Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes – Harvard Business Review

Mistake #1: We fall into a combat mentality. When difficult conversations turn toxic, it’s often because we’ve made a key mistake: we’ve fallen into a combat mentality. This allows the conversation to become a zero-sum game, with a winner and a loser. But the reality is, when we let conversations take on this tenor – [...]

Emotional Intelligence theories – Daniel Goleman’s EQ concepts

With emotional intelligence you would have a tool to have success and to be happy in life. If you don’t have read the book from Daniel Goleman, maybe you should. [note mg]   emotional intelligence theory (EQ – Emotional Quotient)   Emotional Intelligence – EQ – is a relatively recent behavioural model, rising to prominence [...]

MIT and Harvard announce edX – The Future of Online Learning

See on Scoop.it – Contentmarketing edX is a ‘transformational partnership in online education’…Harvard and MIT ‘will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners…(edX) courses (will) feature video lesson segments, embedded quizzes, immediate feedback, student-ranked questions and answers, online laboratories, and student paced learning’ and it will be [...]

Sneak Preview: Oprah Interviews Lady Gaga and Her Mother – Video – OWN TV

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Curated Oprah travels to New York for an exclusive look inside the apartment Lady Gaga grew up in and still calls home. For the first time ever, Gaga’s mother, Cynthia, breaks her silence on what it’s like to be the mom of the world’s most famous pop star. Tune in [...]

Disruptive Innovation Explained Harvard Business Review Blog Network

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and the world’s most influential management guru according to the Thinkers50, lays out his landmark theory…. Via blogs.hbr.org

Color returns to launch new app for Facebook

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Color CEO Bill Nguyen announced the new version, timing it to coincide with the Facebook f8 developer conference today. Learning from past mistakes, this new Color app won’t be made available to everyone right away. The app will start off with a closed testing phase among a group of Harvard students, [...]

A New Model for Business: The Museum – The Firm as Curator | Forbes India Magazine

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Content Curation Harvard Business School’s Ray Weaver is exploring the idea that many consumer-centric web-based businesses would benefit from acting more like museum curators.   Weaver argues that web-based businesses would benefit from such expert curators. On the web, options for products, services, and information are virtually endless, too. It’s daunting [...]

How the Science of Attention is Changing Work and Education

Via Scoop.it – Content Curation, Social Media and Beyond Fascinating review by Maria Popova, from Brainpickings on Cathy Davidson, Founder of Duke University’s Center for Cognitive Neuroscience new book “Now You See It”. Intro:   How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn — a fascinating meditation on [...]