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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is familiar with the funny, uncertain feeling that comes with checking out soon after 5:00 to be with family, and although she used to worry about what others thought of her departure time (which is a completely reasonable hour to head home, by the way), she has finally reached a point where she can take off at 5:30 p.m. without the lingering concern of how others are perceiving her.

"Das Entscheidende ist, dass man sich nah fühlt, obwohl man getrennt sitzt. Das nennen wir 'virtuelle Nähe'. Wir haben im Alltag mehr Aufgaben, als das, was wir abarbeiten können. Und es ist so: Denjenigen, der mir am nächsten ist, den bediene ich, und deshalb wird aus meiner Sicht in der Virtualität der menschliche Teil noch wichtiger, sonst mach ich das nicht."

The Collaborative Organization which is the first comprehensive strategy guide to emergent collaboration in the workplace.

Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus. Curators tend to have a unique and consistent point of view--providing a reliable context for the content that they discover and organize.

Cleese spoke of the importance of succumbing to the unconscious mind, two key traits possessed by highly successful creative people, the necessity of allowing for contemplative thinking, and why all of these together result in creative breakthroughs.