Files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/developpement/shared/developpement/mdev/soutienauxcours0809/Gironde Pauvrete/IrvinParticip.pdf. San Francisco Open Law Initiative. Crowdsourcing for Democracy: New Era in Policy-Making. Articles/what-darwin-can-teach-government-harnessing-positive-deviants-to-help-solve-vexing-problems-within-your-organization/.UgkI-Ygtg2Y.twitter. David McCandless – Information is Beautiful. David McCandless – Information is Beautiful McCandless speaks to the power of visualization to compress data for comprehension – a timely topic for a world of relentless, daily information flow.
I love data visualization aka information design. Done well, it’s aesthetic, thought provoking, and behavior changing. The Contender. One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.
—Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady Feelings are the only facts. A library is not just about books: it's also a place for the vulnerable. The Library Campaign has accused the government of hiding the exact impact of cuts that could cause the closure of a further 400 UK libraries by 2016.
As a long-term supporter of the campaign to keep libraries open, I've signed petitions and shared articles promoting the virtues of free access to books. I believe in the power of words to transform lives – everyone should be able to enjoy the education, knowledge and escapism books offer. Yet until recently, I didn't understand libraries' true value, and just how great their loss would be for society. 12 Idealistic Predictions for The Future.
If You Don't Tell Your Story, They'll Tell It For You. Over half a decade ago, comedian Stephen Colbert ranted in his political-satire talk show about his love for Wikipedia and how he believed it could turn reality into “wikiality,” a state in which simply publishing something on the internet made it true.
The funny/ironic/insane part is that as he was taping the show, Wikipedia’s edit records showed that someone with the username “Stephencolbert” actually was actually making the edits that Colbert was talking about making. Neuroscience of Performance: People at their Best. New insights on performance emanating from the field of neuroscience Executive Summary Have you ever known someone who aspired to poor performance?
Or an organization that intentionally fostered a culture of mediocrity? Probably not – in fact these concepts seem quite absurd. Yet organizations seem to operate as if achieving high performance (in individuals and corporate cultures) was something contrary to natural human desire. The Coworker Network - How companies can use social networks to learn who knows what. Meetings around the watercooler or over lunch are as traditional as the workplace suit and tie.
But today, companies are looking for more innovative ways to bring employees together. Connecting people with different kinds of knowledge fosters new services and ideas, says Paul Leonardi, a professor of communication at Northwestern University with an appointment at the Kellogg School. Leonardi saw that companies, big and small, were starting to implement “enterprise social media”— internal tools similar in functionality to Facebook and Twitter that make communications between employees more transparent. Leaders everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel. The latest M-Prize challenge, cosponsored by Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), Harvard Business Review , and McKinsey, asks managers to submit examples of how their organizations are empowering and training individuals to lead even when they lack formal authority.
In this video, Professor Hamel discusses why he believes it is vital for companies to “syndicate the work of leadership” across the organization, to redistribute power, and to change the role of the top team. This interview was conducted by McKinsey Publishing’s Simon London. What follows is an edited transcript of Hamel’s remarks. To learn more about the Leaders Everywhere challenge, please visit the Management Innovation eXchange Web site . Interview transcript Syndicating the work of leadership The Management Innovation eXchange is the world’s first open-innovation platform, where we’re trying to elicit bleeding-edge practices in the world of management and organization and leadership. Get in the Game and You'll Learn Something. Here's how games hone one entrepreneur's strategy skills. Leigh Buchanan is an editor at large for Inc. magazine.
A former editor at Harvard Business Review and founding editor of WebMaster magazine, she writes regular columns on leadership and workplace culture. @LeighEBuchanan. More proof that bike lanes boost business. In any discussion about installing bike lanes the argument often is put forward that they are bad for business, what with the loss of parking spaces and the increased difficulty of loading and deliveries.
But what if this is completely backwards? TreeHugger alluded to this in How bicycles bring business to your community and There IS a Bicycle Economy, Two Cities Find, but here is the real proof from New York's Department of Transportation. The most shocking data are from the protected bike lanes on 8th and 9th Avenues. 49% increase in retail sales.
Big data, cool kids. Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.gcpedia.gc.ca. Www.halifax.ca/boardscom/documents/HRMGrowthScenariosFinalReportApril292013.pdf.