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John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online

Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn -- we just need to find the way that works for us. In this charming, personal talk, author John Green shares the community of learning that he found in online videos.

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Are Processes Slowing Your Company Down? Try These 8 Simplifying Tips

Prohibiting left turns may seem like a strange way to simplify, but this single decision has hugely impacted UPS. As a result of its drivers avoiding left turns, the company saves 10 million gallons of gas annually, delivers 350,000 more packages every year, and it reduced its average time per delivery. To improve processes in your own organization, try to find your own version of UPS’ No-More-Left-Turns. Consider the following eight tactics and choose one to try one this week:
1. Shorten employee onboarding. Kill long-winded orientations by offering on-demand learning during an employee’s tenure. Focus their orientation on just the basics and schedule a Q&A meeting two to four weeks after their start date, when employees have a better grasp on their responsibilities.
2. Hold Bureaucracy Buster sessions. During these sessions at Google, employees are empowered to identify and remove barriers to their own productivity and efficiency. At your company, propose a Bureaucracy Buster to leadership or offer to host the session yourself.
3. Replace a main process with its workaround. If a team member creates a workaround that speeds up a certain process, make a case for establishing it as the new protocol.
4. Make expense reports less annoying. To reduce the time people spend assembling their expense reports, stop demanding receipts for low-cost items under a certain amount.
5. Ask “who will miss this?” Before simplifying a process or procedure, break it down into steps and identify who benefits from the information. If the answer is consistently “no one,” or “it’s just a nice thing to have,” just eliminate the process altogether.
6. Cut the crap by committee. The audio retailer Richer Sounds created a Cut the Crap Committee, where managers reduce bureaucracy by identifying and stopping unproductive systems and paperwork.
7. Offer unlimited vacation. At LinkedIn, Virgin, and many other organizations, HR no longer has to monitor accrued vacation time for employees. From saved admin hours to increased morale, unlimited time off offers an efficient alternative to the traditional vacation policy. And from CEO to another, if time off starts affecting an employee’s performance or work quality, empower managers to adjust the policy for that individual.
8. Make simplification mandatory in strategic planning. For every new strategy that’s added to your annual plan, remove an initiative that was rolled over from last year. Identifying what teams should stop doing in the coming year is just as essential as outlining what they need to start doing.
Examining how everyday tasks get done in your organization can help steer the business in a simplified direction. Encourage your team to question any process without purpose—and urge leadership to reward employees who identify ways to simplify processes. Review your internal processes regularly, and watch the status quo in your organization start shifting away from complexity and toward a simpler, smarter way to work.

Source: forbes.com
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How to decrease communicative risks?
Everyone should always think about how their words can affect other people, whether it’s at work or when communicating with strangers.
You never know when your words will hurt someone, but you can change your vocabulary to decrease that risk. Try to put this infographic to use in your next big meeting!
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Turn your work into a game

“Work and play are more like the timbers that keep our house from collapsing down on top of us. Though we have been taught that game and work are each the other’s enemy, what I have found is that neither one can thrive without the other.
We need newness of play, its sense of flow, and being in the moment. We need the sense of discovery and liveliness that it provides. We also need the purpose of work, the economic stability it offers, the sense that we are doing service for others, that we are needed and integrated into our world. And most of us need also to feel competent. Even people who are independently wealthy and never need to work a day in their lives find that they need to volunteer or donate to good cause to feel that sense of connection and purpose.
The quality that work and play have in common is creativity. In both we are building our world, creating new relationships, neural connections, objects. Even demolition or sand castle smashing is a kind of creativity, since they clear the landscape, opening the way for new building. At their best, play and work, when integrated, make sense of our world and ourselves.
Respecting our biologically programmed need for play can transform work. It can bring excitement and newness to the job. Play helps us deal with difficulties, provides a sense of expansiveness, promotes mastery of our craft, and is an essential part of the creative process. Most important, true play that comes from our own inner needs and desires is the only path to finding lasting joy and satisfaction in our work. In the long run, work does not work without play.”
Stuart Brown, M.D., with Christopher Vaughan, “Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul”

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10 Brainteasers To Test Your Mental Sharpness

To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions (no peeking at the answers! ;))

1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?

2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?

3. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

4. How much dirt is there in a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?

5. What word in the English language is always spelled incorrectly?

6. Billie was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible?

7. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?

8. If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

9. Which is correct to say, “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white?”

10. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four haystacks in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?

Answers
1. Johnny.
2. Meat.
3. Mt. Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
4. There is no dirt in a hole.
5. Incorrectly (except when it is spelled incorrecktly).
6. Billie lives in the southern hemisphere.
7. You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera (or iPad or cell phone) to take a picture.
8. You would be in 2nd place. You passed the person in second place, not first.
9. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.
10. One. If he combines all his haystacks, they all become one big stack.

Source: Forbes

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To be productive there are a number of things you’ll need to consider and work on, and you can actually supercharge your productivity by simply adjusting to time of day.
Daniel Pink in his most recent book "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" compiled research on time of day when people are most productive. Each day has three phases: Peak, Trough, and Recovery. Those stages are different for each person, depending on whether you are an early bird or an owl. However, for most people 1-4PM is a TROUGH TIME!
So in order to maximize your productivity, schedule your tasks accordingly:
Analytic Tasks - during your peak time (MORNING!)
Administrative Tasks - during your trough time (AFTERNOON!)
Insight Generation (brainstorming, thinking creatively and reflecting) - during your recovery times! (LATE AFTERNOON!)
*Illustration by Jazzberry Blue

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As an admin, it usually falls on you to keep the office running as efficiently as possible. But when you combine a team of people with different personalities, various pieces of office equipment and software tools, and a never-ending list of distractions, office management can get a little tricky at times. But all this chaos shouldn’t stop you. In fact, it should be motivation to get and keep your office in shape! This webinar targets current managers of all levels. As well as all managers who need to know how to be well-rounded, competent and innovative office manager.
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Professional Development Program is a professional development program aimed at getting effective tools work. PDP "Personal Development" is a remote training courses, which shows only the key working tools of promotion and sale of goods or services. By passing this course you will be able to increase the efficiency of your work. PDP (Professional Development Program) is a professional development program aimed at getting effective tools work.

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5 Inspiring Movies That Make You Want To Make a Change
1) The Pursuit of Happyness
Will Smith will absolutely blow your mind with his performance. Watch and be immersed by the story of Chris Gardner as he struggled with homelessness, taking care of his son and getting through going broke in his life.
2) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Watch how an unsatisfied Walter deal leaving his job and going on an adventure on his own. Literally.
3) Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey, portraying Ron Woodroof shows the human side of a person leading a decadent lifestyle. Struck with aids, he went from selling drugs for profit to helping a whole community of people dying from the disease. Goes to show what can do when he is struck with something bad. Matthew’s performance really deserved the Oscar.
4) Forrest Gump
Though fictitious, Forrest Gump is an inspiring character who teaches people to lead a life by doing all sorts of things as you only have one shot. Tom Hanks brilliantly mixes it up as his character went to war, fell in love, got his heart broken (several times), played ping pong and ran on foot for over a year.
And you know what? People say Forrest is slow, and dumb. We say he knows how to block out the noise from the world and do whatever he wants.
5) 50/50
Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogan! But nah. This isn’t some typical bromance film.
Levitt plays Adam Lerner, a young dude who got struck with cancer. Watch how he has to deal with it with his best friend who seems to only want to use him to pick up girls, a horrible girlfriend who picks him up late for chemo and the good friends he made at chemotherapy sessions.
Source: pickthebrain.com
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“When our brains constantly scan for and focus on the positive, we profit from three of the most important tools available to us: happiness, gratitude, and optimism. The role happiness plays should be obvious—the more you pick up on the positive around you, the better you’ll feel—and we’ve already seen the advantages to performance that brings.
The second mechanism at work here is gratitude, because the more opportunities for positivity we see, the more grateful we become. Psychologist Robert Emmons, who has spent nearly his entire career studying gratitude, has found that few things in life are as integral to our well-being. Countless other studies have shown that consistently grateful people are more energetic, emotionally intelligent, forgiving, and less likely to be depressed, anxious, or lonely. And it’s not that people are only grateful because they are happier, either; gratitude has proven to be a significant cause of positive outcomes.
When researchers pick random volunteers and train them to be more grateful over a period of a few weeks, they become happier and more optimistic, feel more socially connected, enjoy better quality sleep, and even experience fewer headaches than control groups.”

Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

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Morning rituals say a lot about a person... who they are, what they value and how they perceive self and the world around them. Here are morning rituals of successful entrepreneurs (Part 2)
What are your morning rituals? What do they tell you about you?
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The Link Between a Great Idea and a Great Business

The Link Between a Great Idea and a Great Business
Learn what steps you should take to test your business idea in the real world.

buff.ly It's the link to turning your good idea into a business venture. Yet, it's the hardest step to take and having the nerve to do it is rare.

Morning rituals say a lot about a person... who they are, what they value and how they perceive self and the world around them. Here are morning rituals of successful entrepreneurs from Lifehack.org
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Although online education has its limitations, there are several advantages of online learning that explain why eLearning may be the greatest revolution in today’s education. Here are 5 of them https://buff.ly/2xyHEQR ,