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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5 Easy Ways to Score More Referrals, Renewals, and Repeat Business

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I was speaking recently to a group of real estate professionals about how to use their Web site (and other online marketing tools) to get more repeat business, more referrals, and more renewals. Most people think online marketing is just about getting new leads. But if you use it for referrals, ren...

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Help Your Team Become More Agile

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A large organisation offers a more stable day-to-day work life. There’s a buffer between teams and the outside world, so people work in a stable, predictable environment, with less stress and more confidence they can cope with the work. Even when external pressures occur, the organisation can...

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5 Tips to Revamp Your LinkedIn Strategy

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LinkedIn has added so many features recently that it’s easy to get confused about how it works and what to do with it. But if you focus on the things it does best, you can get a lot of value from it. LinkedIn is one of the oldest social networks. It’s often not even mentioned […]...

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The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth, by Chris Brogan

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Chris Brogan’s latest book is a call to action for people who want to turn their back on the idea of working in a traditional job and launch their own business. It addresses one of the biggest challenges of the new business owner: suddenly having all this freedom and flexibility, and not know...

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