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How LMS Virtual.Lab helps engineers capture real-world behavior SIEMENS – Car in 3DEngineers around the world use computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) software to create,...

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3 Cities Finding New Ways To Open Up Government With Technology

By Ben Schiller – Technology holds lots of potential to open up city governments–if cities let it. In theory, the Internet should herald an era of transparency, civic engagement, and understanding...

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How to learn effectively using the Internet

By George Mattathil – For each Net Learning Cluster session, have a large number of articles and web pages ready for review, so that you don’t spend time searching for material during the session. With...

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8 Things The World’s Most Successful People All Have in Common

By Eric Barker – Eight things you can do to be like the best: Stay Busy Just Say No Know What You Are Build Networks Create Good Luck Have Grit Make Awesome Mistakes Find Mentors more>...

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Updates from Adobe

Mobile application development: From idea to creation By Tom Ortega – Functionality is key. We need to know what an app is going to do before we can begin to design or program it. Immediately upon...

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Scared Of Failing? Ask Yourself These 6 Fear-Killing Questions

BOOK REVIEW A More Beautiful Question, Author: Warren Berger. By Warren Berger – How can a question help with something as primal and powerful as fear? It has to do with the power of hypothetical “what...

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8 Subconscious Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day—And How To Avoid Them

BOOK REVIEW You are Now Less Dumb, Author: David McRaney. By Belle Beth Cooper – We tend to like people who think like us. If we agree with someone’s beliefs, we’re more likely to be friends with them....

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How I Cut My Writing Time From 2 Days to 4 Hours

By Belle Beth Cooper – Something I’ve learned from experience and from reading advice from other writers is that there comes a point when you need to shake yourself out of research mode and force...

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What Are People Really Complaining About?

By Art Markman – It is tempting to hear a complaint and to want to fix the problem. But, it is important to create a work environment in which issues can get resolved before they escalate to the point...

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The Social Media Frequency Guide

By Kevan Lee – Good content can be found in a multitude of places, and once you find it all, the next question you may ask yourself is how often you can share. Informative versus annoying. That right...

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How corporate America can create better jobs

By Thomas A. Kochan – It’s possible if you look at companies such as Southwest Airlines and Costco that provide great returns to shareholders and great jobs for employees. It starts with values. CEOs...

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8 Reasons Small Teams Work Better

By Rich Karlgaard – The more brains, the better, reason the powers that be. So they include as many high performers and thought leaders as possible. Soon, more volunteers trickle in because they want...

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How To Use 10 Psychological Theories To Persuade People

BOOK REVIEW How to Win Friends and Influence People, Author: Dale Carnegie. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Author: Robert Cialdini. By Kevan Lee – The three steps in between the physiological...

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You Really Can ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’

By Nanette Fondas – Learning is more effective if a lesson or experience is deliberately coupled with time spent thinking about what was just presented. For younger students, teaching someone else is a...

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The 4 Essential Elements To Getting Your Point Across

By Robert Keteyian – Successful communication requires you to be good at a number of things, some of which may seem counter to the other. There really is no absolute formula for great communication....

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Why Two CEOs Are Better Than One

By Thomas C. Lawton – Most companies approach nonmarket strategies from two distinct, separate perspectives: a legal and regulatory stance and a community relations and public affairs one, which were...

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The Dead Simple Way Google Ventures Unlocks Great Ideas

By Mark Wilson – Simple dot stickers, just like you can buy from any office supply store, are Google Ventures’ preferred voting mechanism used to narrow down a big pile of ideas to a small pile of good...

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The Executive’s Guide To Mergers And Acquisitions

By Michael Glessner & Alexander Tang – Each merger is different, but most companies can expect to experience many of the following pains: Dispersed technical solutions across business sites and...

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How to Learn

BOOK REVIEW A Random Walk in Science, Author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). By Maria Popova – Mental recreation is a thing that we all of us need for our mental health; and you may get much...

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The Talent Your Organization Needs May Already Be on the Payroll

[ SMARTER WORKPLACE ] By Jeremy Eden and Terri Long – Unfortunately, many executives and HR professionals have spent the last few decades solving the wrong problem. They are correctly convinced that...

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How Much Time Does a Good Social Media Strategy Really Take?

By Kevan Lee – What do you want to use social for: Sales? Loyalty? Awareness? These are the three main areas that Jay Baer identifies as potential focus points of a social media strategy. As Baer puts...

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12 Tips for Designing an Open-Ended Project

By John Kamensky – How do you tackle a large-scale, complex challenge that evolves over time, involves thousands of stakeholders, and where there is no clear solution? For example, is there a road map...

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5 Things You’re Doing That Seem Productive, But Aren’t

BOOK REVIEW [ SMARTER WORK ] Getting Things Done, Author: David Allen. By Vivian Giang – Your brain is “dumbed down” when you multitask because you’re using a different part of it that “adversely...

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What Happened When I Woke Up Two Hours Earlier For A Week

By Rachel Gillett – The idea is that having a time in the day where there is no pressure and no expectations from other people would result in better focus and more creative thinking. The first day I...

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Why An Anti To-Do List Might Be The Secret To Productivity

By Joel Gascoigne – My approach with the Anti-To-Do List is to have not just a single list each day, as many of us do now (our to-do list), but to have two. The idea of the Anti-To-Do List is that it...

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If You Want To Succeed, You Have To Screw Up

By Jennifer Miller – “When you’re just starting to learn something new, the errors that you experience are helping you learn faster,” says David Herzfeld, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering...

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How We Think

BOOK REVIEW How We Think, Author: John Dewey. By Maria Popova – What separates thinking, a basic human faculty we take for granted, from thinking well? What it takes to train ourselves into mastering...

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Why You Should Hire For Potential, Not Experience

By Dinah Wisenberg Brin – “The question is not whether your company’s employees and leaders have the right skills; it’s whether they have the potential to learn new ones.” The ability to choose such...

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Why Dreaming About The Future Makes You Less Likely To Achieve Your Goals

BOOK REVIEW Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation, Author: Gabriele Oettingen. By Lindsay LaVine – “Dreaming is important.” “Dreaming is a way we can mentally explore...

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Debunking Myths About Worker Passion

[ SMARTER WORKPLACE ] By Steve Denning – “The key message from our work is that workers of all types and in all locations have the potential to be passionate – it’s not limited to a privileged few,”...

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