tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40921912935125482432024-02-06T21:56:45.442-08:0042ProjectsManagement Innovation blogRossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-81857130742159429732015-05-31T17:08:00.001-07:002015-05-31T17:08:24.298-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Hack the Quake <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://directionkathmandu.com/event/hackthequake/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Direction Katmandu</span></a><span style="color:#1F497D"> and <a href="http://www.hackthequake.com/#home-3">HackTheQuake</a></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A technology competition is taking place in Kathmandu next month with an aim to innovate new projects to help the national reconstruction process in wake of the devastating April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">IoE Alumni, a network of ex-students of the Institute of Engineering (IOE) of Tribhuvan University, and Janaki Technology Pvt Ltd are jointly organising the HackTheQuake event, that will award three best technologies with Rs 50,000 and help execute them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Issuing a press statement today, the organisers have called for "innovative ideas and concepts that use locally available resources, are cheap to make and do not require a lot of hi-tech equipment." The ideas can cover a number of sectors such as temporary housing, toilets, drinking water access, information access, and solar electricity access.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Tech enthusiasts can submit their proposals to help the reconstruction process by June 15 and the best three proposals will be selected by a judging panel and public voting. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">DEADLINE : JUNE 15<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">DETAILS: </span><a href="http://www.hackthequake.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">www.hackthequake.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">How to get kids' attention? Skype in the classroom<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://on.today.com/1AFNOty"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Today.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">How are some teachers getting kids interested in learning? Skype in the classroom! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Skype is making waves in the classroom, quickly becoming one of best ways to get kids interested in learning is to make it fun and interactive. TODAY's Erica Hill reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">To Spark Creativity, Pursue Happiness <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://99u.com/workbook/42165/to-spark-creativity-pursue-happiness"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">99u</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">If you want to increase creativity, it helps to be happy. Positive emotions increase our curiosity in the world around us and open our minds to new experiences, skills and ideas. In PBS's series </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topic/creativity/creativity" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue">This Emotional Life</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, they discuss the link between creativity and positive emotions:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Researchers have found that creativity is less likely to occur in the presence of sadness, anger, fear, and anxiety—and that it is more likely to occur with positive emotions, such as joy and love. One study found that people are more likely to come up with a creative idea if they felt happy the day before, and then they feel happy when they are creative. Creativity contributes to an "upward spiral" of positive emotions and greater happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Just by being creative, we can kick start an upward spiral of positive emotions which allow us to handle the often negative environment we create within. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What happens when the stress becomes too much to bear? We can create our way out of that as well. In an article from </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/lifestyle/beautiful-skin/11582987/creative-activities-for-adults.html" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue">The Telegraph</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, they suggest three activities inspired from our childhood to reduce stress: coloring, writing and physical play. By focusing on a simple repetitive task, coloring calms our mind and acts as a meditative technique. Writing for 15 to 30 minutes about a stressful life event improves not only your mood, but also physical health, memory and sleep. And how could jumping on a giant trampoline or playing in an adult ball pool not put you in a good mood?</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Windowless Planes to Hit Skies in Next Decade, Company Says <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/windowless-planes-hit-skies-decade/story?id=26554319"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">ABC News</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="https://vimeo.com/78458486"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Vimeo</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Imagine flying on an airplane and being able the clouds all around you. That's what one company plans on achieving in the next 10 years -- an airplane without windows. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), a U.K.-based cutting edge technology association, envisioned the next generation aircraft in efforts to conserve fuel, while drastically transforming the customer experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">"Removing the windows will significantly reduce the weight of the aircraft, saving fuel and therefore reducing operational costs," says Matthew Herbert, marketing manager for CPI. "The windows will be replaced by high quality flexible OLED displays that are connected to digital cameras integrated into the exterior of the plane," he says. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Lower operational costs, the company claims, will in turn result in reduced airfares.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/537716/machine-learning-algorithm-mines-rap-lyrics-then-writes-its-own/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Technology Review</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">University of Aalto researchers developed a machine-learning algorithm that recognizes the salient features of a few lines of rap music and then chooses another line that rhymes in the same way and is about the same topic. The researchers focused on the way assonance, which describes the repetition of similar vowel sounds, appears in rap lyrics. The researchers trained the DeepBeat algorithm on a database of over 10,000 songs from more than 100 rap artists. DeepBeat converts words into phonemes and then scans the list of phonemes looking for similar vowel sounds while ignoring consonant sounds and spaces; it also seeks sequences of matching vowel sounds in the previous two lines or so, and defines the rhyming density as the average of all the longest sequences in the lyrics. This technique enabled the researchers to rank all the rap artists in the database according to their rhyming density. The team used this metric to compare the automated raps with human-generated ones. They programmed DeepBeat to analyze a sequence of lines from a rap lyric and then choose the next line from a list that contains randomly chosen lines from other songs as well as the actual line. "An 82-percent accuracy was achieved for separating the true next line from a randomly chosen line," says University of Aalto's Eric Malmi.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Brain implant allows paralysed man to sip a beer at his own pace <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27580-brain-implant-allows-paralysed-man-to-sip-a-beer-at-his-own-pace.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">New Scientist</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Implants placed in the region of the brain that governs planning of motor movements could give people who have suffered spinal injuries more fluid movement. The California Institute of Technology's Richard Andersen and colleagues placed an implant in the posterior parietal cortex of a man paralyzed from the neck down. They report the man controlled a robotic arm with unprecedented fluidity. People with similar injuries have controlled prosthetic limbs using implants placed in the motor cortex, but placing implants in an area of the brain responsible for the mechanics of movements has resulted in delayed, jerky motions, as the person thinks about all the individual aspects of the movement. Each implant contained electrodes that recorded the activity of hundreds of individual neurons, and the patterns of electrical activity from each neuron firing while the subject imagined making different arm and eye movements were recorded for almost two years. The researchers then transmitted data from the implant to a computer, which translated it into instructions to move a separate robotic arm. "We thought this would allow us to decode brain activity associated with the overall goal of a movement--for example, 'I want to pick up that cup', rather than the individual components," Andersen says.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Smartphones, Twitter Help Gauge Crowd Size <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://phys.org/news/2015-05-smartphones-twitter-gauge-crowd-size.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Phys.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">University of Warwick researchers used data from Twitter and from Italian phone companies to develop a computer model that can accurately show the size of a crowd. The model could help first responders in an emergency, according to the researchers. The mobile phone system is cellular, meaning it is a grid comprised of pockets where users are connected via a relay antenna. When there are more users in a pocket, a spike can be seen in the volume of phone calls, short messaging services messages, and tweets. The researchers transcribed these spikes into estimates of crowd numbers. They first calibrated the model on data collected during 10 soccer matches at the San Siro stadium, where the attendance was known. The researchers then used the model to estimate the number of people at Milan's Linate airport at different times of day. "Accurate estimates of the number of people in a given location at a given time can be extrapolated from mobile phone data, without requiring users to install further applications on their smartphones," the researchers note.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Lessons in Creative Alchemy from Black Sabbath<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.campaignlive.com/article/lessons-creative-alchemy-black-sabbath/1348979#V4z4ifiWHihyhT8S.99"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Campaign</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">…the value of embracing the problem of your problem. A way of using the weight of an obstacle to your advantage. Consider this the next time you're faced with an impossible brief, or an unreasonable, yet unmovable, demand. At such a point you have three choices. You can fight against it. You can give up. Or, as Mr. Iommi did, use the cruel hand that fate has dealt you to your advantage and create a whole new kind of music.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Food & Wine unveils its emoji keyboard for foodies<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/05/28/food-wine-unveils-its-emoji-keyboard-foodies"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Medium</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Time Inc.'s Food & Wine has rolled out an emoji keyboard that includes a burger, taco and even a cronut.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The keyboard features more than 25 emojis, GIFs, and stickers that the company says reflects "the biggest food obsessions of the moment."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Emojis also include chefs and trendy restaurant dishes, such as the live-ant-covered shrimp at Copenhagen's Noma<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Your Next Tweet Could Save an Endangered Animal<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.goodnet.org/articles/your-next-tweet-could-save-endangered-animal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">GoodNet.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a name="_GoBack"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Adding a smiley face, shining sun or a cute monkey emoji to a social media post can enhance the message more than simply using words. The </span></a><a href="http://wwf.panda.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">World Wildlife Fund</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> has taken a cue from the world of emojis and is using the colorful and animated icons to improve the lives of animals in need. <br> Through their new campaign #</span><a href="http://endangeredemoji.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">EndangeredEmoji</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, users are invited to tweet 17 handpicked animal emojis to raise funds to directly aid their real life animal counterparts. Each emoji is worth €0.10 ($0.11), and at the end of the month WWF will tweet users with their total #EndangeredEmoji use, providing a link to donate. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="WAC"></a><a name="CXE"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-45179876642919978672015-04-10T15:36:00.001-07:002015-04-10T15:36:27.432-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">#79 Carve Out Social Times<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/carve-out-social-times-to-connect-at-work">Michael Lee Stallard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Schedule regular social time for people to connect. Genentech has weekly Friday afternoon social times where they serve drinks and snacks. We know a manager who orders pizza and salad for his team every other Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">During the warm summer months, organize an ice cream social on Friday afternoon to bring your team together for conversation (include fruit for the those who prefer a more healthy alternative). You should help serve those in attendance and once everyone is served make your way around to say hello to everyone. Avoid talking about work matters and instead ask people about their interests outside of work and what they are looking forward to over the remainder of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This is the seventy-ninth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">4 Techniques to Develop Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipdoneright.com/4-techniques-develop-leaders/">Leadership Done Right</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The world we live in is crying out for people to guide other people that don’t have a sense of direction. There’s so much terror and poverty in so many countries over the world and the tragic thing is that there’s nobody doing anything about it. It’s a widely renowned fact that things don’t change for anyone until they themselves try to change the course of things. For that reason, it is very important to develop leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This leads us to the topic of this article: How can a person, a normal person that used to not care about anything in their life, step up and lead a caravan of people to a brighter destiny? How can that person develop leaders in others to progress and improve? How can the course of things be changed by the will and zeal of people led by a formidable leader? The answer to these questions is simple: It’s human nature to find some driving force and make it the reason of the rebellion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It’s a common man who has to wait for someone else to take the initiative and raise a voice, but it’s a leader, a special human being, a person with increased will and fervor to change how things are carried out that shapes the destiny of a nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Develop Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">So, today let’s discuss what could and should be the essential qualities in a person in order to act properly as a leader. If you have made up your mind and want to lead a certain group of people, then these are the things to remember:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Remember Your Status: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Motivate: Another important part of leading a group of people is to motivate them whenever you find the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Learn to Share: When you desire to develop leaders, remember that whatever comes into your knowledge needs to be shared with the people that believe in you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Stay firm: Last but not the least, you need to stay firm yourself. You can’t just feel a bit of pressure and bail out or try to take a break. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Seven Ways Curious Leaders Succeed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/seven-ways-curious-leaders-succeed/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Question what you know; explore what you don’t. Curiosity is a way of seeing. 4 powers of curious leadership: Curious leaders: Lower resistance. Ignite energy. Expand potential. Explore possibility. Lower resistance expand opportunity. 7 ways curious leaders succeed: Enable thinking from a new point of view. “What don’t you know?” Challenge assumptions. “How’s that working for you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Enable thinking from a new point of view. “What don’t you know?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Challenge assumptions. “How’s that working for you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Reveal new capacities. “Did you know that you’re really good at…?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Expose unseen obstacles. “What if….?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Clarify ambiguities. “Could you help me understand …?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Share experience. “What has experience taught you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.5in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Connect with others who have experience. “I wonder who might know about this?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The world is filled with information, but curiosity solves problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Incredible Work Habits of 12 Great Artists<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/62254/incredible-work-habits-12-great-artists">Mental Floss</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What does it take to make great art? Work habits and muses may vary.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1. Salvador Dali<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">2. Gerhard Richter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. VINCENT VAN GOGH<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">4. Willem de Kooning<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">5. Andy Warhol<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">6. Henry Darger<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">7. Leonardo da Vinci<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">9. J.M.W. Turner<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">10. Michelangelo<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">11. GEORGIA O’KEEFFE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">12. GRANT WOOD<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Stats On Women In Tech Are Actually Getting Worse<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/27/women-in-tech_n_6955940.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Google just hired Ruth Porat, a former Morgan Stanley executive, to be its chief financial officer, and is paying her a reported $70 million. You’d think that’s a sign that things are looking up for women in the tech industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Not quite.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The percentage of computing jobs held by women has actually fallen over the past 23 years, according to a new study.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In 2013, just 26 percent of computing jobs in the U.S. were held by women, down from 35 percent in 1990, according to the study released Thursday by the American Association of University Women, a nonprofit that promotes gender equality. During that same period, the number of women earning computing degrees also declined.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Best Advice: You Can Do Better</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-advice-you-can-do-better-douglas-conant">LinkedIn - Douglas Conant</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><a href="http://blog.linkedin.com/2015/02/03/best-advice/">All #BestAdvice</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It is my belief that even the briefest interactions wield limitless potential. The power of a few well-timed and sincerely delivered words can have life-changing impact. I’ve seen it firsthand, and benefited immensely from the advice delivered to me in pivotal moments throughout my life and leadership journey.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I’ve </span><a href="https://hbr.org/2013/07/leaders-choose-your-words-wise/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">written about</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> the many resounding interactions with mentors, colleagues, family, and friends that have influenced my behavior; their words have meant so much to me, and left an indelible imprint. I’ve also spoken about the TouchPoints that have defined my work and life trajectory in keynote speeches, and I’ve celebrated the infinite capacity of brief interactions to leave a positive imprint, in my book co-authored with Mette Norgaard, </span><a href="http://conantleadership.com/touchpoints/"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">TouchPoints</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">But of all the moments — of all the helpful, indispensable words spoken to me — I think the one that cast the most memorable light on my life was a call-to-action from a revered mentor, which <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">challenged</span></em> me to reach beyond my current capabilities.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">100 Leadership Quotes I’m Memorizing by End of 2015<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://paulsohn.org/100-leadership-quotes-im-memorizing-by-end-of-2015/">Paul Sohn</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter. F Drucker<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">2. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what do do and let them surprise you with their results. — George S. Patton<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">4. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">5. Great leadership is about human experiences. It’s not a formula or a program. It is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine — Lance Secretan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">16. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">31. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock — Thomas Jefferson <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">100. You teach what you know; you reproduce what you are. – Leif Hetland<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Create a Learning Environment</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://switchandshift.com/how-to-create-a-learning-environment">Switch and Shift</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Organizations cannot really change people and educate them, that is something employees have to do themselves. As a manager, if you feel responsible for people’s self-development–and you should be–a good alternative is to tweak the environment so that people change themselves, educate themselves, and start developing the desired habits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">One company that understands this well is the Australian software company Atlassian. Once every three months, they select a day on which everyone in the company works for the entire day on an idea of their own choosing. The requirement is that they deliver a result in just 24 hours, hence the name ShipIt day. (The original name was actually FedEx day, but the FedEx company started to voice concerns about this.) Several other organizations, including Facebook and Spotify, organize similar internal events called hackathons or hack days. It pretty much boils down to the same thing. Business stands still for one day—some people even stay at the office for a whole night—and everyone learns.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Innovative Organisation: Learning From Design Firms<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://knowledge.insead.edu/blog/insead-blog/the-innovative-organisation-learning-from-design-firms-3833">Insead</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The world’s top design firms have innovation down to almost a science. For traditional incumbents looking to build innovative capabilities, design can be the ideal catalyst.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Designers’ most valuable capabilities have nothing to do with Photoshop, or any tool or technique for “designing”. They are much more about setting a direction than executing directives, more about shaping creativity to practical needs than indulging flights of fancy. By observing how many design firms work, I have identified three core organisational capabilities at which they particularly excel, which also comprise the rudiments of any innovation journey: user-centric insighting, deep and diverse ideating, and rapid and cheap iterating.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How Trust Can Unlock Superior Performance<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://conantleadership.com/trust-can-unlock-superior-performance">Conant Leadership</a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In a high-trust environment, populated by contributors with great competence and laudable character, even the most challenging task can be accomplished. Often without much fanfare. People do what they say they are going to do. Contributors listen carefully to one another to safeguard against miscommunication. Engaged colleagues rally around a shared vision, have each other’s back, and are aligned properly to produce results that meet, and often exceed expectations. Trust is the lubricant that enables the high-functioning human machinery of an ideal enterprise. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Put simply: <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">breeding high-trust is essential to delivering extraordinary results in an enduring way.</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As you might expect (or may have even experienced), the alternative is all too common and yields a much less desirable result: a low-trust environment, where competence is questionable and character is murky; in these workplace climates, even the most mundane task can seem unachievable. The efforts of the group become marred by chaos. I contend that in the absence of trust, potential doom looms large. Mistrust causes discord when people fail to listen to one another. It festers and begets resentment when people don’t do what they say they’re going to do. It multiplies exponentially as people strive in futility, without a clear direction or alignment around goals. Mistrust thrives in the pettiness and incompetence it helps to create, and it almost always leads to sub-optimal performance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This is why <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">building trust is the absolute first thing a leader must do</span></strong>. When I developed the </span><a href="http://youtu.be/ULPUKRUA_8w"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Campbell Leadership Model</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, Before a leader can create direction, align the organization, build vitality, or deliver excellence – the trust must be there. Before he or she can surpass the expectations of all the stakeholders, materialize a transformational initiative, or steady a ship that has drifted off course, the trust must be there. Without it, there will simply be no foundation for results. Think of trust as the roots – and everything else a leader must manifest as the tree. You’ve got to put down the roots if you expect the branches to sprout, grow strong, and inch ever-higher towards the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Think Like a Scientist</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6PrEMNYvog">YouTube</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This is a remix/edit made from two short videos by science journalist Alan Dove<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-81052083039538333042015-02-22T16:11:00.001-08:002015-02-22T16:11:49.549-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Scientific & Technical Oscars 2015: Complete list of winners <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/english/hollywood/news/Scientific-Technical-Oscars-2015-Complete-list-of-winners/articleshow/46298104.cms"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Times of India</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">…the winners for Scientific & Technical Awards for this year have been announced. Named after late veteran Hollywood sound director Gordon E. Sawyer, this award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Devices give blind filmgoers Oscar-worthy experience </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2015/02/19/oscarsblind/UPGHe0Os7xAUgqPctQLIzM/story.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Boston Globe</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Like a lot of movie buffs, Carl Richardson loves to take in the Oscar-nominated films during the run-up to the Academy Awards. But it can be frustrating because he’s blind. He’s able to follow the movie’s story line when there’s dialogue, but it’s confusing when there’s silence, or during action scenes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This year, though, is different. Seven of the eight films nominated for best picture use so-called “descriptive” technology that makes them more accessible to the visually impaired, and Richardson is happily working his way through the Oscar contenders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The technology involves transmitting an audio description of scenes to moviegoers who wear a programmed wireless headset, providing an additional track of narration during natural pauses in the film. It describes the action and provides context when there is no dialogue to guide the moviegoer. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">For the Oscars, theater gets a tech upgrade <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-2015-dolby-theater-gets-a-tech-upgrade/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">CBS News</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">During the show, technology will help stars and their fans connect through social media. This year, the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oscars-2015-julianne-moore-to-help-design-green-room/"> Oscar green room</a>, designed by Architectural Digest, will have Samsung tablets and a "GIF mirror" to let celebrities send out their emotional reactions over Twitter.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The Academy has also added a 4G LTE cell tower for connectivity<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Apple shot its Oscars ad with the iPad Air 2 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/22/8084311/apple-oscars-ad-ipad-air-martin-scorsese"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Verge</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The commercial features several groups of high school students as they shoot different projects using the iPad as their camera, overlaid by an inspirational voiceover from Martin Scorsese, who extolls the virtues of hard work and experimentation as the keys to creative success. And while the piece has the kind of delicate score and evocative images that one would expect from an Apple ad, the spot was actually shot on the iPad Air 2 itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">For the commercial, Apple partnered with the LA County High School for the Arts, a performing and visual arts school located in Los Angeles. Student filmmakers were provided with iPads and shot their projects over a weekend, during which their efforts were documented — also using an iPad Air 2. That behind-the-scenes footage is what makes up the ad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Next up at the 2016 Oscars: Virtual Reality</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/02/22/future-oscars-nominees-may-be-oculus-virtual-reality-movies/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Bostinno</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Imagine a cinematic world that goes beyond 2D or even 3D—one that’s so immersive that you’d swear you could reach out and touch the characters and surroundings. Not only that, but you decide how the movie ends by exploring different paths within the storylines. While previously just a fantasy for filmmakers eager to draw audience members in, this has quickly become feasible, thanks to advancements in virtual reality technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Suddenly, we’re on the brink of an entirely new movie medium. Looking down the road a bit, could future Oscars nominees actually be virtual reality movies?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Oscar Goes to… Engineer Larry Hornbeck and His Digital Micromirrors <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/the-oscar-goes-to-engineer-larry-hornbeck-and-his-digital-micromirrors"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">IEEE Spectrum</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">At some point during Sunday’s Oscars telecast, in between actresses in stunning ball gowns, actors trying to redefine the tux, movie clips, dance routines, and acceptance speeches cut off when they go on too long, there will be a nod to the technology that makes it all possible. An announcer will talk about the Academy’s Science and Technical Awards, presented earlier this month, then an Oscar-winning engineer will wave from the audience. Don’t blink, or you might miss it.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">This year, that engineer will be <a href="http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Larry_J._Hornbeck"> Larry Hornbeck</a>, who developed the digital micromirror device (DMD) used in Texas Instruments’ digital light processing (DLP) projectors. He gets the Academy of Motion Pictures Award of Merit (that’s the official name for what most of us call the Oscar) for the invention.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/analog/dlp/how-dlp-works.page">http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/analog/dlp/how-dlp-works.page</a><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/analog/dlp/how-dlp-works.page">Micromirrors</a>—some 8 million on the 4K resolution version—tilt to turn pixels on and off by steering light. Hornbeck began working on an analog version of the technology in 1978; he developed the digital device in 1987; TI sold the first chipset in 1996; and Hornbeck saw the first major motion picture screened using the technology in 1999. Today the vast majority of <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/optoelectronics/bits-on-the-big-screen"> theaters that project movies digitally</a> use DLP.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Oscars nominees see online piracy surge <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31535132"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">BBC</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">American Sniper would win best picture and Birdman's Alejandro Inarritu best director if the Oscars were determined by online piracy rates, a study says. It suggests being nominated in one of the four major categories has a particularly profound effect on illegal downloads of indie and art house films.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The authors suggest that producers of such movies become more flexible about how and when their titles are released. But one industry expert said that was easier said than done.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The report was carried out by Irdeto, a Netherlands-based company that sells piracy controls to the pay-TV sector. It used "crawler" software to monitor downloads via Bittorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing services around the world and says its figures represent the minimum number of illegal downloads.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Chelmsford's Axis Communications to provide video security technology for the Oscars<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/techflash/2015/02/chelmsfords-axis-communications-to-provide-video.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Biz Journals</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Axis Communications, a Swedish company with its North American headquarters in Chelmsford, has struck a deal with the Los Angeles Police Department to provide video security technology for the Oscars this Sunday. Several of Axis's Internet-connected cameras will be strategically placed in and around Hollywood's Dolby Theater, and the images will be transferred to the police station's command center so that officers there can relay information to those stationed at the event, said James Marcella, director of technical services at Axis. "The Oscars (event) is temporary in nature, and these cameras aren't placed there year-round," Marcella said in an interview. "So, they need a technology that can be deployed quickly and can interface through wireless technology back to the command center."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Axis has been providing video-security for the Oscars for at least three years, Marcella said. The event is one of the most challenging from a security perspective, he said. That's because certain colors — like the bright hue of the red carpet — are hard for cameras to render, and flashes from light bulbs on cameras change the lighting in the video transmission feeds dramatically. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Comcast to Tout Technology for the Blind During Oscars <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/02/20/comcast-to-tout-technology-for-the-blind-during-oscars/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">WSJ</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Comcast CMCSA +1.12% will make its debut as a national advertiser in the Oscars in Sunday’s telecast. The topic won’t be promotions or new services, but rather TV technology for the blind.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The cable giant is running a nationwide, 60-second ad promoting its new talking guide that reads aloud titles and selections to help visually impaired and blind people surf through their TV guides, set digital video recordings and browse video-on-demand options. Comcast says it’s the first such guide offered in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Typical 60-second spots for the Academy Awards tend to go for $4 million apiece. While the cable giant tends to buy regional ad spots to hawk its promotions, Comcast says it’s going national with this ad because it wants to spark a broader conversation about improving the entertainment experience for disabled people. The company believes the talking guide could not only help those who are blind, but also seniors and people with reading disabilities.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Oscars And Social Media: When Facebook Can Be Better Than Twitter <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2015/02/22/social-media-and-the-oscars-when-facebook-can-be-better-than-twitter/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Yes, Ellen’s <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ellen-degeneres-oscar-selfie-tops-757364"> selfie</a> was a decidedly better way to break the Internet. And <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2014/03/03/how-i-watched-the-oscars-through-14-million-twitter-users/"> as I mentioned last year</a>, while I was on a train coming home during the Oscars, it was <a href="/companies/twitter/">Twitter</a> <a href="/companies/twitter/">TWTR +0.84%</a> that kept me updated. So I understand that when it comes to Hollywood’s big night, Twitter and television are the perfect pairing in many homes.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">But let me make a case for why <a href="http://www.forbes.com/facebook-ipo/"> Facebook</a> might be the better <a href="http://www.forbes.com/social-media/">social media</a> for your Oscar companion tonight, with one important caveat: If you are mainly interested <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscars-social-media-20150219-story.html#page=1"> in what’s making instant news (good, bad and ugly)</a> then stick with Twitter. It’s like watching the Oscars at a public screening where it’s expected that people can snark at will. But if witticisms from the Twitterati are wearing thin for you, consider my partner’s plan for a Facebook Oscar party, which is much more like having your friends over.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">We hosted an Oscar party for years when we lived in Kansas City and it was always the rowdiest party of the year. When we moved to NYC and then Colorado, we missed those parties, so the next best thing was to host a physical-virtual mash-up. It turns out the virtual party had its own virtues, because it brought friends together from many locations, and it worked better for those who didn’t need to hire babysitters.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Can You Solve Neil Patrick Harris' Oscars 2015 Anagrams?</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.justjared.com/2015/02/22/can-you-solve-neil-patrick-harris-oscars-2015-anagrams/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Just Jared</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">If you follow Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter, you probably saw him tweeting some nonsensical phrases a few weeks ago after the Oscars nominations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The 41-year-old actor came up with a bunch of Oscars-themed anagrams for his followers to solve and to celebrate the awards show happening this weekend, we gathered them all up for you here along with the answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Oscars 2015: Big Data number crunchers try their hand at calling the awards<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscar-big-data-number-crunchers-best-picture-predictions-20150221-story.html#page=1"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">LA Times</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Given that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is an anonymous body of about 6,600 — and not, say, a market with decades of history or an election with dozens of finely honed polls — there's no reason to think Big Data will do better than the insider pundits (or dart-throwers) at predicting the Academy Awards. In fact, members of the data community have acknowledged this, notably in a FiveThirtyEight post last year titled "Why It's Hard to Predict Oscar Winners" that concluded that "for now, a market-beating Oscar prediction model is probably out of the picture."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Still, that hasn't stopped many outlets, including FiveThirtyEight itself, from trying.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are some of the more notable efforts, including their methodology and their sure-fire, numbers-tested winners for this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Facebook Creates Trending Experience for Oscars<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/trending-oscars/615606"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">AdWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The 87th <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/academy-awards-stats/432933"> Academy Awards</a> will be presented Sunday night, and Facebook created a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oscars"> Trending Oscars</a> experience for users looking to join the conversation.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Facebook is also teaming up with <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/dancing-with-the-stars-apis/428317"> ABC Entertainment</a>, allowing fans to ask nominees questions via the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica"> Facebook page</a> for <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/abc-good-morning-america-socialsquare/433411"> <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Good Morning America</span></em></a>, as well as incorporating real-time Facebook data on the most-buzzed-about nominees into the television network’s red-carpet broadcast.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Engineering manager Yuval Kesten, strategic partnerships executive <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/fall-tv/438083">Kelly Michelena</a> and product marketing manager <a href="http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/2014-year-in-review/439904">Peter Yang</a> said in a <a href="http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2015/02/trending-oscars-on-facebook/">Newsroom post</a> that last year’s Oscars generated 25.4 million combined posts, comments and likes from 11.3 million users.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Why There Should Be an Oscar Category for Dramatic Research<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/for-your-consideration-a-new-oscar-category/385592/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The annual fact-checking cycle hasn’t yet persuaded Hollywood films to transfigure all their biopics and historical dramas into documentaries. Writers <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/15/the-whitest-oscars-since-1998-why-the-selma-snubs-matter.html"> theorize</a> that publicly disputing the period details may contribute to a film’s failure to pick up a win or even a nomination, but lack of screeners and late releases could easily also be a factor when we’re talking about surmising the motivations of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/academy/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-20120219-story.html#page=1"> the primarily old, male Academy members who vote</a>. If anything, the sheer volume is drowning out when these fallacies matter and when they don’t. This isn’t to say that the idea of complicating one person’s version of history should stop—it's to say the practice should be challenged, made better, more helpful.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Some suggestions have already been offered. At <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Washington Post</span></em> Ann Hornaday posed <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/film-fact-checking-is-here-to-stay-so-lets-agree-on-some-new-rules/2015/01/02/9698f87c-92a6-11e4-ba53-a477d66580ed_story.html"> new rules</a> for watching biopics. According to her regulations, the audience should cultivate a “third eye” that would straddle the consideration of the facts with an appreciation for fiction. This is democratic—but also puts the onus entirely on the viewer. Fact-checking opinion pieces originate with viewers taking a film a tad too seriously, sure—but if universally poor movie-watching form was to blame, we might be besieged year-round, given the healthy number of stories based on real events that roll in, to less fanfare, year-round.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">There have been some proposals for systematic reform, too. Last year <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/02/04/history-accuracy-oscar-argo-zero/1888259/"> a piece in <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">USA Today</span></em></a> suggested movie studios might benefit from “couching” their films in more fictional terms. That’s fair, but the quoted analyst’s solutions were limiting—he suggesting not using real names, only telling really old stories, and writing a happy ending.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Acad’s Sci-Tech Oscars Raise the Bar On ‘Wow’ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://variety.com/2015/artisans/news/acads-sci-tech-oscars-raise-the-bar-on-wow-1201431521/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Variety</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">From finding new ways to shoot the most adrenaline-infused car chases to taking exhibition audio into new frontiers, this year’s recipients of the <a href="http://variety.com/t/academy-scientific-technical-awards/">Academy Scientific & Technical Awards</a> are pushing the limits of cinema in every way they can.<br> These awards are sometimes called the Sci-Tech Oscars, but most honorees are given plaques or certificates, as opposed to the fabled statuettes. Only two of the awards come with actual Oscars and those nods aren’t given every year, though this year both will be presented.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Bing has your Oscars 2015 predictions cheat sheet all filled out<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2885762/bing-has-your-oscars-2015-predictions-cheat-sheet-all-filled-out.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">PCWorld</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Microsoft has also put its Bing technology to work to pick World Cup winners, who was projected to win each NFL football game, the winner of the Super Bowl, Grammy winners, and more. It’s worth noting that Bing did fairly well in picking weekly NFL football winners—getting about two-thirds right, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-cortana-nfl-picks-week-17-2014-12"> according to Business Insider</a>—about what Las Vegas oddsmakers predicted. (Bing predicts winners “straight up,” while Las Vegas factors in a point spread.) Microsoft also correctly picked the New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl, and the winner for Record of the Year and more at the Grammy awards. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Naturally, Microsoft also has a <a href="http://az15297.vo.msecnd.net/images/rewards/membercenter/missions/Oscars_Ballot_2015.pdf"> printable Oscar ballot</a> for you to fill out. Who do you think will win? You can tell us below, or just shout it to the world on social media—chances are that Bing will see it. <a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-33176652843787342352015-01-11T14:25:00.001-08:002015-01-11T14:25:57.574-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Workplace Diversity is a Business Priority in New Year<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/workforce-diversity-2-business-priority-new-year-david-b-grinberg"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Every New Year brings with it unique challenges and opportunities for individuals as well as employers. This post will examine fostering workforce diversity as the #2 business priority in the year ahead. My prior post addressed strengthening cybersecurity as the #1 business priority for 2015. Forthcoming posts in this five-part series will focus on how companies can increase productivity, profits and create model workplaces by expanding work flexibility (#3), maximizing social media (#4) and firing malicious managers (#5).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Most savvy employers understand the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=business+case+for+diversity"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">business case for diversity</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, which has been well documented ad nauseam. It should be evident by now that diverse employees bring diverse ideas and viewpoints to the table which can promote positive change and spark business innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A diverse workforce challenges traditional and antiquated thinking with fresh out-of-the-box business concepts. This can subsequently improve productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of overall business operations and boost profits. Moreover, embracing diversity in the workplace can help companies expand their consumer base and improve recruitment, retention and advancement of talented employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:105%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Embracing and fostering workforce diversity on a national and global scale means large employers will not miss out on hiring the best available talent in a global marketplace. </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Messy Minds of Creative People<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2014/12/24/the-messy-minds-of-creative-people"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Scientific American</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">According to one prominent theory, the creative process involves four stages: preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification. This is all well and good in theory. In reality, the creative process often feels different.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The creative process– from the first drop of paint on the canvas to the art exhibition– involves a mix of emotions, drives, skills, and behaviors. It’d be miraculous if these emotions, traits and behaviors didn’t often conflict with each other during the creative process, creating inner and outer tension. Indeed, creative people are often seen as weird, odd, and eccentric.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Over the years, scientists have attempted to capture the personality of creative people. But it hasn’t been easy putting them under the microscope. As psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has interviewed creative people across various fields points out, creative people “show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an “individual,” each of them is a “multitude.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">So how can we possibly bring order to the messy minds of creators? A new paper offers some hope. Psychologists Guillaume Furst, Paolo Ghisletta and Todd Lubart present an integrative model of creativity and personality that is deeply grounded in past research on the personality of creative people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bringing together lots of different research threads over the years, they identified three “super-factors” of personality that predict creativity: Plasticity, Divergence, and Convergence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">When a challenge appraisal goes viral: The psychology behind the “contagion effect” of the #IceBucketChallenge <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://descrier.co.uk/science/challenge-appraisal-goes-viral-psychology-behind-contagion-effect-icebucketchallenge/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Descrier</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">During the 2014 summer, a new viral phenomenon has invaded social networking platforms and a tidal wave of videos showing people dumping a bucket of iced water on their heads from different countries and corners around the world sprouted everywhere on the internet. </span><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-ALS-Ice-Bucket-Challenge"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The original rules</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> are quite simple yet not necessarily explicit in many occasions where media outlets post videos related to the Ice bucket challenge. First, <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Get challenged</span></em>: either by friends, relatives or even co-workers who ask you to do the challenge; then <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Accept the challenge</span></em>: you have 24 hours to accept the challenge by filming yourself in a continuous footage where you start by showing your acceptance and then pouring ice water on your head; then <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Pass on the message</span></em>, by naming at least three more people you want to challenge and don’t forget to mention the website </span><a href="http://www.alsa.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">ALSA.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, the target of the donation. According to many sources, </span><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/post/_/id/39701/pete-frates-takes-ice-bucket-challenge"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Pete Frates</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> a former Bostonian College baseball player has originally promoted this challenge to promote donations for ALS (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">) patients. But when worldwide famous people get involved such as </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/mark-zuckerberg-ice-bucket-challenge_n_5678361.html?utm_hp_ref=impact"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Mark Zuckerberg</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS6ysDFTbLU"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bill Gates</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFF6EWVSACE"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Steven Spielberg</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/11/ethel-kennedy-ice-bucket-challenge_n_5669030.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Ethel Kennedy</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> in the story, the challenge has captured bigger attention from media which further fueled its virality in social networking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The interesting fact about the Ice Bucket Challenge, both from psychological and anthropological perspectives, is its dynamic evolution over a short period of time. First, the lack of real contributions to help financially ALS patients has drawn criticism toward the challenge by accusing the online movement for its </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">slacktivism</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. Consequently, </span><a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/1904680/ice-bucket-challenge-rules/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">slight modifications of the original rules</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> have been made to cope with these criticisms. For instance, if you don’t want to dump ice water on your head you may donate $100 to help ALS patients. Or if you accept the challenge, you still need to donate a reasonable amount of money but with no more than $10. Later videos have combined the challenge with genuine donations. </span><a href="http://www.mndaust.asn.au/Get-involved/Ice-Bucket-Challenge.aspx"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">An MND report from Australia</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> is a good example revealing that to date over $2,500,000 has been raised for MND research in Australia.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">What Books Do for the Human Soul: The Four Psychological Functions of Great Literature<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/09/school-of-life-literature-reading/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">BrainPickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The question of what reading does for the human soul is an eternal one and its answer largely ineffable, but this hasn’t stopped minds big and small from tussling with it — we have Kafka’s </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/06/kafka-on-books-and-reading/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">exquisite letter to his childhood friend</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, Maurice Sendak’s </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/09/03/maurice-sendak-posters-reading-books/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">visual manifestos for the joy of reading</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, and even my own answer to a nine-year-old girl’s question about </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/11/26/does-my-goldfish-know-who-i-am"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">why we have books</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> today.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Now comes a four-point perspective on the rewards of reading by writer and philosopher Alain de Botton and his team at </span><a href="http://www.theschooloflife.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The School of Life</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> — creators of those intelligent how-to guides to modern living, spanning everything from </span> <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/03/how-to-be-alone-school-of-life/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the art of being alone</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> to </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/05/how-to-stay-sane-philippa-perry/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the psychology of staying sane</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> to </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/02/14/how-to-think-more-about-sex-alain-de-botton/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">cultivating a healthier relationship with sex</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> to </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/23/how-to-find-fulfilling-work-roman-krznaric/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">finding fulfilling work</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. In this wonderful animated essay, they extol the value of books in expanding our circle of empathy, validating and ennobling our inner life, and fortifying us against the </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/15/john-gardner-failure/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">paralyzing fear of failure</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Tech 2015: Deep Learning And Machine Intelligence Will Eat The World<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/12/29/tech-2015-deep-learning-and-machine-intelligence-will-eat-the-world/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Despite what </span><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Stephen Hawking</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> or Elon Musk say, </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-biggest-existential-threat"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">hostile Artificial Intelligence</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> is not going to destroy the world anytime soon. What is certain to happen, however, is the continued ascent of the practical applications of AI, namely deep learning and machine intelligence. The word is spreading in all corners of the tech industry that the biggest part of big data, the unstructured part, possesses learnable patterns that we now have the computing power and algorithmic leverage to discern—and in short order.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The effects of this technology will change the economics of virtually every industry. And although the market value of machine learning and data science talent is climbing rapidly, the value of most human labor will precipitously fall. This change marks a true disruption, and there are fortunes to be made. There are also tremendous social consequences to consider that require as much creativity and investment as the more immediately lucrative deep learning startups that are popping up all over (but particularly in San Francisco.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Shivon Zilis, an investor at </span><a href="http://www.bloombergbeta.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">BloombergBETA</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> in San Francisco, put together the graphic below to show what she calls the </span><a href="http://www.shivonzilis.com/machineintelligence"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Machine Intelligence Landscape</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. The fund specifically focuses on “companies that change the world of work,” so these sorts of automation are a large area of concern. Zilis explains, “I created this landscape to start to put startups into context. I’m a thesis-oriented investor and it’s much easier to identify crowded areas and see white space once the landscape has some sort of taxonomy.”</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Transforming the Conversation on Women in Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/20/transforming-the-conversation-on-women-in-computer-science/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">TechCrunch</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Oracle Academy vice president Alison Derbenwick Miller is one of many people devoted to helping increase interest in computer science among young students, particularly girls and minorities. One of the ways to do this is through organizations supported by Oracle Academy, including Black Girls Code and Girls Who Code, but Miller says there are a number of other steps that need to be taken to reverse the gender imbalance in computer science. She says the effort should start with making computer science a core element of K-12 curriculum. From there it will be important to make computer science more relatable to students, in part by highlighting the connections between computer science and students' lives, something increasingly easy to do in the era of ubiquitous cellphones and smart devices. Miller also says it is important to provide students with real-life examples of women succeeding in computer science, especially women within their own communities. She thinks computer science extra-curricular activities also are an important way to drive sustained interest in computer science among girls, particularly in helping them see how computer science skills can be applied beyond the classroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">AT&T Builds an Assistant App With Social Skills<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533536/att-builds-an-assistant-app-with-social-skills/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Technology Review</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">AT&T researchers have developed a smart, digital address book that serves up contacts based on the user's communication patterns on a daily basis. The virtual assistant, called Contax, is designed to analyze users' call logs and text-messaging patterns to determine their most important relationships. Contax actively curates the top contacts, creating a "social circle" that will be just one tap away whenever the user pulls out their phone to call or text someone. AT&T must avoid the mistake of enabling Contax to make an excessive amount of suggestions at different times of day, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's Chris Schmandt. The current version would be accessible through the Web browser of a mobile device, but the developers say Contax could be turned into a downloadable app. Contax also could be modified to draw on email or social media in the future. The researchers are pitching Contax to other divisions to gauge interest in rolling it out as a product.<a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Bruce Lee on Self-Actualization<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2014/12/bruce-lee-self-actualization/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">FarnamStreetBlog</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Recently on reddit, Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon, did an </span><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2nys8t/this_is_shannon_lee_bruce_lee_was_my_dad_ask_me/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">ask me anything</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">One of the questions caught my attention:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">… of all your father’s philosophies, which do you feel we can all learn from? I am a huge fan of your father’s cinema, martial art form and of course his writings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Shannon Lee’s response was pretty amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I feel we can learn from his philosophy on self-actualization. I believe we are all still talking about him because he was so good at cultivating and expressing his true essence. If we all did that, we would all be cultivating our uniqueness and we would all put something original and truly authentic into the world because it would emanate from deep within ourselves which [is] a place that no one else can inhabit but ourselves! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">So I went digging to read some of Lee’s thoughts on this. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0804832633/farnamstreet-20"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bruce Lee: Artist of Life</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, he writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">… if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you’re absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castrating. It hides under the mask of “self-improvement.” It never works. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualizing and self-image actualizing is very important. Most people only live for their image. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are so busy projecting themselves as this or that. This again is the curse of the ideal. The curse is that you should not be what you are. Every external control, even internalized external control—”you should”—interferes with the healthy working of the organism. There is only one thing that should control the situation. If you understand the situation that you are in, and let the situation that you are in control your actions, then you learn how to cope with life. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking that IQ Tests Miss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rational-and-irrational-thought-the-thinking-that-iq-tests-miss/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Scientific American</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">No doubt you know several folks with perfectly respectable IQs who repeatedly make poor decisions. The behavior of such people tells us that we are missing something important by treating intelligence as if it encompassed all cognitive abilities. I coined the term “dysrationalia” (analogous to “dyslexia”), meaning the inability to think and behave rationally despite having adequate intelligence, to draw attention to a large domain of cognitive life that intelligence tests fail to assess. Although most people recognize that IQ tests do not measure every important mental faculty, we behave as if they do. We have an implicit assumption that intelligence and rationality go together—or else why would we be so surprised when smart people do foolish things?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="WAC"></a><a name="CXE"></a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-46421248629345515422014-12-21T18:31:00.001-08:002014-12-21T18:31:54.358-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">70 New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2014/11/70-new-years-resolutions-for-leaders.html">Eric Jacobsen</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and December 31, think about which couple you want to work on in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Don't micromanage<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Don't be a bottleneck<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Focus on outcomes, not minutiae<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Conduct annual risk reviews<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be courageous, quick and fair<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Talk more about values more than rules<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Constantly challenge your team to do better<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Celebrate your employees' successes, not your own<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Err on the side of taking action<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">13.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Communicate clearly and often<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">14.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be visible<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">15.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Eliminate the cause of a mistake<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">16.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">View every problem as an opportunity to grow<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">17.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Summarize group consensus after each decision point during a meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">18.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Praise when compliments are earned<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">19.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be decisive<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">20.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">21.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Send written thank you notes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">22.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Listen carefully and don't multi-task while listening<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">23.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Teach something new to your team<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">24.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Show respect for all team members<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">25.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Follow through when you promise to do something<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Bring Your Values to Life and Get the Culture You Want<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/bring-your-values-to-life_b_6238060.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In my work I help companies and teams get the culture that they want in their workplace. Sadly, sometimes there is a big gap between the culture that they have and the one they want. I work with teams to assist in assessing this gap and then using values definition and measurement to close this gap so they have the culture they want.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There are many definitions of culture in the workplace, mine is simply "the way things are done here", that is the collection of behaviors of the team. To explain this I often say to the team, "imagine if I were to set up CCTV in the workplace, what would I observe in the behaviors of the team, what would I hear people say to each other?" This is the culture, the way things are done. If I could I would go deeper and monitor what was going on in people's minds: what are they saying to themselves, what are they thinking, what are they feeling, etc. This would give even more insight.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Values help us choose right from wrong, they help us make decisions. We know when our values have been violated as it usually causes a trigger of intense emotion. Values alignment is important to any team or company.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">23 Things Great Leaders Always Do<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/23-things-great-leaders-always-do.html">Inc.com</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">No organization talks more about <a href="http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/7-things-great-leaders-always-do-but-mere-managers-always-fear.html"> leadership</a> and trying to teach its people to become excellent leaders than the U.S. Army. Having both served in the Army and reported on it, I've known more <a href="http://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/how-a-wounded-warriors-start-up-fuels-post-traumatic-growth.html"> military leaders</a> than I could possibly count. Most were admirable professionals. Some, unfortunately, didn't live up to the standards we have a right to expect. However, there were quite a few others who were truly amazing. These are the leaders who pass what I call the <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">kid brother test: </span></em>If your kid brother or sister had to go to war, you'd feel a little better knowing that these were the people in charge. In honor of the <a href="http://murph.me/1pRQgnI">Army Birthday</a>--the 239th anniversary of the date on which the Continental Congress first authorized the recruitment of troops--here are 23 things great leaders always do (most of which are taught in the U.S. Army).<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How Trashing Others Holds You Back<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://99u.com/articles/35779/how-trashing-others-holds-you-back">99u</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Most of us could probably populate a “People Who Antagonize Me” Twitter list without much effort. According to </span><a href="http://www.beyondcompare.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">my research with leadership coach Tanya Geisler</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, when we’re triggered by someone else, it’s usually because we’re simultaneously seeing something in them that we dislike, and denying its existence within ourselves. There’s a fix for it – and it won’t just make you less irritable. It might just unlock your potential in ways you never anticipated. Choose one of the people on your “antagonizing” list. Now ask yourself: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">What is it about them, specifically, that gets under my skin? (Really go to town with this; ranting and raving are welcome.)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">What about them do I <i>not </i>want for myself? What’s the specific behavior I don’t want to emulate?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">Why don’t I want to emulate it? Is there fear here? Embarrassment? What do I think would happen if <i>I </i>behaved this way? <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">What lessons is this person teaching me about what matters most to me?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Once you’re clear on why they’re driving you crazy, and what your standards really are, you can take this line of inquiry further – and transform it into real change:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">How has my reaction to this quality held me back from claiming my own full potential?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo8"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">What could I do if I gave myself permission to embody this quality, with discernment and in a way that’s true to my principles<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Leaders who don’t plan: Herculean efforts are not always heroic<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://epiphanyatwork.com/leaders-dont-plan-herculean-efforts-always-heroic/">Ephiphany At Work</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There is a skill gap in leaders which is most annoying for their direct reports and peers, but is sometimes well-hidden from their bosses. Unnoticed, that is, until you can see talented subordinates are exiting, or important peers get uncooperative. The gap is a leader’s inability to prepare the execution of a plan, and their reliance instead on passion and a vigorous last-minute “rally-of-the-troops” to get things done. How do you know if one of your leaders has this fatal flaw? Pay attention to how many Herculean efforts they pull off.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Overwhelmed leaders hunker down and pay close attention to what’s right in front of them. In true survival mode, they often prioritize with keen political acumen – responding quickly and energetically to whatever is uppermost in the minds of the boss and key clients. These Hercules fail to plan the best way to get things done. They don’t stop, and scan the future to logically plot the pre-emptive activity they should assign or get support for today. They don’t make time to coordinate and engage with the people they will need to implement solutions they author.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Making Business Personal<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://hbr.org/2014/04/making-business-personal">HBR</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">To an extent that we ourselves are only beginning to appreciate, most people at work, even in high-performing organizations, divert considerable energy every day to a second job that no one has hired them to do: preserving their reputations, putting their best selves forward, and hiding their inadequacies from others and themselves. We believe this is the single biggest cause of wasted resources in nearly every company today.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What would happen if people felt no need to do this second job? What if, instead of hiding their weaknesses, they were comfortable acknowledging and learning from them? What if companies made this possible by creating a culture in which people could see their mistakes not as vulnerabilities but as prime opportunities for personal growth?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why it’s time to manage progress, not people<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3033931/the-future-of-work/why-its-time-to-manage-progress-and-not-people">Fast Company</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Telling your workers to be more engaged just won't work. Leadership is about putting mechanisms in place that will encourage their progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The farmer is in the business of growing plants, the physician that of curing patients, the teacher that of educating students. But the very grammar of those clauses betrays a misunderstanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The farmer does not grow the plant, the plant does; the physician does not make the patient healthier, the patient grows healthier; and the teacher cannot command the student to learn, that growth must happen within the student.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Instead, what these noble professions do is arrange the circumstances for the beings they are taking care of so that they may flourish.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">You cannot tell a flower to grow, but you can help it to do so. The farmer is mindful of the seasons and plants seeds when most suited; the physician studies a patient’s case history and integrates treatment into that larger narrative; the teacher tailors her lessons to the lives of her students, allowing the material to be as relatable as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We can add leaders to that list of helpers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The people we work with are not so unlike the plants the farmer grows—we can’t simply tell them to grow.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The growing happens within them, and for people to want to work rather than having to work is actually a matter of managing progress, not people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Welcome to the failure age! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=055d725543&e=cde89fbae8" title="More Articles by ADAM DAVIDSON"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#336699">Adam Davidson</span></a><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> via </span></b><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=d08608d6a6&e=cde89fbae8"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#336699">nytimes.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">‘An age of constant invention naturally begets one of constant failure. The life span of an innovation, in fact, has never been shorter. An African hand ax from 285,000 years ago, for instance, was essentially identical to those made some 250,000 years later. The Sumerians believed that the hoe was invented by a godlike figure named Enlil a few thousand years before Jesus, but a similar tool was being used a thousand years after his death. During the Middle Ages, amid major advances in agriculture, warfare and building technology, the failure loop closed to less than a century. During the Enlightenment and early Industrial Revolution, it was reduced to about a lifetime. By the 20th century, it could be measured in decades. Today, it is best measured in years and, for some products, even less. (Schuetz receives tons of smartphones that are only a season or two old.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The closure of the failure loop has sent uncomfortable ripples through the economy. When a product or company is no longer valued in the marketplace, there are typically thousands of workers whose own market value diminishes, too. Our breakneck pace of innovation can be seen in stock-market volatility and other boardroom metrics, but it can also be measured in unemployment checks, in divorces and involuntary moves and in promising careers turned stagnant. Every derelict product that makes its way into Weird Stuff exists as part of a massive ecosystem of human lives — of engineers and manufacturers; sales people and marketing departments; logistics planners and truck drivers — that has shared in this process of failure.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Innovation is, after all, terrifying. Right now we’re going through changes that rip away the core logic of our economy. Will there be enough jobs to go around? Will they pay a living wage? Terror, however, can also be helpful. The only way to harness this new age of failure is to learn how to bounce back from disaster and create the societal institutions that help us do so. The real question is whether we’re up for the challenge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Being a nice boss <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=3d8e03a9ca&e=cde89fbae8">HBR</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“There’s an age-old question out there: Is it better to be a “nice” leader to get your staff to like you? Or to be tough as nails to inspire respect and hard work? …<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The traditional paradigm just seems safer: be firm and a little distant from your employees. The people who work for you should respect you, but not feel so familiar with you that they might forget who’s in charge. A little dog-eat-dog, tough-it-out, sink-or-swim culture seems to yield time-tested results and keep people hungry and on their toes. …<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“Tough” managers often mistakenly think that putting pressure on employees will increase performance. What it does increase is stress—and research has shown that high levels of stress carry a number of costs to employers and employees alike. …<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Is it any better with “nice” managers? Do their employees fare better — and do kind bosses get ahead?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Contrary to what many believe, Adam Grant’s data shows that nice guys (and gals!) can actually finish first, as long as they use the right strategies that prevent others from taking advantage of them. In fact, other research has shown that acts of altruism actually increase someone’s status within a group.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Harvard Business School’s Amy Cuddy and her research partners have also shown that leaders who project warmth – even before establishing their competence – are more effective than those who lead with their toughness and skill. Why? One reason is trust. Employees feel greater trust with someone who is kind.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;line-height:105%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-28094175383810403902014-12-21T18:30:00.000-08:002014-12-21T18:31:01.689-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Jeff Bezos: Why It Won't Matter If The Fire Phone Flops<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://uk.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-on-big-bets-risks-fire-phone-2014-12"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Business Insider</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bezos says that his philosophy for Amazon is to encourage people to make bold bets and iterate on them, while still accepting that some might fail. "If you're going to take bold bets, they're going to be experiments," he says. "And if they're experiments you don't know ahead of time if they're going to work. Experiments are by their very nature prone to failure. But a few big successes compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn't work." <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bezos highlighted a few big, bold bets that ended up being huge boons to the company that "pay for a lot of the experiments": Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Marketplace, the company's third-party seller business. Those successes give Amazon the opportunity to reinvest in itself and try new things. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Geography of Gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/the-geography-of-gratitude/383245/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">For Facebook users who recently passed around a status-update game, the answer was pretty clear: friends, family, and health.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/what-are-we-most-thankful-for/10152679841318859"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">analysis was released Tuesday</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> by the Facebook data science team. It examined the aggregated results of a popular status message passed among friends earlier this year. For instance, one status said, “write three things you are thankful for over the next five days” and was tagged with friends who should respond.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Think of it as an ice bucket challenge of gratitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/11/26/kierkegaard-individual-crowd-conformity-minority/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">BrainPickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else,”</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/16/eleanor-roosevelt-on-happiness-conformity-and-integrity/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">spectacular meditation on happiness and conformity</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“you surrender your own integrity [and] become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”</span></em> And yet conformity is not only a survival strategy for us but also something </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/19/leo-buscaglia-love-labels/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">institutionally indoctrinated in our culture</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A century earlier, the great Danish writer and thinker <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Søren Kierkegaard</span></strong>, celebrated as the first true existentialist philosopher and an active proponent of </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/04/famous-writers-on-keeping-a-diary/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the benefits of keeping a diary</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, contemplated this eternal tension between the individual and the crowd. Writing in </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806502517/braipick-20"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Diary of Søren Kierkegaard</span></b></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> (</span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/kierkegaard-anthology/oclc/917987&referer=brief_results"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">public library</span></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> | </span><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780806502519?aff=brainpicker"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">IndieBound</span></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">) — the same fantastic window into his inner world that gave us Kierkegaard’s prescient insight on </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/13/kierkegaard-diary-bullying-trolling-haters/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the psychology of online trolling and bullying</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> — he considers how our incapacity for quiet contemplation cuts us off from our true self and instead causes us to adopt by passive absorption the ideals of others.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">5 Lessons All Departments Can Learn From the Customer Service Department<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-landau/5-lessons-all-departments_b_4520963.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Being service oriented is harder. If it wasn't everyone would be service oriented. In fact somewhere along the line you were a customer who got less than great service. And you went to another brand didn't you? Of course you did. In fact 89 percent of consumers have stopped doing business with a company after experiencing poor</span><a href="http://blogs.salesforce.com/company/2013/08/customer-service-stats.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> customer service according to</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> RightNow's Customer Experience Impact Report. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Sales can learn from support's can-do attitude. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">You make the customer *feel* right even if their wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Marketing can serve without concern for making money.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be self-conscious of your social media like its being tracked and monitored by the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Hire service-oriented employees across all departments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Common Traits Of The Most Successful People<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.content-loop.com/common-traits-successful-people/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Fast Company</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Robert Greene, best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power spends a lot of time researching and interviewing the most successful people. In his most recent book Mastery, he analyzed the lives of those he called "masters" to pinpoint their secret to greatness. Below Greene shares common things he thinks successful people do differently.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Are Emotionally Committed <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Don't Care Too Much What Others Think Of Them <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Don't Let Their Brain Get Rigid <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Know When To Turn Off Their Phone <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Have A Focus Routine <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They Don't Live In Their Past Successes<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Big Idea 2015: The Unexpected Path to Creative Breakthroughs<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-idea-2015-unexpected-path-tim-brown?trk=object-title"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Some say the world is divided into humanities people and science people; artists and geeks; intuitive types and analytical types. You’re either one or the other, and our culture, education system, workplaces and news media do their level best to reinforce this divide. But throughout history, it’s been proven over and again that if you want to be truly innovative, reaching across the divide between the sciences and the arts is the starting point for triggering the boldest ideas.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">From Leonardo Da Vinci to Frank Gehry, some of our greatest achievers have balanced that territory between art and science, or, as Steve Jobs repeatedly stated, the intersection between technology and liberal arts.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">I’ve just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s wonderful new book, <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Innovators/Walter-Isaacson/9781476708690"> <i><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Innovators</span></i></a>, in which he charts the 150-year history of the computer revolution. Among one of the many important insights he has about this collection of technical pioneers is that many of them also embraced the arts. The very first of these, Dame Ada Lovelace (1815-52), was passionate about mathematics and poetry (she was the daughter of Lord Byron), and it was these combined passions that led her to see the real potential behind Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, the predecessor to the first computer. In letters between Lovelace and Babbage, she explored some of the basic concepts that would drive the development of computers, including the idea that machines could be programmable and that computers could go beyond calculation and act on anything that might be represented symbolically.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Skype Translator is the most futuristic thing I’ve ever used <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/skype-translator-is-the-most-futuristic-thing-ive-ever-used/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Ars Technica</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">We have become blasé about technology.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The modern smartphone, for example, is in so many ways a remarkable feat of engineering: computing power that not so long ago would have cost millions of dollars and filled entire rooms is now available to fit in your hand for a few hundred bucks. But smartphones are so widespread and normal that they no longer have the power to astonish us. Of course they're tremendously powerful pocket computers. So what?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">This phenomenon is perhaps even more acute for those of us who work in the field in some capacity. A steady stream of new gadgets and gizmos passes across our desks, we get briefed and pitched all manner of new "cutting edge" pieces of hardware and software, and they all start to seem a little bit the same and a little bit boring.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Even news that really <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">might</span></em> be the start of something remarkable, such as <a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/hp-plans-to-launch-memristor-silicon-photonic-computer-within-the-decade/"> HP's plans</a> to launch a computer using memristors for both longterm and working memory and silicon photonics interconnects, is viewed with a kind of weary cynicism. Yes, it might usher in a new generation of revolutionary products. But it probably won't.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">But this week I've been using the preview version of Microsoft's Skype Translator. And it's breathtaking. It's like science fiction has come to life.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">The experience wasn't always easy; this is preview software, and as luck would have it, my initial attempts to use it to talk to a colleague failed due to hitherto undiscovered bugs, so in the end, I had to talk to a Microsoft-supplied consultant living in Barranquilla, Colombia. But when we got the issues ironed out and made the thing work, it was <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">magical</span></em>. This thing <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">really works</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Use Daily Rewards to Break Creative Blocks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://99u.com/workbook/34867/use-daily-rewards-to-break-creative-blocks"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">99u</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Renowned author Stephen King, who has published 49 novels that have sold over 350 million copies, writes at least </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/49619-i-like-to-get-ten-pages-a-day-which-amounts"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">ten pages</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> each day. As a creative person, you’ve experienced writer’s block, even if you’re not necessarily a writer; software engineers, artists, or anyone that has to create things for a living is susceptible. We also all know the well-worn advice of practicing even for just a little bit, at least once a day — but how does one actually stick to it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Product Manager at Twitter, Buster Benson, recently created 750words.com to help us break through writer’s block and open up our creative passages. He uses a rewards system to keep on track (much like the famous </span><a href="http://www.writersstore.com/dont-break-the-chain-jerry-seinfeld/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Jerry Seinfeld calendar-method</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">). The idea is simple:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Every month you get a clean bowling-esque score card. If you write anything at all, you get 1 point. If you write 750 words or more, you get 2 points. If you write two, three or more days in a row, you get even more points. How I see it, points can motivate. It’s fun to try to stay on streaks and the points are a way to play around with that. You can also see how others are doing points-wise if you’re at all competitive that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Benson shares his inspiration:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006H19H3M?btkr=1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Artist’s Way</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Ten Ways to Become Invaluable <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ten-ways-become-invaluable-nancye-m."><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As I finished my first 25 years of management consulting, my number one resolution was to create this advisory to help managers and leaders reach their potential and avoid the pitfalls that derail an otherwise exciting career. There are many management gurus who offer salient advice and deserve respect, including the Holy Father of Management, Peter Drucker. Jim Collins offers genius advice, as does Warren Bennis. I once demanded that the high potential charges under my tutelage read the book Bennis wrote with Bert Nanus - Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, as a pre-requisite to my class because of my respect for the authors. However, I don’t need to refer you to the work of any of these talented advisors now. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As a long-time management consultant, I have enough experience and insight to see who is going to be ousted from their leadership role and who is likely to move up. It has become easy to spot the losers. Those who will not make it have many things in common that are obvious to people who do what I do. When I see the signs, I want to grab them by the shoulders, shake them hard and say, “Don’t do that; you will get fired or you will lose your business” but my experience tells me they often say something really stupid like, “You don’t understand; we are in the XXX business.” Sure, I don’t understand? I have only done this exact same job for 700 clients over 25 years; what do I know? I take no pleasure in watching them raise their gun and take aim at their feet – one at a time. I can assure you they will and they will blame someone else for their demise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">FOLLOW YOUR PASSION <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">GET GOOD BEFORE YOU TRY TO LOOK GOOD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">POLISH YOUR OWN DIAMOND<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">HIRE YOUR WEAKNESS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">BE SELFLESS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">DITCH “I” AND “MY”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">DON’T CHASE SUCCESS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">UNDER PROMISE AND OVER DELIVER<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">HAVE MORAL COURAGE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:22.5pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">10. FUEL YOUR TANK<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Videos Of YouTube Stars In An 'Oreo Licking Race' Banned For Failing To Make Clear They Were Ads<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/asa-bans-oreo-youtube-ads-2014-11"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Business Insider</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Oreo has had five YouTube ad spots banned by the UK advertising watchdog, after a BBC journalist raised concern the ads — posted on popular YouTube stars' channels — were not clearly identified as marketing communications. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The ads featured popular vloggers such as Dan and Phil and Tom Ridgewell and showed the YouTube creators taking part in an "Oreo lick race." The video is still available to watch on YouTube (see it below), in spite of the ruling, but it has been edited to include text stating "This is a paid advertisement."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Note to Future Self<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21632426-bid-put-encrypted-data-kind-time-capsule-gets-kick-start-note-future-self"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Economist</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">A decade ago, dozens of former fighters from Northern Ireland's Troubles gave interviews for the Belfast Project oral history project on the understanding the recordings of the interviews would not be made public until after their deaths. However, last year Boston College was forced to turn over some of the recordings to Northern Ireland's police service as part of an investigation into a murder. The incident inspired Jonathan Zittrain, director of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, to develop a sort of cryptographic time capsule. Zittrain says valuable items such as papers and personal correspondence often are donated with the understanding they will be withheld for a certain period of time and, with the help of a recently awarded $35,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, he is trying to develop a cryptographic means of keeping those promises. However, Zittrain does not want to make the material irrevocably inaccessible until the appointed time, so he is pursuing what he calls a "bank and trust" model in which the files are encrypted and their key is broken into several fragments, which are entrusted to a library or lawyer in different jurisdictions with instructions to hand them back at a specified time. Zittrain hopes to have a prototype service up and running within nine months.<span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The True Power of the Gamification Spectrum <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://community.lithium.com/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/The-True-Power-of-the-Gamification-Spectrum/ba-p/172485"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Lithium</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In my last post, I introduced the </span><a href="/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/The-Gamification-Spectrum-A-Unified-Organization-of-Gamification/ba-p/169571"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">gamification spectrum</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> and discussed its basic properties. We learned that the feedback timescale of any tool is context dependent, but the spectrum will only stretch or compress under different context. That means the spectrum maintains its order, and the relative positions of the tools don’t change when the context doesn’t change. However the gamification spectrum is more than just an organizing framework. It allows us to learn about certain working properties of existing and future tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Today, we will look deeper into this spectrum of tools to discover several interesting patterns and trends hidden within these seemingly unrelated tools. If we examine the representative tools above the gamification spectrum, we can start to see some patterns as we move from the left (tools with short feedback timescale) to the right (tools with long feedback timescale) of the spectrum.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Since this post builds on the foundation knowledge established in the previous post, I recommend making sure you are familiar with the </span><a href="/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/The-Gamification-Spectrum-A-Unified-Organization-of-Gamification/ba-p/169571"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">introductory post on the gamification spectrum</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> before moving on.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Latest Windows 10 update shows how rapid releases work in practice<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/latest-windows-10-update-shows-how-rapid-releases-work-in-practice/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Ars Technica</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Windows 10's </span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/windows-10s-very-different-way-of-updating/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">updates and maintenance</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> are following a different, better path to all prior Windows releases: one with more regular updates and quicker access to new features for those who want it, while still offering enterprises a slower pace of delivery. With the </span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/first-major-update-to-windows-10-preview-delivered-through-windows-update/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">first update to the Windows 10 Technical Preview</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> a month ago, Microsoft also enabled a two-speed update track for the million or so members of the Windows Insider program.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">By default, preview users are put on the slow track. However, about 10 percent of users have put themselves on the fast track. The first (</span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/onedrive-getting-worse-to-get-better-in-windows-10/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">contentious</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">) fast track release was made almost two weeks ago, and fast track users have been using it since then.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Those fast track users also revealed a variety of problem scenarios. The two big ones were the screen going black (and staying black) every time a PC was unlocked, and a blue screen of death. A pair of patches have been released to fast track users to address these issues, the second coming yesterday, and both of them seem now to be fixed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">With these fixes in place, the build is ready for wider distribution, and last night rolled out to slow channel users.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This pattern is very much the kind of thing that we see with other software that uses this kind of delivery model.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-32538571683655093692014-11-23T16:08:00.001-08:002014-11-23T16:08:11.966-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Father Bob - Win Happiness Competition</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://winhappiness.com/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Win Happiness</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Enter the best competition the world has ever seen - the chance to win happiness guaranteed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">All you have to do is donate to the Father Bob Foundation and tell us in 25 words or less ’How you find your happiness’ and you could win awesome prizes from TV’s to fancy hotel stays, plus the chance to win the ultimate prize, happiness guaranteed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The grand prize is actually - a week helping out in a soup kitchen. One week helping those in need will bring you more happiness than all of those prizes combined. So donate now and you could be serving up meals and receiving a week of happiness – guaranteed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Joseph Brodsky on How to Develop Your Taste in Reading<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/17/joseph-brodsky-how-to-read-a-book/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">BrainPickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“You stand to lose nothing; what you may gain are new associative chains.”</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not,”</span></em><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Kurt Vonnegut </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/14/how-to-write-with-style-kurt-vonnegut/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">famously proclaimed</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. But how is one to develop that discerning taste, especially in determining what is worth reading and what is not?</span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">On May 18, 1988, several months after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature and exactly seven months before he delivered </span><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/12/18/joseph-brodsky-speech-at-the-stadium-commencement/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the greatest commencement address of all time</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, the prolific </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Brodsky/e/B000AQ4Y3I/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&qid=1387311249&sr=8-1&tag=braipick-20"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">poet and essayist</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Joseph Brodsky</span></strong> gave the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/12/books/how-to-read-a-book.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">opening keynote</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> at Turin’s very first book fair. His talk, titled <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“How to Read a Book”</span></strong> and included in the 1997 anthology </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374525099/braipick-20"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">On Grief and Reason: Essays</span></b></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> (</span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/on-grief-and-reason-essays/oclc/30154601&referer=brief_results"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">public library</span></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">), is a beautiful and timeless meditation on the value — the purpose, the challenge, the transcendent joy — of the written word. Although it was written with books in mind, it applies just as brilliantly to the question of what is worth engaging in, in any medium — a question all the more pressing amidst our era’s constant influx of information of increasingly questionable quality, delivered with increasingly uncompromising ploys for our attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Scientists Achieve Direct Brain-To-Brain Communication Between Humans <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/08/brain-interface_n_6115334.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000042&ir=Technology"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Telepathy is the stuff of science fiction. But what if the dystopian futurists were on to something? What if our brains could directly interact with each other, bypassing the need for language? The idea isn't quite so far fetched, according to a recent University of Washington study in which researchers successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain communication between two people. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In an <a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/"> initial demonstration</a> a year ago, one of the researchers was able to send brain signals over the Internet in order to control the hand motions of another researcher. Now, in a more comprehensive study, the researchers repeatedly were able to transmit signals from one person’s brain via the Internet, and used these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a fraction of a second.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The study tested three pairs of participants (each with one sender and one receiver) who were seated in separate buildings on the Washington campus, roughly half a mile apart. They were unable to interact with one another, except for the link between their brains. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Genius of Wearing the Same Outfit Every Day<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141105164315-283620963-the-genius-of-wearing-the-same-outfit-every-day?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">LinkedIn</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What do Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, our current president and Homer Simpson all have in common?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">They've all worn the same outfit, pretty much every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Why? It isn’t a coincidence. Jobs and President Barack Obama, for example, are both part of the same-outfit club, but for different reasons. And both are logical, from both a scientific and business perspective.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Great Innovators are Relentless Rule Breakers <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.destination-innovation.com/articles/great-innovators-are-relentless-rule-breakers/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Destination Innovation</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The song Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury for Queen’s 1975 album A Night at the Opera. It broke all the rules for a popular music single release. At a time when most pop songs were simple and formulaic Mercury’s song was a complex mixture of different styles and tempos. It had six separate sections – a close harmony a capella introduction, a ballad, a guitar solo, an opera parody, a rock anthem and a melodic finale. It contained enigmatic and fatalistic lyrics about killing a man. And it was very long.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">When it was proposed to Queen’s record producers EMI that they release the song as a single they flatly rejected the idea. It was 5 minutes 55 seconds in duration and the general rule of the day was that radio stations only played items that lasted no more than three and a half minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">5 Creativity Myths You Probably Believe<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://99u.com/articles/35045/5-creativity-myths-you-probably-believe"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">99u</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Let’s start with a fact: We are all capable of conceiving new, useful ideas. Unfortunately our chances of doing this are hampered by a few stubborn myths.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">These misconceptions cloak creativity in mystique and they foster elitism—the idea that the potential for innovation and imagination is a rare gift enjoyed by only a select few “creative types.” Here we debunk five persistent myths that misrepresent the true neuroscience and psychology of creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Myth 1: To be creative you need to be right-brained.<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Myth 2: You’ve got to hope for a “Eureka!” moment<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Myth 3: Creative people are lone, eccentric geniuses<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Myth 4: You need external incentives to help you be creative<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Myth 5: Brainstorming is the best way to be creative together<o:p></o:p></span></h3> <p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The potential for productive imagination lies in all of us. But it doesn’t come without effort. We must balance time alone with collaboration. We must research, listen and meet with others, sowing the seeds of fresh thinking in our minds. Prepare the ground with care and you’ll be rewarded with the growth of new ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Using 3D Printers to Print Out Self-Learning Robots<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2014/4_robots.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">University of Oslo</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Researchers at Oslo University are developing self-instructing robots using three-dimensional (3D) printers. "Once the robots have been printed, their real-world functionalities quite often prove to be different from those of the simulated versions," says Oslo professor Mats Hovin. "We are therefore studying how the robots deteriorate from simulation to laboratory stage." When the researchers test the robots, they set up an obstacle course to enable them to teach themselves how to pass hurdles. The researchers hope in the future the robots will be able to give automatic feedback to the simulation program about how well they work, so the computer will be in a position to design an even better robot. "The explanation is that a 3D printer will construct whatever you want it to, layer by layer," Hovin says. "This means that you won't have to bother with molds, and you can produce seemingly impossibly complicated structures as a single piece." Hovin is testing certain technical production limits, such as how thin or thick the legs of the robot can be. He says a key benefit of this approach is the short distance from the ideas stage to the robot-testing stage. "Nevertheless, there are many practical challenges ahead before our robots can be exploited commercially," says Oslo professor Kyrre Glette.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Why Rush to Know the Gender of Your Friend's Baby? Megan Smith Points Out the Potential Impact for Tech's Gender Gap<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/11/19/why-rush-to-know-the-gender-of-your-friends-baby-megan-smith-points-out-the-potential-impact-for-techs-gender-gap/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Washington Post</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">At a recent event hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development and Intel, U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith discussed ways to get young women enthusiastic about engineering and technology. Smith says it is vital to eliminate bias starting as young as preschool and continuing through elementary school. She notes even when adults purchase toys for infants, they will base their decisions on the child's gender. Ideally, adults will think through how to provide both girls and boys with "incredible toys and experiences," Smith says. She also notes it is common to envision men as software engineers, but not women, which may stem from a cultural notion of boys and computers from the 1980s and 1990s. To combat this, Smith calls for transforming classrooms into active learning spaces where people feel comfortable. Moreover, she says students should have access to various learning resources, such as laboratories, art class, home economics, shop, and gym. "A little kid doesn't start writing a fabulous essay or an amazing book from day one," Smith observes. "You start with little baby steps."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Anna and Elsa are teaching young 'Frozen' fans how to code<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.dailydot.com/geek/frozen-teaches-kids-how-to-code/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Daily Dot</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We already know that <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/geek/barbie-engineer-book-girls-game-developers/"> Barbie can't teach girls how to code,</a> but what about Anna and Elsa?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Code.org is a <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/coding-schools-close-tech-gender-gap/">non-profit educational group</a> that helps kids of all ages learn to code by bringing them a variety of games and challenges to make the process fun. The website has drawn inspiration from <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/business/code-org-obama-american-coders-campaign/"> President Barack Obama</a> to <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/flappy-bird-code-tech-coding-game/"> <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:blue;text-decoration:none">Flappy Bird</span></em></a>, and now it's turning to one of the biggest fandoms in recent memory: <a href="http://dailydot.com/tags/frozen"><i>Frozen</i></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Its <a href="http://studio.code.org/s/frozen/">latest project</a> has come just in time to help us cope with our <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/buffalo-ny-snowstorm/">wintery wonderland</a>. Here's the website description:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Blockquote" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Let's use code to join Anna and Elsa as they explore the magic and beauty of ice. You will create snowflakes and patterns as you ice-skate and make a winter wonderland that you can then share with your friends!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Productivity advice I learned from people smarter than me<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2014/11/21/productivity-advice-learned-people-smarter/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Next Web</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Like all people, I’d like to think I am a productive person. If I am, however, it’s because I’ve been ruthlessly efficient at one thing: stealing secrets and methods from people a lot smarter than me.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In my career, I’ve had the fortune of coming in contact with bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, executives and creative people. Some I didn’t meet, but I found their thoughts in book form. Whether they knew it or not, I cased all of them and took from them what I thought were their best ideas on productivity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Below are the secrets I learned from them. Thanks guys! You helped me get more done and be more creative.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The Psychology of Writing</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/25/the-psychology-of-writing-daily-routine"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">BrainPickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Reflecting on the ritualization of creativity, Bukowski famously scoffed that <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/04/charles-bukowski-air-and-light-and-time-and-space/"> “air and light and time and space have nothing to do with.”</a> Samuel Johnson similarly contended that <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/18/samuel-johnson-on-writing/"> “a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.”</a> And yet some of history’s most successful and prolific writers were women and men of <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/20/daily-routines-writers/"> religious daily routines</a> and <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/23/odd-type-writers/"> odd creative rituals</a>. (Even Buk himself ended up sticking to a <a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/04/charles-bukowski-on-writing/"> peculiar daily routine</a>.)<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.75pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">[There is] evidence that environments, schedules, and rituals restructure the writing process and amplify performance… The principles of memory retrieval suggest that certain practices should amplify performance. These practices encourage a state of flow rather than one of anxiety or boredom. Like strategies, these other aspects of a writer’s method may alleviate the difficulty of attentional overload. The room, time of day, or ritual selected for working may enable or even induce intense concentration or a favorable motivational or emotional state. Moreover, in accordance with encoding specificity, each of these aspects of method may trigger retrieval of ideas, facts, plans, and other relevant knowledge associated with the place, time, or frame of mind selected by the writer for work.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-24036268486296642062014-11-23T16:06:00.001-08:002014-11-23T16:06:42.894-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Lead Well: How to Avoid Making Your Best People Care Less<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-peck/lead-well-how-to-avoid-ma_b_6079340.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Whether you lead a team of two or 2,000, it's likely you've noticed the value of hiring and retaining capable, self-motivated people. Yet it's all too common--and completely avoidable--that you inadvertently do little things that may de-motivate your "go to" people in big ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are ten life-tested watch list items to make sure that as a leader, you're not making your best people care less:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1. Be candid, direct and timely with constructive feedback. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. Tap in to (and take seriously) your people's experience, knowledge, and ideas. Be respectful and appreciative of their ideas, even when you may disagree or feel you have better ones. Hear them out, ask clarifying questions, and seek first to understand them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">7. Don't ask or tell your people to do things you wouldn't be perfectly willing to do yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">10. Ensure the impact of your leadership on your people, and that of your organization on the world overall are both positive, and therefore sustainable.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="miNewsHeading"><span lang="EN">Clayton Christensen: How Management Can Advance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/11/18/clayton-christensen-how-management-can-advance/">Forbes</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The best had become the enemy of the good. So, Christensen suggests, that is the challenge facing management today. Will the thought leaders in management continue to pursue their remarkably similar ideas in a fragmented fashion with different language and terminology? Or will they respond to his call, learn from the experience of education and software development, and come together and agree on common language and terminology? If Christensen is right, the future of management depends on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Cultivating the Next Generation of Web Professionals<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://alistapart.com/article/cultivating-the-next-generation-of-web-professionals">A List Apart</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I’ve spent most of my career at institutions of higher education, and during that time, I have had the good fortune to work with several incredible students. Former interns are now LinkedIn connections working for television shows, book publishers, major websites, ad agencies, and PR firms, and the list of job titles and employers makes me proud. Along the way, I tried to give them interesting projects (when available), enthusiastic references (when merited), and helpful career advice (when requested).<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Puzzle Of Persistent Praise<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/11/the-puzzle-of-persistent-praise.html">Overcoming Bias</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We often praise and criticize people for the things they do. And while we have many kinds of praise, one very common type (which I focus on in this post) seems to send the message “what you did was good, and it would be good if more of that sort of thing were done.” (Substitute “bad” for “good” to get the matching critical message.) Now if it would be good to have more of some act, then that act is a good candidate for something to subsidize more. And if most people agreed that this sort of act deserved more subsidy, then politicians should be tempted to run for office on the platform that they will increase the actual subsidy given to that kind of act. After all, if we want more of some kind of acts, why don’t we try to better reward those acts? <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Building Multicultural Curiosity</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.clomedia.com/blogs/7-global-leadership/post/5964-building-multicultural-curiosity">Chief Learning Officer</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The likelihood of millennials limiting their job search to their hometown or even their country is diminishing. According to the Boston Consulting Group, 59 percent of American millennials are open to working abroad. With this increased willingness to be employed in different countries, there comes a higher responsibility of ensuring that next generation workers are prepared to be multiculturally sensitive global leaders. Furthermore, globalization and the diversification of corporations should prompt all companies to encourage employees, managers and CEOs to become multiculturally sensitive.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Let's examine five steps to becoming a multiculturally curious global leader.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A global leader should be aware of his or her own cultural values and biases.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Learn about other cultures.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Recognize that learning never ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Create a safe work environment in which everyone's culture is valued and included.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be patient.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">An Almost Foolproof Way to Achieve Every Goal You Set </span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/an-nearly-foolproof-way-to-achieve-every-goal-you-set-wed.html">Inc.com</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#DC3C00"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives--building a successful business, getting into better shape, raising a wonderful family. For most of us, the path to achieving those things starts with setting a specific and actionable goal. Until recently, that's how I approached my life. I would set goals for clients I wanted to land, for classes I took, and for weights that I wanted to lift in the gym.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What I'm starting to realize, however, is that when it comes to actually getting things done and making progress in the areas that are important to you, there is a much better way to do things.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It all comes down to the difference between goals and systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1. Goals reduce your current happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Solution: Commit to a process, not a goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">2. Goals are strangely at odds with long-term progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Solution: Give up the need for immediate results.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. Goals suggest that you can control things that you have no control over.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Solution: Build smart feedback loops.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Top 10 eCommerce Gamification Examples that will Revolutionize Shopping <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/top-10-ecommerce-gamification-examples-revolutionize-shopping">Yukaichou.com</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Shopping has evolved so much from traditional market exchanges. It completely transformed from acquiring of needed goods into a rich experience that integrates deeply into every single culture of civilizations that can afford to power such an activity. People shop for fun, and for many (ahem, me not included), shopping could still be an epic win after spending 3 hours in a mall without buying a single item. (In the rulebook for my game, if I am shopping for over an hour and I bought nothing, I felt that I have failed. No Win-State for me…)+ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As shopping went online, a lot of the fun, interactive, and social experiences of shopping disappeared. However, it opened up a whole new world of other fun and exciting activities that could make shopping even more addicting than ever – except this time within the comforts of my home, and I can achieve my win-states much more often.+ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There is where eCommerce </span><a href="%20http:/www.yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/what-is-gamification/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Gamification</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> comes in place. Awesomely, many eCommerce </span><a href="%20http:/www.yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/what-is-gamification/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">gamification</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> examples out there have actively improved sales and conversions by double or even triple digits towards the right direction, and some helped eCommerce sites become $Billion businesses!+ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Below I present to you 10 stellar </span><a href="%20http:/www.yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/top-10-ecommerce-gamification-examples-revolutionize-shopping/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">eCommerce Gamification</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> examples that will revolutionize shopping.</span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why great ideas are opposed? How do we learn? And why the Cloud will change every aspect of how we live bringing about more computing intelligence than ever perceived <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershiptheories.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-great-ideas-are-opposed-how-do-we.html">Leadership Theories</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As humans, we’re seeking to formulate an understanding of the world around us and build a structure which allows us to feel a certain level of comfort and security – we want to feel that we know something. We also despise changing this complex mental model and the more elaborate the model is, the harder it is to modify or break down. Consider why cultures norms are so ingrained into our thoughts and habits. We learn by taking in new information, but we first check against our schema (i.e. experiences) to understand where this new knowledge might fit. It helps us make sense of the world around us. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Most situations do not require complex thought when using schema. It’s a simple input-output scenario; we simply do a fast computation and retrieve from existing structures (the sub-conscience) whether the information already exists or if there is something similar to it. In the cases when the information is new, we try to classify it somehow into existing structures. We run into trouble a bit when the new knowledge contradicts our internal structures/beliefs. It confuses us as we get faced with the fact that it doesn't fit anywhere and may require us having to re-structure. This is time consuming, requires energy and requires lowering our self-esteem in order to accept it. Thus, new and contradictory concepts are hard to accept. Consider why new paradigms and ideas are initially ridiculed if not violently opposed at first. “The earth is not flat!!!?” – The list is infinite.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Lead with Compassion but Not Be a Pushover</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/how-to-lead-with-compassion-but-not-be-a-pushover/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Compassion goes wrong when it goes too far. Too much compassion prolongs helplessness, failure, and mediocrity. Compassion done well fuels confidence, excellence, and success.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Organizations without compassion are fear-filled, ugly places to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Don’t extend compassion to those who won’t acknowledge need. They’ll despise you for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Extend compassion to those who acknowledge failure, struggle, turmoil, or uncertainty. Otherwise, stay available, but let them struggle. Warning: Compassion is weak and irrelevant in organizations that punish honesty, frailty, transparency, and candor. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Where imperfections are punished, compassion is liability.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Who on your team needs compassion today?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Sometimes the Best Ideas Come from Outside Your Industry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-outside-your-industry">HBR</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bringing in ideas from analogous fields turns out to be a potential source of radical innovation. When you’re working on a problem and you pool insights from analogous areas, you’re likely to get significantly greater novelty in the proposed solutions, for two reasons: People versed in analogous fields can draw on different pools of knowledge, and they’re not mentally constrained by existing, “known” solutions to the problem in the target field. The greater the distance between the problem and the analogous field, the greater the novelty of the solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#222222">This is a finding that applies across a variety of contexts, and we’ve found that it has wide applicability in businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#222222">To get a sense of the value of accessing and implementing knowledge from analogous fields, consider </span><a href="http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mnsc.2013.1805"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">our recent study</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#222222"> in which we recruited hundreds of roofers, carpenters, and inline skaters to contribute their insights to the problem of workers’ reluctance to use safety gear because of discomfort. We won’t go into the details about how we found all these people — suffice it to say that we now know a lot about the roofing and carpentry trades and about inline-skating clubs and competitions.</span><span style="color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Build Leadership Credibility<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipdoneright.com/build-leadership-credibility/">Leadership Done Right</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">When you are a leader it is really important that you have leadership credibility. When you have leadership credibility, those you lead will follow you to the ends of the earth because they trust you, your decisions and your ability to lead. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">This credibility is very hard to gain. Leaders constantly face the challenge of gaining leadership credibility from their followers. Additionally, their followers try to test their leader’s leadership credibility. Followers want to know if their leaders are really qualified to be their leader. They also want to be sure that the leader knows what they are talking about.<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-57620106684478212442014-11-02T17:17:00.002-08:002014-11-02T17:19:52.207-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/why-the-chess-computer-deep-blue-played-like-a-human">Nautil.us</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">When IBM’s Deep Blue beat chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997 in a six-game chess match, Kasparov came to believe he was facing a machine that could experience human intuition. “The machine refused to move to a position that had a decisive short-term advantage,” Kasparov wrote after the match. It was “showing a very human sense of danger.”1 To Kasparov, Deep Blue seemed to be experiencing the game rather than just crunching numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Might Kasparov have actually detected a hint of analogical thinking in Deep Blue’s play and mistaken it for human intervention?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Jeremy Kingsley | Leading as an Introvert<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://servetolead.org/leading-as-an-introvert/">ServeToLead</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There is false assumption out there that all great leaders are extroverts and that charisma drives success. Successful introvert leaders tend to capitalize–rather than attempt to neutralize–their natural tendencies. Here are seven tips for introverts as leaders:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Clear The Air. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Walk the Floor. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Shorten Meetings. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Schedule Downtime. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Pair With An Extrovert. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Trust Your Process. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Do What You Do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Top 5 Myths about Leadership</span></span><b><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2014/10/28/the-top-5-myths-about-leadership">US News</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The concept of great leadership is one of the most often discussed – and least understood – workplace topics. We may recognize certain people as exceptional leaders when we see them in action, yet have a difficult time pinpointing what it is that they do differently or better. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Myth: Leaders know it all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Myth: Leaders have to be liked. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Myth: Leaders are only found at the top. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Myth: Leaders must be extroverts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Myth: Leaders are born, not made.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Foster Creativity <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-foster-creativity.html">Eric Jacobsen</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are some great tips and guiding principles for how a manager and leader can <b>build a culture to foster creativity</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">If you don’t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Do not assume that general agreement will lead to change—it takes substantial energy to move a group, even when all are on board.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Thanks author <b>Ed Catmull </b>for these tips and great new book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0812993012/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401114345&sr=1-1&keywords=creativity"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Creativity, Inc.</span></i></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">5 Ways to Use Discomfort to Be More Effective as a Leader<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://seapointcenter.com/5-ways-to-use-discomfort/">Seapoint Center</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As a leader, there will be times when the people you lead or coach get stuck when dealing with difficult decisions and relationship issues. They know they have to resolve their issue but can’t see new solutions. You want to help, but these conversations can stir up emotions, and you might get flustered when a person gets angry, tears up, or feels embarrassed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Yet it is in these moments of discomfort that a breakthrough is most likely to occur.</span></i></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">According to Neuroscientist </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11976774-who-s-in-charge"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Michael Gazzaniga</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, we get stuck in our automatic thought-processing and resist questioning our beliefs and behaviors. Our brains protective instinct keeps us from in-depth self-exploration. We only view ourselves and our word differently when we see or hear something that surprises our brains. Here are 5 ways to use discomfort to help the people you coach breakthrough to new solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Let go of knowing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Listen to their story before you question their assumptions and beliefs. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Reflect and explore instead of offer answers. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l7 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Have them articulate their “aha” insight before they commit to what is next. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo10"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">5. Be patient and comfortable with discomfort.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">New Research: Strong Team Intelligence Equates To High Profitability<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2014/10/31/new-research-strong-tq-team-intelligence-equates-to-high-profitability/">Forbes</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We’ve all known them. Some people are brilliant as individual contributors but become an instant anathema on any kind of a team.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">But research from New York-based Dr. Solange Charas has found a solution. Did you know it is now possible to predict the success and profitability of any given team participant or collective team in advance? It’s true, according to Charas’ recently released report, “The Criticality of C-Suite Team Intelligence (TQ) in Economic Value Creation.” Yes, it stands to reason that more cohesive teams are able to direct and produce higher profits. But here’s the surprise: According to Charas, the right data assessment tools can take the guesswork out of the creation and management of high performing teams altogether. Through a short 15-minute exam, her patented TQ test can score the characteristics that predict current or prospective propensity to succeed with high accuracy. This information is highly valuable on its own. But coupled with coaching for needed improvements, the process can result in a measureable improvement of 48-191% in TQ propensity scores, Charas said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What are the characteristics of High TQ executives? The TQ assessment identifies and measures two measureable characteristics to arrive at the score: 1) team dynamic quality, and 2) team effectiveness, which includesthe interactions between and among team members.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Keep Remote Employees Enthused, Energized and Engaged <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/keep-remote-employees-enthused-energized-engaged">Michael Lee Stallard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Leaders must adapt to this obstacle in order to engage remote employees and maintain a positive work environment. Here are some tips on how to create a healthy “connection culture” that engages people by keeping them feeling connected to the organization while working in your virtual workplace.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo12"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">First and foremost, you have to maximize face time with remote workers. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo12"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As a leader, keep multiple lines of communication open and make sure your remote workers are aware of those lines. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo12"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Give your remote employees opportunity for growth. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo12"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Finally, take the time to speak candidly about things other than work. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">By 1) maximizing face time, 2) opening multiple lines of communication, 3) allowing opportunity for growth, and 4) speaking candidly, remote managers can engage their employees and sustain a virtual connection culture.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Avoid the Nightmare of the Email Blind Carbon Copy (BCC).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.skipprichard.com/avoid-the-nightmare-of-the-email-blind-carbon-copy-bcc/">Skip Prichard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Beware the BCC. I’m not sure exactly when or why the blind carbon copy (BCC) was invented, but I have seen it misused, misunderstood, and misfired too many times to count. The BCC allows you to write an email TO some people and BCC others. The people you send it TO don’t know that others are secretly on the BCC line.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Most email problems with the BCC start when an email is written to a few people, but others are blind carbon copied.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“Trust is built with consistency.” -Lincoln Chafee<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Moxie: Getting your X-factor right<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://smartblogs.com/leadership/general-management/2014/10/31/moxie-getting-your-x-factor-right/">SmartBlogs</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Leaders are always judged by others. The higher their profile the bigger the stage, and their words and their actions are magnified by the roles they hold.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">X-factors are comprised of many things that work individually — and collectively — to help the leader. These include ambition, creativity, humor and compassion, as well as three more words that begin with “C” — character, courage and confidence. X-factors strengthen the leader’s commitment to doing what’s best for the team and the organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The sum of your X-factors attributes give you the foundation to do what you do better than anything else. It also lays a foundation of trust<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Trust is the bedrock upon which you build followership.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">8 Ways to Help Make Your Office Meetings More Tolerable<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.tlnt.com/2013/08/16/8-ways-to-help-make-your-office-meetings-more-tolerable/">TLNT</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">As we can all attest, business meetings often waste valuable productive time and tend to last far longer than they should. But until we learn to communicate telepathically, they will remain a necessary evil — not just as a means of exchanging ideas and information — but also as a way to build relationships with others. That doesn’t mean we have to like them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">How to make meetings more tolerable<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">You may never learn to enjoy meetings, but you can certainly make them more tolerable with these tips:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Decide whether the meeting is even necessary. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Get started on time. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Use a facilitator. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Change the venue. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Provide food. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Make the agenda crystal clear. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be very picky about who attends. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l8 level1 lfo14"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Schedule breaks for long meetings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">A graphical explanation of UI vs UX <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://hitenism.com/uivsux-graphic/">hitenism</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://qiip.me/edlea/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Ed Lea</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> created this awesome graphic which explains the difference between user interface and user experience using breakfast cereal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">3 ways to attract the coveted active monthly user<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/11/02/3-ways-attract-coveted-active-monthly-user">TheNextWeb</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Active monthly users are the precious gold of the business community. Acquiring new users is great, but active monthly users, the ones that come back to the site on a regular basis, are what really matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A </span><a href="http://therealtimereport.com/2014/07/25/social-networking-stats-facebook-tops-1-32-billion-monthly-active-users-rltm-scoreboard/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">July 2014 study</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> by The Realtime Report found many popular sites have active monthly users numbering in the millions. Facebook topped the list with 1.32 billion, but Twitter was right behind with 255 million.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Every company wants numbers like those. Finding and creating a strong base of active monthly users is every entrepreneur’s dream, but it can be a bit like capturing a unicorn. So, how do you do it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://talentoday.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Talentoday</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, a psychometric, social and data-driven career guidance solution, launched in the US in January 2014 and, after only nine short months, now has 955,000 monthly active users and more than 3 million registered users.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="H3CxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo16"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Keep the experience user-friendly<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="H3CxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo16"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Utilize the power of sharing<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="H3CxSpLast" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo16"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Offer services that promote monthly usage (for free!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">These 7 Ingredients Can Revitalize Customer Experience<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://uxmag.com/articles/these-7-ingredients-can-revitalize-customer-experience">UX Mag</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Most companies these days are getting downright scientific about their interactions with customers, pouring all kinds of money and manpower into managing expectations and outcomes. Unfortunately for everyone involved, these exchanges are often like nitroglycerin mixed with peroxide—that is to say, they blow up in everyone’s faces. Long hold times, sour customer service agents, and generally low expectations have combined to create a high rate of frustration and a low rate of success.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Although there’s no magic (or scientific) formula for success, there are specific areas companies can focus on in order to bring their customers better experiences. Here are seven things customers want that companies need to provide:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Speed<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Variety<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Resolution<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Consistency<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Personalization<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Flexibility<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo18"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Self-Service<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-46775200130997425072014-11-02T17:17:00.001-08:002014-11-02T17:17:57.259-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Bring Your Own Persona: Rethinking Segmentation for the New Digital Consumer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/bring-persona-rethinking-segmentation-new-digital-consumer/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Knowledge@Wharton</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">With more than 1.8 billion smartphone users and nearly 2 billion people using social media worldwide, mobile and social are becoming the dominant modes of human interaction, notes the We Are Social Digital and Mobile Worldwide Research Report published last January. In addition, wearable devices in the form of activity trackers, smart watches and even connected clothing are quickly emerging with more than 150 million users worldwide, tracking everything from steps and calories to heart rate, breathing and even stress. This new breed of always connected and self-aware end-users is changing the rules for how companies do business and engage their customers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">At their core, digital users are individuals who bring a unique digital profile and set of behaviors to every situation. This new digital world of “Bring Your Own Persona” (BYOP) requires a fundamentally different way of thinking about customers. It used to be assumed that people exhibited predictable behaviors in their public and private lives based on their socio-demographics, allowing firms to use classic segmentation for targeted interactions. Those models are no longer sufficient. Almost all demographics have access to mobile, social and wearables. What distinguishes different digital user segments is their savvy in knowing how to use these tools and their comfort levels with the data they are willing to share in various scenarios.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">New digital personas can be characterized along two important dimensions: digital capability and trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">This Week's 10 Must-See Digital Marketing Stats<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/check-out-weeks-10-must-see-digital-marketing-stats-161123"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">AdWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are this week's 10 most intriguing statistics from the digital marketing world, including a trio of basketball-driven data points as the NBA season is upon us. Check them out below.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">1. <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">That Matthew McConaughey SNL parody actually helped Lincoln</span></strong>. Amobee looked at the impact of <a href="http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/jim-carrey-mercilessly-spoofs-matthew-mcconaugheys-lincoln-ads-snl-161024"> Jim Carrey's merciless skit </a>from last weekend in terms of digital content and social media impressions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">2. <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">MJ builds buzz.</span></strong> The Charlotte Hornets turned over their Twitter handle to the incomparable hoops legend, Michael Jordan, on Tuesday, attempting to stir up excitement for the new NBA season. Jordan, who played for the Chicago Bulls but is now a Hornets owner, <u>helped lift the team's Twitter following by 25,300</u>, according to team reps. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">King James goes home and provides slam dunks for sponsors.</span></strong> Per <a href="http://www.4cinsights.com/lebron">4C's report</a> this week, LeBron James' return to Cleveland has aided his brand immensely. But that's only the beginning. The data company's research shows that, since LeBron revealed he would <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/lebrons-brand-shifts-good-guy-and-cash-windfall-awaits-158879"> play for his home state team on July 11</a>, his sponsors have seen huge boosts in before-versus-after positive engagement on Facebook. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">6. <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There are at least <u>204,086</u> sugar-minded "tweet ghosts" out there</span></strong>. That's how many mentions KitKat has gotten on Twitter from Oct. 1 through Oct. 29, making it the <a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/top-10-halloween-candy-brands-twitter-161100"> No. 1 Halloween candy brand</a> on the social platform, according to Crimson Hexagon. <u>Snickers was second with 145,836</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">7. <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Instagram hashtags help quite a bit, #thankyouverymuch</span></strong>. Instagram posts with at least a single hashtag average <u>12.6 percent more engagement</u>, according to Simply Measured. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">10 Medical Innovations Poised to Make us Healthier<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.fastcoexist.com/3037592/futurist-forum/10-medical-innovations-poised-to-make-us-healthier-in-2015"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">FastCo Exist</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">From painless drug testing to better cholesterol meds, here's what 100 doctors think is on the horizon in health.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">When a person has a stroke, every second counts -- a few minutes can mean the difference between saving millions of a patient's brain cells. Today, a patient loses critical time while in transport to the hospital. But very soon, with <a href="https://www.uth.edu/media/story.htm?id=b1485cfc-110f-4a4c-91ea-06b573b3ba6d"> <span style="color:windowtext">new high-tech ambulances</span></a> equipped with a <a href="/technology/broadband"><span style="color:windowtext">broadband</span></a> linked-CT scanner, neurologists will be able to instruct a nurse the best way to administer treatment while en route.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">These “mobile stroke units” are one of <a href="http://summit.clevelandclinic.org/Top-10-Innovations/Top-10-for-2015.aspx"> <span style="color:windowtext">ten medical innovations</span></a> that the <a href="http://my.clevelandclinic.org/"> <span style="color:windowtext">Cleveland Clinic</span></a>--an academic medical research center and hospital in Ohio--predicts are slated to most dramatically improve health care in the coming year. The Clinic came up with the list after asking more than of its 100 top doctors, including several in each speciality, to name the top new innovations they expected to impact care in their field within the next year. As it does every year, a committee narrowed down about 70 suggestions to the top ten most powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">New 'Surveyman' Software Promises to Revolutionize Survey Design and Accuracy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/new-%E2%80%98surveyman%E2%80%99-software-promises"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">UMass</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) track of the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity recently honored University of Massachusetts at Amherst doctoral student Emma Tosch with its Best Paper award. The recognition came for her work on a first-of-its-kind software system designed to improve the accuracy and trustworthiness of surveys. A free and publicly available tool, "Surveyman" can identify problems in any survey from the design stage and onward. Tosch says the tool guides users through steps to create a spreadsheet that will become a new survey, addressing key areas that can lead to bias in a survey, such as question order and word variation. She says Surveyman also conducts diagnostic sweeps to warn survey creators when certain questions become correlated, or redundant, and should be removed to avoid respondent fatigue. In addition to automatically addressing these shortcomings, Surveyman will administer a survey online and perform diagnostics on incoming data. The software also will kick out respondents who it determines are not answering truthfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Hack the Gender: Women's Hackathon Aims to Show Young Women a Future in Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article/hack-the-gender-womens-hackathon-aims-to-show-young-women-a-future-in-tech/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">TechRepublic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">West Virginia University's Reed College of Media and PBS MediaShift recently hosted the "Hack the Gender: A Women's Hackathon on Wearables," an event focused on how women and the media can play a role in the development of wearable technology. The event marked the launch of the school's new media innovation lab and emerged from the school's focus on wearable technology, its role in reporting, and vice versa. "Wearables pose a real opportunity for women to get in on a conversation from the very beginning, before the market is saturated, and before the major players have been established," said Maryanne Reed, dean of Reed College of Media. The event opened Oct. 24 with a Google Hangout featuring a panel of female leaders in tech and media including Facebook's Jane Schachtel, Google's Aminatou Sow, and Mother Jones' Tasneem Raja, and moderated by media futurist Amy Webb. Next, there were short lectures and hands-on projects. The participants broke into groups to brainstorm ideas for wearable devices that ranged from wearable microphones for professors to a smart bra that could perform breast examinations. The winning group proposed a health sensor mesh insert that could measure important female biomarkers like iron, potassium, and vitamin D levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The Robot in the Cloud: A Conversation With Ken Goldberg<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/the-robot-in-the-cloud-a-conversation-with-ken-goldberg"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">NY Times Blog</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Ken Goldberg has been thinking hard about robots for almost three decades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">His work ranges from over 170 peer-reviewed papers on things like robot algorithms and social information filtering to art projects about the interaction of people and machines. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/science/new-research-center-aims-to-develop-second-generation-of-surgical-robots.html?_r=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">is establishing</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> a research center to develop medical robots to assist in surgery. That is just the latest development in what he thinks will be one of the great technology breakthroughs of our age: the fusing of robotics and cloud computing. He talks about it in this edited and condensed conversation.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Is the City of the Future Finally Here?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/10/21/city-future-finally/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">HPC Wire</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Argonne National Laboratory recently hosted the Argonne OutLoud series, during which grid computing pioneer and big data visionary Charlie Catlett delivered a presentation on "Big Data and the Future of Cities." The presentation examined how emerging technologies in high-performance computing, embedded systems, and data analytics can help mitigate some of the challenges associated with increased urbanization. Catlett says with data sources and technologies catalyzing new applications and services, there is an opportunity to make policy that is proactive rather than reactive. He says Argonne researchers are developing tools and methods to help social scientists, economists, policymakers, and climate scientists study cities. The primary goal is to get different fields that use computing and computer scientists that develop the systems to work together. "One of the ways to think about the laboratory is we run national and international instruments [such as Mira, the world's fifth fastest supercomputer] to do the kind of science you couldn't do in the laboratory of a university or a small company," Catlett says. He currently is working with the City of Chicago on the Array of Things project, which aims to build a platform that will enable researchers to collect data for various kinds of scientific inquiries into the sustainability and operation of cities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">That’s What 3 Said<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.thatswhat3said.com/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">That's What 3 Said</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Inspired by the </span><a href="http://www.3percentconf.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3% Conference</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, thatswhat3said.com is a place where women in advertising can share their insights with those bright, shiny, optimistic young female creatives – where we can help them <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">keep </span></em>that optimism through the years. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A group of female creatives at Duncan/Channon who were inspired by the 3% movement has launched a new website, </span><a href="http://www.thatswhat3said.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">thatswhat3said.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Ray Bradbury on How List-Making Can Boost Your Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/10/18/ray-bradbury-on-lists/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Brain Pickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Susan Sontag argued that lists confer value and guarantee our existence. Umberto Eco saw in them “the origin of culture.” But lists, it turns out, might be a remarkably potent tool for jostling the muse into manifesting — a powerful trigger for that stage of unconscious processing so central to the creative process, where our mind-wandering makes magic happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In Zen in the Art of Writing (public library), one of these ten essential books on writing, Ray Bradbury describes an unusual creative prompt he employed in his early twenties: He began making long lists of nouns as triggers for ideas and potential titles for stories:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">These lists were the provocations, finally, that caused my better stuff to surface. I was feeling my way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of my skull.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Bradbury would later come to articulate his conviction that the intuitive mind is what drives great writing, but it was through these lists that he intuited the vital pattern-recognition machinery that fuels creativity. Echoing Einstein’s notion of “combinatory play,” Bradbury considers the true value of his list-making:</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">YouTube Doubles Its Frame Rate (And Here's Why You Should Care)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3037869/youtube-doubles-its-frame-rate-see-here-why-you-car"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Fast Company</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Frame rates are boring tech jargon, we know. But YouTube has just made a major upgrade that will affect content creators everywhere. Frame rate is equally important for user interface in apps and operating systems because it helps everything feel more responsive--</span><a href="http://boallen.com/fps-compare.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">here's a nice side-by-side-by-side</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> of 15FPS, 30FPS, and 60FPS. As app developer and former Apple Software Engineer</span><a href="http://www.allenpike.com/2011/providing-joy-at-60-fps/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> Allen Pike puts it</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, “Your goal is 60 frames per second, the natural frame rate of the device…” pointing out that, </span><a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2C2817%2C2379206%2C00.asp"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">with growing exceptions we won’t get into here</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, our LCD displays actually refresh at 60Hz (or, for all intents and purposes, 60FPS).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Indeed, one NASA paper (</span><a href="http://humansystems.arc.nasa.gov/publications/2012_08_aiaa_ig_obva.pdf"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">PDF</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">) states that 60Hz or FPS is a reasonable peak for what humans can distinguish on a stationary monitor, though there’s some debate as to just what the human eye’s max frame rate may be--a </span><a href="http://amo.net/NT/02-21-01FPS.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">highly cited Air Force study</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> that we couldn’t actually find points out that pilots were found they could identify an image that flashed as quickly as 1/220th of a second (and it implies we may perceive frame rates that are even higher). But until we reach that hypothetical point, realize that any animation you post or watch on YouTube now has the potential to look a whole lot better. And that’s thanks to 60FPS.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">The art of storytelling<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2014/arts-society/art-storytelling/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">RSA Blogs</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">A crucial skill that when effectively wielded has people hanging off your every word, increasing the chances that they will act on the information, which in the think tank world desirous of influence and impact is the holy grail.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Make no mistake though, storytelling is an art. But being an art doesn’t make it unobtainable and esoteric, instead storytelling is the reverse: crafted and considered; engaging and entrancing; a clear and compelling message to pass on to its audience. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">A road map to the future for the auto industry<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/a_road_map_to_the_future_for_the_auto_industry"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">McKinsey & Co</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Automakers took center stage at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. General Motors exhibited the Firebird IV concept car, which, as the company explained, “anticipates the day when the family will drive to the super-highway, turn over the car’s controls to an automatic, programmed guidance system and travel in comfort and absolute safety at more than twice the speed possible on today’s expressways.” Ford, by contrast, introduced a vehicle for the more immediate future: the Mustang. With an eye toward the segment that would later be named the baby boomers, the Ford Division’s general manager (a not-yet-40-year-old engineer named Lee Iacocca) explained that the car brought “total performance” to a “young America out to have a good time.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">But what about the soul of the car: its ability to provide autonomy and a sense of self-directed freedom? The vision of a connected car, in fact, challenges even the most essential concepts of personal car ownership and control. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In other words, if a ubiquitous fleet of on-demand vehicles provided drivers with the transportation they need, would it also provide them with the feelings of independence that have attracted drivers for more than 100 years and continue to make cars popular in new markets? While the timing and impact of the forces we’ve described remain fluid, they seem likely to transform the automotive industry and perhaps alter our very concept of what an automobile is. But we also believe that people will still look to their cars as a means of self-expression, with some very human elements. Tomorrow’s winning OEMs will still manage to capture the public’s imagination, much as Ford and its Mustang did on the fairgrounds of New York half a century ago.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Why Millennials &%#@! Love Science<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/10/why-millienials-love-science/382015/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The wildly successful web publication "</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/IFeakingLoveScience"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I F*cking Love Science</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">" currently has over 18 million likes on Facebook. For context, <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Popular Science</span></em> has 2.8 million likes, and <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Scientific American</span></em> magazine has about 2 million. The publication’s founder, 25-year-old Elise Andrew, has never been affiliated with any mainstream media outlet. She launched her page in 2012, filling it with beautiful scientific images, web comics, and even original articles about the latest scientific news. "IFLS declared, with no hint of irony, that science was amazing," wrote Alexis Sobel Fitts in a </span><a href="http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/elise_andrew.php?page=all"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">recent profile</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> in the <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Columbia Journalism Review</span></em>," and in desperate need of a digital-age evangelist to spread the word." Andrew </span><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/09/11/elise-andrew-i-fucking-love-science/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">describes</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> her role in a lower-key way: "I’m just telling people things I think are cool."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This is how most Millennials feel about science—curious and awestruck. And they can’t get enough of it. They’re reading about science at their jobs and in their free time, in peer-reviewed journals or on Wikipedia. But what makes Millennials’ interests different from the scientific interests of every previous generation?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">It's Always 9:41 on the iPhone 6<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/its-always-941-on-the-iphone-6/382255/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In the land of the iPhone 6—Apple's version of it, at least—it is always, it seems, 9:41. And that is, like pretty much else at Apple, by design. Even the time on Apple's ubiquitous phone carries a marketing message.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">You can trace the origins of Apple's perma-clock back to January of 2007, when Steve Jobs gave his much-anticipated keynote at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. The Apple CEO strode onstage right at 9:00 a.m.; about 35 minutes into his presentation, he said, "This is a day I have been looking forward to for two and a half years." Jobs went on to explain that "every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything." And then he went on to announce: "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone." The screen behind him flashed to a picture of the first iPhone. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It was 9:42 a.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">9 coolest responses to Bengals' Devon Still story<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2014/10/06/bengals-devon-still-coolest-responses/16800087/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Cincinnati.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are the Top 9 coolest ways people have shown support for Bengals' Devon Still and daughter Leah Still, 4, who has pediatric cancer. Devon Still decided to go public with his daughter Leah's diagnosis of and treatment for stage 4 cancer because he wanted to bring attention to pediatric cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Boy, did he ever. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">More than 12,000 of his jerseys have been sold, and fans across the world tweet messages of support with #StillStrong.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">William S. Burroughs on Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/02/05/william-s-burroughs-on-creativity/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Brainpickings</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“What art does … is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t,” cultural critic and Rolling Stone writer Greil Marcus observed in his fantastic 2013 commencement address. But he wasn’t the first to recognize art’s capacity for opening our eyes by blinding us, for expanding our understanding of the world by illuminating our ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In this short clip from the altogether excellent 1991 documentary Commissioner of Sewers, William S. Burroughs, born 100 years ago today, articulates the same sentiment and adds to history’s greatest definitions of art as he considers the value of creative pioneers, from Galileo to Cézanne to Joyce, in propelling human culture forward:<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4">Sean Combs’ Advice For Aspiring Entrepreneurs</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3037263/then-and-now/sean-combs-advice-for-aspiring-entrepreneurs"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif">Fast Company</span></a><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">We're suckers for an inspirational startup story. And the man formerly known as Puff Daddy has a great one. Last week, Sean Combs, chairman of Combs Enterprises and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, spoke during Chicago Ideas Week about his first job, overcoming fear, and the quote that inspires him the most. Here are his three tips for success:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Make Everyone A Winner<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Identify And Fill Gaps In The Marketplace<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">3. Keep Moving Forward<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-33523788923137553062014-10-26T15:29:00.003-07:002014-10-26T15:29:48.458-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Help Your Team Spend Time on the Right Things<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/10/help-your-team-spend-time-on-the-right-things/">HBR</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">What is the most common resource that’s always in short supply? The answer, of course, is time. This applies not only to your time, but to your team’s. It’s the one organizational resource that is neither expandable nor renewable. Therefore, making sure that time is spent in ways that will have the biggest impact is a critical determinant of organizational success.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Unfortunately, many managers don’t think about time as a finite resource in the same way that they consider the limitations of headcount and budget. Therefore they don’t hesitate to give their teams more assignments without taking any away. The consequence of this is that their people work longer hours – and it’s often not clear what’s actually important <a name="_GoBack"></a>and what can wait. This cascades through the ranks so that almost everyone feels overstressed and overworked. As one senior executive sadly said to me, “There is no time in the year anymore when things quiet down.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">But steps can be taken by managers to overcome this dynamic and better leverage organizational time. The first is to sharpen their vision of what their unit needs to do better in the next year or two, so that the priorities are clear. The second step is to free up time to move towards that vision by consolidating, eliminating, or streamlining current activities. The third step is to reallocate the newly liberated capacity to short-term experiments that will help them learn how to get to the vision quicker and with greater impact.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why Humble, Empathic Business Leaders Are More Successful</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-humble-empathic-busin_b_6042196.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It's increasingly evident that business leaders who are capable of experiencing and demonstrating empathy, compassion, and humility have greater success. Research as well as direct business experience confirms this. One recent example is</span><a href="http://sciencenordic.com/humble-leaders-get-more-commitment"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> a study of 1500 leaders and their employees</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">. It found that humble leaders who have increased self-awareness and insight experience greater commitment and performance from their employees.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">According to </span><a href="http://www.bi.edu/bizreview/articles/humble-leaders-get-more-commitment/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">the research findings</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">, "Leaders with a strong self-insight demonstrate a good understanding of their own needs, emotions, abilities and behavior. On top of that, they are proactive in the face of challenges." </span><a href="http://www.bi.edu/bizreview/articles/humble-leaders-get-more-commitment/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The study found</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> that when employees experience this type of leadership, it has a positive effect, and that's especially true when the leader is humble.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">More broadly, research in recent years indicates that the capacity for compassion and empathy are innate, and it can be strengthened through conscious effort and focus. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">50 Rules to Lead the Field</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/10/50-rules-to-lead-the-field/">Robin Sharma</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">These will remind you that leadership is less about a title and more about a decision… …to work with wonder, achieve with awe, go the extra mile in all you do, innovate like Beethoven composed music, radiate optimism like Mr. Mandela led and pretty much lift up everyone you meet by the gift of your masterful example. Our world demands that of you and I, yes? I guess what I’m suggesting with love and respect is really this… …leadership’s not just for CEOs and Presidents…we ALL can lead. Because leadership’s mostly a mindset and a way of doing things… Taxi drivers can lead and street sweepers can lead and teachers can lead as can managers, artists and salespeople… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#1. To lead is to serve. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#2. At the heart of mastery lives consistency. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#3. Take care of the relationship and the money will take care of itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#4. The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#5. To double your income triple your investment in your professional education and your personal development. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#6. The swiftest way to grow your company is to grow your people. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#7. If you’re not leaving a trail of leaders behind you you’re not leading–you’re following. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#8. An addiction to distraction is the end of creative production. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#48. Say please and thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#49. Practice gratitude daily. To lead is to see the blessings each day brings. You’ll also release dopamine–the neurotransmitter of motivation–which will kickstart your performance. The value of being grateful reminds me of the Persian proverb: “I cursed the fact that I had no shoes….until I saw the man who had no feet.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">#50. Do your part. Be the leader you wish the people around you would be. As Mother Teresa said: “If each of us would sweep our own doorstep, the whole world would be clean.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to be More Interesting at Work<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.learntoinfluence.com/how-to-be-more-interesting-at-work/">The Influence Blog</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">…it is very much to your advantage if other people find you interesting. There are many ways to achieve this, and here I want to share some positive ways to become more interesting and engaging. Make sure and read to the end, because there are also a few warnings that I need to share with you before you go too far.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Express your opinions vigorously. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Have opinions that are radical. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Tune into what those around you find interesting, or even fascinating. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Get really curious about the things others find interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Don’t settle for mundane facts, go for the obscure. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Be more enthusiastic about these things. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">7. Become less predictable.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Energize your Organization</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/how-to-energize-your-organization/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Energy: Successful leaders energize. Happiness is energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Success always includes making someone feel happy. How do teams find energy?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Happiness feels like:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Control: Belief that choices are available and personal decisions impact direction and destination. Feeling powerful is acting upon rather than being acted upon.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Progress: Next steps are available, clear, and actionable.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Connectedness: Relationships that feel trustworthy, supportive, energizing, and challenging.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Purpose: Engagement with something that matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Successful leaders create frameworks where people feel in control, take next steps, build connections, and do what matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://firstround.com/article/how-medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers">FirstRound</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“No one ever challenged that there was a better way to do things, everything is so tied to who reports to whom,” he says. “But I’m too much of an engineer at heart. I started looking at management like a big A/B test, with a goal of making more data and results-driven decisions.” In his pursuit of new experiments to run, he stumbled on the book “Your Brain at Work,” which espouses what’s come to be known as the SCARF approach. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SCARF stands for status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. “Basically, when a person is honest with themselves, they’re most motivated by one of those qualities,” Stirman explains. “As a manager, you can figure out which one motivates which employee, and reward them accordingly. A lot of managers will look at their team and think, ‘We should do a round of compensation increases because everyone’s been working so hard,’ but this isn’t the best incentive for everyone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Here are some of the key tenets that Medium embraces:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">No people managers. Maximum autonomy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Organic expansion. When a job gets too big, hire another person.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Tension resolution. Identify issues people are facing, write them down, and resolve them systematically.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Make everything explicit — from vacation policies to decision makers in each area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Distribute decision-making power and discourage consensus seeking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo8"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Eliminate all the extraneous factors that worry people so they can focus on work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Replace Criticism with Critique</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://epiphanyatwork.com/replace-criticism-critique-part-one/">Epiphany at Work - Part One</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><a href="http://epiphanyatwork.com/replace-criticism-critique-part-two/">Epiphany at Work - Part Two</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Every leader faces the dilemma of how to motivate others to do their best, while correcting them when they don’t. Just this week the news coverage of the Ebola health crisis gave us the sensationalized story of this duality. We read stories of politicians who publicly praise their staff, and then deliver scathing scolding in private meetings and leaked memos. Such stories resonant with us because they mirror what happens in our workplaces. Staff who experience this oscillating between the “carrot and the stick” quickly become cynical and mistrustful.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The leaders I coach are keen to find a new and productive way. Most, like you, are time-crunched. In the midst of their crazy days, they end up barking orders and fixing errors simply to dodge bullets. They wonder how to improve the quality of the work without destroying morale. And how to do that quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">One of the fastest ways to change our behaviour is to reframe the way in which we view the world. A different lens can open up our options. In the case of giving corrective feedback, I suggest you reframe your criticism as critique. This is not merely semantics. Let’s look at the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Both criticism and critique require critical thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Age of Awareness<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2014/socialbrain/age-awareness/#more-23042">RSA</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">There are over 10 different forms of coaching, each with countless associated techniques Funny self-awareness imageand exercises. There are over 500 different forms of psychotherapy, most with similar degrees of efficacy. There are over 20 forms of meditation and paths to the spiritual. Available self-improvement and self-love techniques are too numerous to list here. The supply of these services in the market has skyrocketed, which is a likely indicator that high demand from us, consumers, is also present. But what is driving the high demand for these services? What are we collectively seeking as a society, as individuals? What do we long for or hunger for? I may be able to provide a tentative answer to this question only because the longing is also present in me. And, at this level of depth, you and I are not so different.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The answer to the question, I believe, is self-awareness. We long to know ourselves more deeply. But why? Well, there is reason to believe that we are beginning to recognize our deep need for it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Power of Social Media in Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipdoneright.com/the-power-of-social-media-in-leadership/">Leadership Done Right</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Whatever you do online will almost always get back to your employer, your loved ones, and everyone else you think you can hide it from. You can’t afford to do something online, or in any other aspect of your life, without thinking through the results of your actions. If you do, it may not lead to your downfall as quickly as the harasser, but it will lead to your downfall.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">21st Century Leaders List<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://servetolead.org/21st-century-leaders-list/">Serve to Lead</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Who are the 21st century leaders? Where can we find them?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The premise–stated or unstated–is that there’s a leadership gap today.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Who can argue against the spectacular failures of leadership in large institutions? They range from the White House and Congress (whether in the hands of the Democrats or Republicans); to Wall Street and back around to Main Street; in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors (including religious institutions); around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">It’s easy–perhaps too easy–to find reason for disappointment. And yet… there is also reason for optimism. It’s often said that these are among the worst of times for leadership… it’s also, arguably, the best of times.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">This list is updated quarterly. Please send your suggestions of other inspiring 21st century leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Business analytics in the age of Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/855/index.html">London Business School</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">ig Data is here to stay. It’s not a temporary hype, but a fundamental technological change to the business landscape, just as when computers first arrived in the office. Referring to the abundance of cheap and easily accessible information to support decision-making, Big Data is at the core of daily operations of companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon. Others are eager to follow suit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Using data to support decision-making is not new, and falls under the umbrella of business analytics. The difference now is that one can collect much more information about any element relevant to the decision-making, thanks to the ever-decreasing costs of data collection, storage and processing. For example, an online retailer today can collect a diverse range of information such as customer demographics (gender, location, age), weather, real-time inventory information from RFID (radio frequency identification) chips, and even blog post and video reviews of products. The size of the recorded dataset thus grows quickly as you record more of such relevant features repeatedly over time, sometimes as often as once every few seconds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Traditional business analytics can be classified as descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics takes available data to describe what is happening. An important aspect of doing descriptive analytics well is in the presentation of information. Google Trends is an excellent example of visualising search term popularity by region and by time. Predictive analytics consists of using past data to forecast the future, and is routinely used in all aspects of a business. Prescriptive analytics, on the other hand, uses past data and a decision (optimisation) model to reach actionable recommendations. Whereas descriptive and predictive analytics require the presence of a human manager to interpret the results, prescriptive analytics allows for automated decision-making, as long as the decision model is decided upon a priori.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Pointers to the future<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/business/21625801-forecasting-internets-impact-business-proving-hard-pointers-future">The Economist</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">PROGNOSTICATORS have a bad record when it comes to new technologies. Safety razors were supposed to produce a clean-shaven future. Cars were expected to take off and fly. Automation was meant to deliver a life of leisure. Yet beards flourish, cars remain earthbound and work yaps at our heels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The internet is no exception. Anyone looking for mis-prognostications about it will find an embarrassment of riches. The internet was supposed to destroy big companies; now big companies rule the internet. It was supposed to give everyone a cloak of anonymity: “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.” Now Google and its like are surveillance machines that know not only that you’re a dog but whether you have fleas and which brand of meaty chunks you prefer. We can now add two more entries to the list of unreliable forecasts about the internet: that it would make location irrelevant and eliminate middlemen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The internet is now starting to transform education and health care. Given the technology’s capacity to cut costs and increase access, it would be wrong to give in to incumbents in those businesses who are dead set against reform. But it would also be unwise to trust in digital revolutionaries who insist those incumbents will inevitably be swept away by a wave of startups. There is a world of difference between disruption and destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">One in Three Jobs Will Be Taken by Software or Robots by 2025<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2691607/one-in-three-jobs-will-be-taken-by-software-or-robots-by-2025.html">Computerworld</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">By 2025, software, robots, or other “smart machines” will have replaced as many as one in three existing jobs, Gartner predicts. Gartner research director Peter Sondergaard says smart machines represent an emerging "super class" of technologies that can perform a wide variety of work, from physical tasks to intellectual work, and will include drones and robots performing work such as pipeline maintenance and crop dusting to computers and software grading essays and multiple choice tests. "Knowledge work will be automated," Sondergaard says. "New digital businesses require less labor; machines will be make sense of data faster than humans can." He predicts financial analysis, medical diagnostics, and a wide variety of data analysis jobs will be automated away in the near future. Nuverra Environmental Solutions CIO Lawrence Strohmaier says these jobs will not be destroyed so much as they will be replaced by different jobs. "The shift is from doing to implementing, so the doers go away but someone still has to implement," Strohmaier says. Both he and Gartner analyst David Aron say the rise of smart machines will be accompanied by an increase in the number of IT workers to operate and maintain them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"> <p align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right;line-height:105%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-33090782032498357212014-09-28T17:38:00.001-07:002014-09-28T17:38:34.536-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Global Talent Crunch<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/the-global-talent-crunch/">Fortune</a><span style="color:windowtext"> and </span><a href="http://casnocha.com/2014/09/the-global-talent-crunch.html">Ben Casnocha</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The coming labor shortage is being fought head-on by a new generation of talent innovators—Silicon Valley<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The long line outside Philz Coffee in downtown Palo Alto is filled with hipsters and techies eager for the slowest made-to-order drip coffee in town. Most of them work for nearby tech companies like Palantir Technologies, SurveyMonkey, and MongoDB—some of the hottest startups in the area. It’s hard to tell by their uniform of T-shirts, hoodies, and jeans, but it’s likely that this group of twenty- and thirtysomethings contains a sample of the most sought-after young professionals in the country. Above them, to the right of the door, is a sign that says PHILZ COFFEE: NOW HIRING ROCK STAR TALENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">36 Rules Every Entrepreneur Must Know<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kat-loterzo/36-rules-every-entreprene_b_5885446.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. It's all a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. You can't avoid the screw-ups.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. There is no solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. You have to be ruthless.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. The list will never run out.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. Nobody cares about your big dream but you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">7. Never stop creating.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">34. Follow the path of least resistance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">35. There is no balance<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">36. It never stops.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Life is Now. Press Play.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Future is Ours – Ideas to Ponder for 2040<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.weknownext.com/blog/the-future-is-ours-ideas-to-ponder-for-2040">SHRM We Know Next</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Study the past, if you would divine the future. – Confucius<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Almost 25 years ago, in 1990, the United States passed the Americans with Disabilities Act. Beginning in the 1950’s, war veterans and activists started to speak up on behalf of individuals with disabilities in efforts to equalize the opportunities for all. In 1968, the Architectural Barriers Act declared that all buildings built with federal funds need to be accessible by the disabled. In 1973, the Rehabilitation Act prohibited discrimination against individuals with disabilities in federal agencies and all organizations receiving federal funding. The physical equality gap in human beings had been significantly reduced based on rules society had put into place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Twenty five years from now, in 2040, the world will be a very different place and so might the very way by which we look at physical equality and how it is managed. Technology is advancing exponentially – and these advances build on themselves – we learn more about how the brain works in the last 12 months, for example, than at any time in human history – perhaps cumulatively throughout.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How I Scout Superstar Employees<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237649"><span style="color:#1F497D">Entrepreneur</span></a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">1. Look right in front of you. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">2. When considering a candidate, get lots of outside validation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">3. Source talent before you have an opening. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">4. Don’t oversell. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">5. Trust what your gut is saying. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">How to onboard, assess and support superstars once they sign on<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Once you get an acceptance, include them immediately<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Build a culture that ensures that they make things happen — or that they notify you when they won’t. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Determine whether the person is a “step on gas” or “step on the brake” person. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Don’t be too influenced by a pedigree. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Use a color code system to track progress.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Turning an Adversary into a Raving Fan<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.learntoinfluence.com/turning-an-adversary-into-a-raving-fan/">The Influence Blog</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The most successful people have learned to pause when they hit a challenge and inject some objective thought. You cannot (and should not) deny your emotions, but you can become more aware, let them have their moment, and then get down to business.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">So, next time you get angry and frustrated with a stakeholder, ask yourself these questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What is their actual purpose or agenda? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How are you frustrating their progress? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How are they trying to help you? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What if they are actually your friend? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How might your agenda help their agenda? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What might Colin say about this situation? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What action can you take that might turn them into your number one fan?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Most of the time, the responses you get from others is largely caused by the attitude you hold. The easiest way to change the responses you get is to change your attitude.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Now, how are you going to change your attitude today?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Motivating Employees Has Almost Nothing to do With Their Attitude, and Almost Everything to do With Feelings of Ownership<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.content-loop.com/motivating-employees-almost-nothing-attitude-almost-everything-feelings-ownership/">Content-Loop</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We’ve all dealt with employees who were great at their jobs, and with employees who couldn’t have cared less. To maintain a competitive advantage in today’s fast-paced world, organizations need to motivate and engage all their employees. This isn’t hard for employees who are passionate and enthusiastic by nature, but what about apathetic and cynical employees? In a recent study run using Qualtrics, we explored how organizations can benefit from higher employee engagement, lower turnover, and increased financial performance by simply increasing the feeling of ownership employees experience – regardless of whether employees have any ownership in the business itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why Fresh Starts Matter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDBiSrhjbns">YouTube</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00266?gko=6c11d">S+B</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">At one time or another, most of us have struggled to do the things we know we should. Whether it’s in our personal lives or at work, we fall short of a goal, not because it’s unattainable but because we fail to exert the effort required.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">Katherine Milkman is determined to help us do better next time. In one of her most recent studies, the James G. Campbell Jr. Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania looks at what she and her coauthors call the “fresh-start effect”: the energy and determination we feel when we’re able to wipe the slate clean. According to Milkman’s research, the same momentum that drives us to join the gym in January can be harnessed to help us focus on the pursuit of goals at other times throughout the year</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">What A New Leader Should Do In The First 100 Days <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-new-leader-should-do-in-first-100.html">Eric Jacobs on Management and Leadership</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">There are seven major onboarding land mines that you are likely to come across as a new leader and there are specific points in the first 100 days where you are most likely to encounter them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Cultural engagement is extremely important in a successful transition; and it is essential that you know what your cultural engagement plan will be <u>before</u> walking in the door for Day One. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A new leader's role begins as soon as you are an acknowledged candidate for the job. Everything you do and say and don't do and don't say will send powerful signals, starting well before you even walk in the door on Day One.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">By Day 30 share with your team: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mission -- Why here, why exist, what business are we in? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Vision -- Future picture - what we want to become; where we are going. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Values -- Believes and moral principles that guide attitudes, decisions, and actions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Objectives -- Broadly defined, qualitative performance requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Goals -- The quantitative measures of the objectives that define success. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Strategies -- Broad choices around how the team will achieve its objectives. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Plans -- The most important projects and initiatives that will bring each strategy to fruition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">By Day 60: <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo6;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Overinvest in early wins to build team confidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Establish a Team Vision Through Continuous Improvement Meetings <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/establish-team-vision-continuous-improvement-meetings">Michael Lee Stallard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Periodically pull your team together for a session to identify innovative ways to improve. The meeting could be focused on ways to increase revenue, reduce costs, improve quality and/or improve efficiency. List the ideas, prioritize them, select a manageable set to focus on, assign responsibilities and track their completion. Make this information available to the entire group. Holding these meetings 3-4 times a year gets people thinking proactively about how to improve and gives them an opportunity to make a difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">MRIs of Careful People Can Predict When Bubbles Will Pop<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://nautil.us/blog/mris-of-careful-people-can-predict-when-bubbles-will-pop">Nautil.us</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In the 1630s, Holland was gripped by the world’s only known case of “tulip mania.” The intensely colored flowers were already a luxury item before then, but their prices leaped when tulips with flame patterned petals hit the market, and they continued rocketing to previously incomprehensible levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The nuclear accumbens provided a neural readout of the bubble: Its activity rose in all participants’ brains as prices rose, then fell as prices collapsed. The signal seemed to reflect the group’s collective expectation of whether prices would go up or down.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="WAC"></a><a name="CXE"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-18785155593912697872014-09-21T15:43:00.001-07:002014-09-21T15:43:23.638-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Why your team should appoint a "meta-knowledge" champion - one person who's aware of everyone else's area of expertise<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BpsResearchDigest/~3/8HPwVlKZNmE/why-your-team-should-appoint-meta.html">BPS Research</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Being on top of "who knows what" is crucial for any team. If I were scheduled to meet a new client from an unfamiliar industry, it would be handy to know that my office-mate had worked in that area for years and could offer me some tips. But how is this team meta-knowledge (knowledge of who knows what) best handled? New research suggests teams, especially those composed of specialists, gain an advantage when they concentrate this information in the hands of one person instead of spreading it thinly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><a href="http://www.rsm.nl/people/julija-mell/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">Julija Mell</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> and her collaborators asked 112 teams, each comprising three students, to rank the commercial prospects of five different drink products from best to worst. Each member read some unique information themed by specialism: for example, one it was research and development (R&D) data about the five products; for another, information about legal and marketing aspects. The task had an ideal answer, and good performance required seeing interdependencies – for example, a chemical used to manufacture one product (R&D data) was at risk of being outlawed (legal).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In half of these teams, one member was given a written overview of the specialties held by the various members. In the remaining teams, this information was divided across members, so A might know B possesses legal info (but not that they also possess marketing info), B knows what C possesses, and so on. The take-home result? After their 15 minutes of team discussion, those with one member "in the know" about member specialities produced better rankings compared to teams with divided metaknowledge. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Previously, this research group from the Rotterdam School of Management has found that people are most ready to share information and spark debate when their attention is drawn to how we each possess very different knowledge and experiences, meaning that any single perspective is bound to be partial and incomplete.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Lead with Purpose</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-to-lead-with-purpose.html">Eric Jacobsen</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Purpose is the why behind everything within an organization,” says author John Baldoni, of the book, <b><i>Lead With Purpose</i></b>.<br> <br> Baldoni also believes that <b>it is up to leaders to make certain that organizational purpose is understood</b> and acted upon. And, to harness the talents of their employees, leaders must recognize their responsibility to instill purpose in the workplace.<br> <br> Other recommendations include:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Make purpose a central focus <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Instill purpose in others <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Make employees comfortable with ambiguity <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Turn good intentions into great results <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Make it safe to fail (as well as prevail) <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Develop the next generation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">According to Baldoni, purpose forms the backbone of what an organization exists to do; upon which you can build vision and mission.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The 7 Magic Roles for Creating Sustainable Innovation Culture<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140918134857-4339244-the-7-magic-roles-for-creating-sustainable-innovation-culture">LinkedIn</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">the following 7 Magic Roles that proved effective in creating a sustainable innovation culture and then executing upon it. Culture, supported and sustained by those roles, is providing the guiding rails for the rest of the business to innovate within - and feel good about it:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Puppeteer <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Evangelist<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Curator <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Muezzin <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Zookeeper<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The MC ("master of ceremony") <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Laminator<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">IX Reasons STEM Needs Title IX: Lessons From Center Court<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janine-ingram/ix-reasons-stem-needs-tit_b_5799302.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">On the 40th anniversary of Title IX's passing, a White House press release stated that the number of female college athletes has increased from 30,000 to 190,000, and, not coincidentally, the proportion of female professors in science and mathematics has more than doubled. A study by the National Bureau of Economic Statistics found that women's increased participation in sports leads to increased participation in the workforce and, particularly, in high-skill, high-wage fields. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In the same way Title IX completely changed the landscape for girls in sports -- it's time for a full-court press on Girls in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math. Past myths and stereotypes surrounding girls' participation in sports are still applied to STEM today.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Seven questions to make sure your company is built around customers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/847/index.html">London Business Strategy Review</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Why - precisely - should anyone give us their money?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Are we offering the very best in our chosen segment? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Are we making buying from us as easy as possible?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Are they telling all their friends great things about us?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Are some within our organisation pushing customers away? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. Are we asking them what else we could do for them?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">7. Are we asking customers to help us innovate?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Leading from the Shadows</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.skipprichard.com/leading-from-the-shadows/">Skip Richard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.consiglieribook.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Richard Hytner</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> is deputy chairman of </span><a href="http://saatchi.com/en-us/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Saatchi & Saatchi</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, responsible for global strategy and innovation. His recent book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1781254273/leaderinsigh-20"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none">Consiglieri: Leading from the Shadows</span></em></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, is a celebration of the No. 2 role. This book made an impression on me because I am dependent on the “No. 2’s” and now better understand the role and the motivations. I also feel better equipped to coach people who are either not looking for the “No. 1” role or are best suited for the supportive jobs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Richard was kind enough to answer a few questions for me about his journey.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><strong><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Richard, becoming No. 1, you argue, is not always the key to success. Why not?</span></i></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://www.skipprichard.com/jon-gordon-shares-the-greatest-success-strategies-of-all/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Success</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> is best defined by yourself, not by others. So, if becoming the No. 1 is really important to you, give it a go, see how happy it makes you feel and assess – candidly – how others respond to your leadership from a position of ultimate accountability. You can, however, be enormously successful on your own terms leading from positions other than the overall No. 1, achieving great things and deriving deep personal satisfaction. Get rid of the No. 1 and No. 2 in your head and simply weigh each job as an opportunity to test every leadership muscle, not only the one that makes the final decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Celebrate Your Organization’s Culture Through a Blog<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.michaelleestallard.com/celebrate-organizations-culture-blog">Michael Lee Stallard</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Create a blog or intranet site where colleagues can post positive examples of people who live out the core values of your organization. This provides employee recognition, encourages everyone to bring the values to life, and spreads positive examples and practices. For example, see the “Nuts About Southwest” blog at </span><a href="http://www.blogsouthwest.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">www.blogsouthwest.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This is the fiftieth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">What You Communicate Without Saying a Word<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://bodylanguagelady.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-you-communicate-without-saying-word.html">Patti Wood</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="text-decoration:none"> and</span> </span><a href="http://thejobscholar.com/communicate-without-saying-word/">Job Scholar</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Our experts say a well prepared candidate will not only say the right thing in an interview, but will also communicate through their body language that they are the right fit for the position. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>Body Language Matters<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>Sit Up Straight<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>Maintain Eye Contact – Without Giving the “Death Stare”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>Keep Arms Uncrossed<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]>Understand You’re Being Watched<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Personal SWOT Analysis</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05_1.htm">MindTools</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Chance favors the prepared mind.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> – Louis Pasteur<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">You are most likely to succeed in life if you use your talents to their fullest extent. Similarly, you'll suffer fewer problems if you know what your weaknesses are, and if you manage these weaknesses so that they don't matter in the work you do. So how you go about identifying these strengths and weaknesses, and analyzing the opportunities and threats that flow from them? SWOT Analysis is a useful technique that helps you do this. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What makes SWOT especially powerful is that, with a little thought, it can help you uncover opportunities that you would not otherwise have spotted. And by understanding your weaknesses, you can manage and eliminate threats that might otherwise hurt your ability to move forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Remembering Warren Bennis</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Remembering-Warren-Bennis">Strategy + Leadership</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Bennis"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Warren Gamaliel Bennis</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> passed away </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/02/business/warren-g-bennis-scholar-on-leadership-dies-at-89.html?_r=0"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">on July 31</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. For those of us who personally knew this influential writer and commentator on leadership and organizations, one of his most notable attributes was his understanding of the paradox of human nature: our ability to simultaneously drag ourselves down and rise to great heights. His famous aphorism—that while managers know how to do things right, leaders know how to do the right thing —is one of his many legacies; it’s a guiding principle for anyone with influence. Risk-averse decision makers, Warren said, don’t become effective leaders, because excessive caution keeps them from doing anything important.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">While managers know how to do things right, leaders know how to do the right thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-21437074122830247742014-09-21T15:36:00.001-07:002014-09-21T15:36:44.291-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Sept 21<sup>st</sup> International Day of Peace<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.peaceoneday.org"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Peace One Day</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://internationaldayofpeace.org/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">International Day of Peace</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the issue of peace. He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish an annual day of ceasefire and non-violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September – Peace Day.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Why Walking Helps Us Think<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/walking-helps-us-think"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">New Yorker</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many other writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. (In fact, Adam Gopnik </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/heavens-gaits"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">wrote about walking </span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">in <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The New Yorker</span></em> just two weeks ago.) “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!” Henry David Thoreau </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=uqNr_i3YSIcC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22Methinks+that+the+moment+my+legs+begin+to+move,+my+thoughts+begin+to+flow%22+thoreau&source=bl&ots=GEtIkw9Hf7&sig=1Qw2crKWhFfmkk3LotL17WI6ms4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DGQfUrCNHYW1sQSvyoGgCQ&ved=0CGUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=legs&f=false"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">penned in his journal</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” Thomas DeQuincey has </span><a href="https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/download/attachments/18022830/Wanderlust+2.pdf?version=1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">calculated</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> that William Wordsworth—whose poetry is filled with tramps up mountains, through forests, and along public roads—walked as many as a hundred and eighty thousand miles in his lifetime, which comes to an average of six and a half miles a day starting from age five.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Algorithms Reveal Forecasting Power of Tweets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://discovere.binghamton.edu/features/tweets-5853.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Binghamton University</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A team of Binghamton University system scientists led by alumnus Nathan Gnanasambandam, senior researcher at Xerox Research's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), is developing technology that connects Tweets and other user metadata to make highly accurate predictions about everything from where someone plans to eat to when a traffic jam is likely to begin. Using machine learning and an artificial neural network, the PARC and Binghamton researchers analyzed 500 million tweets to develop their algorithms, which they say can predict the typical social media user's behavior with better than 90-percent accuracy in a three-hour time horizon. Some people share more than others, meaning there is variability in how accurate the predictions can be with any given user, but the researchers say their algorithms return usable predictions more than 60 percent of the time when other metadata, such as credit card transactions, phone calls, and global-positioning systems, are integrated. Xerox, which is funding the research, plans to use the technology in several areas including traffic control, where it has the capability of predicting when traffic flow is likely to become heavy and result in a traffic jam. Other potential applications exist in medicine and customer service call centers.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Lack of Women in STEM Is a National Security Issue<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2014/09/09/attracting-more-women-to-stem-fields-is-a-matter-of-national-security"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">US News and World Report</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Attracting more women to study science, technology, engineering and math isn't just an aspirational goal for education leaders and the business community – it's a "national security prerogative," according to the chief operating officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">It's no secret that women and minorities are significantly </span><a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2014/02/06/minorities-women-still-underrepresented-in-stem-fields-study-finds"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">underrepresented in the STEM fields</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. Although women make up about half of the American workforce, they represent less than one-quarter of those employed in STEM fields, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Part of the key to overcoming that disparity, the NGA's Ellen McCarthy said, is continually showing young girls the options available to them in different fields, and engaging them in occupations that might be more meaningful. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">McCarthy, head of the NGA's daily business operations, said during a town hall discussion </span><a href="http://fedscoop.com/events/techtownhall/#about"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">hosted by FedScoop</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> on Tuesday that parents, teachers and the public and private business sectors all have a responsibility to push children to think outside the box when it comes to education and career pathways. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Social Net, Working</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/09/science-web"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">The Economist</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A new organization is hoping to help harness the data available on social networking services to further social science research, while avoiding potential ethical issues such as those that flared up in June over an experiment to tweak people's emotional responses on Facebook. The Digital Ecologies Research Partnership (DERP) is a collaboration of image and video storage site Imgur, news and community sites Reddit and Fark, survey site StackExchange, and video-streaming service Twitch, as well as 18 academic fellows from various institutions. One of the fellows is Stanford University's Tim Althoff, who co-authored a study on online altruism that examined a long-standing discussion thread on Reddit in which users asked others to buy them pizza. Althoff says finding the proper way to obtain all the data for the study, so it contained as much information as possible while still respecting Reddit users' privacy, was a major part of the study's success. The goal of DERP is to streamline that process and make it easier for researchers to obtain such data. Working as an intermediary between social networks and researchers, DERP hopes to become a clearinghouse for data like that used in Althoff's study. The organization says initially it will focus on obtaining data about how and why content goes viral and the ways people trade and gift virtual currencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Pampers Ad <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-pampers-gives-moms-sweet-surprise-their-babys-first-birthday-160151"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">AdWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Pampers ad from Beacon Communications, celebrating moms on their babies’ first birthday, goes viral. Sit back and take four minutes to watch this lovely ad by Pampers Japan. Titled "Mom's First Birthday," it celebrates a big milestone in a new mom's life—her baby's one-year checkup. The brand partnered with some dads to surprise some moms, and the result is sweet and heartwarming.u<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Single-Most Powerful Attribute All Geniuses Share<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://99u.com/workbook/32081/the-single-most-powerful-attribute-all-geniuses-share"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">99u</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What separates the likes of Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, or Pablo Picasso from the rest of us? Over at <i>Entrepreneur</i>, James Clear argues </span><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237195?hootPostID=259937f2cbaf74144fb6c699970e63cb" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">it comes down to pure grit</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How do creative geniuses come ups with great ideas? They work and edit and rewrite and retry and pull out their genius through sheer force of will and perseverance. They earn the chance to be lucky because they keep showing up…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"> <b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">No single act will uncover more creative powers than forcing yourself to create consistently</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">….For you, it might mean singing a song over and over until it sounds right. Or programming a piece of software until all the bugs are out, taking portraits of your friends until the lighting is perfect, or caring for the customers you serve until you know them better than they know themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">It might seem like an unfortunate answer, nobody wants to hear that the best way to do anything is to “work for it,” but the advice also shines as a reminder that genius-level ideas are obtainable, they just take work. Of course, knowing </span><a href="http://99u.com/articles/7244/cut-your-losses-how-to-know-when-to-quit" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">when to quit and when to grit </span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">are important as well. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How Do You Work Best?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/great-work-cultures/how-do-you-work-best_b_5827216.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When do you work best? Is it between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.? Or do you perhaps have the clearest head at 7 a.m. and trouble focusing in the afternoon? Is it only on Monday through Friday? Or do you sometimes struggle to think straight on Mondays, but have great ideas on Saturdays?<br> <br> Where do you work best? Is it while sitting at the desk you've been assigned? Or would you be better suited to a different environment -- one that's quieter, or busier, or closer to home? Has your employer ever asked you these questions? My hunch is that for most workers across the country, the answer to this final question is no --because workplaces were not designed with these questions in mind.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Why We Work When We Do</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><br> Before the 1930s, there were no U.S. labor laws to protect employees from working indefinitely, every day of the week. Sundays were an observed day of rest (or day of church-going) for the predominantly Christian workforce, but otherwise rest was a luxury. It wasn't until 1908 that workers at a New England cotton mill </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/91aug/rybczynski-p2.htm" target="_hplink"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">had their first Saturday off as well</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, in order to accommodate the Jewish Sabbath. In 1926, Henry Ford helped make the two-day weekend more official when he began shutting his factories on Saturdays and Sundays. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Gamification Spectrum—A Unified Organization of Gamification Tools<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://community.lithium.com/t5/Science-of-Social-blog/The-Gamification-Spectrum-A-Unified-Organization-of-Gamification/ba-p/169571"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Lithium</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Common gamification tools are points, badges, leaderboards, but there are many more (e.g. ranks, goals, missions, level unlock, team reputation, etc.). By now there are probably hundreds and thousands of gamification tools out in the market. Moreover, there are many variants of a gamification tool. For example, there are different kinds of leaderboards with different scope. Some only compare you against your friends, whereas others compare you against strangers that are similar to you in some ways.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">History's Female Programmers Will No Longer Be Forgotten<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.content-loop.com/historys-female-programmers-will-longer-forgotten/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Content Loop</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Julie Flapan, executive director at the Alliance for California Computing Education for Students and Schools, is working on boosting computer-science education for primary and secondary students, especially young girls and students of color. She says one important way for young, diverse students to understand that computing can be a career for them is by meeting computer scientists who break the white-male stereotype, and learning from them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Not many girls and people of color see themselves represented as a computer scientist," Flapan said in an interview. Without that, she said, students may question whether or not computer science is a field for them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Telle Whitney, president and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute, says that having role models is important for career development, and is an inspiration for women who might consider a different university of career path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"If you don’t see anyone who looks like you, it's harder to imagine yourself in that role," Whitney told me in an interview.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In an effort to provide those personal resources to women in technology, both those starting their career path at colleges and universities and professional women already in the workforce, the Anita Borg Institute produces the annual Grace Hopper Celebration, the world's largest gathering of female technologists.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">McDonald’s Tries to Crowdsource Its Next Hit Hamburger <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/mcdonald-s-is-crowdsourcing-its-next-hit-burger"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BusinessWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">McDonald's is learning what customers want in their burgers through a build-your-own burger test in Southern California stores. McDonald’s (</span><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=MCD"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">MCD</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">) recently expanded its </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-15/mcdonald-s-considers-expanding-its-build-your-burger-test.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">build-your-own burger test</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. Now, in four Southern California stores, customers will be encouraged to assemble any combination of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Beef patty: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">One or two<br> <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Bun:</span></strong> Buttered toasted bakery-style bun, buttered toasted artisan roll<br> <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Cheese: </span></strong>American, sharp white cheddar, pepper jack<br> <strong><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Toppings:</span></strong> Chili lime tortilla strips, guacamole, red onion, caramelized grilled onions, jalapeños, grilled mushrooms, lettuce, pickles, tomato, Big Mac sauce, spicy mayo, creamy garlic sauce, BBQ sauce, mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, bacon<br> <br> That’s a lot of toppings. The point is less to satisfy every customer’s whims and more to discover popular combinations that McDonald’s—which hasn’t managed to </span><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-12/mcdonald-s-loses-its-taste-for-novelty-gets-back-to-basics-with-bacon-clubhouse-burger"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">generate a hit </span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">recently—can export to the rest of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Linguistics of LOL<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/the-linguistics-of-lol/379336/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When two friends created the site I Can Has Cheezburger?, in 2007, to share cat photos with funny, misspelled captions, it was a way of cheering themselves up. They probably weren’t thinking about long-term sociolinguistic implications. But seven years later, the “cheezpeep” community is still active online, chattering away in lolspeak, its own distinctive variety of English. lolspeak was meant to sound like the twisted language inside a cat’s brain, and has ended up resembling a down-South baby talk with some very strange characteristics, including deliberate misspellings (teh, ennyfing), unique verb forms (gotted, can haz), and word reduplication (fastfastfast). It can be difficult to master. One user writes that it used to take at least 10 minutes “to read adn unnerstand” a paragraph. (“Nao, it’z almost like a sekund lanjuaje.”)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">4 Odd Yet Effective Ways The Smartest People Prioritize Their Days<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.content-loop.com/4-odd-yet-effective-ways-smartest-people-prioritize-days/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Content Loop</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Successful people know that planning, organizing, and protecting your time is no easy feat, but if you don't have your priorities straight, who will? Below are four unconventional methods that keep the brightest minds focus on exactly what they need to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Think About Death <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Wear The Same Clothes Every Day <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Know The Difference Between Urgent And Important <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Make An "Avoid At All Cost" List<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="color:#1F497D">#GoHawks<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-17933192268922996842014-09-01T15:57:00.001-07:002014-09-01T15:57:20.372-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Why Humility Pays Off<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://blog.busybuildingthings.com/post/73408660351/why-humility-pays-off">Busy Building Things</a><span style="color:windowtext"> and </span><a href="http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/04/06/best-entrepreneurs-creators-humble/">The Next Web</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Increased motivation, better teams, and fewer mistakes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In an age where social media runs rampant with humblebrags and constant barking, humility grows scarcer every day. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Embracing humility, and being humble, doesn’t mean never talking about your achievements and accomplishments. As 19th century author and preacher Charles Spurgeon eloquently explains it:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Human Language Is Biased Towards Happiness, Say Computational Linguists<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/data-mining-reveals-how-human-language-is-biased-towards-happiness-773df682c4a7"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">medium.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Back in 1969, a couple of psychologists from the University of Illinois began studying the way people in different cultures use words. Their conclusion was that whatever their culture, people tended to use positive words more often the negative ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">This finding is now known as the Pollyanna hypothesis, after a 1913 novel by Eleanor Porter about a girl who tries to find something to be glad about in every situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">These guys have measured the frequency of positive and negative words in a corpus of 100,000 words from 24 languages representing different cultures around the world. And their happy conclusion is that the data backs up the Pollyanna hypothesis. “The words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias,” they say.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">India swaps ice for rice in new bucket challenge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/25/world/asia/india-rice-bucket-challenge/index.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">CNN</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has morphed into a considerably warmer and drier alternative in India.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Enter the "Rice Bucket Challenge." #RiceBucketChallenge<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Indian journalist Manju Latha Kalanidhi, who works for the U.S.-based rice research website Oryza.com, says when she first heard about the ice bucket challenge, she got thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Why waste water?" she asks. "I felt like doing something more locally tangible. Rice is a staple here. We eat it every day, we can store it for months. Why not donate rice to someone who is hungry?"<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">And it rhymes with ice. So Kalanidhi started her own challenge: Donate a bucket of rice to someone in need, post a photo online, and challenge your friends to do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The original version, designed to raise funds to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease and motor neurone disease (MND) -- is a global viral phenomenon.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Changing Nature of Privacy Practice <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2014/08/27-facebook-experiment-kerry?utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=13960700&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--rcamd2DfKkRndeOYM-6AHUToC_rrkg_I3pS0ffZxbHAxFU4rPkNAQ29hk_zZcvq4eXyL8cHqrsmIWKiXZfrWE-AmyXw&_hsmi=13960700"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Brookings Institute</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Crafting privacy policies has been an exercise in drafting to describe uses of information in enough depth and detail to provide full disclosure but enough breadth and generality to leave room for other conceivable uses and also (as data use evolves rapidly) some not yet conceived. Facebook’s terms of service allow data use “for internal operations," including "data analysis, testing, research and service improvement,” so users who consent to these terms arguably consent to being research subjects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Your Child's Next Field Trip May be a Virtual One<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/childs-field-trip-virtual/story?id=25160036"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">ABC News</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Your child's next field trip may not require a permission slip or a brightly-colored t-shirt that matches his classmates. It may not require any traveling at all, and yet he or she might be interacting with people and places on the other side of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><a href="https://education.skype.com/%20"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Skype in the Classroom</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> uses technology to bring students -- some less fortunate -- on virtual field trips or to hear lessons from noteworthy people in various career fields. Classrooms in the U.S. have interacted with classrooms in </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/new-zealand.htm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">New Zealand</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">; had the CEO of the </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/motion-picture-association-of-america.htm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Motion Picture Association of America</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> as a guest speaker; and taken virtual field trip to Biscayne National Park to learn about sea turtles plus hundreds of other experiences. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiZqn6fV-4Y"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">TED</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to light, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg bends the boundaries of time and space with high-speed cameras, time lapses and microscopes. At TED2014, he shares highlights from his latest project, a 3D film titled "Mysteries of the Unseen World," which slows down, speeds up, and magnifies the astonishing wonders of nature.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Delta Innovation Class <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://news.delta.com/2014-03-19-Delta-Partners-with-LinkedIn-to-Connect-Present-and-Future-Business-Leaders-In-Flight"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Delta</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span> <a href="http://www.deltainnovationclass.com/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Delta</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none">and </span></span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/willburns/2014/05/12/delta-innovation-class-reframes-air-line/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) is partnering with LinkedIn to connect today's high-profile influencers with the business leaders of tomorrow at 35,000 feet. Through a unique program called "Innovation Class," Delta is offering its LinkedIn community the opportunity to meet with leaders from different fields on a designated flight. The airline will preview the concept at the TED2014 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia on March 17-21.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Individuals interested in the opportunity to fly with a titan in their industry, sharing ideas and discussing goals and future projects, may submit an application at </span><a href="http://www.deltainnovationclass.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Deltainnovationclass.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. Delta will select and pair applicants with industry leaders. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Delta's </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCj8q0gxmBQ&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">first Innovation Class</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> in-flight pairing occurred enroute to TED2014: James Patten, CEO of Patten Studio, was awarded the opportunity to fly with influential technologist Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble Technology, from Salt Lake City to Vancouver. Delta will host additional Innovation Class flights throughout 2014, including the next enroute pairing featuring Sean Brock, an Outstanding Chef finalist for The James Beard Awards in New York City on May 5. Future events and influencer pairings will be announced later this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg ”No One Can Have it All” </span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/facebooks_sheryl_sandberg_no_one_can_have_it_all">McKinsey</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxnm7nNaXOY">YouTube</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has emerged as a leading voice for gender equality since she delivered, in late 2010, a provocative TEDWomen address on why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top. <br> <br> In this interview—available here as both a video and an edited transcript—with McKinsey's Joanna Barsh, Sandberg (an alumnus of McKinsey, the US Treasury Department, and Google) expands on issues from her new book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" (Knopf, March 2013), and explains why women need to "lean in" to gain confidence, develop skills, and become more comfortable as leaders—herself included. <br> <br> Find the full transcript of this interview as well as links to McKinsey's wealth of research on the topic of executive women on the McKinsey Quarterly site: <a href="http://bit.ly/McKLeanIn">http://bit.ly/McKLeanIn</a><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">This is Water – How to Live a Compassionate Life</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI">YouTube</a> <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“</span><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=284bca11e2&e=cde89fbae8"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#336699">David Foster Wallace</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">‘s “</span><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=7dfee6ad71&e=cde89fbae8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#336699">This Is Water,</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">” an essay derived from his 2005 commencement speech at </span><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=0ce9c8266a&e=cde89fbae8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#336699">Kenyon College</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, has become one of the most famous pieces of 21st-century writing on living a compassionate life. Over at </span><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=8984bd6f0b&e=cde89fbae8" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#336699">Medium</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, illustrator </span><a href="http://colorado.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=10c4a0510b4c7a51696240804&id=4b36cf361e&e=cde89fbae8" target="_self"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#336699">Jessica Hagy</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> has boiled down one of the most moving aspects of the essay into this poetic cyclical flowchart:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The section she illustrates is toward the middle of the essay, where, without an ounce of preachiness, Wallace considers the value of taking time to recognize the humanity of strangers in a crowd. These strangers might be in your way at a grocery store checkout line or in a traffic jam. They might appear, on the surface, ‘stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman,’ he writes. Such an effort requires challenging ‘the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world, and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world’s priorities.'”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Local, National Efforts Aim to Draw Girls Into STEM Fields <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/aug/24/local-national-efforts-aim-to-draw-girls-into/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Spokesman-Review</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Educators and community leaders in Spokane, WA, and across the United States, are working to encourage girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Washington has one of the U.S.'s fastest growing STEM workforces and Grant Forsyth, chief economist with Avista Corp., says failing to engage women in STEM fields is "leaving a lot of human capital on the table." The Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho are working to kindle interest in STEM among girls from an early age by making use of a space where they can be exposed to science in a fun way without boys to compete against. The program proceeds up into scouts' teens and includes access to STEM mentors. Spokane Public Schools also seeks to install early interest in STEM and breakdown perceptions that such subjects are only for boys. The schools host STEM summer camps led by female high school and college students who act as role models for the younger girls. At the college level, Gonzaga University professor Joanne Smieja is leading a national effort supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation to help female STEM professors at U.S. colleges and universities to<a name="_GoBack"></a> advance and secure their careers so they can act as role models for undergraduate students.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">What Happens To The Human Brain If You Try To Watch Every ‘Simpsons’ Ever <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/sleep-deprivation-the-simpsons-fxx/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">FiveThirtyEight.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Last Thursday, FXX began its <a href="http://www.zap2it.com/blogs/every_simpsons_ever_schedule_favorite_episode-2014-08"> “Every Simpsons Ever” promotion</a>. The network’s airing “The Simpsons” — all 552 episodes — over 12 consecutive days, and Season 11’s “Missionary: Impossible,” at 10 a.m. Tuesday, marked the end of hour No. 120.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">As with any ludicrous television marathon — especially with a show as popular as “The Simpsons” — there are going to be a few ambitious individuals who try to watch as long as they can. I’d bet that some writer somewhere is working on a stunt piece titled “I Tried To Watch Every Simpsons Ever And Here’s What Happened.”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">So, what’s happening to these poor souls? I reached out to my friend <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ojwalch/">Olivia Walch</a>, a mathematics doctoral student at the University of Michigan. Walch made <a href="http://entrain.math.lsa.umich.edu/">the sleep-repair app Entrain</a>, so she sent us a pile of <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ojwalch/sleepstudies.html">sleep deprivation studies</a> so we could find out what people trying to mainline “The Simpsons” are going through.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Who Knew? The Wearable Chair Was Actually Invented 37 Years Ago <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/furniture_design/who_knew_the_wearable_chair_was_actually_invented_37_years_ago_27553.asp"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Core77</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">So it looks like the honor of Design Crossover Hit of the Week goes to </span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/wearable/sit_happens_noonees_so-called_chairless_chair_offers_wearable_seating_solution_27545.asp"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">Noonee's Chairless Chair</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, and while the mainstream media took to hailing it as a futuristic exoskeletal paramedical breakthrough, it so happens that the basic idea dates back to the late 70's. Upon seeing </span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/wearable/sit_happens_noonees_so-called_chairless_chair_offers_wearable_seating_solution_27545.asp"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">my post about it</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> earlier this week, eagle-eyed reader Gary Cruce sent a note with a photo from an old exhibition catalog, indicating that the product may well have been invented several decades ago. Along with the image and anecdote, Cruce provided an all-important snapshot of the caption from the catalog; crediting the "Wearable Chair (1977)" to Darcy Robert Bonner Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Everywhere Johnny Cash went, man<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2014/08/20/everywhere-jonny-cash-went-man/">Flowing Data</a> <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Johnny Cash says he went to a lot of places in his song, "I've Been Everywhere." Iain Mullan had some fun with the location list for Music Hack Day London and </span><a href="http://www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">mapped each place as the song plays</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">First Rule of Management: Take Care of Your People<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140829131629-13021099-first-rule-of-management-take-care-of-your-people">LinkedIn</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">It is a person's moral obligation and social responsibility to protect a culture that provides an honorable and dignified place in which to work." - Arthur T. Demoulas, CEO Market Basket, August 28, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">I had the honor and privilege of serving local governments in Massachusetts for nearly 12 years. While serving, I observed, learned, grew into and finally became part of that region. And I learned (or relearned) many important life lessons. The golden rule always applies, we have far more in common with each other than we have differences, and my grandfather's first (and only) rule of management: Take Care of Your People.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Characteristics of a Strategic Leader <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipdoneright.com/characteristics-strategic-leader/">Leadership Done Right</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What Is Strategic Leadership Style?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Strategic leadership actually means employing strategy in the employee management. Generally the core strategy employed is to inspire and stimulate employees to take decisions and measures to ameliorate their prolific input into the organization. Strategy requires critical thinking as well as planning skills, whereas leadership motivates others to take the right measures. This is a model of management that trains and motivates workers to best prepare the organization to get success.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Progressive Thinking<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Focus on Productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Motivate Employees<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Be Practical<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Four Qualities of People Who Change the World <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/four-qualities-of-people-who-change-the-world/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;line-height:200%"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Jobs are boring dead things that suck the life out of you, but a person with a mission has found a new lens for life. The greater the thing you live for the richer life becomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The top four:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#1. Curiosity – persistent learning. What are you learning? What are you reading? How do you process feedback? Curiosity is probably the most important one of the four. Claudio Fernández-Aráoz<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#2. Insight – the ability to connect the dots. Can you determine what really matters and put together a vision that makes sense, one that others can follow? Can you keep your feet on the ground and see possibilities at the same time?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#3. Engagement – the ability to convince and persuade others about the vision. Can you touch minds and hearts? Are you influencing without authority?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#4. Determination – the ability to continue striving toward high and challenging objectives regardless of the circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Make It A Habit To Ask Your Employees These 6 Questions <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2014/08/make-it-habit-to-ask-your-employees.html">Eric Jacobsen</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">As explained in John Baldoni's, book, Lead With Purpose, Marshall Goldsmith suggests all leaders make it a habit to regularly ask their employees these six questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Where do you think we should be going?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Where do you think you and your part of the business should be going?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What do you think you're doing well?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">If you were the leader, what ideas would you have for you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How can I help?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What suggestions or ideas do you have for me?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Question For Leaders: What's Your Value?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2014/08/13/question-for-leaders-whats-your-value/"><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Forbes</span></span></a></span><span style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What do you think the biggest problem facing </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/leaders/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">leaders</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> today is?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When it comes to big issues, good leaders ask themselves: am I delivering value to my people, my team, and my organization? Businesses wrestle with value daily in everything from customer offering to process improvement. Leaders too need to find ways that they deliver value to their stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The value proposition for a leader is the means of finding balance between what you can do and what you ought to do. So there is an element of time as well as resources. But the question goes deeper into what a leader delivers. Certainly a leader’s job is to provide direction as well as guidance. Leaders must also enable others to do their jobs better and that requires a mixture of development as well as equipping them resources and tools as well as support in the form of training.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Intention + Diligence + Attentiveness = </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/leadership/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Leadership Value</span></a><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">The Story Behind: You Must Be The Change You Wish To See In The World <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20140813120052-14431679-the-story-behind-you-must-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">So many of us have heard and been moved by Gandhi's quote. But even as we have quoted, cited, coached it and counseled with it, we don’t often hear the story behind it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Among the hundreds of people were waiting to visit with Mahatma Gandhi were a mother and her young son. When it was their turn, the woman asked Gandhi to speak with her son about eating sugar. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Gandhi asked her to come back in two weeks and said he would talk to the boy then. She wondered why he didn’t just speak to her son when he was already there, but she complied with his request. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In two weeks they returned, and after waiting for a couple of hours, she was able to approach Gandhi once again. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Hearing her repeated request, Gandhi immediately spoke with the boy, who agreed to begin working to eliminate sweets. After thanking Gandhi for his wise and compassionate words, the mother asked him why he wanted them to return instead of offering his advice the first time. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Gandhi replied, “Upon your visit two weeks ago I too was eating sugar.” He explained that he could not speak of or teach her son to not eat sugar if he himself had not taken that journey.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">Leading light <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/business/21611101-man-who-invented-study-corporate-leadership-warren-bennis-died-july-31st-aged">The Economist</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The man who invented the study of corporate leadership, Warren Bennis, died on July 31st aged 89<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">WARREN BENNIS was the world’s most important thinker on the subject that business leaders care about more than any other: themselves. When he started writing about leadership in the 1950s the subject was a back road. When he died on July 31st it was an eight-lane highway crowded with superstar professors whizzing along in multi-million-dollar muscle cars.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mr Bennis produced about 30 books on leadership. Some of them are classics, such as “On Becoming a Leader” (1989). All are surprisingly readable, stuffed with anecdotes, examples and literary references. He offered advice to leaders from all walks of life. Howard Schultz, the chairman of Starbucks, regarded him as a mentor. Presidents from both sides of the aisle—John Kennedy and Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan—sought his advice. If Peter Drucker was the man who invented management (as a book about him claimed), then Warren Bennis was the man who invented leadership as a business idea.u<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><span style="color:windowtext">How Effective Change Leaders Build Trust<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://switchandshift.com/how-effective-change-leaders-build-trust">Switch and Shift</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Editor’s Note: This post is part of the series “Return on Trust,” a weeklong effort provided by some very special invited guests. Be sure to </span></em><a href="http://switchandshift.com/category/series/return-on-trust"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">keep track of the series here</span></i></a><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> and check out our daily e-mail newsletter. </span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">…one of the absolute foundations of effective leadership is: TRUST. But how do you build trust? What can you actively do to increase the level of trust that people extend to you? In this video I will share with you two “Trust Formulas” that will help you be a more trusted person and leader. I hope you find them of value.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-58091413335662490132014-08-17T15:39:00.000-07:002014-08-17T15:40:02.122-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span class="Heading1Char"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Because</span></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> now it's a "Communication First" world<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140812194315-4448548-because-now-it-s-a-communication-first-world?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mobile first. Cloud first. The Digital Age. Disruption. Clichés abound as we all try to make sense of how technology has put us into a 24/7 state of communication. And therein lies the essence of a monumental shift: we inspire action by connecting to others, enabled by trust and persuasion. Former NBC News war correspondent Hanson Hosein now runs a graduate program for professionals that focuses on this very secret sauce. And you'll get a taste of it through a dynamic, multimedia infused presentation that's reveals the latest best practices, along with what's lurking right around the corner. Ultimately, he'll prove that all organizations needs to master a "communication first" strategy to leverage content throughout its communities and networks, inside and out.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Crowd Source Gone Wild: Over 1 million players play one pokemon game.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26417482"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BBC</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon/c/3813740"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">video</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">channel</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Using the social-gaming video site Twitch, all the players were trying to control one character in the game at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Twitch is a website that lets users broadcast and watch games and use an online chat function while playing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">The online game took 16 days to complete and the site was viewed more than 36 million times.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">BBC Article: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26417482"><span style="color:blue">http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26417482</span></a><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Link to Twitch channel recorded video: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon/c/3813740"><span style="color:blue">http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon/c/3813740</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:black">Link to Twitch channel on going: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon"><span style="color:blue">http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How Successful People Stay Calm</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140805002649-50578967-how-successful-people-stay-calm"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">LinkedIn</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. TalentSmart has conducted research with more than a million people, and we've found that 90% of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">If you follow our newsletter, you've read some startling research summaries that explore the havoc stress can wreak on one's physical and mental health (such as the Yale study, which found that prolonged stress causes degeneration in the area of the brain responsible for self-control). The tricky thing about stress (and the anxiety that comes with it) is that it's an absolutely necessary emotion. Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Wired</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Stewart (Butterfield) is well known in certain circles as the founder of the ur-photo-sharing service, Flickr. When he and his two partners sold it to Yahoo for, Stewart says, "somewhere between $22 million and $25 million" in 2004, it kicked off the Web 2.0 era and signaled the end of the dotcom bust. Flickr was a treasure chest of innovation, but Stewart never even intended to make the damn thing. He'd set out, instead, to make a game called Game Neverending. It was a financial failure. Flickr was merely based on a set of features broken out of the game, but it took over the company and his life. You may have heard the regrettably trendy term pivot, where a startup abruptly shifts to a new strategy and suddenly thrives. This was one of the original pivots. Everybody does it now.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Russell Brand: Robin Williams' divine madness will no longer disrupt the sadness of the world<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/russell-brand-robin-williams-divine-madness-broken-world">Guardian</a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What platitudes then can we fling along with the listless, insufficient wreaths at the stillness that was once so animated and wired, the silence where the laughter was? That fame and accolades are no defence against mental illness and addiction? That we live in a world that has become so negligent of human values that our brightest lights are extinguishing themselves? That we must be more vigilant, more aware, more grateful, more mindful?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How to Secure the Cloud<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2014/08/how-to-secure-the-cloud/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Northwestern University News</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Northeastern University researchers are working on the Frontier project, which includes researchers from Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Connecticut. The Frontier project will develop mechanisms to help make the cloud as secure as possible. The researchers will deploy and test the mechanisms as part of the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a partnership of state government, industry, and universities that is designed to create a new public cloud computing marketplace to help spur innovation. The researchers have developed a new method for computing on encrypted data with the potential to change the fact that conventional methods of encryption leave the data useless, notes Northeastern professor Daniel Wichs. "I can send you encrypted data, you run the computation and then send me back the encrypted answer," Wichs says. However, he also says while this breakthrough represents great promise, the approach is still too inefficient to be widely useful. The researchers want to provide a new level of security to cloud-based computing by developing new theoretical methods for encrypting data and performing computations on that data. "We want to take a standard program and convert it to work on encrypted data," Wichs says.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Now You Can See the Invisible<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014348/now-you-see-it"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">University of California Santa Barbara</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">University of California, Santa Barbara researchers are using Wi-Fi signals to look through solid walls and see what is on the other side. The patented technology lets users visualize the space on the other side and identify not only the presence of occluded objects, but also their position and geometry, without any prior knowledge of the area. Furthermore, it has the potential to classify the material type of each occluded object such as human, metallic, or wood. The researchers want to use this imaging technology with automated mobile robots in situations where human access is difficult or risky, and the ability to ascertain what is in a given occluded area is important, such as search and rescue operations for disasters. The technology also can be implemented on a Wi-Fi-enabled device or a Wi-Fi network, where it can be used to monitor the presence and location of objects and people throughout a built space, which opens possibilities for spotting intruders, or watching over senior citizens. In addition, the technology can provide information for smart building applications to optimize services that depend on the level of occupancy of a building. In the future, the system could be modified to be used in preliminary body scans and health monitoring via a Wi-Fi-enabled handheld device.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/hit-the-reset-button-in-your-brain.html?_r=1"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">NY Times</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">THIS month, many Americans will take time off from work to go on vacation, catch up on household projects and simply be with family and friends. And many of us will feel guilty for doing so. We will worry about all of the emails piling up at work, and in many cases continue to compulsively check email during our precious time off.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But beware the false break. Make sure you have a real one. The summer vacation is more than a quaint tradition. Along with family time, mealtime and weekends, it is an important way that we can make the most of our beautiful brains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Equation to Predict Happiness<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/040814_happiness_equation"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">University College London</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Researchers at University College London (UCL) have developed a mathematical equation that can accurately predict how happy people will say they are from moment to moment based on recent events such as rewards received. The team tested the equation on more than 18,000 people worldwide, and the results show moment-to-moment happiness reflects how well things are going as well as whether they are going better than expected. The scientists had 26 subjects complete a decision-making task in which their choices led to monetary gains and losses, and repeatedly asked them to answer "how happy you are right now?" The researchers also measured their neural activity during the task using functional magnetic resonance imaging, and from the data built a computational model in which self-reported happiness was related to recent rewards and expectations. "We expected to see that recent rewards would affect moment-to-moment happiness but were surprised to find just how important expectations are in determining happiness," says UCL's Robb Rutledge. "In real-world situations, the rewards associated with life decisions such as starting a new job or getting married are often not realized for a long time, and our results suggest expectations related to these decisions, good and bad, have a big effect on happiness."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Least Interesting Man in the World<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/05/trivago_guy_what_modern_men_can_learn_from_this_enigmatic_weirdo.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Slate</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Have you gotten out of town at all this summer? Any weddings? Country weekends? Did you, perhaps, accept the invitation of a faintly sleazy old dude to visit a greasy beach? Was it Trivago Guy? OMG—you're hanging out with Trivago Guy? He's a weird cat! Trivago, the Düsseldorf-based travel search engine, has a most peculiar on-air pitchman—a sallow avatar of middle-aged masculinity, a found object and a cult item, an accidental enigma.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Break Out Of Your Creative Rut With Spontaneous Field Trips<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3033886/agendas/break-out-of-your-creative-rut-with-spontaneous-field-trips"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Fast Company</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Three times a year, management at The Via Agency surprises their employees. After what seemed like a standard company-wide meeting, for example, president Leeann Leahy shut the office down for an hour in the middle of the day and sent everyone to the dance club across the street for a free drink and an hour to let loose. "We all dance our faces off and, then, you go back to work," Leahy told Fast Company.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Leahy calls these events "go dos," shorthand <a name="_GoBack"></a>for "get out, do things," and they're part of a larger effort to promote creativity. The ad agency operates under the theory that creativity comes from having a life outside of the office. Inspiration has to come from somewhere, after all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-76736120938242320372014-07-18T11:00:00.000-07:002014-07-18T11:01:07.342-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">What’s Driving Tesla’s Open Source Gambit?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/whats-driving-teslas-open-source-gambit/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Knowledge@Wharton</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Should a car be treated like a piece of software? That is essentially what Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, has done. The billionaire, who made his fortune by co-founding and selling PayPal, recently dropped a bombshell on the automotive industry: In the spirit of the “open source” movement, he announced this month that Tesla would share patents that cover its revolutionary electric vehicles for free.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">CEO Elon Musk’s decision to share Tesla’s patents could spur innovation and help establish shared standards in the electric vehicle market. Still, experts say that the automaker’s offer is less generous than it looks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The debate about "disruptive" innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://innovateonpurpose.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-debate-about-disruptive-innovation.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Innovate on Purpose</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">I</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">f you are interested in innovation, and you should be, and have been awake and sentient for the last week or so, you have probably noticed a slight dustup in the innovation force. Jill Lepore, a writer for the New Yorker, penned an </span><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">article</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> that calls into question the idea of "disruptive" innovation as framed by Clayton Christensen. Since the publication of that article, many people have weighed in, on both side<a name="_GoBack"></a>s of the debate. Some noted innovation specialists have leapt to Christensen's defense, while others have been happy to knock old Clayton down a peg or two off of his high innovation horse.<br> <br> Christensen based his book The Innovator's Dilemma on much of his PhD thesis work, and it's this research and the conclusions that he drew that Lepore calls into question. For many of us, The Innovator's Dilemma was and to some extent still is a seminal kind of book - one that defines a new way of thinking. Lepore calls into question a lot of the research Christensen uses to draw his conclusions, basically accusing him of "cherry picking" the industries and studies, and ignoring data that didn't meet his hypothesis. Further, she notes that in many of the industries he selected for review, where the initial leaders in the market were 'disrupted', many years later those leaders are still the leaders in their space. Was Christensen wrong, misguided or simply viewing the data in the best possible light? Or, should we ask another question: did Christensen set out to define a science, and a provable scientific thesis that is iron-clad, or did he introduce a new way of thinking about innovation and new product development that is applicable in situations and usefully strategically?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">STEM Pipeline Problems to Aid STEM Diversity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2014/06/stem"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Brown University</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Brown University scientists have written a paper suggesting four research-based ideas to lead more underrepresented minority students into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers, based on an analysis of the STEM pipeline. Representation of minorities in STEM college degrees and Ph.D.'s diminishes over time, with many of those entering the programs not completing them. "That pipeline we've laid? We're stuffing it but the yield is less than we expect," says Brown professor Andrew G. Campbell. "That's because it's not a horizontal pipeline, it's a vertical one. You can't just stuff it and walk away." Among incoming college freshmen, similar proportions of underrepresented minority (URM) and non-URM students express interest in STEM subjects, but URM students are less likely to graduate in STEM subjects. The discrepancy intensifies at the graduate level, and again in the workplace. The paper suggests educators and policymakers should improve conditions to help move URM students through the pipeline. Specifically, the researchers suggest alignment of culture and climate, partnerships between research and minority-serving universities, critical masses of minority students, and faculty engagement in diversity.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">ESPN breaks record for streaming viewers with U.S. World Cup match<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.adweek.com/news/television/espn-world-cup-preliminary-ratings-show-workplace-viewership-158623"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">AdWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">ESPN metered market numbers for yesterday's 12 p.m. match between the U.S. and Germany got a 6.3 rating, including an hour of pregame starting at 11 a.m. That's great, considering the game kicked off in the middle of a day and much of the viewership would have been in workplaces.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Indeed, the sports network's digital platform, WatchESPN, got so many concurrent viewers—a peak of 1.7 million, which breaks the platform's record—that the digital edition of the game sputtered and died for quite a few folks who wanted to contribute to that number. Still, that's more peak concurrents than the Super Bowl. Viewership on Univision's digital platform peaked around 750,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Fast nationals for ESPN and overnights for Univision are not yet available, but the digital explosion suggests that networks and digital video providers can ill afford to buy data that doesn't include advertisements delivered in the workplace. Whether people are watching on their lunch breaks or surreptitiously in a tiny window when the boss isn't looking, it's become clear that if you're sitting in front of a computer all day with what is probably a faster Internet connection than you've got at home, you're going to watch TV.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Microsoft Makes Bet Quantum Computing Is Next Breakthrough</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/technology/microsoft-makes-a-bet-on-quantum-computing-research.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">New York Times </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none">(may require free registration)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Microsoft is exploring a new approach to quantum computing based on braiding particles called anyons to form the building blocks of a supercomputer. Anyons are described as quasiparticles that exist in only two dimensions rather than three. Microsoft's "topological quantum computing" involves precisely controlling the motions of pairs of subatomic particles as they braid themselves around one another to control entangled quantum bits. This subatomic particle braiding process would in theory weave together a powerful computing system, with the mathematics of particle motions capable of correcting the most elusive errors facing quantum computer designers. However, scientists believe this topological approach is risky, because the type of anyon particle needed to create qubits has not been conclusively proven to exist. To address this, Microsoft is investing in academic research groups exploring a long-hypothesized class of subatomic particles known as Majorana fermions. If the existence of the Majorana can be proven, the particles could likely be used to generate qubits for topological quantum computing. The most compelling evidence the particles exist was presented in 2012 through Microsoft-backed research at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. While acknowledging they have not yet produced a working prototype of the basic element of their system, Microsoft researchers are considering how to build a prototype if efforts to create the qubits succeed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Exploding the 10,000 hours myth - it's no guarantee for greatness<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/exploding-10000-hours-myth-its-no.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BPS Research Digest</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%">Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson has studied elite performers in music, chess and sport for decades, and he says the main distinguishing characteristic of experts is the amount of deliberate practice they've invested - typically over 10,000 hours.<br> <br> This is painstaking practice performed for the sole purpose of improving one's skill level. Best-selling authors like Gladwell, Daniel Pink, Matthew Syed and others, have taken Ericsson's results and distilled them into the uplifting message that genius is grounded almost entirely in hard work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%"><br> But now a team led by </span><a href="http://psychology.msu.edu/Faculty/FacultyMember.aspx?netid=hambric3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;color:blue">David Hambrick</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%"> have published a forceful challenge to the 10,000 myth. "We found that deliberate practice does not account for all, nearly all, or even most variance in [elite music or chess] performance," they write.<br> <br> The researchers looked for studies into chess players that provided information on people's highest ability level achieved and their past history of practice. They found six studies supplying this information, published between 2005 and 2012, and involving collectively over 1000 international players.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Man Who Saw Time Freeze<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140624-the-man-who-saw-time-freeze"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BBC</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">At BBC Future, David Robinson interviews a patient who saw drops from a shower appear like slowed-down bullets in the Matrix movie. One day, a man saw time itself stop, and as David Robson discovers, unpicking what happened is revealing that we can all experience temporal trickery too. It started as a headache, but soon became much stranger. Simon Baker entered the bathroom to see if a warm shower could ease his pain. “I looked up at the shower head, and it was as if the water droplets had stopped in mid-air”, he says. “They came into hard focus rapidly, over the course of a few seconds”. Where you’d normally perceive the streams as more of a blur of movement, he could see each one hanging in front of him, distorted by the pressure of the air rushing past. The effect, he recalls, was very similar to the way the bullets travelled in the Matrix movies. “It was like a high-speed film, slowed down.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">5 Reflections on Innovation Talent<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/15inno/~3/XW6YPMvAsU4/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Stefan Lindegaard</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Here you get 5 reflections on this in the context of innovation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Future versus past: What are the traditional competencies that innovators were hired for in your organization? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Adaptability is key – but in what direction?: Organizations – as well as the talent – must know what they must adapt towards. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Future innovation leaders create communities. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Build the right conditions and frameworks: There are no blue prints or off-the-shelf solutions on how to make innovation work in big companies. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">• Future innovators are intelligent in many ways: It’s no longer enough just to be strong on technology or products; you also need to understand the value that other people and functions bring to the innovation process. <o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Massimo Vignelli & organizing information<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://johndberry.com/blog/2014/06/10/massimo-vignelli-organizing-information/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">John D Berry</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When </span><a href="http://www.vignelli.com" target="_blank" title="Vignelli Associates"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">Massimo Vignelli</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> died last month, the obituaries and remembrances all mentioned his </span><a href="http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1972.jpg" target="_blank" title="1972 NYC subway map"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">famous 1972 map</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> of the New York City subway system. The </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/business/massimo-vignelli-a-modernist-graphic-designer-dies-at-83.html?_r=0" target="_blank" title="New York Times on Massimo Vignelli"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">New York Times</span></i></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, of course, spent a good deal of ink and pixels on the subject. In retrospect, everyone keeps talking about how confusing that map was to people at the time, implying that it may have been a brilliant design object but that it was a failure as a navigational tool. That’s not what I remember.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The maps we used before 1972 were already highly stylized; they were really diagrams, not maps, despite the nod to geography in the background shapes of the city’s waterways and landforms. The </span><a href="http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1966_a.gif" target="_blank" title="1966 NYC subway map"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">1966 subway map</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, was already nothing like a realistic map; the lines in the outer boroughs were compressed and condensed, while Manhattan was shortened and fattened, not reflecting the actual geography at all. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Strangely, many of the people who complained about the 1972 Vignelli subway map would be perfectly content to use the equally abstract </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map" target="_blank" title="London Tube map"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">London tube map</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, which was introduced decades before New York’s attempts. Nobody in London would claim that the tube map gives you any idea of the layout of the city; but it’ll get you from station to station within the system brilliantly. The 1972 NYC subway map did the same. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Science of Laughter with Sophie Scott <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BWRoHGiwrw"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Video of the cognitive neuroscientist speaking at London's Royal Institution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Want a World Cup Retweet? Say You'll Kiss the Queen<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/want-a-world-cup-retweet-say-youll-kiss-the-queen-1403622426"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Wall Street Journal</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This World Cup is shaping up to be the biggest-ever global event for social media.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mario Balotelli Had 180,000 People Retweet His Message<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Going into a key World Cup match last Friday, Italy's Mario Balotelli made a request: he wanted a kiss from Queen Elizabeth II if his team beat Costa Rica, which would have kept England's chances for advancing alive.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">He didn't get that smooch. Costa Rica upset Italy 1-0, bouncing England from the tournament.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But what the Italy's star player did accomplish </span><a href="https://twitter.com/FinallyMario/status/479738033672306688"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">was getting 180,000 people to retweet his message</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, generating even more buzz for a game that spawned 3.2 million tweets. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The World Cup in Brazil is shaping up to be the biggest-ever global event for social media. Facebook said a total of 141 million users posted 459 million interactions to their site during the first week of the World Cup. That's more people than posted during this year's Super Bowl, the Oscars and the Sochi </span><a href="http://olympics.wsj.com/?lc=int_mb_1001"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">winter Olympics</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, combined.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How to Spend the First 10 Minutes of Your Day<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-spend-the-first-10-minutes-of-your-day/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">HBR</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What’s the first thing you do when you arrive at your desk? For many of us, checking email or listening to voice mail is practically automatic. In many ways, these are among the worst ways to start a day. Both activities hijack our focus and put us in a reactive mode, where other people’s priorities take center stage. They are the equivalent of entering a kitchen and looking for a spill to clean or a pot to scrub.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A better approach is to begin your day with a brief planning session. An intellectual mise-en-place. Bourdain envisions the perfect execution before starting his dish. Here’s the corollary for the enterprising business professional. Ask yourself this question the moment you sit at your desk: <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The day is over and I am leaving the office with a tremendous sense of accomplishment. What have I achieved?</span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This exercise is usually effective at helping people distinguish between tasks that simply <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">feel urgent</span></em> from those that are <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">truly important</span></em>. Use it to determine the activities you want to focus your energy on.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Then—and this is important—create a plan of attack by breaking down complex tasks into specific actions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Productivity guru </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7vUdKTlhk"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">David Allen</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> recommends starting each item on your list with a verb, which is useful because it makes your intentions concrete. For example, instead of listing “Monday’s presentation,” identify every action item that creating Monday’s presentation will involve. You may end up with: <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">collect</span></em> sales figures, <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">draft</span></em> slides, and <em><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">incorporate</span></em> images into deck.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Studies show that when it comes to goals, </span><a href="http://home.ubalt.edu/tmitch/642/Articles%20syllabus/Locke%20et%20al%20New%20dir%20goal%20setting%2006.pdf"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">the more specific you are</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> about what you’re trying to achieve, the better your chances of success. Having each step mapped out in advance will also minimize complex thinking later in the day and make procrastination less likely.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">What it Takes to be Excellent<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2014/06/what_it_takes_to_be_excellent.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Leadership Now</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Bleacher Report created this well done video: Cristiano Ronaldo—Greatness Awaits. It’s an inspiring look at what it takes to be excellent—at anything. The video concludes with: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">And legends aren’t born from mediocrity. They are born from excellence. They are born from being the best. From being the hardest working. Legends are born from failure. They are born from falling down time and time again and having the grit to get back up again. Legends are born from adversity. They are forged in the crucible of struggle. Heroes come and go. But legends, legends live forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Is There a Crisis in Computer-Science Education?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/06/23/is-there-a-crisis-in-computer-science-education/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Chronicle of Higher Education</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mother Jones editor Tasneem Raja recently wrote a report on computer science education trends in the United States and found the country graduated proportionally fewer computer science majors in 2011-12 than in 1985-86. In 1985-86, 4.3 percent of college graduates received computer science degrees, compared to just 2.6 percent of graduates in 2011-12. However, the report also found a steady fluctuation in interest among undergraduates and graduates in computer science. For example, in the 1970s and 1980s, many elementary, middle, and high schools taught computer science programming to students, according to University of Oregon professor Joanna Goode. However, "as the PC revolution took place, the introduction to the CD-ROMs and other prepackaged software, and then the Internet, changed the typical school curriculum from a programming approach to a 'computer literacy' skill-building course about 'how to use the computer,'" Goode says. In addition, fluctuations in college-degree attainment are often connected to changes in the job market in certain industries. The peak in computer science degrees came in 1985, about four years after the introduction of IBM's first personal computer and the Apple II. Similarly, a second wave of computer science graduates came in the early 2000s, about four years after the dot-com bubble. The latest data indicates the U.S. currently is in the middle of another rise in interest in computer science at the college level, according to Raja.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Coming Soon to Walmart: A New Way to Find Products from Women Entrepreneurs <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-26/coming-soon-to-walmart-a-new-way-to-find-products-from-women-entrepreneurs"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Business Week</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Walmart will soon sell goods bearing a logo signaling the product was made by a woman-owned business. Retail labels are full of signals designed to appeal to shoppers’ preferences and values: Made in America, gluten-free, fair trade, or kosher. Soon, shoppers will be able to look for a new one: A small, circular symbol indicating that the company behind the product is owned by women.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The logo is the work of two nonprofits and Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which, beginning in September, will sell products with the stamp ranging from lingerie to salsa. The retail giant pledged in 2011 to source $20 billion of goods by 2016 from women-owned businesses in the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“People are looking for reasons to feel good about the company they’re buying from,” says Pamela Prince-Eason, chief executive officer of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. Her group, along with WEConnect International, certifies businesses seeking contracts earmarked for women-owned businesses. Any business that gets the stamp of approval from either organization can use the logo, Prince-Eason says.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">33 Entrepreneurs Share Their Biggest Lessons Learned from Failure<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-honigman/35-tech-entrepreneurs-failure_b_5529254.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Business Blog on The Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A successful career is like a rollercoaster with many ups and downs, whether you're an employee or an entrepreneur. Understanding how to maintain your success and move past your failures can help you lead a more productive and fulfilling career.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">To help provide some insight on how to navigate a career you're proud of, I've asked 33 tech entrepreneurs to share some of their biggest lessons learned from their own failures.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Welcome detours and failures with open arms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. A successful business requires 100% attention, everything else is a distraction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Your company's focus comes with trial and error.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Mistakes will surface new opportunities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Agree upon the direction of your company from the beginning with key stakeholders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. Use your negative experiences to regroup.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">32. Success isn't necessarily found by being an employee.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">33. Be patient and adjust on the fly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Brazil-Chile World Cup Match Breaks Twitter Record<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/tech/brazil-chile-world-cup-match-breaks-twitter-record-90351447249.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Yahoo</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">RIO DE JANEIRO — Nervous Brazilian soccer fans took to Twitter to breathe a collective sigh of relief as the final, tension-filled moments of a penalty shootout against Chile broke an all-time record for online buzz during a live event.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Almost 389,000 tweets were generated in the minute after Chilean defender Gonzalo Jara’s penalty shot hit the right post and allowed the five-time World Cup champion to avoid an early exit from the tournament that it’s hosting for the first time since 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">That broke the previous mark set during this year’s Super Bowl. About 382,000 tweets were sent just after the Seattle Seahawk’s Percy Harvin returned a kickoff 87 yards for a touchdown, according to data compiled by the microblogging site.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But don’t count America’s pastime out just yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-92193607123410654482014-04-20T14:00:00.000-07:002014-04-20T14:01:15.068-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Skyart <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/core77/blog/~3/cXp6MIdBuRw/thomas_lamadieu_blurs_the_line_between_photography_and_illustration_in_skyart_26803.asp"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Core77</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">While some may call a clear, blue sky art enough, French artist </span><a href="http://tlamadieu.wix.com/roots-art" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">Thomas Lamadieu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> might say otherwise. In fact, he might call it a blank canvas. His ongoing series, </span><a href="http://tlamadieu.wix.com/roots-art#!skyart/ck0q" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:blue">Skyart</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, takes the blank spaces between buildings and turns them into illustrated wonderlands filled with bearded inhabitants and imaginary animals. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">What The Happiest People Know About Work<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.content-loop.com/happiest-people-know-work/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Content Loop</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">a growing body of research in positive psychology and neuroscience is demonstrating that happiness is the secret ingredient to success. It turns out, our brains are more engaged, creative, productive, and resilient when in a positive state.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Change the word "problem" to "challenge." <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mix up your daily routine. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Start the day with the big questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Arrive at work early. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Have an office playlist.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Avoid energy zappers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When possible, attempt to surround yourself with winners; those who are positive and uplifting and just seem to radiate happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Combs of Light Accelerate Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.kit.edu/visit/pi_2014_14958.php"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Karlsruhe Institute of Technology</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources allow for transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over hundreds of kilometers – this has now been demonstrated by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in a experiment presented in the journal “Nature Photonics”. The results may contribute to accelerating data transmission in large computing centers and worldwide communication networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The Myth of the Lone Genius<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-10/the-myth-of-the-lone-genius"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BusinessWeek</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">It’s no accident that the achievements of Leonardo da Vinci, often credited as the greatest inventor of all time, happened during the Renaissance. Contrary to popular belief, he did not cloister himself away in a cabin and just invent wonders. Da Vinci was part of a vibrant community and collaborated with almost every major luminary of his day. The same goes for Thomas Edison, who built upon the work of his Industrial Revolution contemporaries to produce innovations such as the phonograph and the incandescent lightbulb.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What do the data tell us? I mined the 1,000 most-cited articles from the top scientific journal, Nature, from 2001 to 2010 to illustrate the relative contribution of single-author research. If you’re not familiar with the fast-paced world of academic publishing, the number of citations a paper receives is broadly indicative of its impact.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We need to focus on creating innovative groups, not mindlessly searching for the one “genius” who’s going to solve all our problems. Because groups are where the real ideas are created—not broom closets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Around the world, things look better in hindsight<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2014/04/around-world-things-look-better-in.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">BPS Research Digest</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Human memory has a pervasive emotional bias – and it’s probably a good thing. That’s according to psychologists Timothy Ritchie and colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In a </span><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24524255"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">new study</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> published in the journal Memory, the researchers say that people from diverse cultures experience the ‘fading affect bias’ (FAB), the tendency for negative emotions to fade away more quickly than positive ones in our memories.In total, 562 people were included.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The participants were asked to recall a number of events in their lives, both positive and negative. For each incident, they rated the emotions that they felt at the time it happened, and then the emotions that they felt in the present when remembering that event.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Ritchie and colleagues found that every cultural group included in the study experienced the FAB. In all of these samples, negative emotions associated with remembered events faded to a greater degree than positive emotions did. Importantly, there was no evidence that this effect changed with people’s age: it seems to be a lifelong phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The authors conclude that our ability to look back on events with rose-tinted spectacles might be important for our mental health, as it could help us to adapt and move on from adversity: ‘We believe that this phenomenon is part of a set of cognitive processes that foster emotion regulation and enable psychological resilience.’<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Playing Jenga with Heavy Earth-moving Equipment <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://boingboing.net/2014/04/19/playing-jenga-with-heavy-earth.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Boing Boing</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In Stack competitions, a bunch of earth-moving equipment plays a monster-scale game of Jenga with 600lb blocks of wood -- pretty amazing skill on the part of the operators!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Become a Rockstar of Productivity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/04/become-a-rockstar-of-productivity/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Robin Sharma</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Let’s dive right in… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#1. Get Your Routines Right Ultra-productive producers focus less on using their willpower and a lot more on building their routines. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#2. Enjoy Being Disliked Look, I get it. Part of being human involves a need to be liked. To fit in. To avoid conflict. This neurobiological need served us when we lived on the savannah hundreds of years ago. If we strayed from the herd, we’d be eaten by tigers. Or die of starvation. But now we’re in a world without the same threats. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#3. Value Suffering - quick-fix, pleasurable and fast is considered good. But here’s the thing: every master suffers. And to become the single most productive person you know, you’ll have to accept some pain along the path. Van Gogh, Steve Jobs, JK Rowling<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#4. Do Real Work Versus Fake Work Really important distinction here…. Average producers confuse activity with productivity. They think movement equals effectiveness. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#5. Be an Incrementalist Massive productivity isn’t the result of one revolutionary act. Instead, it’s actually the result of supertiny daily wins. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#6. Understand that Elite Productivity without Deep Refuelling Causes Dramatic Depletion <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#7. Know The Power of The 3 S’s … the value of a period of daily Solitude, Silence and Stillness. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">#8. Practice Spectacularity - the principle is this: practice being spectacularly productive long enough and being spectacularly productive will become your way of being. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Hopkins Code Cracks Baseball Scheduling<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-baseball-scheduling-20140417,0,946335.story"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">The Baltimore Sun</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Johns Hopkins University (JHU) researchers have developed a system that fulfills all of a baseball league's scheduling rules, and as many of the teams' requests and preferences as possible, using thousands of lines of code. The system, developed by associate research scientist Anton Dahbura and professor Donniell Fishkind, allows 10,000 schedule limitations and even more factors to be fed into a supercomputer, which produces a workable schedule. The methodology employs combinatorial optimization, which is the concept that there should be at least one schedule that optimally satisfies every rule and team request, via a combination of integers. JHU graduate student Matt Molisani says the system's operation involves generating a massive amount of code to define a broad spectrum of schedule constraints. Each league's preferences present a challenge to programmers, and the supercomputer that processes the constraints can take as long as a month to churn out a solution in certain instances as it mines through the exponentially large number of possible schedules to find ones that conform with the rules. "I like the fact there's always so many different ways to get to the final solution," Molisani says. "There's never just one correct answer, which is weird because in math there's usually only one correct answer."</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Americans Wary of Futuristic Science, Tech<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/17/tech/innovation/future-technology-pew/index.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">CNN</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The majority of Americans think tech developments will make life in the next half-century better, but 30 percent said they would make life worse, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Although nearly two-thirds of survey respondents disliked the idea of robots being used to care for the sick and elderly, 51 percent think computers will be able to create art as skillfully as humans do. "The American public anticipates that the coming half-century will be a period of profound scientific change, as inventions that were once confined to the realm of science fiction come into common usage," the survey's report says. The survey found many respondents were leery of some possible near-term technological advances, such as the use of personal drones and the ability of parents to manipulate the DNA of their unborn children. About half of the respondents said they would ride in a driverless car, and 39 percent said it was likely scientists would develop a way to teleport things. However, only 19 percent expect scientists to learn how to control the weather. Pew's Aaron Smith notes respondents were "especially concerned about developments that have the potential to upend long-standing social norms around things like personal privacy, surveillance, and the nature of social relationships." <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">M.I.T.’s Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/m-i-t-s-alex-pentland-measuring-idea-flows-to-accelerate-innovation"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">NY Times</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Massachusetts Institute of Technology computational social scientist Alex Pentland's research has lately focused on social physics, which is the ability to employ new technologies to collect data and quantify communication and transactions on an unprecedented scale to acquire knowledge about the flow of ideas, which can be applied to expedite innovation. Pentland says the optimal decision-making environment is characterized by high levels of engagement and exploration. The former measure describes how frequently group members communicate with each other and share social knowledge, while the latter is a measure of looking for new ideas and new people. Pentland stresses there needs to be an ideal or golden mean between the two measures. He points to evidence from various experiments as proof his social physics theory is supportable, arguing that new data and measurement tools facilitate a "God's eye view" of human activity that can be used to potentially engineer better decisions in a "data-driven society." Pentland also acknowledges the risks this entails, which can include creating a surveillance society. He says big data could potentially yield considerable benefits in numerous fields, provided privacy is safeguarded, trust is established, and data is allowed to flow.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Ode to my Mentors<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marilouise-ross/ode-to-my-mentors_b_5140118.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A hot topic for career growth is mentorship. It seems that we need a mentor, a guiding star or a sympathetic friend at "the top" if we want to progress. Perhaps you feel a little anxious or frustrated <a name="_GoBack"> </a>because you cannot seem to find the "right" mentor, or mentors. I want to share a little bit about the people who I consider to be mentors to me. Perhaps it helps to look in less conventional places for mentorship. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">I have, in the past, had the privilege of working alongside women in my field and in my company who I could certainly learn a great deal from. If you have the privilege of knowing such people, please make use of every opportunity to observe them, speak to them and listen to them. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">There are, however, times in one's life where one single mentor is not forthcoming. In a STEM field where female managers are not in the majority, it often means that, at least the gender part of mentorship is not often very plentiful in our immediate work environments. Here are a few examples of some of my sources of mentorship that may not always be obvious places one looks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Younger Mentors<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mentors in a different profession <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mentors of a different gender<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mentors who challenges us<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mentors in life<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-40748420508672869532014-03-09T17:57:00.001-07:002014-03-09T17:57:16.559-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to Lead Like Ellen DeGeneres <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/how-to-lead-like-ellen-degeneres/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> and </span><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/how-to-lead-like-ellen-degeneres-part-deux/">Part Deux</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Negative focus creates negative environments. But, successful leaders build energizing environments. Your primary influence is the environment you create.” Peter Senge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Rituals establish predictability – predictability enables connection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Make gratitude a ritual. Drop in on direct reports and say, “Thank you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Name something they’ve done and say, “Thanks.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Name a character quality and say, “You’re awesome.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Explain how they’re making a difference and say, “Keep up the great work.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">7 ways to increasing influence the DeGeneres way:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Avoid threatening behaviors.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Enjoy the approval of others without being needy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Make it easy for others to be vulnerable by respecting vulnerability.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Acknowledge the strength of others.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Don’t pump yourself up.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Choose humility – the place of service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Be vulnerable.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">To Get The Boss You Deserve: Manage Up!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140309151107-175081329-you-get-the-boss-you-deserve-manage-up?trk=tod-home-art-list-large_0">LinkedIn</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Managing up means managing your boss. It's at least as important as managing down or cooperating with peers. It's an inevitable prerequisite of building a sustainable career.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">When approaching the relationship with your boss with an attitude of open-mindedness and cooperation, you have much better chances to become a more effective manager and person. I suggest that you take the following main principles into consideration:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Understand The Nature Of the Relationship With Your Boss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Get The Boss You Deserve<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Organize Yourself and Your Work<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Decode Your Boss’s Personality<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Put Yourself In The Shoes Of Your Boss<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Be Loyal, Respectful And Committed <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Over-Communicate and Avoid (Bad) Surprises<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Provide Solutions And Not problems <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Disagree And Commit<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Raise Your Concerns And Speak Up<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Is Narrative the New Design?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-gardett/is-narrative-the-new-desi_b_4906405.html">Huffington Post</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">One of the most remarkable changes in the world of technology over the past decade-plus has been the new centrality of design as not just a product differentiator or branding device, but as an inherent part of the product development and distribution cycle: the linkage of design to both bottom and top line business prioritization in clear ways. Apple is of course the great leader and most obvious example of design as leading factor, to the point that analysts forget that at one time product design content -- like business narrative content today -- was considered a distracting cost for Silicon Valley businesses rather than a fundamental component of its challenge set.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The lavish photo layout of </span><a href="http://www.fuseproject.com/people" target="_hplink"><span lang="EN" style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">Yves Behar</span></a><span lang="EN"> in a recent issue of </span><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#222222">Vanity Fair</span></em><span lang="EN">F underpins how far the change in industry opinion of design has come. From consumer goods to -- increasingly -- industrial inputs, the mix of design attractiveness, functionality and sustainability have become important components of Silicon Valley business analysis.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Show, don’t tell: How to live your mission statement<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/03/09/show-dont-tell-live-mission-statement/">The Next Web</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How do you live your mission statement, honestly, thoughtfully, and with purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The mission statement has become the <a href="http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/Jame/articles/mission-statement-content.cfm#table1"> cornerstone</a> of corporations, higher education, CEO’s, and even <a href="http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/08/21/creating-a-family-culture-how-and-why-to-create-a-family-mission-statement/"> families</a>. Beginning in the <a href="http://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-145923858/mission-statements-a-thematic-analysis-of-rhetoric"> 1970s</a> the mission statement began its surge in popularity—dominating the corporate world for the next thirty-odd years. You couldn’t turn around without being assailed by <a href="http://hepg.org/her/abstract/310">books</a> touting the benefits of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Mission-Statement-Book-Statements/dp/1580081320"> mission statements</a>.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mission statements can provide a sense of purpose and clarity, but they mean nothing if you can’t fulfill the objectives of your mission statement. Here are five tips to help you live your companies mission statement:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Lose the hubris<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Do be concise<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Be inclusive and ask questions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Don’t hire someone to write your mission statement<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Enough talk, do it<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Two Rules: How Should a Leader Spend His or Her Time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2014/02/two-rules-how-should-leader-spend-his.html">Michael Roberto blog</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Several weeks ago, </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/business/david-rosenblatt-of-1stdibs-on-teamwork-at-the-top.html?ref=business"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Adam Bryant of the New York Times interviewed David Rosenblatt,</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> chief executive of 1stdibs, an online marketplace for high-end goods. He asked Rosenblatt about some of the key lessons he has learned in his career. Rosenblatt talked about struggling to determine how he should allocate his time during his early days as a chief executive. He then explained that he had established some rules that helped him in this area. Here's an excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I learned Rule No. 1 from Irv Grousbeck, who teaches an entrepreneurship class at Stanford Business School. And that is, very simply, “You can hire people to do everything but hire people.” Rule No. 2 that I think about every day is, “Only do the things that only I can do.” So if it’s someone else’s job to do it, I try not to do it. If I find myself doing too many of those things that are actually someone else’s job, then it relates back to Rule No. 1 — I probably don’t have the right person in that role. But just like anyone in any role, it’s important to understand, where is my comparative advantage? What am I better at than almost anyone else? </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The article contains more on this subject. I recommend taking a look. The two rules are a great start though. I think the second one needs to be an explicit question that each leader poses to himself or herself. As the leader on a major program here at Bryant University, I know that I need to address this question. As I launched the program, I was doing many things. Now, as the program matures, I have to think about the way I'm spending my time. I'm clearly not playing to my comparative advantage. Many leaders find themselves doing a bit of everything when an organization is in start-up phase. Then, as the firm grows, they need to focus on that comparative advantage question. It's hard to let go, but you can't make the organization successful without addressing this issue. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Values Schism And How It’s Draining The Brains From Corporate America<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.inpowerconsultingllc.com/values-schism-draining-brains-corporate-america/">InPower Consulting</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Something insidious is happening in the cubicles and hallways of America’s big and midsized companies.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Employees who have attained a chunk of the America dream — a steady paycheck, benefits and a rung on the upwardly mobile ladder — are risking an uncertain job market and quitting their jobs in astonishing numbers (more than <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm">2 million a month</a>). Why?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">On the surface, they will tell you that they are in search of personal and professional fulfillment they can’t find in their current positions. Underneath this trend, however, is a deeper motivation. Employees are discovering that their values are misaligned with the companies they work for and that one of their highest values, a deepening appreciation for themselves as integrated human beings, has almost no value to their employers.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Over the last five years, this schism has grown so much that the number of people intending to quit and start their own business has <a href="http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/07/americans-interested-entrepreneurship-again.html"> grown by 50%.</a><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">You don’t have to be an extrovert to be a leader<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2014/01/30/you-dont-have-to-be-an-extrovert-to-be-a-leader/">Chatsworth</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Recently many of my clients have been introverts. I can tell because, as they share with me that they need to speak up in meetings more, that they need to get their voice in the fray, they then invariably say something like, “But all those people are just talking because they like to hear their own voices. They’ve got nothing to share but they’re talking anyway.” And I invariably say something like, “Why would you want to speak up more in meetings if that’s what you really believe about the people who are talking? If you think they’re just taking up space, why would you do that too?” But it does seem like extroversion is an expected part of leadership. That leaders are expected to voice an opinion or to “own” the room. Which was why I was especially pleased to come across this post on WSJ.com by Sue Shellenbarger, </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304049704579320683598535824?mod=dist_smartbrief"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Shaking Off a Shy Reputation at Work.</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">When Running Away is Running Toward <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://letsgrowleaders.com/2014/02/10/really-running-away/">Let’s Grow Leaders</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Sometimes running away is running toward.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">…running toward authenticity, wholeness, adventure, integrity and peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Your turn. How do you know the difference between running away and running toward? Are they ever in the same direction?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Tending the Garden of Your Mind<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://randomactsofleadership.com/tending-the-garden-of-your-mind/">Random Acts of Leadership</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Sustained success requires that you learn to tend the garden of your mind lovingly and wisely.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">While there are countless tools and techniques available, there are 3 things you can do every day to sow the seeds of an abundant harvest and keep the weeds at bay.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Sift Your Thoughts for the Gold<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Choose Your Words Wisely<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Engage in Conversations that Matter<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Moment of Trust – How to Give Feedback That Builds Trust, Not Destroys It<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadingwithtrust.com/2014/02/23/moment-of-trust-how-to-give-feedback-that-builds-trust-not-destroys-it/">Leading with Trust</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Giving feedback to someone is a “moment of trust” – an opportunity to either build or erode trust in the relationship. If you deliver the feedback with competence and care, the level of trust in your relationship can leap forward. Fumble the opportunity and you can expect to lose trust and confidence in your leadership.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">For most leaders, giving feedback is not our most pleasurable task. Having been on both sides of the conversation, giving feedback and receiving it, I know it can be awkward and uncomfortable. However, I’ve also come to learn and believe that people not only need to hear the honest truth about their performance, they deserve it. Most people don’t go to work in the morning and say to themselves, “I can’t wait to be a poor performer today!” We do a disservice to our people if we don’t give them candid and caring feedback about their performance<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Harbingers of Doom<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2014/02/24/harbingers-of-doom.aspx">Three Star Leadership</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">A harbinger is "<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/harbinger">anything that foreshadows a future event.</a>" When you see or hear one, the future event won't be far behind. Think of harbingers as early warning signs. They can alert you to impending doom in time for you to take action to prevent it. Here are some harbingers of doom.<br> <br> <b>We really don't have any competition</b>. That's what the old Bell System thought. After all, they had the network. <br> <br> <b>No one will notice.</b> Usually said when a company reduces quality to make more money. Alas, people usually do notice. <br> <br> <b>We'll do it just this once</b>. Usually said when someone is about to do something shady. This is a slippery slope, indeed. Remember Enron.<br> <br> <b>Nothing can go wrong</b>. Remember Murphy's Law: "Nothing is as easy as it looks. Everything takes longer than you expect. And if anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible time." My experience is that Murphy was optimistic. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Leading through the Power of “And”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.tanveernaseer.com/4-reasons-to-use-power-of-and-in-leadership/">Tanveer Naseer</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">When it comes to discussions on leadership, there are certain constants or inevitable statements that you’re likely to come across. One of the most common of these stems from the ongoing debate over whether culture is more important than strategy in terms of the organization’s long-term success and viability.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">Unfortunately, the popularity of debating the merits of one tactic over the other has recently given rise to a whole new set of either/or scenarios where leaders are encouraged to adopt one approach at the expense of the other. To date, some of the either/or scenarios I’ve seen debated include:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">vision vs. strategy <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">knowledge vs. action <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">people vs. results <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">thinking vs. doing <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo8;text-autospace:none"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">managing Millennials vs. every other workplace generation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt">Of course, it’s understandable why there’s a growing appeal for this approach – given the increasing complexity of leading organizations in today’s interconnected global economy, it’s only natural that we want to find quick answers to help us navigate these often choppy waters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-34694463042899529002014-03-09T17:56:00.001-07:002014-03-09T17:56:44.420-07:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Online Experimentation at ESPN<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2014/01/online-experimentation-at-espn.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Michael Roberto</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702304603704579326781949947414?mod=index_to_people&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB20001424052702304603704579326781949947414.html%3Fmod%3Dindex_to_people"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">WSJ</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">The Wall Street Journal has an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB20001424052702304603704579326781949947414?mod=index_to_people&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB20001424052702304603704579326781949947414.html%3Fmod%3Dindex_to_people"> interesting article</a> today about ESPN's efforts to experiment with online video offerings via its WatchESPN app for smartphones and tablets. You can watch games live via the WatchESPN app, but you must be a cable subscriber to do so. What about the "cord-cutters" - i.e. the young people who have never bought cable television subscriptions, or who have terminated their cable television in favor of simply having Netflix and other modes of viewing programming of interest to them? Those folks can't take advantage of WatchESPN. Why not? Well, it's all about worries regarding cannibalization. Sound familiar? Most incumbent firms facing disruptive threats are fearful of embracing innovations that might cannibalize their core business. Of course, they often end up in a situation where someone else just comes along and eats their lunch, after they spent years worrying about eating their own lunch. Here's an excerpt from the article:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">To Foster Your Creativity, Don't Learn To Code; Learn To Paint<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="to-foster-your-creativity-dont-learn-to-code-learn-to-paint"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Forbes</span></a><u><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Earlier this month, Samuel Arbesman </span><a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/165191/"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">argued in </span><em><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#428BCA;text-decoration:none">Wired</span></em></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""> that the world needs more generalists, dabblers and polymaths. He notes (and he’s certainly not the first to note) that the body of scientific and technical knowledge has grown so large that no one person can know everything. And as a consequence, people tend to specialize in one field or another. This is a problem, he writes, because “the most exciting inventions occur at the boundaries of disciplines, among those who can bring different ideas from different fields together.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">To foster polymaths, Arbesman argues that more people should “embrace the machines.” In particular, by learning to code. Arbesman argues that “through code, and the recognition that algorithmic similarity occurs over and over, we can see the similarities between different spheres of knowledge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Creative Leadership: Why You Need To Think Outside The Box<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.tanveernaseer.com/creative-leadership-thinking-outside-the-box-megan-totka/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Tanveer Naseer</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">People emerge or are elected as leaders in nearly every aspect of our lives, both personal and professional. While leadership does come in many ways, shapes, and forms, there are some people who go above and beyond when it comes to being a creative, inspiring leader. Thinking outside the box when it comes to your leadership style can be the difference in becoming a successful leader or one that people don’t look up to.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I would venture to say that many of us are somewhat immune to conventional leadership styles. That’s not to say that traditional approaches to leadership or management are totally ineffective. But taking the time to think about your leadership strategy and incorporate some ideas that are a little different can really <a href="http://www.tanveernaseer.com/how-leaders-can-empower-their-employees-megan-totka/"> affect those that you lead in a positive way</a>.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The First Woman to Get a Ph.D. in Computer Science From MIT<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/the-first-woman-to-get-a-phd-in-computer-science-from-mit/284127/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Irene Greif, who in 1975 became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founded the research field of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). Recently retired from IBM, Greif now wants to encourage young women to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. As a researcher, Greif says she "moved from these very mathematically oriented computer science areas to much more people-oriented work--office automation and human-computer interface and so on." In the 1980s, she launched the CSCW field, which she describes as "getting a set of people together across disciplines who would look at social systems and computer systems at the same time." Working in office automation, Greif says she learned that making processes too invisible can damage the social aspects that help advance work. "And that was really the beginning of the notion of who needed to be talking<a name="_GoBack"></a> to each other among researchers, in order to really get things right around using computers to help people work together," Greif says. She believes female role models are beneficial to women entering STEM fields, and stresses that women should be visible at by-invitation conferences and panel sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">3 Women Changing the World Through Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://blogs.skype.com/2014/03/06/3-women-changing-the-world-through-technology/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Skype Blog</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">International Women’s Day. This year’s theme of “Inspiring Change” encourages advocacy for women’s advancement everywhere, in every way. At Microsoft, we are celebrating women who have and will change the world through technology with a particular focus on those who are inspiring more women to get involved in science, technology, engineering and math — commonly known as “STEM.”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Heather Heenehan, “Sounds of the Sea”</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://education.skype.com/projects/6938-ocean-gems-sounds-of-the-sea?intcmp=blogs-_-generic-click-_-3-women-changing-the-world-through-technology">Heather Heenehan</a> is one such woman who is passionately inspiring young girls to explore their STEM interests and follow their dreams. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Jennifer Reiter, Iditarod Teacher on the Trail</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://education.skype.com/projects/7556-live-from-the-iditarod-trail?intcmp=blogs-_-generic-click-_-3-women-changing-the-world-through-technology">Jennifer Reiter</a> is a Baltimore-based teacher who just started her mission as this year’s <a href="http://iditarod.com/">Iditarod</a> Teacher on the Trail. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Sarah Weldon, “Oceans Project”</b><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://education.skype.com/users/39551-oceans-project?intcmp=blogs-_-generic-click-_-3-women-changing-the-world-through-technology">Sarah Weldon</a>, a cognitive neuropsychologist from Great Britain, first became acquainted with Skype when she played <i>BBC’s ‘</i>Oceans’ series to her classroom in the Soviet Republic of Georgia in 2010. <o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/04/creativity-habits_n_4859769.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-easy-way-to-increase-c/">change based on situation and context</a>. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Neuroscience paints a <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/08/19/the-real-neuroscience-of-creativity/"> complicated picture of creativity</a>. As scientists now understand it, creativity is far more complex than the right-left brain distinction would have us think (the theory being that left brain = rational and analytical, right brain = creative and emotional). In fact, creativity is thought to involve a number of cognitive processes, neural pathways and emotions, and we still don't have the full picture of how the imaginative mind works. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Here are 18 things they do differently. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They daydream. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They observe everything. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They work the hours that work for them.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They take time for solitude. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They turn life's obstacles around. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They seek out new experiences. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They "fail up." <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They ask the big questions. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They people-watch.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They take risks. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They view all of life as an opportunity for self-expression. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They follow their true passions. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They get out of their own heads. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They lose track of the time.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They surround themselves with beauty.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They connect the dots. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They constantly shake things up. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">They make time for mindfulness.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How Technology Trends Have Influenced the Classroom<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/03/how-real-world-technology-use-has-inflitrated-change-classrooms/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">MindShift</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Between societal changes and technological breakthroughs, it’s become abundantly clear that the human brain is transforming the way it processes and learns information. While there are many discussions about whether or not this is good or bad for us as a society, it’s definitely a change.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">…let’s examine which features of society (and media) have changed and then consider what we can do in education to use it as an advantage for learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Increase of Interactivity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">On-Demand Living<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Self-Publishing the World As We See It<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Everything is Mobile (and Instant)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Embracing the Digital Brain<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Mitsubishi Planning Predictive User Interface for Cars<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/advanced-cars/mitsubishi-planning-predictive-user-interface-for-cars"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">IEEE Spectrum</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Mitsubishi Electric recently demonstrated prototype technology that predicts in-car operations. Drivers will be able to use the Ultra-Simple human-machine interface technology to find alternative driving routes, change radio stations, make phone calls, and adjust climate controls. The suggestions of the predictive technology will be based on operational history such as past destinations, previous use of the radio, phone, and air conditioner, as well as time of day, location, speed, fuel level, and current traffic and driving conditions. The technology will display the three most likely operations, but users will be able to override them. Drivers will be able to operate the system in one or two steps using a set of three buttons on the steering wheel, while viewing three predicted operations on a 44-cm heads-up display on the windshield above the dashboard. The system includes voice-recognition technology for making voice commands. Mitsubishi plans to ship the technology to automakers by spring 2018.u<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">13 of Today's Coolest Network Research Projects<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/022614-research-projects-279096.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Network World</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Research labs at universities and vendors are developing a wide variety of technologies, from networked honey bees to evidence of time travel. For example, Michigan Technological University researchers have used three Internet search implementations to look for signs of content that should not have been known about at the time it was posted. Meanwhile, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed an algorithm that is more computationally effective than other approaches, because it scales in a near-linear fashion. Microsoft researchers are developing a smartphone app that can tell whether the device is being used by a driver or passenger, and the U.S. Department of Energy has invested more than $30 million to help devise systems to detect and stop cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as utilities and power grids. University of Michigan researchers have studied the timing of cyberattacks, examining the incidents from the perspective of a cyberattacker but providing information that might be used to sniff out such attacks. Meanwhile, Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization is equipping up to 5,000 honey bees with tiny radio-frequency identification sensors to monitor the insects with the goal of improving pollination and productivity on farms and gaining insights on widespread colony collapse.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Separating Curiosity from Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://artistsroad.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/separating-curiosity-from-creativity/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Artist's Road</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Can you be creative without being curious?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I find myself curious to learn the answer to this question. On some level it seems like asking if you can enjoy peanut butter without peanuts. Loads of creativity scholars </span><a href="http://blogs.psychcentral.com/creative-mind/2010/06/curiosity-and-creativity/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">tell us</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> that </span><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3024779/dialed/how-curiosity-cultivates-creativity" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">curiosity is what drives creativity</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. But what if forces in our lives reduce our level of curiosity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">What does it take to help our creative thoughts take flight?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A company that derives its name from the word for a very large number–1 followed by one hundred zeroes–has hired as its director of engineering Ray Kurzweil, </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray-kurzweil-terminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">the visionary</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> who predicts we are approaching a “singularity” where we become one with machines. Now it would be too easy to list the parade of horribles I envision from my consciousness being consumed in a global network of artificial neurons. But Kurzweil’s employer will benefit from his research in artificial intelligence because it will be able to better predict what we want to ask <i>before we ask it</i>. That, folks, is the future of online search.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Creativity may be the result of curiosity, but curiosity is all about asking the seemingly unanswerable question. A smartphone tells us what <i>is</i>; it cannot tell us <i>what might be</i>. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Bringing Users Into Your Process through Participatory Design<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://feeds.frogdesign.com/~r/frog-design-mind/~3/_-KSi57kDtA/bringing-users-into-your-process-through-participatory-design.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Frog Design</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We've been seeing an intense pressure on businesses to rapidly make sense of customer needs and demands, then incorporate that feedback into new or existing products. For today's designers, it can be challenging to make well-informed decisions about the large and small details that comprise these products, especially when working within the constraints of an agile/scrum methodology.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">At frog, one of the methods we turn to regularly to identify and incorporate user feedback into products is participatory design. Participatory design aims to bring users into the design process by facilitating conversations through the creation and completion of a wide range of activities. We create activities to facilitate sharing and conversation with users, providing them with materials to descriptively discuss their personal experiences and express their desires for ideal solutions. By doing this, we are able to work directly with current and future users of products and services, quickly discovering important criteria to fold into the next iteration of a product, service, or experience strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">In the past year, Erin Muntzert and I had a chance to teach our approach for conducting participatory design to UX designers in workshops globally at Interaction 13, UX London, and UX Week. Based on the feedback from participants in those workshops, we wanted to publicly share the slide deck we used in the workshops, which delves into how Erin and I plan, construct, and facilitate participatory activities to incorporate user feedback into product and service solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This workshop was informed by our own practice in designing and conducting hundreds of participatory design sessions, paired with additional input from other leaders within frog's design research practice. Along with frog's open-source </span><a href="http://www.frogdesign.com/cat"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Collective Action Toolkit</span></i></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, which Erin and I helped co-author, this workshop is part of our hope to better share the tools and skills that designers use with individuals and organizations around the world.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">If This Then That</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://ifttt.com/wtf"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">IFTTT</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Cool idea</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The power of science lures viewers (and famous people) to NASA’s original videos<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/03/09/the-power-of-science-lures-viewers-and-famous-people-to-nasas-original-videos"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">GigaOM</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">There aren’t a lot of things the internet loves unconditionally, but on that list, right behind cats and bacon, comes the video game <i>Portal</i>. Created by Valve, the series challenges players with mind-bending puzzles while being taunted by a snarky, evil artificial intelligence, known as GLaDOS and voiced by actress Ellen McLain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIe1EDExxyg"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">“Fusion vs. Fission,”</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> stars Casey McKinnon and Mike Romo as two bumbling technicians learning the difference between fusion and fission in a kid-friendly fashion, while McLain’s evil AI formulates a plot for world domination.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks to McLain and the short’s numerous other <i>Portal</i> references, “Fusion vs. Fission” received huge pick-up by </span><a href="http://io9.com/glados-explains-the-difference-between-fusion-and-fissi-1532018341"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">video game blogs</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, which led to it becoming the most-viewed video on the NASA Spitzer Science Telescope’s YouTube channel in just three weeks. Which is a pretty impressive feat, given the star power that Pyle has been able to enlist for </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9C8F3F2E3FE9F137"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">his <i>IRrelevant Astronomy</i> series</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, luring celebrities in largely by appealing to their love of science.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Guest stars in <i>IRrelevant Astronomy</i> videos have included </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjRJeaNtxN4"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Felicia Day explaining galactic collisions</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXW9ubjccs"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Linda Hamilton battling evil robots</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, and </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YqVCclIQU"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:blue">Cameron Diaz as actor Cameron Diaz</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt">. “We work with a lot of people who like NASA, but who also like science and education,” Pyle said. “Their hopes tend to mirror our own.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">According to Pyle, when Diaz actually showed up for her shoot, she brought with her a few of her own custom-printed “I [Heart] NASA” T-shirts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%">“If there’s a mission statement to <i>IRrelevant Astronomy</i>,” he added, “It’s to reach out to people who might not be interested in science themselves.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Worst. Innovation Quote. Ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://ldrlb.co/2014/02/worst-innovation-quote-ever/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Leader Lab</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt;line-height:13.5pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"> – Emerson<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Now, to be fair, it’s actually a paraphrasing of Emerson. Or, to be more accurate, a misquote.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Nevertheless, it reflects a very common innovation misconception – that it’s all about the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Andrew Hargadon has written </span><a href="http://andrewhargadon.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/11/caught-in-the-mousetrap.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#4D8B97;text-decoration:none">a terrific post on this topic</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">, which I encourage you to read. In it, he points out that since the U.S. Patent Office was founded in 1828, there have been more than 4,400 patents granted for mousetraps, with about 40 per year still being granted. Yet out of all of these, only a handful have made money.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.75pt;line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">Why? Because for the most part, the mousetrap problem was solved in 1894.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-25703094966131350922014-02-02T12:31:00.002-08:002014-02-02T12:32:29.047-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">#NFLTechSeries 2013: Seattle Seahawks<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.sporttechie.com/2013/09/06/nfltech-series-2013-seattle-seahawks/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Sport Techie</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none">and</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span><a href="http://12thmanrising.com/2014/01/07/nfltechseries-details-innovations-of-seattle-seahawks/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">12<sup>th</sup> Man Rising</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#333333">At the outset of the 2013 NFL season, SportTechie, a startup that covers the latest news from the intersection of sports and technology, reported on the newest technological advances made by each of the 32 teams. These innovations spanned venues, mobile, digital media, player performance, and everything in between that impacts the overall fan experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Stadium experience, fan engagement, mobile technologies, player performance and health, statistical data gathering and analysis… any and all aspects of the organization’s procedures in the effort to find success in the NFL is on the table. We’re uncovering those efforts, investigating those innovations and pondering the benefit they might provide, for the team, players and fans alike… today and looking forward. Chip Suttles, VP of Technology for Seattle Seahawks and Sounders FC is in his second season with both teams. He has responsibility for IT, Digital, and Stadium Technology; here are few items that are on the horizon at CenturyLink Field this year. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Supporting the Seahawks: Microsoft trumps Amazon for 12th Man passion<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/supporting-seahawks-microsoft-gathers-7000-employees-form-human-12/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">GeekWire</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter" /> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0" /> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0" /> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1" /> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2" /> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth" /> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight" /> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1" /> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2" /> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth" /> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0" /> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight" /> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0" /> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" /> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t" /> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="microsoftseahawks123" href="https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/429423110342057984" style='position:absolute;margin-left:202.95pt;margin-top:412.3pt;width:118.85pt;height:67.15pt;z-index:-251657216;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text;mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page;mso-height-relative:page' o:button="t"> <v:fill o:detectmouseclick="t" /> <v:imagedata src="cid:image004.png@01CF1F83.907160C0" o:title="microsoftseahawks123" /> <w:wrap type="tight"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/429423110342057984"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIt7LRFznG6-DluRmrIc60H39CzeFpEXO24xOkJJ3VUL1mUokxeVDgPTz0-ifgn-IVdfZY37hOQA3Aq64c0f9h5PVi0VR3oIWG6U-N0Uc1suv4Gv5Qn8VKCLmY9FnnQw3v6zeCHG2VBG8/s1600/image006-749048.png"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIt7LRFznG6-DluRmrIc60H39CzeFpEXO24xOkJJ3VUL1mUokxeVDgPTz0-ifgn-IVdfZY37hOQA3Aq64c0f9h5PVi0VR3oIWG6U-N0Uc1suv4Gv5Qn8VKCLmY9FnnQw3v6zeCHG2VBG8/s320/image006-749048.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5975902175458610178" /></a></a><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Microsoft put together something of its own on Friday to show support for the local NFL team.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The result is pretty sweet. About 7,000 Microsoft employees gathered on the Redmond campus this afternoon to form a massive “12,” as an ode to the 12th Man. The Seahawks — owned by <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/paul-allen-seahawks/">Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen</a> — will go for their first-ever Super Bowl win on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The game will be <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/heres-watch-super-bowl-free-online/">streamed for free</a> online.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Deaf Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman invites hearing impaired girls to Super Bowl<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/derrick-coleman-invites-deaf-girls-super-bowl-article-1.1596763">NY Daily News</a> <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/deaf-students-inspired-teachers-brought-tears-stor/ncq5m/"> <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">KIRO</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none">and</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""> </span></span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/seahawks-derrick-coleman-surprises-hearing-impaired-girls/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">ABC News</span></a><o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Derrick Coleman was introduced to the world via his Duracell commercial about playing fullback for the Seattle Seahawks, despite being hearing impaired. His story has inspired the whole country and especially hits home for students at Northwest School for Hearing Impaired Children. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Teachers at Northwest School in Shoreline said the students have been buzzing about the ad all week. On Thursday, Kabian Rendel showed the YouTube clip to her class. Students were glued to the screen and teachers were brought to tears as they watched the video…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">On Thursday, he invited twins Riley and Erin Kovalcik to the Super Bowl game on Sunday on ABC's 'Good Morning America.' Riley, who is also hearing impaired, had written Coleman a letter after the Seahawk's defeated the San Francisco 49s to make it to the Super Bowl.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:1.05in"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:1.05in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Wind Simulator? Fox Has Innovations Lined Up for Super Bowl Broadcast<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/sports/football/wind-simulator-fox-has-innovations-lined-up-for-super-bowl-broadcast.html?_r=0"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">NY Times</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The president of Fox Sports, Eric Shanks, was fully dressed and talking about the network’s Super Bowl XLVIII production toys. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">First, there is a wind simulator, software that will be able to show the breezy patterns (in yellow trails that look a little like fast-moving ghosts) inside MetLife Stadium. “Wind speeds are different at different elevations,” Shanks said. “The wind is different on top of the stadium where the flags are than it is at the 20-yard line.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Second, an infrared camera will detect, in colors from white to dark blue, how hot or cold the players are. Third, Fox will use, if necessary, a graphic technology that can, as Shanks said, “extend the goal posts to infinity.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Even with 52 cameras, Shanks said, Fox will not isolate one continuously on Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, who dropped the rant heard round the world on the sideline reporter Erin Andrews after the N.F.C. title game. This week in a conference call, Richie Zyontz, the Fox game producer, said that he cut away quickly from Sherman because “it started crossing over a line that I just didn’t want to see us go.” Sherman is a bright Stanford graduate who knows that he could have expressed his postgame emotions in calmer, more erudite terms that night. Whenever he retires, he will be in demand as an analyst, angry or not. “He’s great to be around,” Shanks said. “Maybe after the game, we’ll try to sign him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Nike's New 3D Printed Cleats to Debut at the Super Bowl<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://mashable.com/2014/02/01/nike-cleats-super-bowl/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Mashable</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";text-decoration:none"> and </span></span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-super-bowl-players-will-be-wearing-3d-printed-cleats-180949529/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Smithsonian</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Super Bowl XLVIII may be one of the coldest in NFL history, but Nike's latest innovation may make it one of the fastest, too. The </span><a href="http://mashable.com/sports/"><span lang="EN">sports</span></a> <span lang="EN"> apparel company recently announced that Broncos and Seahawks players will wear its newest football cleats, the Vapor Carbon Elite, for the big game.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The new cleats succeed Nike's previous model, the Vapor Laser Talon, which helped players run faster, but only in a straight direction. Unfortunately, few</span><a href="http://mashable.com/category/nfl/"><span lang="EN"> NFL </span></a><span lang="EN">players <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">only</span></em> run in a straight line. They cut, juke, spin and shuffle. According to </span><a href="http://nikeinc.com/news/nike-unveils-vapor-carbon-2014-elite-football-cleat-for-super-bowl" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">a statement</span></a><span lang="EN"> on the Nike website, the designers of the Vapor Carbon Elite used a 3D print design to create a shoe that gives players better traction in all directions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN">Nike researchers aimed the new design at addressing "zero step," the stance a player takes before he strides, according to </span><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-super-bowl-players-will-be-wearing-3d-printed-cleats-180949529/" target="_blank"><em><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none">Smithsonian Magazine</span></em></a><span lang="EN">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Director: Super Bowl halftime show will be creative, cold<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/innovation/super-bowl-halftime-hamilton/index.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">CNN</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">More than 110.5 million people worldwide watched the halftime show last year. Only 2012's performance by Madonna drew more viewers, and Beyonce's performance -- and the blackout that followed -- generated 229,000 tweets per minute on Twitter, its second most-tweeted moment ever.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Last year, 700 people transformed the field at the Superdome into a concert stage incorporating lasers, strobes, pyrotechnics and a preprogrammed stage floor that rose to become a 24-foot by 32-foot video wall. "With the kind of stuff that I do, technology is amazing. But at the end of the day, stories are way more powerful," he said. "Technology's massively important," Hamiltion continued. "You rely on it." But even as the technology at his disposal has improved, Hamilton says he's come to look at it differently. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Technology allows you to do things now you could have never done before. So there's definitely a yin and a yang to it."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Bud Light Buys Up Most of the Super Bowl Ad Searches</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://mashable.com/2014/01/27/bud-light-super-bowl/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Mashable</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Regardless of which </span><a href="http://mashable.com/category/super-bowl/"><span lang="EN">Super Bowl</span></a><span lang="EN"> ad you search on Google, there's one brand that keeps popping up: Bud Light.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The giant beer brand has not only bought up all the </span><a href="http://mashable.com/category/google/"><span lang="EN">Google</span></a><span lang="EN"> searches for "Super Bowl ad," but also for ads from specific advertisers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">When you click through the Bud Light ad, it sends you to </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/officialbudlight/WHATEVERISCOMING?gclid=CP2K7eGunrwCFZTm7AodUioAAA" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">the brand's YouTube channel</span></a><span lang="EN">. The channel features teasers for Super Bowl ads starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Don Cheadle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Meanwhile, Volkswagen has purchased the term "Super Bowl" on Google. The ad directs users to </span><a href="http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/vws-super-bowl-teaser/"><span lang="EN">VW's Super Bowl ad teaser</span></a><span lang="EN">, which was up to about 1.5 million YouTube views on Monday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Bud Light appears to have bought many Super Bowl ad searches on Bing as well, while VW has purchased others. Some gaps exist, including Doritos, which has </span><a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=axe+super+bowl+ad&go=&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=axe+super+bowl+ad&sc=1-17&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=c47c7183b3bc49bfa085fc3d45450492" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">no paid ad searches</span></a><span lang="EN"> on Bing; but Doritos, VW and Bud Light each bought ads against the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=vw+super+bowl+ad&oq=vw+super+bowl+ad&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l2j69i60j0l2.2024j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8#q=doritos+super+bowl+ad" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">Google search</span></a><span lang="EN"> for "Doritos Super Bowl ad."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">10 Things I Learned After America Learned About Me<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><a href="http://mmqb.si.com/2014/01/28/richard-sherman-seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-xlviii/">MMQB – Richard Sherman</a></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. This stage is bigger than I thought it was.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. When to look away.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. I’m lucky to have detractors. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. It’s not all black and white.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. The NFL always wins. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">7. Anonymity isn’t for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">8. The violence takes a toll. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">9. Pete Carroll is a rock. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">10. If I could turn back the clock …<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Can H&M's Interactive Super Bowl Ad, David Beckham's Body Make TV Shopping Click?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3025725/can-hms-interactive-super-bowl-ad-david-beckhams-body-make-tv-shopping-click"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Fast Company</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">With advertisers pulling out all the stops for the year's largest and most engaged audience, the Super Bowl is the perfect stage to make a statement. For H&M, this year's big game will be an opportunity to showcase the potential of television commerce, as well as <a href="//www.fastcompany.com/person/david-beckham">David Beckham</a>'s oft-adored body, with an interactive, shoppable commercial.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the second quarter of Sunday's big game, H&M's ad will be powered by Delivery Agent's technology that lets viewers make purchases from television shows and ads. Back when the company started in 2005, the execution was much clunkier. When viewers watched NBC's <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Queer Eye for the Straight Guy</span></em>, Delivery Agent's first client, they had to go online to make purchases. Eventually the proliferation of mobile devices--and the <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3000497/your-future-tv-not-about-tele-vision"> rise of the second screen</a>--changed that experience, allowing viewers to browse and make purchases on an app while watching TV.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">VIDEO: Why Bank of America Is Doing a Super Bowl Ad with U2<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://bankinnovation.net/2014/01/video-why-bank-of-america-is-doing-a-super-bowl-ad-with-u2/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Bank Innovation.net</span></a><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Why will <a href="http://bankinnovation.net/tag/bank-of-america/"> Bank of America Corp.</a> be hanging out with U2 during the Super Bowl?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Turns out the Charlotte, N.C., bank has made a deal with U2 to appear in a Super Bowl ad, singing its new song “Invisible,” to promote Bono’s Red charity that raises funds for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in Africa. Bank of America is donating $1 for each iTunes download of “Invisible.”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In this video, BofA’s Brian Moynihan — sitting next to Bono — explains why BofA is supporting the cause (during the Super Bowl, the year’s biggest advertising showcase).<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">How NASA makes the Super Bowl possible<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/how-nasa-makes-the-super-bowl-possible"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">MNN</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">NASA and the Super Bowl may not be two things you'd normally put in the same sentence together, but Sunday's big game wouldn't be the same without innovative spinoff technologies from space exploration. From helmets to headsets to the communications satellites that allows fans to watch around the world, NASA's legacy can be found throughout the Super Bowl Sunday experience. So when the Seattle Seahawks face off against Denver's Broncos, the teams will have NASA to thank for some of their basic tech needs. Here's a look at some of the NASA's space technology spinoffs (and some pop culture, too) that have found their way into Super Bowl:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Helmet Foam<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Shiny Helmets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Wireless QB radio headsets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Satellite Communications for TV Broadcasts<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">NASA’s NFL Astronaut<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Super Bowl Coin Flips<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Super Bowl Commercials<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Seattle Seahawks Win As The Trending Tech Team<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogergroves/2014/02/01/seattle-seahawks-win-as-the-trending-tech-team/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Forbes</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Most people see the Seattle Seahawks as a football team that happen to be on a rare streak that puts them in Super Bowl XLVIII. But the real story yet to be written is that they are the type of professional sports team that embodies the future off the field as well. What is trending off the field for Seattle is to be at the top of the disruptive technologies platform among the 32 NFL teams. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">They have among the most state of the art stadiums, with revenue enhancers beyond ticket sales abundantly and strategically placed throughout CenturyLink Field. It’s what the Seahawks do with state of the art media facilities and business staff that put them over the top. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What is disruptively tasty about this organization is that they have partnered with a company that allows nearly instantaneous packaging of the game day experience into a customized video presentation for existing and future sponsors. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Can the Seattle Seahawks' '12th Man' be a 747? Boeing says yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-10797_3-57618045-235/can-the-seattle-seahawks-12th-man-be-a-747-boeing-says-yes/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">CNET</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#E7E6E6;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">To celebrate the Seahawks' appearance in this Sunday's Super Bowl, the aviation giant has painted one of its 747-8 freighters in the NFL team's livery.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Boeing said today that to commemorate the Seattle Seahawks' NFC championship and the team's appearance in this Sunday's Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos, it has painted one of its 747-8 freighters in Seahawks livery. The Boeing-owned plane will make its first flight with the new paint job tomorrow. To go along with photos of the plane -- which features a big "12" on its tail, a reference to the fact that Seattle fans have come to be known as the "12th man" thanks to the record-breaking noise they make at home games -- Boeing offered up a few humorous tidbits about the plane. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">For example, Boeing pointed out, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson's longest pass went for 80 yards -- or 240 feet -- almost the same length as the fuselage of a 747-8 (243.5 feet). Similarly, Wilson threw for a total of 3,357 yards (10,071 feet) during the 2013 season, just short of the 10,650 feet a 747-8 needs to take off. And, finally, a 747-8 at takeoff goes fast enough that it can cover the length of a football field in just one second.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-32038096231772897012014-02-02T12:31:00.001-08:002014-02-02T12:31:32.298-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Lotus pose on two</span></span><b><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9581925/seattle-seahawks-use-unusual-techniques-practice-espn-magazine">ESPN</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">The big idea is that happy players make for better players. Everyone in the facility, from coaches and players to personal assistants and valets, is expected to follow Carroll's mantras regarding positivity of thought, words and actions. "Do your job better than it has ever been done before," he tells them.<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"IT'S DIFFERENT HERE," Pete Carroll says. "Have you noticed?" It's hard not to. At 9 a.m. on the first Sunday of training camp in Renton, Wash., high-performance sports psychologist Mike Gervais, dressed in a navy Seahawks hoodie and white baseball cap and flashing more enthusiasm than is rational at this hour, welcomes players into a meeting room at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. This place used to be the site of a coal tar refinery; now it's the happiest, greenest campsite in the history of the NFL. Gervais is about to lead a meditation session and, as he always does, instructs the players to hit record on their phone voice-recorder apps and to close their eyes. Then he starts guiding them: "Quiet your minds," "Focus your attention inwardly" and "Visualize success."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Pete Carroll Voted NFL's Most Popular Coach. What Does This Say About Leadership?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2014/01/29/pete-carroll-voted-nfls-most-popular-coach-what-does-this-say-about-leadership/">Forbes</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">The choice is a revealing one, as Carroll has long had a reputation as the ultimate “player’s coach” – known for his highly emotional, ultra-supportive style. Yet in the pro ranks, until his recent success with Seahawks, he had been viewed almost as a bit peculiar, better suited for college football than for the NFL. He had two relatively unsuccessful coaching stints with the New York Jets and New England Patriots in the 1990s, after which he returned to the college ranks and built a championship program with USC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">How do some football analysts view Carroll’s recent selection?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">“Carroll’s creation of a laid back, player-first atmosphere has been a hallmark of his time at both Seattle and USC, and that’s a major reason why players are drawn to him,” wrote </span><a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/football/2014/01/28/seahawks-pete-carroll-voted-most-popular-coach-in-nfl/"><span lang="EN" style="color:#428BCA;text-decoration:none">Stephen Cohen</span></a><span lang="EN"> in seattlepi.com. “Carroll doesn’t fit the coaching stereotype of an inflexible hothead…and that makes him someone NFL players want to work under.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">“Carroll fully believes that compassion is a vital factor in winning football games,” noted </span><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10205676/pete-carroll-nfl-most-popular-coach"><span lang="EN" style="color:#428BCA;text-decoration:none">Jeffri Chadiha</span></a><span lang="EN"> in ESPN.com. “His mantra is Always Compete, and he applies that mindset to everybody who works in the building. In the end, Carroll comes off as a man who ultimately wants to see the best come out of everybody, mainly because of how much joy he would take in seeing somebody else attain that level of success.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Given a choice, players pick Carroll<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10205676/pete-carroll-nfl-most-popular-coach">ESPN</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What these results tell us is that the bottom line isn't the most important factor in determining player happiness. If all they cared about was winning a championship, they wouldn't have picked five head coaches in the top seven who haven't hoisted a Lombardi trophy. Many players want to enjoy the journey as much as the final destination. This is where Carroll's true genius resides.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Carroll has gone out of his way to separate himself from nearly every head coach who has worked in this profession. One visit to the Seahawks' offseason practices should tell an outsider that much. Carroll will blast music from players' iPods during full-team drills, interact with guests who come by to watch and carry himself as if he's the host of a house party instead of the multimillion-dollar face of an NFL franchise. He seems capable of having more fun in one afternoon than most coaches have in an entire season.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Pete Carroll's Better Than You--At Making Others Better<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/robasghar/2014/01/30/pete-carrolls-better-than-you-at-making-others-better/">Forbes</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#3C3C3C">Looking ahead to Sunday’s Super Bowl from a leadership perspective, let’s acknowledge two truths about Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#3C3C3C">His leadership style seems to distinguish itself in at least four ways: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <ol start="1" type="1"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Crazy big ambitions. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Unusual optimism. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">A rock-star persona combined with a common touch. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">An unwillingness to hang on to resentment. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Pete Carroll has made Seahawks better by offering second chances<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/jerrybrewer/2022807434_brewer01xml.html">Seattle Times</a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">His principle belief: to help people be the best they can be. It sounds hokey until he does exactly that.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“The philosophy of the whole thing is we’re doing this one person at a time,” Carroll said. “It’s one person talking to one person and transferring a person with a vision of despair to hope. We have to help sculpt a vision for those types of people. So it isn’t so hopeless.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">To Michael Irvin, this is the best untold story in the NFL. During the buildup of Super Bowl XLVIII, the lazy narrative of villains (Seahawks) versus virtuous (Denver Broncos) has gotten media play. The Seahawks have their issues — the drug suspensions, in particular — but the bad-boy label is inaccurate and uninformed. “We’ll slip up and focus on the few who fall off the tree and off the wagon,” Irvin said.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“We’ll focus on the Brandon Browners because he’s suspended for the year, or the Richard Sherman rant and say, ‘Aw, they’re bad boys.’ But Pete Carroll has taken a lot of confused, young people who never had a father, and he gives them an opportunity by speaking to their person and bringing the best out of them in their profession. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“You’ll never hear me talking bad about people who give others like that an opportunity and a second chance because I’m one of those supposed problem people. I’ve got all the respect and love in the world for Seattle and the organization.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">“I feel like Pete talks to people from the heart,” said David Lujano, who works on Alive and Free’s warrant prevention project, which helps youths handle their legal issues properly. “For a coach that has everything, why would he spend all this effort if it wasn’t in his heart? As a person who received a second chance, I really respect that.”<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">3 Things Startup CEOs Can Learn From Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/startup-ceos-can-learn-from-russell-wilson-2014-1">Business Insider</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The current Super Bowl storyline getting attention in the press is the match-up between Peyton Manning — arguably one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game — and the Seahawk's defense, ranked first in the league in nearly every category. <o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But according to former NFL quarterback Tom Flick, the real wildcard in this year's Super Bowl is Seattle QB Russell Wilson, a "startup quarterback" whose mobile and scrappy approach is challenging the more traditional, top-down quarterback model. It's a leadership style Flick believes is becoming increasingly important to emulate as traditional management structures become obsolete within the startup world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Here are three lessons startup executives can learn from Wilson's fast and creative style of leadership:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Be willing to take big risks when the opportunity arises. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Don't be afraid to depart from tradition. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Assume your job is always on the line.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">5 Leadership Lessons from Peyton Manning<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://phasetwolearning.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/5-leadership-lessons-from-peyton-manning/"><span style="color:#1F497D">Phase Two Learning</span></a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Over the years, Peyton Manning has demonstrated impressive leadership qualities; both on and off the field. Regardless of what your role is in the learning industry, or whether you are a even a football fan at all, there are 5 simple leadership lessons you can apply:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Know your craft, inside and out.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Be open to coaching and feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Don’t let setbacks or mistakes define you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Raise the bar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> Have fun and don’t take yourself too seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">3 Startup Lessons From an NFL Coach<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/09/09/3-startup-lessons-from-nfl-coach/">Fox Small Business</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Since he took the reins in Seattle in 2010, Pete Carroll’s taken a below-average team and turned out a Superbowl contender. His leadership style can be applied to a startup and to leading a company. There is a lot to like:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Do it better than it has ever been done before”: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Be different”: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Compete”:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The takeaway: Set up an environment that requires everyone to up their game each day. Use data and transparency to show your employees how they are performing, and be very clear that it is your responsibility to use the limited number of positions and expenses to make the best company it can be.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">And with that … Go Seahawks!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Seahawks’ Transformation a Lesson for Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://meetjohnsong.com/2013/01/08/seahawks-transformation-a-lesson-for-leaders/">Meet John Song</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Today in Seattle, people are extremely excited about the recent success of its football team (Seahawks). Such success is not normal for this town which has had one major championship (NBA championship in the 197-79 season) throughout its sports history. That franchise (Sonics), by the way, is no longer in town. While the Seahawks are still three difficult playoff wins away from a championship, people are excited about the foundation that has been built. This team is having success with a nucleus of very young players.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Russell Wilson's kindness leaves mark<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/10375235/espnw-touch-kindness-seattle-seahawks-quarterback-russell-wilson">ESPN</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#1A1919">"If someone tells me no, I'm going to try to do the best I can to prove them wrong -- more for myself than anyone else," he said. "I'm a self-motivator. I believe that God has given me a sense of leadership to be able to motivate other people, but also myself. I want to be the best one day, and I'm not going to shy away from that. I've got a long ways to go, but I think, to be honest with you, God has put me here for a particular reason."</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-53493403084343056482014-01-12T17:45:00.001-08:002014-01-12T17:45:56.517-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:9.9pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:9.9pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Isaac Asimov's Predictions For 2014 From 50 Years Ago Are Eerily Accurate <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/02/isaac-asimov-2014_n_4530785.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Fifty years ago, American scientist and author Isaac Asimov published a story in The New York Times that listed his predictions for what the world would be like in 2014. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Asimov wrote more than 500 books in his lifetime, including science fiction novels and nonfiction scientific books, so he was well-versed in thinking about the future. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In his article, called "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014," Asimov got a whole bunch of his guesses right -- and his other predictions are making us a little envious of his imagined future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"By 2014, electroluminescent panels will be in common use."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books." <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> "Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Diana Nyad – Never Give Up<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/diana_nyad_never_ever_give_up.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">TED</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating … Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that's how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida -- at age 64. Hear her story. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A record-setting long-distance </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">swimmer</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">, Diana Nyad writes and thinks deeply about motivation<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Dickens, Darwin, Dr. Johnson: Millions of Images From the British Library Now Available Online<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/dickens-darwin-dr-johnson-millions-of-images-from-the-british-library-now-available-online/282396/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">The Atlantic</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Five years ago, Microsoft <a href="http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-19th-Century-Book-Digitisation-Project-343.aspx"> began scanning</a> the collection of one of the world's largest libraries: The British Library. Home to more than 14 million books, it's rivaled only by the Library of Congress in terms of size.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">On Friday, we saw some of the first fruits of that digitization. The British Library <a href="http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-first-steps.html">released</a> more than<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/"> a million images</a> from its books to the public domain, publishing them to Flickr Commons for anyone to use or adapt. The images come from 46,000 books from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, by authors both revered (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/DICKENSCharles">Dickens!</a>) and forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The library is trying out something of a new tack with this release, though. While it knows the title, author, and publishing year of its books, it doesn't know the content of the images—what they actually depict. So early next year, it says it will roll out a crowdsourcing website and ask the public for its help in identifying the content of the images.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">"Our intention is to use this data to train automated classifiers that will run against the whole of the content," <a href="https://twitter.com/benosteen">Ben O'Steen</a>, a librarian, wrote on the Library"s Digital Scholarship blog. "The data from this will be as openly licensed as is sensible (given the nature of crowdsourcing) and the code, as always, will be under an open licence."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">IBM reveals its top five innovation predictions for the next five years<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/16/ibm-reveals-its-top-five-predictions-for-the-next-five-years/#!"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">VentureBeat</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">IBM revealed its predictions for five big innovations that will change our lives within five years.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The IBM "5 in 5″ is the eighth year in a row that IBM has made predictions about technology, and this year's prognostications are sure to get people talking.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In a nutshell, IBM says:<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">◾</span>The classroom will learn you.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">◾</span>Buying local will beat online.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">◾</span>Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">◾</span>A digital guardian will protect you online.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif"">◾</span>The city will help you live in it.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">4 Health Benefits to Helping Others<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/28/health-benefits-of-helping-others_n_4427697.html"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Huffington Post</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">As a boy, whenever Stephen Post got a bad grade, or felt left out of his older brother and sister's games, or was otherwise having a rough day, his mother always said, "Why don't you go out and do something for someone else?" At which point he'd head next door to rake Mr. Mueller's leaves or go across the street to help Mr. Lawrence with his boat. "I always came home feeling better," says Post, now a professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine and author of The Hidden Gifts of Helping. Turns out, there was science behind his mom's kitchen-table wisdom: Practicing philanthropy is one of the surest steps you can take toward a happy, healthy life. Here's why.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Longer Lifespan <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Greater Happiness <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Better Pain Management <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Lower Blood Pressure<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The History and Future of Everything – Time<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkV6IpV2Y0&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">How much time do you have left?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it's almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog "Wait but Why" and made this video to help you putting things in perspective with some infographics!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">26 Amazing Startups to Watch in 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/31/26-amazing-startups-you-need-to-watch-in-2014/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">VentureBeat</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We're here to tell you about the real innovation that's been going on this year. In fact, there were a lot of startups — consumer, enterprise, hardware, and health-tech — that got us non-ironically excited in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This is not an exhaustive list, but the 26 companies here are a good start on reclaiming your sense of amazement at what the tech business, at its best, can come up with.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Aereo<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Cameo<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Circa<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Cyanogen<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Elepath<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Entangled Media<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Fanhattan<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Imgur<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">…<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Slow Ideas <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/29/130729fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">New Yorker</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly? In the era of the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter, we've become enamored of ideas that spread as effortlessly as ether. We want frictionless, "turnkey" solutions to the major difficulties of the world—hunger, disease, poverty. We prefer instructional videos to teachers, drones to troops, incentives to institutions. People and institutions can feel messy and anachronistic. They introduce, as the engineers put it, uncontrolled variability.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But technology and incentive programs are not enough. "Diffusion is essentially a social process through which people talking to people spread an innovation," wrote Everett Rogers, the great scholar of how new ideas are communicated and spread.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">The 18 Most Futuristic Predictions That Came True in 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://io9.com/the-18-most-futuristic-predictions-that-came-true-in-20-1489927581"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">io9</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">A lot can happen in a single year, especially in this era of accelerating technological and social change. Here are the most futuristic developments of 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Symbol;text-decoration:none"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://bit.ly/JPelfe" target="_blank">Humanity officially became an interstellar species</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Symbol;text-decoration:none"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://io9.com/google-wants-you-to-live-forever-1349384338">Radical life extension went mainstream</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Symbol;text-decoration:none"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://bit.ly/JahV2i" target="_blank">Brain-to brain interfaces arrived</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Symbol;text-decoration:none"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://bit.ly/1caeDq6" target="_blank">The first functional 3D printed handgun</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://gizmodo.com/the-x-47b-drone-has-landed-on-a-carrier-and-war-may-ne-733010880" target="_blank">An unmanned aircraft landed on an aircraft carrier</a><span style="color:#222222">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Symbol;text-decoration:none"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://io9.com/the-first-person-in-the-world-to-become-a-government-re-1474975237">The world's first government-recognized cyborg</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:150%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://io9.com/breakthrough-the-world-s-first-carbon-nanotube-compute-1386069682">The world's first carbon nanotube computer</a><span class="MsoHyperlink">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">38 Test Answers That Are 100% Wrong But Totally Genius At The Same Time <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://distractify.com/fun/fails/test-answers-that-are-totally-wrong-but-still-genius/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Distractify.com</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","sans-serif";color:#4472C4">Worcester celebrates a half-century of Smiley <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="http://www.telegram.com/article/20140112/NEWS/301129944/1312"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif"">Worcester Telegram</span></a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Fifty years ago, Worcester freelance commercial artist Harvey Ball doodled two black eyes, the right a little bigger than the other, and an off-center smile on a bright yellow circle — and created an image for generations to come. Ball wasn't paid much for the project, which he took on for a campaign to boost morale for Worcester's State Mutual Life Insurance — now Hanover Insurance — it went through a corporate reorganization. Nor did it take him very long. But after the Smiley Face first appeared on Jan. 3, 1964, in "The Mutualite," the insurance company's newsletter, it took off, adopted widely as a symbol of happiness and good humor — both actual and ideal. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-79298496516447169362014-01-12T17:44:00.000-08:002014-01-12T17:45:15.422-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7050.html">HBS</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Managing cultural friction not only creates a more harmonious workplace, says professor Roy Y.J. Chua, but ensures that you reap the creative benefits of multiculturalism at its best.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving problems. Of course, that's assuming all members of the team are pulling in the same direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">But what if they aren't? Can being exposed to intercultural conflicts and tensions have an impact even on observers who are not directly involved in these disharmonies?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">When it Comes to Leadership Everything Communicates<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.georgeambler.com/when-it-comes-to-leadership-everything-communicates/">George Ambler</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Communication is critical for effective leadership. Without communication leaders are unable to share their vision, convince people to follow and to inspire the action that they want people to take. When it comes to leadership communication the motive and intention behind the message it as important as the message itself. Unless leaders are are to emotionally engage with their audience and are seen to be trusted people will be reluctant to follow or take action.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Leaders are constantly being observed and watched. All they say and all they do is constantly being analysed and interpreted. Everything a leader says and every action a leader takes is amplified, assessed and examined. So how do leaders ensure they send the right messages? What can leaders do to improve the effectiveness of their communication?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">How to make people like you: 6 science-based conversation hacks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/253693/how-to-make-people-like-you-6-science-based-conversation-hacks">TheWeek</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">So you want to know how to make people like you? It's easier than you think.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Here are six research-backed tips:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Encourage people to talk about themselves<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. To give feedback, ask questions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Ask for advice<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. The two-question technique<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Repeat the last three words<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. Gossip — but positively<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Because Who is Perfect?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.realfarmacy.com/because-who-is-perfect/">RealFarmacy.com</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Awesome!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">In Conversation: Eric Ries on How to be Entrepreneurial Inside a Big Corporation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc6trO2hzL0">S+B YouTube</a><u><span style="color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">In the first video interview of this five-part series, Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, tells Paul Michelman, executive editor at strategy+business, that entrepreneurs exist everywhere—and discusses what that means for innovation at big companies. For more related insights, read " Why Eric Ries Likes Management" at </span><a href="http://strat.bz/ooQlR6k" target="_blank" title="http://strat.bz/ooQlR6k"><span lang="EN" style="color:#999999;text-decoration:none">http://strat.bz/ooQlR6k</span></a><span lang="EN" style="color:#333333">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Welcome to the Era of Radical Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245208/Welcome_to_the_era_of_radical_innovation">ComputerWorld</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">As microprocessors reach the limit of their ability to decrease in size, Moore's Law is reaching the end of its tenure in computing and a new age of innovation might emerge as a result. The European Commission released a report saying the end of Moore's Law means there will no longer be "mere extrapolation" of existing technologies, but rather a need for "radical innovation in many computing technologies." Meanwhile, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently said that innovation beyond Moore's Law will require "new scientific, mathematical, engineering, and conceptual frameworks." For example, NSF says new materials will be necessary that can work in quantum states or "molecular-based approaches including biologically inspired systems." New technologies could take the shape of carbon digital circuits composed of nanotubes, which could offer a tenfold improvement over current technologies in terms of performance and energy usage. Quantum computing also could supplement or replace microprocessors. Experts at the recent SC13 supercomputing conference predicted a lack of stability and certainty in the future as technology stops advancing in a regular, predictable manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Make a Lasting Impression One Auto-Reply At a Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/trustedadvisor/2012/08/21/make-a-lasting-impression-one-auto-reply-at-a-time/">Forbes</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#3C3C3C">Here are my takeaways from this experience:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">We humans generally like to learn personal things about our fellow humans.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Intimacy (the professional kind) is created when we take risks and share things that others can relate to.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Little inklings about doing something different are worth listening to and acting on.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Experiments are a great way to try new things over time without making a life-long commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"> <span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Sometimes it’s the little things that make the biggest difference.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#3C3C3C">Are you heading out of the office any time soon? I dare you to try something new and more personal with your auto-reply. Have you been ignoring a little inkling about something—anything? I double-dog-dare you to do something about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Data Scientists: IT's New Rock Stars<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/data-scientists-its-new-rock-stars">Network World</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Data scientists are emerging as some of the most sought-after professionals in today's technology job market. Technology and media firms are particularly interested in hiring data scientists, and the field is garnering increasing media attention. Industry observers advise students planning to enter the IT field to pursue data science. The Harvard Business Review in October 2012 labeled data scientist as "the sexiest job of the 21st century." In addition, data science was spotlighted in a recent American Journalism Review profile of Buzzfeed data science director Ky Harlin, who is responsible for the company's viral content insights and developed his own algorithms to determine when and why specific pieces of Web content go viral. Harlin learned his skills at a medical-imaging company, and was recruited by Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti. He notes that both the medical-imaging and content-publishing fields look for patterns in vast data sets. "This is where you add real business value," Peretti says, "where an IT person is not just running machines anymore, but fundamentally taking good information and helping the business make true business decisions so that they can adjust the business in real time based on this information."<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Accountability</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2013-11/accountability/">Bret L. Simmons</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Accountability is the binding strength of </span><a href="http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2013-10/interdependence/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">interdependent relationships</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> at work. We simply must hold people accountable. But for accountability to be legitimate, to have </span><a href="http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2009-10/leadership-integrity-touchy-feely-crap/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">integrity</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, accountability has to start with ourselves. We have to begin by holding ourselves accountable and being open to being held accountable by all our constituents.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The most effective leaders are clear in their </span><a href="http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2013-10/expectations-and-promises/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">expectations </span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">of others, and they consistently hold others accountable for those expectations. One of their expectations of others is to also be held accountable. “If you are not holding me accountable for my role as your leader, you are not assuming full responsibility for your legitimate role in our relationship.” For </span><a href="http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2010-01/our-purpose-is-our-best-guide/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">purposeful leaders</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> and followers, that posture of accountability is enabling rather than threatening.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">DON’T QUIT YOUR JOB. FIRE YOUR BOSS. (An Invitation to Unravel What the World Has Taught You About Your Work, Your Career and Your Future)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/112.04.7FireYourBoss">Change This</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“After years of working for the same company, the challenges are largely gone, the original zeal you felt for your job has plateaued to a tolerable “good enough.” You say to yourself, I bet if I can get a job over there at company X, I’d be excited again. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Before you push the eject button, think of the hassle of brushing up your resume, looking for a new job, going through the interviews, evaluating the benefits packages, and comparing the compensation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Let’s face it: The biggest gain in changing jobs is that you will restart the clock on a new set of challenges, a new pairing of relationships, and a new boss. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What if I told you that this is not the answer you are really searching for? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What if you fired your boss instead?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Six Ways to Innovate in Rigid Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/six-ways-to-innovate-in-rigid-organizations/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The future rides on a horse called innovation. Organizations that can’t innovate stagnate. Some organizations have innovation in their blood. But, many are mired in systems and bureaucracy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">It’s easier to begin innovating within rigid cultures than it is to change them. Think </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">skunkworks</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Systematize innovation in organizations driven by systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Develop an innovation system with rigid rules. For example:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Withhold NO. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Provide time. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Systematize conversations. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Develop a series of innovation questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Create a system for filtering and prioritizing ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. Kill or take a next step. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The Future Mundane Revisited<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/core77/blog/~3/m85TnCiCmlM/the_future_mundane_revisited_26193.asp">Core77</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:Wingdings">ß</span> Recommended</span><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A few months ago, our columnist Fosta sent me the text of his bi-monthly column, in which he proposed a design philosophy that he dubbed "</span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/the_future_mundane_25678.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Future Mundane</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">," which was among the more though-provoking pieces in recent memory. When it came time to reflect on the Year in Review, I had originally intended to frame my piece on </span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/core77_2013_year_in_review_high-tech_headlines_26186.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2013 in technology</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> in terms of practical yet powerful hypothesis, only to end up with an obliquely apologetic rejoinder to Christopher Mims' 2013-Was-a-Lost-Year-for-Tech polemic. In a sense, it's two ways of saying the same thing: Even though reality often doesn't live up to our expectations, there's no reason not to <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">expect</span></em> it to be better than it is.</span><a href="#fn1"><sup><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1</span></sup></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Indeed, the Future Mundane is as much a symptom of our impatience or outright frustration with the current generation of technology as it is a measured optimism about the next one. We might reduce the sentiment to the 'megapixel effect': we've been indoctrinated to believe that more is always better when it comes to digital cameras, despite the the fact that the spec feels vestigial in the smartphone era. We may think of ourselves as discerning consumers, skeptical of marketing hype, but at some level, we are conditioned to judge new things on a superficial basis, whether it's a </span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/mits_dynamic_shape_display_is_like_a_sandbox_in_california_that_you_can_manipulate_from_new_york_25919.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">GIF of an interface breakthrough</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> or the lackluster specs of the latest new smartphone.</span><a href="#fn2"><sup><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2</span></sup></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lost year, maybe. But the Future Mundane is also a manifestation of a parallel theory of material culture, Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison's notion of '</span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/jasper_morrison_and_naoto_fukasawa_discuss_super_normal_design_9326.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Supernormal</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">,' which speaks to the process of becoming mundane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>When we create something that is new with the expectation for it to be different yet it somehow feels normal, that is what defines what Supernormal is about. Supernormal is something that is designed with an essence of normality that we share in our memory. In other words, Supernomal is something new but it has familiarity from the beginning. Becoming normal is something that happens and it is not something we can make happen.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I invoked the ever-relevant hypothesis in an [e-mail] </span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/exclusive/naoto_fukasawa_jane_fulton_suri_on_smartphones_as_social_cues_soup_as_a_metaphor_for_design_the_downside_of_3d_printing_and_more_25052.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">interview with the former and IDEO's Jane Fulton Suri</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, whose 'Thoughtless Acts' nicely complement so-called '</span><a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/ux/curious_rituals_examines_technology-induced_gestures_posture_24343.asp"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">curious rituals</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">'—device-engendered behaviors, postures, tics, etc.—as subconscious adaptations to the objects and world around us. This is the metadata of reality, which are not subject to prognostication and can only be contemplated in hindsight.</span><a href="#fn3"><sup><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">3</span></sup></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All of which speaks to the transcendent breadth of cultural context in stories about the future. Parallax motion is a useful metaphor: Near or far, the future will be populated by an accretive totality of timeless heirlooms and novelty items alike; damaged goods, obsolescence (planned or otherwise), and buggy betas; slow-moving institutions alongside visionary products and services; as well as a persistent horizon of expectations. Taking an anthropological longview, science fiction cannot possibly take all of these things—which collectively constitute a world—into account. But these seams in the fabric of a future reality aren't plotholes so much as 'storyholes' (see Fosta's distinction), and a cohesive narrative and compelling plot will supersede any gaps or oversights.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Hacking Human Potential—Takeaways from the Quick MIX <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/hacking-human-potential-takeaways-quick-mix">MiX</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We recently ran an open brainstorming session we call a “Quick MIX” focused on generating bold ideas around the themes of the recently-launched </span><a href="http://www.mixprize.org/m-prize/human-potential"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">SAP Unlimited Human Potential Challenge</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">. The question on the table: What is the one thing you’d change to help organizations unleash and organize human potential across boundaries?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Over the course of a week, MIXers from around the world submitted dozens of ideas for tackling the twin challenges of the Unlimited Human Potential M-Prize: 1) how do organizations unleash human capacity—by designing environments and systems for work that inspire individuals to contribute their full imagination, initiative, and passion every day, and 2) how do we create value for all by aggregating human capability—leveraging new social, mobile, and digital technologies (and the principles behind them) to activate, enlist, and organize talent across boundaries?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#424242">While the Quick MIX yielded a remarkable diversity of ideas, several powerful themes emerged. I’ll share some of them here, but it’s worth spending some time exploring the individual entries </span><a href="http://www.mixprize.org/m-prize/human-potential/quick-mix"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">here</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#424242">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092191293512548243.post-66709558476156136822013-12-16T19:59:00.001-08:002013-12-16T20:00:29.376-08:00<div class="WordSection1"> <table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Stifling Innovation: The Why vs. How Mindset<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://michael-roberto.blogspot.com/2013/12/stifling-innovation-why-vs-how-mindsets.html">Michael Roberto blog</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Fast Company's Eric Jaffe reports on <a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/3023203/evidence/why-companies-are-terrible-at-spotting-creative-ideas"> some terrific new research</a> by University of San Diego Professor Jennifer Mueller. The creativity scholar has examined how a person's mindset affects the way that they perceive and evaluate a new idea. Her work helps explain why large companies often dismiss or reject innovative proposals. <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">5 Ways Leaders Win People Over<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2013/11/11/5-ways-leaders-win-people-over/">Forbes</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Take a moment to reflect upon those people that you lead and serve. Is there a department head you feel awkward around? A client that doesn’t seem to like being around you? To help you reassess how you can engage more effectively with people, here are five ways that leaders win people over.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Search for Shared Experiences<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Understand One’s Values and Intentions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The Head and the Heart<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Get Your Hands Dirty<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Increase Your Engagement<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">What Ethical Leaders Believe: The Leading in Context Manifesto<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/111.04.7Lenses">ChangeThis</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:windowtext">ß</span><span style="color:windowtext"> Recommended</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">“Aristotle said ‘We are what we repeatedly do.’ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">He was right. Our daily choices define us. They show just how far beyond ourselves we’re thinking, how broadly we imagine our constituents, and how we see ourselves in the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">As we navigate the turbulence of today’s workplace, there is power in asking ourselves, ‘What is it that I repeatedly do?’ […] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We would like to think that we are making the most responsible choices that we can under the circumstances. But then, in a typical challenging, chaotic day, what really determines what we do?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">A “Virtuous Mix” Allows Innovation to Thrive: The right mixture balances conventionality, novelty, and collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Kellogg/article/a_virtuous_mix_allows_innovation_to_thrive">Kellogg Insight</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:3.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:3.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">On the one hand is the trope of the great scientist: a loner in a rumpled lab coat, content to spend every waking hour chasing the extraordinary from the recesses of his own considerable mind. On the other is the truth about how science actually gets made.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In an influential <a href="http://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/science_as_team_sport/"> 2007 paper</a>, Kellogg School professors Brian Uzzi and Benjamin Jones, along with a colleague, analyzed the nearly twenty million research articles in the Web of Science (WOS) database to determine how the production of research has changed over time. “What we saw was that from the fifties up until today, there had been a shift to teams,” explains Uzzi, a professor of management and organizations and the faculty director of the Kellogg Architectures of Collaboration Initiative. “Teams were not only becoming more prominent, but they were becoming bigger each year.” Teams were also, across a majority of disciplines, increasingly producing the most impactful papers—those capable of setting, or resetting, the research agenda of an entire field. It became clear to us, says Uzzi, that “science had made a fundamental change.”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">There are many reasons why the best science may have shifted to teams. Perhaps team research is simply favored by funding agencies, or maybe it plays well at tenure time. But one reason that struck Uzzi and Jones as both plausible and fascinating is the idea that collaborations might foster more creative or novel research.<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Six Simple Ways to Build a Strong Culture</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/six-simple-ways-to-build-a-strong-culture-now/">Leadership Freak</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">People in strong cultures smile and laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">The idea that it takes fewer muscles to smile than frown is silly. If you don’t want to smile, it doesn’t matter how easy it is. You may think you’re smiling, but does your face know?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Six ways to smile more and build a strong culture:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Be with people when you are with people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Become “one of” not “one above.” Partner rather than supervise or fix.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Celebrate strengths more than fixing weaknesses. Seeing strength in others makes you attractive.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <a name="_GoBack"></a><![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Let your face – lips and eyes – express what’s in your heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Think in private. Public smiling requires private thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Creativity and the Aging Brain<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://artistsroad.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/creativity-and-the-aging-brain/">The Artists Road</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">“Don’t imagine you’ll have it forever. Use it while you’ve got it because it’ll go; it’s sliding away like water down a plug hole.”<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So said Nobel Prize-winning novelist <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/11/17/nobel-author-doris-lessing-dies/3618307/"> Doris Lessing</a> of creativity. The author of <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Golden Notebook</span></em>, who passed away recently at the age of 94, said this five years ago when describing a creative slump. But as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/creativity-can-last-well-into-old-age-as-long-as-creators-stay-open-to-new-ideas/2013/11/21/31487172-52ca-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html"> Tara Bahrampour notes in </a><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/creativity-can-last-well-into-old-age-as-long-as-creators-stay-open-to-new-ideas/2013/11/21/31487172-52ca-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html"><i>The Washington Post</i></a><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">, </span></em>in many ways creative thinking can stay with you well into your final years, and perhaps even be stronger and more dynamic.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I put forward as Exhibit One the estimable Dr. Francine Toder, author of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17134533-the-vintage-years"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none">The Vintage Years: Finding Your Inner Artist (Writer, Musician, Visual Artist) after Sixty</span></em></a>. In her <a href="http://artistsroad.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/guest-post-fine-arts-creativity-the-aging-brain-positively-linked/"> guest post for </a><a href="http://artistsroad.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/guest-post-fine-arts-creativity-the-aging-brain-positively-linked/">The Artist’s Road in May</a>, she profiles creatives who started a new creative passion later in life. Francine herself took up the cello at age 70.<o:p></o:p></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Is Trust the Answer to Employee Motivation</span></span><b><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="https://www.2degreesnetwork.com/groups/employee-engagement/resources/trust-answer-employee-motivation_2/#!">2 Degrees Network</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Learn about the eight intrinsic drivers to a positive outcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">Why do we want to increase employee engagement? Perhaps it's to increase output. On the other hand, for some businesses, a positive work environment and 'culture' is of paramount importance: just think about all those smiling faces at your local Apple store!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">These reasons both justify the need for employee engagement, but I would suggest that beneath all of this lies one Universal theme: getting the most from staff. Surely an 100% efficient workforce is worth more than any new innovation in a company? Because, at the end of the day, it's the employees that provide the backbone of each and every organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN">So, what is the key to 100% motivation? In a unique infographic, produced by </span><a href="http://unum.co.uk/"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">income protection specialists</span></a><span lang="EN">, Unum, a strong argument is made for the importance (and necessity) of trust. But what do you think? Is employee engagement expert Susanne Jacobs right - is it all about trust?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Transparency Eats Culture for Lunch<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinkruse/2013/12/02/transparency-eats-culture-for-lunch/">Forbes</a><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Many companies talk about their great culture when trying to lure new employees, and “great culture” has become synonymous with foosball tables, subsidized lunches and lots of parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Yet parties, picnics and perq’s are never what truly engages employees over the long-term. New research by TINYpulse, a startup employee survey company, confirms this fact. They found a weak correlation (.35) between company culture and employee happiness, and a surprisingly stronger correlation (.93) between happiness and transparency.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">This supports my own work that shows communication is one of the top four drivers of engagement (growth, recognition and trust are the other three). But it’s not just any communication; CEO broadcasts, company newsletters and routine staff meetings are information, not communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">What employees want is frequent, transparent two-way communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Lessons in Leadership from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/lessons-leadership-fukushima-nuclear-disaster/">Wharton</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Three widely cited investigations of the Fukushima disaster — one by the Japanese government, one by an independent team of experts in Japan and a third by The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — have now concluded that the nuclear disaster of March 2011 was not, as it first seemed, the inevitable result of events no one could have predicted.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">In an effort to understand what went wrong and what lessons in leadership the tragedy can offer, leaders directly and indirectly involved in the disaster spoke candidly at the Tokyo panel on Fukushima sponsored by Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL). Based on their presentations in Tokyo and the analyses of others in Japan and elsewhere, three areas emerge as essential to leadership in a crisis: preparation for emergencies, leadership style and communications.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Lesson 1: To prepare for the worst, leaders have to face up to what might actually occur.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Lesson 2: In the midst of chaos, leaders should stop looking for control and start looking for answers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The 12 Rules of Respect<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2013/12/the_12_rules_of_respect.html">Leadership Now</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal">Paul Meshanko has highlighted the importance of demonstrating respect in all of our interactions in <a href="http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/9780071816090.html"><i>The Respect Effect</i></a>. The desired result is that those we interact with will feel valued in some way. He offers 12 Ways of thinking and behaving around others:<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">1. Be Aware of Your Nonverbal and Extra-verbal Cues. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">2. Develop Curiosity About the Perspectives of Others. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">3. Assume that Everyone is Smart About Something. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">4. Become a Better Listener by Shaking Your “But.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">5. Look for Opportunities to Connect with and Support Others. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">6. When You Disagree, Explain Why. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">7. Look for Opportunities to Grow, Stretch, and Change. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">8. Learn to Be Wrong on Occasion. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">9. Never Hesitate to Say You Are Sorry. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">10. Intentionally Engage Others in Ways that Build Their Self-Esteem. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">11. Be Respectful of Time When Making Comments. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">12. Smile!<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Transcending the trade off between freedom and control<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/transcending-trade-between-freedom-and-control">MiX</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#424242">Watch MIX co-founder <b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gary Hamel</span></b> make the case for renegotiating the trade off between freedom and control at work. Can you imagine a future where you can not only bring your own device to work but also design your own job and choose your own boss?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:34.2pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:white;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:34.2pt"> <p class="SectionHeader"><span class="miNewsHeadingChar"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">Are We Really “All Connected”?</span></span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="SectionHeader"><a href="http://randomactsofleadership.com/connected-leadershi/">Random Acts of Leadership</a><span style="color:windowtext"> </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;background:#ECECEC;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We are all connected. We seem to be hearing that more and more these days.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Yet do we really act like we believe it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">We have been trained to think in a paradigm that has us focus on what separates us. Today’s world, for the most part, has been framed in a mechanistic model based on Newton’s laws of the physical universe. Of course this model continues to be both valid and useful. In fact, this model of thought gave rise to the tremendous breakthroughs in the industrial age.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"">Yet could it be this mechanistic model is now getting in the way of our ability to actually work together?<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:19.4pt"> <td width="100%" valign="top" style="width:100.0%;padding:0in 5.75pt 1.45pt 5.75pt;height:19.4pt"> <p class="Roworsubsection" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI Light","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="MsoNormal"><a name="CXE"></a><a name="WAC"></a><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> Rossshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15250133406221342557noreply@blogger.com