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Music for Motivation and Resilience

Harmonious Workplaces

In 2015, I started the first major breakthrough in my journey toward better health, DDP Yoga. Music played during physical exercise can influence short-term and long-term outcomes, with motivating music leading to increased exercise intensity and endurance (Priest & Karageorghis, 2008). I quit smoking in 2011. Glowinski, D.,

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How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones

Harvard Business

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. What’s more, legacy products seem to be at a natural disadvantage.

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How to Work Together When You Don’t Agree

Organizational Talent Consulting

The cost of unproductive conflict The distinction between productive and unproductive conflict lies in the importance of the issue and the amount of energy you put into it. Productive conflict is the open exchange of conflicting or differing ideas. Non-productive conflict is an exchange of conflicting or differing ideas.

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Jim Whitehurst on the Open Organization: A Conversation with the CEO of Red Hat

BCG

Jim Whitehurst is the president and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open-source enterprise IT products and services. Since joining Red Hat in January 2008, Whitehurst has helped grow annual company revenue from more than $500 million at the end of February 2008, to more than $2 billion for the company’s 2016 fiscal year.

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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

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3 Steps to Cultivate an Innovation Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The proven benefits of innovation include: increased competitive advantage improved operational productivity reduced costs and increased revenue improved commercial value enhanced problem-solving One modern innovation that is impressive to watch is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 (watch the video below). References: Beswick, C., Bishop, D., &

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Canada in Recession, US Will Follow in 2015

MishTalk

The Canadian dollar plunged below 79 cents US today after data showed Canada’s gross domestic product contracted in November as manufacturing dropped the most since January 2009 and on declines in mining and oil and gas extraction. On Friday, the Financial Post reported Canada GDP Shrinks on Biggest Factory Drop in Six Years.