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Richard Branson: The Force Of Good | Minute of Meeting

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Why Carry A Notepad ?

It's the key to deeper insights. Richard Branson has a habit of carrying a notebook everywhere he goes. Like an exceptional student, Branson is eager to learn, but unlike the majority of his...

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Guy Kawasaki My Big Decision | A Collection by Grant Thornton

My Big Decision is a series of monologues revealing the crunch moment in the lives of prominent business individuals – and the consequences of that decision... Guy Kawasaki discusses his choices this...

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How to Carve Time for Yourself and Pursue Your Dreams

There are small things that you can do now to tweak your daily schedule and carve a time for yourself--both to relax AND work toward your goals.See it on Scoop.it, via Think Tank

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Certainty Is an Illusion

Today if you find yourself clinging to something that feels predictable and safe, ask yourself: Are these the moments I want to remember when I look back on my life some day? We don’t get to know what...

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Little things that have a big brain bonus - Washington Examiner

Little things that have a big brain bonus Washington Examiner A major new Canadian study has found that each ignored problem boosts your risk for brain trouble by 3 percent.See it on Scoop.it, via...

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Being “Selfish” Good Or Bad?

The word Selfish is one of the most misunderstood words in the English language and perhaps all languages. Why? Once again man's attempt to control the lives and thoughs of his fellow man. Selfishness...

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Richard Branson on Managing Experienced Workers

The billionaire entrepreneur shares his advice for promoting your business's best asset.See it on Scoop.it, via Think Tank

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Susan Bratton Talks Persuasion, Seduction & Conversion at SES San Francisco

Structured Communications and Success in Copy Writing Keywords, empathy, story telling and triggers are the keys to structured communication. This is a process for communicating that goes far beyond...

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Bhutan's Middle Path

Bhutan has chosen a middle path in addressing the modern links between climate change and glacier melt: that of rational development that doesn't compromise cultural tradition or environmental...

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What Body Language Says

An analysis of the signature gestures used by President Obama and Mitt Romney in their speeches and debates.While the force of his movements can prompt the viewer to support the argument put forth,...

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Transforming Lives | URBAN YOGIS

The series delves into the lives of cancer survivors, inner-city youth dealing with violence in their communities, recovering addicts, artists, youth in detention facilities, and more. Comedian Russell...

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Warren Buffett & Jon Bon Jovi Duet

Billionaire Warren Buffett and superstar Jon Bon Jovi sing together to celebrate the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy.More than 100 of America’s greatest entrepreneurs gathered in New York for the...

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Mural.ly

Mural.ly is a creative new tool for you to drag-n-drop rich media files, links, and documents onto a big HTML5 drawing board, which is a great way to collect inspiration and gather thoughts. It also...

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What Happens To Your Brain Under The Influence Of Music

From the perspective of neuroscience, listening to music is one of the most complex things you can do. Many parts of your brain have to work together to comprehend even the simplest tune. So what is...

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TED Blog | New TED Book: Mind Amplifier

Augmentation always requires the individual human brain, the technological extension and the methods, language, and training that support use of the technology, and social communication among...

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How "Luck" Can Be Used To Enhance Success

Frans Johansson, author of The Medici Effect, believes that success doesn't come from analysis or strategic planning. Malcolm Gladwell argued in his bestseller "Outliners" the key to success in any...

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A Storify Re-cap Of Last Week's Common Ground for Peace

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama joined multiple panelists - experts ranging from an Iranian-American journalist to a former director of the CIA - during the Common Ground for Peace forum in...

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The Common Ground of Peace and Democracy

Peacemaking, mediation, community organizing, democracy-building and the promotion of sustainability all center on a common skill:The capacity to help people come together to pursue their interests,...

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The Discipline Of Listening

Despite today's fast-paced business environment, time-starved leaders can master the art of disciplined listening. Conventional advice for better listening is to be emotionally intelligent and...

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Sympathy or Empathy? Apple shows the way to success

Have you taught your employees about the “Power of Empathy”? Do they make the difference between “empathy” and “sympathy”?We came recently across the Apple’s Genius Training Manual which puts a lot of...

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Constructor Theory Conversation With David Deutsch

One of the first rather unexpected yields of this theory has been a new foundation for information theory. There's a notorious problem with defining information within physics, namely that on the one...

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How to Live Without Irony

If life has become an endless series of sarcastic jokes and pop references, a competition to see who can care the least, we've made a collective misstep If irony is the ethos of our age — and it is —...

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Gross National Happiness - Bhutan

As of September 1999 The kingdom of Bhutan is placing environmental concerns and spiritual wellbeing over rampant capitalism. Located at the eastern end of the Himalayas in 2008, Bhutan made the...

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Scientists Get A New Look At Einstein's Brain

GPBScientists Get A New Look At Einstein's BrainKUNCA photo of Albert Einstein's brain from the left: anthropologist Dean Falk and her colleagues found that the parts of Einstein's brain associated...

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Society for Judgment and Decision Making

The Society for Judgment and Decision Making is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of normative, descriptive, and prescriptive theories of judgments and decisions. Its...

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Naturals and Strivers: Preferences and Beliefs About Sources of Achievement

To understand how talent and achievement are perceived, three experiments compared the assessments of “naturals” and “strivers." Professional musicians learned about two pianists, equal in achievement...

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How to Be Happier Today

Well-being is better achieved with small, defined actions, rather than grand goals, new research out of Stanford and Harvard Business School finds.See it on Scoop.it, via Think Tank

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Collective Intelligence | Conversation | via @Edge

Tom Malone's MIT Center for Collective Intelligence is emerging as the single most active researchsite for studying augmented collective intelligence. -- Howard "If we want to predict what's going to...

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Key Point: A healthier approach also means managing acceptable losses. That's different — and, ironically, much safer — than trying to prevent failures altogether, by over-relying on past data to try...

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