Organizational psychology has long concerned itself with how to design work so that people will enjoy it and want to keep doing it. Traditionally the thinking has been that employers should appeal to workers’ more obvious forms of self-interest: financial incentives, yes, but also work that is inherently interesting or offers the possibility for career …
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Rohit Talwar’s “Practical Magic” Keynote (Rohit is a TFA member)
futuresagency: Keynote presentation on how firms around the globe are responding to emerging drivers of change in creative ways to deliver strategic innovation, master emerging technologies and ensure survival and growth in turbulent times. Rohit Talwar's "Practical Magic" Keynote (Rohit is a TFA member)
smarterplanet: Collaborative Platforms Empower Citizens To Shape Their Communities [My Ideal City] - PSFK Participatory online platforms and visual tools are lowering the barriers to participation and empowering citizens to design their communities. These crowd planning systems facilitate an open dialogue between city agencies and the people they serve, establishing a structured process for collaboration …
Taste the Awesome, All Ye Who Enter Here: shutupaubrey: ishipitlikeups: dantheinsane1: ishipitlikeups: Nobody…
shutupaubrey: ishipitlikeups: dantheinsane1: ishipitlikeups: Nobody asked me to prom, so I took my calculator. Pics or it didn’t happen His name is T.I. He brought me flowers. Obligatory outdoor photos. Here I am, introducing him to friends. I wanna be this kid when I grow up.Taste the Awesome, All Ye Who Enter Here: shutupaubrey: ishipitlikeups: …
Try to acquire the weird practice of savouring your mistakes, delighting in uncovering the strange quirks that led you astray. Daniel Dennet, Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking (via stoweboyd)
In our latest Futurist Forum live discussion, Glen Hiemstra, founder of Futurist.com, will look at how work will evolve over the next several decades both in America and globally. Work is in the process of becoming more knowledge intensive, but it is easy to exaggerate the importance of this trend. The job as we understood …
Great story of a small town that found a way to make an impossible project work.
emergentfutures: The Future Of Technology: What You Can Expect In The Next 50 Years Paul Higgins: A bit ridiculous but interesting to look at and think about Full Story: SimplyZesty
It’s time to stop thinking of computer programming as a specialty subject. Schools should respect it as a fundamental skill. Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse) Yes.
smarterplanet: Santander: Test bed for smart cities and open data policies | SmartPlanet To support SmartSantander ambitions, the city is deploying more than 10,000 sensors to monitor everything from garbage collection to crime to air quality. Libelium, a Spanish startup, has contributed around 1,000 sensor nodes, which monitor available street parking (see sensor embedded in …
The Local Economy Revolution Has Arrived 