There is a lot of brain research that is now being popularized and presented in ways that are useful to people that aren’t science researchers in the field. Sharpbrains is a new company dedicated to brain fitness research and marketing. They have published a book on the brain fitness market that is available from their […]
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By definition a project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Every project creates a unique product, service, or result so it includes elements that make project tasks new to a project team. Innovation solutions help a project team deal with these new challenges by applying whole brain smarterware
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This Harvard Business School video is about the top 2 ways to foster innovation in an organization: Creating a culture for innovation Establishing organizational habits that make innovation happen A couple of good examples are given and a case is made that success takes systematic discipline rather than chaotic disorganization to empower creativity.
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Tom Peters has a new book The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. One excerpt is explained in a video called Innovation Equality which reminds people to not think of innovation as something that applies only to new product introduction. Innovation projects are valuable in all parts of a business or organization.
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Despite the flexibility of the OmniFocus todo list manager, one feature that is lamented by some as being missing is setting explicit priorities. I haven’t found this to be an issue because there are so many attributes available to assign to todo list items (tasks). Two I have found to be very useful are flags
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Say It Visually uses a virtual whiteboard approach to provide a concise explanation about what ITIL (Information Technology Information Library) brings to corporate information technology by its service management models (you will have to scroll through other explanations). This is a good explanation of the usefulness of models like ITIL to facilitate technology being applied
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ThinkTweet Rajesh Setty is a good guy who is genuinely providing valuable advice to help people be more successful. This radiates from all his writing and I have recommended his book “Beyond Code” to several people (He also has several other worthwhile books). I recently read his book ThinkTweet which consists of 140 tweet length
An essential writing productivity tool is the capability to quickly enter information (mostly text) by using expandable keywords so you don’t have to retype or re-enter information. Text expansion capabilities exist in various applications like Pages and Textmate but there is a real advantage in having these capabilities system wide with all your applications. To
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One way to unleash your creativity is to have a fast and easy way of visualizing your stories. Previously this has mostly been done with pencil and paper sketches but now it can be done with your iphone or ipod touch portable device through the Cenemek Storyboard composer. The product which also is identified as
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You probably already know the importance of public speaking but sometimes it helps to be reminded why. It also gives you some ammunition when you want to convince someone why you want to buy a book (even if the person you are convincing is yourself). Why you want to be a better public speaker .
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