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Unlocking The Passion of the Explorer: Report 1 of the 2013 Shift Index Series
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MIT's New Self-Assembly Lab is Building a Paradigm-Shift to 4-D Manufacturing
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Don't Blame the Apple and Exonerate the Tree
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To MOOC or Not To MOOC: Strategic Lessons From The Pioneers
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What Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and Udacity Should Learn from SJSU
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The Best Way to Start Every Conversation
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Paul's Update 10/3

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling - Visualized
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Beware Sophomoric Self-Obsession
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Are businesses missing the boat when it comes to sustainable behaviour change?
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Referencing a Tweet in an Academic Paper? Here's an Automatic Citation Generator
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McKinsey&Company: How to attract US women to the sciences
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The Future, According  to Evernote's CEO, is Not Paperless
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Thoughtful Branding: Where The Company Begins And Ends
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An interview with...  Robert Talisse on Pragmatis
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Life In The Matrix
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Paul's Update 10/2 with Free October Book

US Scientists Are Leaving The Country And Taking The Innovation Economy With Them
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Harvard Plans to Boldly Go With "SPOCS"
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The Two Leadership Styles That Can Destroy a Business
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Dream With a Deadline: The Millennium Development Goals
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Why The Poor Don't Work, According to the Poor
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The basics of the Dual Process Theory    (Video 4:40)
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Technology That Learns
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Creativity at Work: Six Ways to Encourage Innovative Ideas
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This Map Shows That Cars Are One Of The Most Deadly Things On Earth
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Check out the Free October Book...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Paul's Update 10/1

This Underwater Airplane Flies Through The Ocean Unlike Any Submarine Before It
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The Traditional University Lecture is Dead
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The Psychology of Storytelling: 10 Proven Ways to Create Better Stories (and Why Stories Sell)
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The Most Powerful Leadership Question
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Trust: The Currency of Leadership
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How Motionpoems, Rap Genius, APR Are Driving A Poetry Renaissance
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Doug Lipp On How Disney Creates A Thriving Workforce
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3D Printing Aims to Deliver Organs on Demand
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Publish What You Fund
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