What’s Next in 3D Printing: Avi Reichental at TED

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If you haven’t yet heard about 3D printing, it’s worth finding out about it. It’s a key technology that could revolutionise, disrupt and enable growth in many industries – possibly including yours. Earlier this year, Avi Reichental presented a TED Talk about what’s nex...

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If You Want To Achieve Your Goals in 2015, Don’t Set Goals For 2015

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It’s December already, and 2014 is rapidly coming to an end. As you reflect on the year that’s gone by, do you see it as a year of great success or a year of missed opportunities? Or some of both? One of my mentors, Paul Counsel, says that most people don’t live, say, 10 years; [&...

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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently

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Traditional goal setting doesn’t work anymore in our fast, flat and free world. Instead, use this system to design – and achieve – compelling goals. Listen To the Episode Watch a webinar version of this topic here: … Read More Read more ...

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Leading and Managing in a VUCA World

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You might have come across the term “VUCA”, which has been borrowed from the U.S. military and is now often used in a business context to describe our world today. It’s an acronym that stands for “Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous” – and that’s a p...

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Hans Rosling’s Masterclass in Presenting Complex Data in an Engaging Way

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If you’re a fan of TED Talks, you have probably come across Hans Rosling, who is a favourite TED speaker. Rosling has built a reputation for presenting complex data in an engaging way. For example, he’s famous for his dynamic data visualisation software and the dramatic way he uses it i...

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Can You Trust Your Team Members To Use Good Judgement?

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Nordstrom, the US department store, has the best social media policy in the world – and it created it long before social media existed. Here’s the relevant part from the employee manual: Rule #1: Use your best judgement at all times.There are no additional rules. When I say this is from th&...

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Manage Your Own Information Overload By Sending Better E-Mail

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Most e-mail time management techniques look at ways for you to manage your inbox. But sometimes you contribute to your own inbox problem by the way you send e-mail to others. With a few simple techniques, you can improve the e-mail you send, which helps the person receiving it, but also reduces the...

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Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree

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Education, especially formal education, is expensive. Or at least, it was expensive. The Internet is now making it more affordable than ever before, especially when people like Shai Reshef dedicate their lives to providing low-cost education to everybody. Watch his fascinating TED Talk here: The ta...

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Remove Distractions From Your Workplace

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What is the biggest barrier to getting things done? You are! Yes, you. Learn how to focus and you’ll get much more done. People often complain about constant interruptions and constant distractions in our fast-moving world. And they are right. But these are two totally different things! Inter...

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Leveraging Content – Turn One Idea Into Multiple Content Marketing Pieces

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One of the challenges of content marketing is having to keep creating and publishing new content. But you don’t have to always do that. It can be just as effective to convert one idea into multiple content marketing pieces. In this episode, I share with you an extract from Winston Marsh’s Busin...

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Prevention Is Better Than Cure – But Only If You Do It Right

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Our world is moving so fast that we don’t give ourselves much room to play safe. For example: An unhappy employee can send an offensive tweet that reaches millions in a few hours An online security breach can be exploited by hackers before it’s even discovered Leaders can’t hide b...

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The Leader’s Way

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Both leadership and management are vital skills in today’s organisations. The best organisations are full of talented, bright, motivated people – who want leaders who inspire them and managers who empower them. In this episode, featuring guest expert Dr. Nicky Howe, we explore how to build bett...

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How Much Can Children Teach Themselves?

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I was blown away by Sugata Mitra’s 2013 TED Talk about his research in 1999 about how fast children can learn, even without any supervision or teaching. In brief: Mitra’s team installed an Internet-connected PC in a wall in a slum area of India, and left it there to see what the local c...

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Use Online Collaboration Tools to Build Synergy in Distributed Teams

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There are many anecdotes about breakthroughs occurring through conversations around a water cooler, chance encounters in a hallway, and healthy banter at the office canteen. These informal moments help spark conversations and could lead to interesting ideas. At a company like Google, this is valued...

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Channel The Chaos – The New Rules for High Performance and Productivity

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Two weeks ago, I presented the closing keynote presentation for the Local Government Management Australia Queensland national conference. I was talking about how to manage the chaos and unpredictability of our highly-connected, “always on”, 24/7 world. One of my key messages was that instead of...

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Are You Ready for a More Fluid Workforce?

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The workplace has changed: in space, in time, and even in the people who do the work. For most of the past 200 years, the workplace of the office worker has been … well, an office. It still is. It was the only practical option: That’s where teams could meet, that’s where the files were [&...

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The Go To Guide for Online Collaboration

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  Online collaboration is a hot topic, and the Internet has made it both easier and harder. In this episode, we’ll look at the principles and tools of online collaboration, so you can do it more efficiently and effectively. Listen To the Episode … Read More Read more ...

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Would You Give Up Two Days Of Your Life For This?

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A few years ago, when I switched from Outlook to Gmail, it took me about two days effort (spread out over a week or so) to get back to my old level of productivity. When I recently switched from MYOB to Xero for my accounting software, again it took me about two days effort overall. […] Re...

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