The Human Narrative

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  Lawrence Villegas

  

  Council Post: The Neuroscience Of Motivation: How Our Brains Drive Hard Work And Achievement

  Forbes

  What motivates someone to work hard? That’s a question that managers and executives have been trying to answer since Fredrick Winslow Taylor first began studying the topic in the late 1800s. Taylor’s theory -- known as scientific management -- was essentially that what motivates people is money, and …

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  Lawrence Villegas

  

  There's a science-backed trick for making smarter, quicker decisions

  Business Insider - Shana Lebowitz

  When it comes to making big life decisions, I am, decisively, the worst. Choosing between apartments is torturous: Should I pick the one in the more desirable location or the one with more space? The one with enticing amenities or the one with a slightly-cheaper rent? There's also a bit of …

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  Lawrence Villegas

  

  Design will kill marketing, says Ikea’s former design chief

  Fast Company - By Mark Wilson

  Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design. For the past six years, Marcus Engman has successfully made Ikea weird. As the company’s head of design, he spearheaded artistic collaborations on tropical furniture …

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  Lawrence Villegas

  

  The Role of Communities and the Individual: Digital Identity and Human-Centred Design

  weforum.org

  With a general understanding that addressing the “data deficit” will require new forms of public/private data sharing agreements and that the …

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  Lawrence Villegas

  How to Eliminate Passive Aggressiveness

  livestrong.com - Raquel Villarreal

  Imagine you’re in the jungle. You’re treading along carefully when suddenly a poisonous rattlesnake strikes out at you. What do you do? You steer …

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  Lawrence Villegas

  

  Industry 5.0

  neweurope.eu - By Francisco Jaime Quesado

  It is the time of the future, or Industry 5.0. In a new competitive economy where the role of universities as the drivers of innovation and …