Paul's Update 12/17 with Special Message

This will be the last planned Update until January 4, 2016. I hope you have a wonderful Holiday, leading to a New Year of enjoyment and discovery!

As Dorothy Parker said: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Daniel Goleman: Social Intelligence and Leadership  (10:16 interview video)

				Daniel Goleman: Social Intelligence and Leadership An interview with Daniel Goleman – how you can use emotional and social intelligence to improve your own and your organization’s performance.
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The Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink

				The Problem-Solving Process That Prevents Groupthink It requires two distinct stages.
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Peer effects and contagious productivity | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal

				Peer effects and contagious productivity | VOX, CEPR’s P... What makes a worker productive? There is growing evidence that worker productivity may actually be quite contagious.
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10 Digital Transformation Predictions for 2016

				10 Digital Transformation Predictions for 2016 Does your CEO have a bold goal for 2016? Does the goal include the word ‘digital’ or ‘transformation’ in the description? Well, if so, they’re not alone in their qu...
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Maximizing Optimism in the Workplace

				Maximizing Optimism in the Workplace When it comes to work these days, we're all expected to do more with less. But is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly ...
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Why most men don’t see gender inequality

				Why most men don’t see gender inequality In corporate America, 88% of men think women have at least as many opportunities to advance as men.
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Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams

				Google’s surprising discovery about effective teams Google has done extensive research into the skills and character traits of a good manager. But what about the rest of the workforce? For any large organization to t...
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How to Create a User-Friendly Workplace with Tech - TalentCulture

				How to Create a User-Friendly Workplace with Tech - Tale... Here are five ways to create a user-friendly workplace with the latest tech tools so you and your employees can do more with less.
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Here Is The Climate Deal From Paris

				Here Is The Climate Deal From Paris The negotiators have created a landmark deal. But does it go far enough to stop environmental catastrophe?
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Paul's Update 12/16

HBR 5 Essential Principles for Understanding Analytics

				5 Essential Principles for Understanding Analytics Where to start learning if you don’t know the basics.
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How the Next Big Management Ideas Will Arise

				How the Next Big Management Ideas Will Arise The most thoughtful theorists aren’t content to promulgate a brilliant insight and preserve it in amber.
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Why Collaboration Leads to Higher-Impact Innovations

				Why Collaboration Leads to Higher-Impact Innovations 74% of CPG professionals believe their company is not collaborating effectively at all. So what are companies sacrificing by not investing in and encouraging better...
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Why Acting as One Company Isn’t Easy

				Why Acting as One Company Isn’t Easy Firms that want to unite far-flung units often struggle to get employees to collaborate.
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What Skills Do Employers Say They Want in Online Job Postings?

				What Skills Do Employers Say They Want in Online Job Po... By Monica Herk, Vice President of Education Research Source: Burning Glass Technologies, The Human Factor, 2015 Approximately 60-70% of all job openings are n...
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Humans take note: Artificial intelligence just got a lot smarter

				Humans take note: Artificial intelligence just got a lot... Today’s artificial intelligence may not be that clever, but it just got much quicker on the uptake. A learning program designed by a trio of researchers can now rec...
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How Does Your Leadership Team Rate

http://firstround.com/review/how-does-your-leadership-team-rate/

27 Question to Ask Instead of “What Do You Do?” — Personal Growth

				27 Question to Ask Instead of “What Do You Do?” — Pers... I love the little traditions that develop organically at Buffer. One of them is to welcome each new teammate with a long…
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America's Shrinking Middle Class Is at a 'Tipping Point'

				America's Shrinking Middle Class Is at a 'Tipping Point' It’s now smaller than the upper and lower economic tiers combined, a Pew study finds.
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