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Holding Space as An Essential Leadership Capacity
via Business Focalizing Blog by Barry Lipscomb Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT and founding chair of the Presencing Institute, has said that “holding space is the single most important leadership capacity going forward. Hearing this, I realized...
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The Case Against Empathy
via uplift "we are one" by Derek Beres In Memory of my recently passed away friend Clem Austen, who had a vision about an empathic society and would have loved to read this article. What You May Not Know About Empathy It’s hard to imagine empathy being...
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How language can affect the way we think
via ideas.ted.com Hans-Peter´s comment: Intercultural understanding a must for all of us in business especially in leadership position aswell in our daily life. It starts with language. Keith Chen (TED Talk: Could your language affect your ability to...
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7 Essential Lessons From The Harvard Innovation Lab
via FastCompany Gwen Moran Here's what Harvard students learn about how to create an environment where innovation thrives. Jodi Goldstein knows a thing or two about innovation. With more than 20 years’ experience as a high-tech entrepreneur and investor...
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How Busyness Affects Your Brain And Health
via FastCompany by Vivian Giang According to new research, people who are busy end up with more brain power, but the stress might be detrimental to their health. Our modern, constantly connected work lives can leave us feeling drained, frantic, and always...
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Bill Murray gives a surprising and meaningful answer you might not expect.
Bill Murray is asked what he wants that he doesn't yet have. The full length interview can be found here: Charlie Rose http://charlierose.com/watch/60340546 screenshot
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KODA is a tiny solar-powered house that can move with its owners
via inhabitat by Lucy Wang about Kodasema Movable home options have expanded far beyond RVs and renovated buses. For those with a penchant for modern minimalism and endless travel, Estonian design collective Kodasema created KODA, a tiny prefabricated...
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Here’s the letter Tim Cook sent to Apple employees after Trump’s win
via FastCompany Blog The country is more polarized than it's been in decades—and Cook knows that means his 76,000 U.S. Apple employees are likely polarized, too. While many are likely still in shock at the election results, Cook wrote an email to Apple...
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How To Promote Diversity And Inclusion Duringa A Month Of Multicultural Holidays
via FastCompany by Gwen Moran When you wish someone "Happy Holidays," you may be recognizing more observances than you think. Cheerful calls of "Season’s Greetings" or Happy Holidays" typically were a catch all for well-known holidays like Hanukkah and...
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The Power of Thinking Big: IBM Research’s “5 in 5”
Source IBM THINK Blog Written by: Arvind Krishna, Ph.D. Great scientific leaps rarely happen incrementally. They come from setting big, ambitious goals that move discovery forward. Think of the Wright brothers’ determination to fly, President John F....
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Major firm announces it’s replacing its employees with A.I.
via NEXUSFEED Newsletter Picture pixabay CC0 In Brief The world's largest money management firm, BlackRock, is poised to conduct a complete overhaul of its current systems to focus on using algorithmic solution to improve its services. 13% of its portfolio...
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Can We Let Capitalism Die and Move On?
Death can be very painful and confusing. This is true for economic systems just as it is for personal loved ones. Moving on is just a hard thing to do. via art + marketing by Joe Brewer It’s really tough to work through all the difficult feelings we have...
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Why Leadership Development is Broken and How to Fix It
Presented by Dr. David Rock (Director, The NeuroLeadership Institute) Leadership development has ballooned into a $16 billion industry, with archives of conflicting literature and thousands of complex models. Despite this intense focus and investment,...
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1970s highway starts new life as greenery-filled walkway
It's always interesting to see how well fanciful renders translate into an actual project and the MVRDV-designed Seoullo 7017 Skygarden is no exception. Following the concept's unveiling a couple of years ago, the highway-turned-walkway/park has now opened...
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Addicted to helping: why we need to stop trying to fix people
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” ~Pema Chodron by Anika Martins via NexusNewsfeed Blog image sourec pixabay After college, I was hustling hard to get a work visa so that I could...
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Do You Suffer from Multipotentialite Imposter Syndrome?
Imposter syndrome: a belief that deep down, you are a fraud, that you shouldn’t be here, and that one day everyone will wake up and realize it. via puttylike blog by Emilie Wappnick Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon that most multipods know well. It’s...
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Three Crucial Ingredients To Successfully Transform Into A Future-Proof Workplace
During our travels as Corporate Rebels we visited lots of organizations that managed to make a successful organizational transformation. They have transformed an outdated, command-and-control organization to one that is future-proof and highly progressive....
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Blue Brain team discovers a multi-dimensional universe in brain networks
Source pixabay colin For most people, it is a stretch of the imagination to understand the world in four dimensions but a new study has discovered structures in the brain with up to eleven dimensions - ground-breaking work that is beginning to reveal...
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Your Digital Detox: 17 Smartphone Apps To Delete In 2018
Facebook? Candy Crush? Slack?! Get the new year off to a good start by deleting these time-wasting, money-sucking, depression-inducing apps. Source FastCompany Newsletter by Michael Grothaus Smartphones are the defining technology of the 21st century—so...
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The physical, energetic & spiritual lessons of plants
Many of the plants we pass in the background of our day are hard at work. They are employed by the planet as construction workers, teachers, security guards, and doctors. Arguably the top performers in each profession and certainly the hardest workers,...
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How Should Your Company Prepare For Robot Coworkers?
Making the most of automated tools isn’t just “plug and play.” Successful automation requires a more holistic approach. “The robots are coming! The robots are coming!” seems like a familiar sentiment as robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning...
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The dark side of always thinking positively
You’re feeling down? Life hit you too hard, so now it seems to you that nothing makes sense? Think positively! When you shift your mindset, your life will change, too. Positive psychology may look silly when you see it from the outside, but it totally...
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Employers like EY and IBM are now hiring workers without college degrees
Companies often use a bachelor’s degree requirement as shorthand for a variety of soft skills. But the tight labor market is forcing them to broaden their talent pools. At many companies, having a college degree is simply the price of admission for landing...
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This new coastal Brookly park is designed to thrive as sea level rise
Instead of ignoring sea level rise, this park will evolve with it Source: FastCompany Newsletter Author Adele Peters [Photo: © James Corner/Field Operations/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group/courtesy Two Trees Management] If you walk down Metropolitan Avenue, a...
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Inner Climate Change Documentary_Findhorn Foundation
Visit our website: http://findhorn.org/InnerClimateChange This is the documentary INNER CLIMATE CHANGE, a Findhorn Foundation production inspired by the peop...