Business Communication
On the nature of storytelling and its redeeming power (from an interview with the Screenplayers): "Storytelling is the primary civilizing instrument in culture," he said. He then quoted Aristotle: "‘When the storytelling goes bad in society, the result is decadence.’ The way out," he continued, "
presentation
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers.
Teaching and Learning
One professor is including a policy on this issue in her course outline.
Business Environment
The RAND Review has looked into the future and identified “important policy issues not currently receiving the attention they deserve in the public debate”. Managers should be mindful of many of them: 1. The Aging Couple 2. Corporate America’s Next Big Scandal 3. Innovative Infrastructure 4. The Day After:
Manage the business
A trans-Atlantic culture clash at Alcatel-Lucent, the French-American telecommunications equipment maker created in a $10.7 billion merger two years ago, hit home when the company’s top two executives said they would step down. Patricia F. Russo, the American chief executive, and Serge Tchuruk, the French
writing
It was his steadfast belief in good and evil, and his conviction that he was destined to play a part in the struggle between them, that made Solzhenitsyn's one of the emblematic lives of the 20th century. With his passing, we have lost one of our last links
Visuals
Chris Jordan gives dramatic life to statistics of US consumption. Often-heard factoids like "We use 2 million plastic bottles every 5 minutes" become a chilling sea of plastic that stretches beyond our horizon. (TED) Another excellent example of presenting without bullet points nor words. Just show (visually)
CEO
CEO superstars aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, argue two UCLA economists in a paper posted to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s website this week After receiving awards from publications like Business Week and other organizations, [superstar] CEOs extracted more money from their companies — mostly
business ethics
Asks the Irish Independent (thanks Rowan). Answer: the one-sentence ethics code.
Social networking
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzT3JVUGUzM] Not an endorsement. I'm on it. It works for me. And it might work for you.
presentation
Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design, the company behind the slide show featured in An Inconvenient Truth, and author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations had this to say about delivering a successful presentation.
Work and the workplace
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