Paul's Update 7/14

Disruptive Power Lies at the Intersections

				Disruptive Power Lies at the Intersections When I first started using the term “Combinatorial”, people thought I was making words up. Although I’d like to take credit for the word, I first came across it whe...
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Your Top 10 Productivity Killers And How To Fix Them

				Your Top 10 Productivity Killers And How To Fix Them How to cut through all those emails, meetings, and noisy coworkers to finally get things done.
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Rejecting Ideas Doesn’t Have to Cause Resentment

				Rejecting Ideas Doesn’t Have to Cause Resentment Preserve your organization’s innovative culture.
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Innovation and Creativity

				Innovation and Creativity ‘Creativity’ has become one of the most highly praised and prestigious concepts in modern business. Corporations are extremely keen to have a lot of it around and w...
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Overworking Your Brain Can Spark Ideas

				Overworking Your Brain Can Spark Ideas Mental exhaustion can unleash creativity, research shows
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Almost 3 In 5 Employees Think Work Emails Are Ruining Family Mealtimes

				Almost 3 In 5 Employees Think Work Emails Are Ruining... After-hours work communications are having a real impact on employees' work-life balance, according to a recent survey.
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How Wealth and Education Drive Healthy Food Choices

				How Wealth and Education Drive Healthy Food Choices Policy makers need to focus on spreading awareness of healthy foods among low-income and low-education households, says Wharton’s Jessie Handbury.
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Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong

				Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is... Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.
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Paul's Update 7/13

What Makes People Creative? - The Curious Creative

				What Makes People Creative? - The Curious Creative With a better sense of the characteristics of creative people we can speak more confidently about what makes up 'being creative".
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Better Business Through Creativity - FleishmanHillard

				Better Business Through Creativity - FleishmanHillard Business process consultant Elizabeth Grygo discusses the importance of getting creativity out of more than just the marketing/advertising departments.
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How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity

				How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity Behind Pixar’s string of hit movies, says the studio’s president, is a peer-driven process for solving problems.
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McKinsey: Eight Essentials of Innovation

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/innovation/the_eight_essentials_of_innovation?cid=other-eml-ttn-mip-mck-oth-1506

How Great Leaders Ask Great Questions

				How Great Leaders Ask Great Questions How well do you ask questions? From my experience, most managers don’t think about this issue. After all, you don’t usually find “the ability...
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How Do You Become an Authentic Leader?

				How Do You Become an Authentic Leader? Leaders are increasingly engaging in fierce competition over their companies’ very identities. At risk is their ability to successfully manage their relati
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career: Staying in the Know 06-10

				career: Staying in the Know 06-10 Staying in the Know In an era of information overload, getting the right information remains a challenge for time-pressed executives. Is it time to overhaul your pe...
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The Holy Grail of Leadership: Finding Flow

				The Holy Grail of Leadership: Finding Flow As a leader, what are you searching for? More profits, a better product? The way forward? I want to challenge that. I think what you are searching for, as a leader,...
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You do NOT Need to be In Charge to Lead - New To HR

				You do NOT Need to be In Charge to Lead - New To HR Demonstrating leadership abilities in your current position, no matter what level you are will only increase your chances of becoming a better person, a better empl...
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Paul's Update 7/9

10 Things Successful/Effective Communicators Do Differently 

http://www.situationalcommunication.com/10-things-successfuleffective-communicators-do-differently/

7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Decade Will Bring

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html

Preparing for Work and Learning in 2020

http://jarche.com/2015/06/preparing-for-2020/?utm_content=bufferc9dd7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The 1 Time-Management Trick That Actually Works

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/the-1-time-management-trick-that-actually-works.html

You Don’t Need a Promotion to Grow at Work

https://hbr.org/2015/06/you-dont-need-a-promotion-to-grow-at-work?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Sunday%20-%20Best%20of%20The%20Web&utm_campaign=%2A%20New%20BOTW%20Template%207%2F5%2F15

Why It’s Everyone’s Job to Be a Thought Leader

http://switchandshift.com/why-its-everyones-job-to-be-a-thought-leader

What the leader of the future looks like?

http://www.game-changer.net/2015/07/06/what-the-leader-of-the-future-looks-like/#.VZwp2xNViko

Advice from the Woman Who Has Mastered the Art of Useful Feedback

http://www.fastcompany.com/3048078/lessons-learned/advice-from-the-woman-who-has-mastered-the-art-of-useful-feedback?utm_source

Paul's Update 7/8

Innovation Starts with the Heart, Not the Head

https://hbr.org/2015/06/you-innovate-with-your-heart-not-your-head

Bringing Out The Best In Those You Lead

http://www.tanveernaseer.com/3-steps-to-bringing-out-the-best-in-those-you-lead/

Five Hacks for Better Wi-Fi at Events

http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/five-ways-to-get-better-wi-fi-at-an-event

The Best Free Online Neuroscience Courses

https://theconnectome.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/the-best-free-online-neuroscience-courses/

Make It OK for Employees to Challenge Your Ideas

https://hbr.org/2015/05/make-it-ok-for-employees-to-challenge-your-ideas

A Thriving Future of Places: Placemaking as the New Urban Agenda

http://www.pps.org/a-thriving-future-of-places-placemaking-as-the-new-urban-agenda/

10 Ways to Create an Employee Engagement Culture

http://youearnedit.com/blog/10-ways-to-create-an-employee-engagement-culture/

The Return of Creativity and  Design

https://econsultancy.com/blog/66649-the-return-of-creativity-and-design/

Paul's Update 7/7

The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders

https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-top-complaints-from-employees-about-their-leaders

The 4 Types of Introvert: Which Are You?

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-4-types-of-introvert-which-are-you.html

2015 The Future of Quality: Quality Throughout (Report)

http://asq.org/future-of-quality/

Brick-laying robot can build a full-sized house in two days

http://www.gizmag.com/hadrian-brick-laying-robot-fastbrick/38239/

Driving Revenue Growth through Sustainable Products and Services (Report)

http://irrcinstitute.org/pdf/FINAL-TCB-Sustainable-Products-July-2015.pdf

Nearing Retirement? It's Time to be Creative

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/your-money/nearing-retirement-its-time-to-be-creative.html?_r=0

What's the Best Way to Take Notes?

http://theconversation.com/whats-the-best-most-effective-way-to-take-notes-41961

How HR should reinvent leadership development

http://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/hr/features/1152367/how-hr-should-reinvent-leadership-development

Paul's Update 7/6

Don't miss PIE-Up (Meet & Greet) Tuesday, 8am, Grand Traverse Pie Company, Hagadorn and Grand River, East Lansing.

Still some technical issues with the Update appearance. Articles are the same.  Paul

How to Find the Hidden Leaders in Your Business

http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/2015/06/26/how-to-find-the-hidden-leaders-in-your-business/

Creativity Lessons From Prolific Founding Fathers

http://www.inc.com/ilan-mochari/federalist-papers-creativity.html

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg thinks telepathy tech is on its way

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-telepathy-tech?CMP=share_btn_link

Why Workplace Flexibility Is The Linchpin To Employee Happiness

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2015/06/29/why-workplace-flexibility-is-the-linchpin-to-employee-happiness/

5 Ways Brilliant Leaders Create Outstanding Solutions

http://www.inc.com/peter-economy/5-ways-brilliant-leaders-create-outstanding-solutions.html

Ten Things Your Employees Should Know -- But They Don't

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2015/06/30/ten-things-your-employees-should-know-but-they-dont/

Bored of mindfulness? Give mindlessness a try

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jun/12/give-mindlessness-a-try

How to Hack Your Brain for Greater Focus

http://www.inc.com/jayson-demers/how-to-hack-your-brain-for-greater-focus.html

10 Books To Read That Will Give Your Creativity A Boost

http://thoughtcatalog.com/jessica-millis/2015/02/10-books-to-read-that-will-give-your-creativity-a-boost/

50 Global Entrepreneurs Recommend 50 Books That Forever Impacted Their Lives

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247511