Gamification: How to Win at Work

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Everyone wants work to be fun. Even your boss or client or customer would rather that you enjoy your work. No one wants to be around unhappy people, regardless of how productive they are.
But what if you could change your business so that workers got more done because they were having fun?
Enter the world of gamification.

How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war | Marwa Al-Sabouni

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What caused the war in Syria? Oppression, drought and religious differences all played key roles, but Marwa Al-Sabouni suggests another reason: architecture. Speaking to us over the Internet from Homs, where for the last six years she has watched the war tear her city apart, Al-Sabouni suggests that Syria's architecture divided its once tolerant and multicultural society into single-identity enclaves defined by class and religion. The country's future now depends on how it chooses to rebuild.

How Outsider Status Benefits Negotiators at the Bargaining Table

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When faced with the task of assigning a subordinate to represent their organization in a negotiation, managers might look for strong negotiating experience, intelligence, a good attitude, and a winning personality.
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Proof of concept research on hypervisor allows for easy encryption key exfiltration

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The Snowden revelations about the interception capabilities of NSA and partner agencies have prompted infrastructure owners and service providers, along with regular users, to make sure that data flows and is stored in an encrypted form.

Culture and Teaching Negotiation: A Presentation by David Fairman

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David Fairman—Managing Director of the Consensus Building Institute—recently shared his extensive experience in negotiating with, and teaching negotiation to, a variety of groups from a broad range of cultural backgrounds.
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"Redemption Song" | John Legend

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John Legend is on a mission to transform America's criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he's encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and detention centers, and giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time. With a spoken-word prelude from James Cavitt, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, Legend treats us to his version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song." "Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?"

5 Tips for Improving your Negotiation Skills

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The prospect of boosting our negotiation skills can be so overwhelming that we often delay taking the necessary steps we can follow to improve, such as taking time to prepare thoroughly. The following five guidelines will help you break this daunting task into a series of manageable—and often essential—strategies.

Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish | Prosanta Chakrabarty

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TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty explores hidden parts of the world in search of new species of cave-dwelling fish. These subterranean creatures have developed fascinating adaptations, and they provide biological insights into blindness as well as geological clues about how the continents broke apart million of years ago. Contemplate deep time in this short talk.

Why Marketing is Best Suited to Manage Corporate Social Media

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  Why is Marketing best suited to manage corporate social media activities? At the core social media activities are a function of Marketing, just as PR, Communications and Customer Service should be. Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, ... Read more

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