Paul's Update 12/31

TechTank’s Top 10 Tech Innovations That Will Transform Society and Governance

				TechTank’s Top 10 Tech Innovations That Will Transform ... New technologies can have revolutionary impacts with wide-spread and unexpected benefits. Technology can also serve as a tool to enable governments to better serve ...
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Creating an arts hub where there is none

				Creating an arts hub where there is none When Kalamazoo's DIT concert supporters and the DIY crafters get together the result is a plan for the Kalamazoo Collective Arts Center.
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Coca-Cola's Problems Reflect a Giant Losing Relevance

				Coca-Cola's Problems Reflect a Giant Losing Relevance Coke is huge, and long been iconic. But the brand, and company, are in trouble and things look to become worse
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Coke to cut up to 2,000 jobs in coming weeks: WSJ

				Coke to cut up to 2,000 jobs in coming weeks: WSJ Coca-Cola Co plans to cut 1,000-2,000 jobs globally in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Infographic on Methods of Crowdsourcing

http://dupress.com/articles/crowdsourcing-plugging-wisdom-crowd-infographic/?id=us:2sm:3tw:dup463:eng:fed:121914:du_press

Reimagine College

				Reimagine College Stuart Butler predicts that 2015 will bring a full-blown invasion and transformation of higher education. This disruption will have profound and beneficial conseque...
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Meet The Woman Who Is Trying To Change The Credit Card Industry

				Meet The Woman Who Is Trying To Change The Credit Ca... When Suneera Madhani tried to launch a new pricing model at a credit card provider, she was dismissed. Now, she's running the show.
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Is Paying and Training Well Profitable?

http://www.inc.com/drew-greenblatt/is-paying-amp-training-well-profitable.html

A Framework for Articulating City Resilience : The Rockefeller Foundation

				A Framework for Articulating City Resilience : The Rocke... ##snippet-99####snippet-179##In 1958, a little-known community activist named Jane Jacobs received a Rockefeller grant
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How to get fleet drivers to boost their driving performance

				How to get fleet drivers to boost their driving performa... TomTom advises businesses on how to get fleet drivers to engage with performance improvement programmes
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Paul's Update 12/30

It’s Happening: Robots May Be The Creative Artists Of The Future

				It’s Happening: Robots May Be The Creative Artists Of Th... It's no secret that the world is being automated and that millions of people are losing work as a result. With a properly programmed machine, any unskilled laborer ...
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Social leadership and why the C-Suite has to go social – Interview with Ted Coiné and Mark Babbitt

http://www.adrianswinscoe.com/social-leadership-and-why-the-c-suite-has-to-go-social-interview-with-ted-coine-and-mark-babbitt/

Three Secrets of Organizational Effectiveness

				Three Secrets of Organizational Effectiveness How the practices of pride builders can help you develop a high-performance culture.
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Innovation Requires Change

				Innovation Requires Change Marshall McLuhan said: "Any innovation threatens the equilibrium of existing organization. In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so that they ca...
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The New Challenge to Market Democracies: The Political and Social Costs of Economic Stagnation

				The New Challenge to Market Democracies: The Political a... William Galston explores the difficulties market democracies face in an era of diminished growth and a weakened middle class. Galston argues that if the West fails ...
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If you are interested in Mind Mapping, this is the blog to read.  Paul  

Creativity: How mind mapping software supports divergence and convergence - Mind Mapping Software Blog

				Creativity: How mind mapping software supports diverge... Creativity experts say that regardless of the technique you use to generate ideas, there are two primary steps to the creative process: Divergence and convergence. ...
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3 emerging technologies reimagining higher ed in 2015 and beyond

				3 emerging technologies reimagining higher ed in 2015 an... Are holographic professors and virtual reality campus tours getting closer to becoming reality?
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Incrementalism vs. Innovation: Disruption as an Ecosystem

				Incrementalism vs. Innovation: Disruption as an Ecosyste... Each year, I have the privilege of participating at LeWeb, a conference in Paris that explores the state of startup innovation around the world. This year, instead ...
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It’s Your Turn: Make Something That Matters | Seth Godin

http://changethis.com/manifesto/124.01.YourTurn/pdf/124.01.YourTurn.pdf

A Different Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Poverty

				A Different Approach to Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Two-generation programs focus on improving education for children and job opportunities for parents at the same time.
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