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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,...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article8 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>...
View ArticleUpdates 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...
View ArticleScared 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...
View Article8 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article8 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleYou 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article12 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleDebunking 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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