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"Terence will be speaking at the Autumn workshop drawing on his research for this book as well as his extensive experiences of working with Virtual teams over the last 15 years"

It's a BIG presentation - takes a while to download and open (doesn't seem to work in Chrome at all)

Productivity tool that allows you to eliminate distractions as you work. Currently only available for Mac. Thanks to Euan Semple for suggesting this.

Wall Street journal / MIT Sloane Management Review article. How emerging markets are leading the way in thinking about markets in a downturn. The examples mainly come from marketing and product placement, but these are great lessons in how to think differently about an existing business model. The batteries pricing / packaging example was a neat way of presenting an existing offering in a more attractive & acceptable way during a downturn. The item about focussing on your existing customer base rather than new market opporunities got me thinking about how we use existing knowledge. The analogy works for me, because leveraging what we already know makes more sense than the cost of buying in expertise etc.

Brilliant video about what really motivates people

" Very thought provoking video that shows how the carrot and stick approach to rewards does not apply when you are applying it to individuals who are working on complex cognitive tasks..."

Inspiring TED Talk on giving kids the opportunity to learn from failure. Just substitute 'work colleagues' for 'children'

Demos of Google technology at work in some interesting ways !

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"Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on how to navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual work environments in the global economy. The authors do an outstanding job of presenting how organizations should address the challenges of virtual workforces so as to reap the huge potential benefits of increased growth, productivity, and innovation." -C. Warren Axelrod, PhD, Chief Privacy Officer and Business Information Security Officer, U.S. Trust, and author of Outsourcing Information Security

A range of videos taken from the 'Learning at work' Conference at the British Council earlier this year

"LexisNexis has surveyed 500 people working in information services in a range of roles across Europe.  In depth interviews were held with professionals in France, Germany and the Netherlands and a broader survey was sent out to information professionals across Europe.  Finally, the researchers interviewed senior academics to review the findings."

Katona's work in the 1970s on 'sentiment' was pivotal in understanding consumer behaviour. For example the US Federal Reserve was hugely resistant to the idea that feelings had a part to play in economic forecasting. Katona proved that answers to questions such as 'do you believe you will be better off next year than this?' were actually better forecasters of economic performance than traditional models. Many behavioural economists now use Katona's theories.

Workers looking for jobs in 2035 might consider retraining as remote-controlled vehicle operators or online chaperones. Those are two of the jobs of the future suggested in a report by the CSIRO that charts 20-year trends in increasingly digitally focused and automated Australian workplaces.

How has Mexico moved from 2 cartels in the 1970s to 9 cartels today? That is the question the Mexican website Animal Político wanted to answer when in January 2015 they started to work on NarcoData, a data journalism project that shows the evolution of 40 years of drug dealing in Mexico, home to the most violent cartels in the world.

"Alder Hey, an important children's hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person's field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospital partnered with Black Marble, a Microsoft partner based in the UK, to implement the HoloLens so that it can be used by surgeons to easily access imaging and other data during surgery."

Whats does the future of work look like?

Artificial intelligence algorithms are increasingly influential in peoples' lives, but their inner workings are often opaque. We examine why, and explore what's being done about it.

"The next generation of social technologies is beginning to transform the way people communicate and work with each other, according to a new survey."