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Brandon Stanton‘s Humans of New York is one of the best books I have read in several years. He and his camera have roamed the five boroughs of New York and dozens of his encounters are in the book. Here…
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The Gamification of Learning and Instruction Fieldbook: Ideas into Practice Karl Kapp, Lucas Blair, and Rich Mesch, Co-Editors John Wiley & Sons (2014) Essential principles by which to design, develop, and create interactive, high-impact learning experiences In Chapters 1-12, the…
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Sam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement for Peppercomm. His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. The book was named one of…
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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge The Penguin Press (2014) How and why “the West has to change because it is going broke [and] the emerging world needs to reform to…
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Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brady Mick for Talent Management magazine in which he states the obvious: There are significant differences between a manager and a leader. “Group behaviors fused within an organization’s culture can be…
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LEAN Supply Chain Planning: The New Supply Chain Management Paradigm for Process Industries to Master Today’s VUCA World Josef Packowski CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group (2014) How to thrive in a VUCA world Of all the areas of operation that…
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In her TEDxSydney talk (May 2010), Rachel Botsman says we’re “wired to share” — and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior. This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxSydney, an…
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The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War A.J. Baime Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) A true tale “that rivals the weirdest fiction and wildest imaginings of the comic books.” In his previously…
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Myelin: The “secret sauce” that drives peak performance
Structure of a typical neuron: myelin is the yellow portion At one point in The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How, Daniel Coyle declares, “We are myelin beings.” OK, but so what? When tapping into a neurological…
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