Monday, March 31, 2014

Paul's Update 3/31

What Is Authentic Leadership? Do You Have It?

Recognize, Reward And Engage Your Multi-Generational Workforce

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman's 3 keys to supporting entrepreneurship

Are You Ready For the Resource Revolution?

The Healthiest (And Least Healthy) Places In The U.S.

The Best Kept Secrets to Exceptional Productivity

The Rules of the Game: "Gamifying" Resilience

Supporting Behaviour Change: Using Evidence-Based Methods in Practice

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Paul's Update 3/27

Why Your Long-Term Goals Are Going Nowhere

Maybe Transit Isn't Surging After All
McKinsey Classic: Developing Leaders in a Business

Facebook's Head of Tech Communications Shares the Best PR Advice You've Never Heard

McKinsey & Company: 3-D Printing Takes Shape

Why Some Innovative Leaders Get Exceptional Results

Five Leadership Lessons: Listen, Learn, Lead

Twelve Innovation Lessons for 2014

A Brain Connected By Bluetooth to an Artificial Hand

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Paul's Update 3/26

Three Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment

The 7 Day Productivity Plan (Infographic)

Let's Stop the Glorification of Busy

Can a Big Old Hierarchical Bureaucracy Become a 21st Century Network

10 Principles for Building Healthy Places. (PDF)

Every Leader Must Be A Change Agent

7 Books Every Leader Should Read, According To A Harvard Business School Professor

How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act

3 Secrets of Innovation That Everyone Misses

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Paul's Update 3/25

How 6 Women Are Reviving Detroit From The Ground Up
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The Daily Routines of Geniuses
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The Overprotected Kid
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The Science Behind Peak Human Performance
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Angela Duckworth’s Gritty View of Success
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All About Google Loon's Low-Cost Space-Based Competitor, Outernet
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Why Your Company Needs to Wake Up to the Collaborative Economy
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Sharing Revolution: The Essential Economics of the Commons  (PDF)
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Paul's Update 3/24

The Science of Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What to Share and Whom to Trust
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Career Rocket Fuel: Whether You're a Millennial or Eying Retirement, Here's What You Really Need to Get Right About Work
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17 Surprisingly Cool Things Kids Can Get for Free
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Cut Your Company’s Fat but Keep Some Slack
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The Nation Needs a Super Plan for Defeating Superbugs
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Change Playbook: 7 Essential Strategies For Implementing Successful Change  (PDF)
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McKinsey & Co.: Centered leadership: How talented women thrive
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McKinsey & Co.: Digital Disruption: Six Consumer Trends and What Businesses Need To Do Now
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The Bias Against Innovation
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Paul's Update 3/20

A Timeless Guide that Harold Jarche pointed out on Twitter... "While that guide seems quaint, it’s aged extremely well. I know people who could stand to read it today."

Changing the World of Work...   a second resource pointed out by Harold Jarche

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite

Richard Florida’s 10 rules for a city’s ‘quality of place’

A Scientific Breakthrough Lets Us See To The Beginning of Time

Daniel Goleman: The Truth About What Makes A Great Leader

Let 100 Parklets Bloom

Knowing Whether Food Has Spoiled Without Even Opening the Container  (video)

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Paul's Update 3/19

Steve Case: 25 Years Is Great, But What's Next for the Web?
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Color Play:  How We Think About Color at Herman Miller
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The One Sure Sign Something Is About To Go Wrong--And What You Can Do About It Before It Does
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Why Companies Fail To Engage Today's Workforce: The Overwhelmed Employee
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Global Human Capital Trends 2014 (PDF Report referenced in previous article)
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McKinsey & Company: Government Designed for New Times, Winter 2014 Issue
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Walmart, Walmart Foundation and the U.S. Conference of Mayors Launch $10 Million U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund
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Navigating Negativity: 4 Ways to Be Properly Optimistic in the Workplace
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Paul's Update 3/18

Strategists and Creatives Have to Change Their Shape from T to Square
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Thesis About The Digital Future (Pew Research Center)
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Lead Positive Summary
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Netflix's Major HR Innovation: Treating Humans Like People
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Latinnovation: Business Growth through Consumer Behaviour Change
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Boards Don't Know Their Next CEO
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Can People Collaborate Effectively While Working Remotely?

Wireless Electricity?  It's Here   (video 3:51)

An Almost Foolproof Way to Achieve Every Goal You Set
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Paul's Update 3/17

How Cities Can Share For The Benefit of Their Citizens
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Sit-able Cities: The Future of Placemaking
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10 Lessons in More Engaging Citizen Engagement
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Social Capital and Placemaking: An Interview with Ethan Kent
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Mikael Colville-Andersen: The Modern Day Jane Jacobs
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The Future of Management Has Arrived
Part 1: Hidden in Plain Sight    Link Here   
Part 2: The Lattice Organization    Link Here    
Part 3: The Agile Movement    Link Here    
Part 4: Radical Management    Link Here    
Part 5: Wiki Management    Link Here    
Part 6: Iterate and Co-Create    Link Here

Are we reducing the magic of serendipity to the logic of coincidence?
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Paul's Update 3/13

5 Ways To Be A Team Player Without Turning Into a Doormat
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Scared Of Failing? Ask Yourself These 6 Fear-Killing Questions
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To Motivate Employees, Apply the Scientific Rule of Leadership

How to Make Work Matter

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers

Who Knew? Arts Education Fuels the Economy

Crowdsourced Placemaking: How people will help shape architecture

While most companies weren't looking, social business remade the economy

PewResearch Internet: Digital Life in 2025


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Paul's Update 3/12

How to Talk to Your Board About Risk

9 Things Successful People Do When Working From Home

6 Problem Solvers Who Are Disrupting Entire Industries

Big Data:  The 5 v's Everyone Must Know

College, Reinvented: The Finalists
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The 8 Pillars of Innovation
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How to Focus Under Pressure
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Two Sides Of The Same Coin: The Employment Crisis And The Education Crisis
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Paul's Update 3/11

There will be a PIE-Up on Wednesday, March 12, 8am at Grand Traverse Pie Company.  The subject for the morning will be “A Call to Embrace Silos” which can be found here: Link Here  Although we will only focus on the article, anyone who read the book will get extra credit.

Meet Oppia, Google’s New Open Source Project That Allows Anyone To Create An Interactive Learning Experience
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What Meg Whitman Does Best  (video 1:12)

For College Presidents, the Interview Never Ends

Leadership Skills for the Year 2030

Why Work is Lonely

18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently

From Public Good to Private Good

Would Your Employees Work for Free


Monday, March 10, 2014

Paul's Update 3/10

There will be a PIE-Up on Wednesday, March 12, 8am at Grand Traverse Pie Company.  The subject for the morning will be “A Call to Embrace Silos” which can be found here: Link Here  Although we will only focus on the article, anyone who read the book will get extra credit.

Outdoor Recreation is a Key Component of Placemaking
City Pianos - Little Effort, Much Reward

Mastering Radical Innovation – Turning Threat into Opportunity

12 Ways Real Leaders Handle Complex Problems

Homeschooling College?

The Boardroom's Quiet Revolution

Five Ways that 21st and 20th Century Learning Will Differ

10 Lessons in More Engaging Citizen Engagement

Gilmartin: How Michigan can be on forefront of crowd funding

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Paul's Update 3/6

There will be a PIE-Up on Wednesday, March 12, 8am at Grand Traverse Pie Company.  The subject for the morning will be “A Call to Embrace Silos” which can be found here: Link Here  Although we will only focus on the article, anyone who read the book will get extra credit.

A Lean Means of Reinventing Our Communities

Can Detroit Rebuild Its Middle Class?

8 Behaviors For Becoming a Smarter Team


How Republicans lost their minds, Democrats lost their souls and Washington lost its appeal

Master Networkers Reveal The Only Five People You Really Need In Your Network

I Procrastinated for a Week and Accomplished an Astonishing Amount of Work

Why Boundaries are the Best Thing foe your Creativity

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Paul's Update 3/5

If You Want More Productive Employees, Learn How To Get Out Of Their Way

Why We Miss Creative Ideas That Are Right Under Our Noses

Four Tips for Walking Your Innovation Talk

Why You Should Let Your Employees Do Whatever They Want 

Take a Walk, Sure, but Don’t Call It a Break

The CEO’s Perfect Storm: Demographics, Data, and Devices Change Everything

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

10 Ways To Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

The Future of Collaboration Isn't What It Used to Be
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The University of Chicago Press

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Is the economy a machine? Adam Smith created that metaphor and three centuries of economists and pundits have followed his lead. But not Julie A. Nelson, who argues that an economy is a society's beating heart. Human care and emotion, human relationships and morality are at the core of an economy, themes explored in her provocative and accessible Economics for Humans, our free e-book for March.

“Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus—someone who doesn’t vote in presidential elections, doesn’t return lost wallets, and doesn’t leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren’t really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.”—Robert H. Frank, author of Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess

Get Economics for Humans free in March.


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What's new? A new season is arriving in our warehouse. See our Spring 2014 catalog: forthcoming books from Chicago and the publishers we distribute. And see our subject catalogs, with new and classic books for academic and general readers.

About Chicago's e-books: The University of Chicago Press has over 2500 titles in its Chicago Digital Editions e-book program. Some of Chicago's e-books are DRM-free, while others require Adobe Digital Editions software, which is freely downloadable. Chicago Digital Editions are powered by BiblioVault.

This is the March 2014 free e-book notification.

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Paul's Update 3/4

How to Cultivate a Creative Thinking Habit
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American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga
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Pew Research Social Media Update 2013
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Pew Research Online Video 2013
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Busting 6 Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
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How Busy People Make Time to Read and You Can Too
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How to Stand In Front of a Room Full of People and Tell a Stellar Story
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10 Lessons Every Presenter Can Learn From America's Most Iconic Speech
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Monday, March 3, 2014

Paul's Update 3/3

How To Grow Without Losing What Makes You Great
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Transformative Scale: The Future of Growing What Works
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How to Avoid High-Potential Talent Flameout
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Stop Waiting. Start Doing! Action Trumps Everything
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A Call to Embrace Silos
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In a Wired World, Companies Have to Re-Wire     Harold Jarche
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Why Customer Experience is the Ultimate Innovation
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In The Messiness of Life, What's Fair to Employers
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