Paul's Update 1/30

Community: A Brand’s Most Powerful Friend

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How Will Campbell Soup Achieve 100% Employee Engagement in Sustainability?

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The Network Era Transition   Harold Jarche

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What’s Working and What’s Not in Online Training    Harold Jarche

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The Power of Listening

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Highly Educated, Highly Indebted: The Lives of Today's 27-Year-Olds, In Charts

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How to be Patient: Staying Calm Under Pressure

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Resetting the Trillion-Dollar Student-Loan Debt Problem

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Paul's Update 1/29

RSA Animate:  The Power of Networks
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Developing Leadership in Millennials
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How to Make Good Decisions as a Team
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The Great Leap Generation F Needs to Make
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The 9 Traits That Define Great Leadership
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Want Motivated Employees? Offer Ample Opportunities For Growth
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Mastering the Fine Art of Getting to the Point
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Happy Employees = Hefty Profits
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Paul's Update 1/28

Mark your calendar now for PIE-Up...  February 11, 8am.

Building the Healthy Corporation
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She's Doing an Elite MBA for Under $1,000  (Thanks Rick Cole for pointing this one out.)

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The Greatest Challenge for the Modern Workplace is How to Engineer Serendipity

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Top 20+ Change Management Mistakes to Avoid

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McKinsey: Leading Transformation in the 21st Century

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McKinsey: Moving Mindsets on Gender Diversity

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Americans Are Deeply Divided Over What Causes Poverty in the First Place

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The Easiest Way to Change People's Behavior

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Harnessing Serendipity is About More Than Facilitating the Unexpected

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Paul's Update 1/27

PIE-Up coming February 11, 8am.  Mark your calendar now.

The Neuroscience of Effective Leadership

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Rebuilding Detroit's First and Last Neighborhood
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What If We Really Were One Detroit?

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This Weird-Looking Playground Could Make Your Kids More Creative

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The Impact Of Entitled Leadership

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11 Tough Truths About Leadership That No One Talks About

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Creating the Best Workplace on Earth

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Are You About to Be Disrupted?

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Paul's Update 1/23

America's Real Manufacturing Advantage
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Discovery of Quantum Vibrations Inside Brain Neurons Supports Controversial Theory of Consciousness
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The Amazing History of the To-Do List -- And How To Make One That Actually Works
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Innovation in 2014: Welcome to the Evolution
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Why Leaders Are Great Storytellers
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Where Would You Take a Sabbatical?
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4 Habits of Punctual People
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How Curiosity Cultivates Creativity
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Paul's Update 1/22

What If You Had to Write a "User Manual" About Your Leadership Style?
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Crowdfunding Seen Providing $65 Billion Boost to the Global Economy in 2014 (Infographic)
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Five Ways To Be Amazing At Work
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How Daydreaming Can Actually Make You Smarter
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Can the Current Model of Higher Education Survive MOOCs and Online Learning?
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10 Students Who Overcame Massive Obstacles to Achieve Their Dream of an Education
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8 Unexpected Ways Technology Will Change The World By 2020
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Amazon Can Read Your Mind
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Paul's Update 1/21

The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses

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The World Changing Ideas of 2014

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Student Loans, the Next Big Threat to the U.S. Economy?

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The Inequality Problem,  David Brooks, The New York Times

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Lego and the Power of the Crowd

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15 Great Pieces of Life Advice That Never Get Old

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Why You Should Care About Your Employees’ Happiness

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The Popcorn Model of Innovation

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Paul's Update 1/20

I had a return visit to the hospital for a few days, possibly related to my knee replacement but probably not.  In any case the situation is resolved and I am reviewing articles and books again. Thank you for your patience.     Paul

PlacePlans: Envisioning a New Future in Michigan

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Can Apple's Angela Ahrens Spark a Retail Revolution?

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It Is Expensive To Be Poor

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The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility

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Understanding How Habits Rule Our Lives

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The Secret to Leadership Finding You

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5 Steps To Finding Your Focus

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Motivating, Managing, Retaining Generation X and Gen Y, Employees

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How Your Child's Art Could Unlock a More Secure Online World

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Paul's Update 1/13

Why is Creativity the Most Important Political Concept of the 21st Century?

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Craft Beer Urbanism Putting the Hop Back into Cities

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How Does Your Leadership Affect Others?

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What 5 Tech Experts Expect of 2014

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One of the Most Powerful tools in the Creativity Toolbox today

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Online Education, More Than Just MOOCS

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50 Years Later, War on Poverty Is a Mixed Bag

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The End of the Line

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Paul's Update 1/9

Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren't The Ones Who Count
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The Four Stages of Disruption
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Making Better Decisions over Time
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What High Client Acquisition Costs Mean to Advisors and to Serving the Masses
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The Agony of Frank Luntz
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Is Crowdfunding Right for You?
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Poverty vs. Democracy in America
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Why is creativity the most important political concept of the 21st Century?
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Paul's Update 1/8

MIT Research Reveals the Power of Placemaking
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Why Collaboration is Crucial to Success
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How Do You Nudge Your Potential Clients to Action?
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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
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‘Superorganisations’ – Learning from Nature’s Networks
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Is Crowdfunding Right for You?
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Brain a 'Creativity Machine', if you use it right
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A Glimpse Into the Future of NPR, from it's first ever Creative Director
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Paul's Update 1/6

Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence      Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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30 Outdated Leadership Practices Holding Your Company Back

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Inside The Box: People Don't Actually Like Creativity

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The Stockdale Paradox: How Optimism Creates Resilience

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Why Successful People Never Bring Cellphones Into Meetings

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Zappos' CEO on Using Corporate Relocation to Preserve Customer Led Culture

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Industrial Style: Design for Makers

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The New Yorker: Weekend Reading

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January Free Book:

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Paul's Update 1/3

The Iceberg: A Short Story by Zelda Fitzgerald
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Thriving Online – Rheingold’s Digital Literacies

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Out of Africa - Health Workers Leave in Droves

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Higher Education's Internet Revolution

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10 Inexpensive Ways to Boost Employee Morale

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An Interesting take (Paul)...

The case for having no goals in your life: Why it might lead to more success and happiness

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Does higher education make you think?

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Making Serendipity Tactical: Is Randomness Part of Your Leadership Strategy?

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Paul's Update 1/2

How to Change Behaviour or Why Fish Don’t Ride Bicycles
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IDEO’s Culture of Helping

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The Best Leadership Books of 2013 According to Leadership Now

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Leadership Books to Watch For in 2014

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The Innovation Deficit

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Essential Elements of Effective Leadership

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10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders

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The High Price Of Aloof Leadership

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We Need to Talk About TED

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Inspiring Communities, Changing Behavior    PDF/UK

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McKinsey Special:

McKinsey: Mastering the Building Blocks of Strategy

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McKinsey: Six Social Media Skills Every Leader Needs

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McKinsey:  Motivating People: Getting Beyond Money

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McKinsey:  The Coming Era of 'On-Demand' Marketing

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McKinsey Report: Bug Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity

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McKinsey Report: Disruptive Technologies: Advances That Will Transform Life, Business, and the Global Economy

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