Google quietly introduces Helpouts: Google+ Hangouts that connect people to experts
Editor’s note: Interesting development from Google – now you can get help from an ‘expert’ using Hangouts.
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Three brainy books reviewed
Editor’s note: The elearning coach reviews three books on neuroscience and cognition.
‘Bonkers’ employers don’t realise that older people make great employees
Editor’s note: Great piece on the changing demographics of the workforce and the potential of older workers.
How playing video games can make you a more effective employee
Editor’s note: A look at how elearning company Axonify combines video games with cutting edge brain science.
Collaboration is the key to providing consistent brand value
Editor’s note: Five steps to collaboration by Libby Gill, author of Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow.
Mass flourishing: how it was won, then largely lost
Editor’s note: Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, and Dean of the New Huadu Business School at Minjiang University on what stops innovation.
Two conversations
Editor’s note: Provocative post by Nick Shackleton-Jones. How do you talk about the learning in the workplace?
Which should I leave first, Twitter or Facebook?
Editor’s note: In the light of threats and more and more trolls, Paul Mason looks at the future of Twitter.
The real neuroscience of creativity
Editor’s note: A look at the neural networks at play in the creative process. A must read if you are interested in creativity.
The supposed benefits of open-plan offices do not outweigh the costs
Editor’s note: Research debunks the myth that open plan offices lead to better communication.
Forrester finds that despite the tablet invasion of the workplace, workers would prefer a keyboard, too
Editor’s note: Interesting to see that with a desire to use tablets in the workplace comes the desire to also use a keyboard. Implications for designing for the mobile experience?
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead – Quartz
Editor’s note: According to former Google employees, the company’s “20% time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, no longer exists.
Debunked: ‘right-brain’ and ‘left-brain’ personalities
Editor’s note: The idea of right brain-left brain personalities is flawed: it’s far better to talk about people’s creativity or their analytical skills separately, rather than in opposition—especially since many people have plenty of both.
Video of the week: What will future jobs look like?
Andrew McAfee sketches out a future in which machines will take on more of the…
Grow your own organisational structure
Editor’s note: A look at some more novel management practices by Lee Bryant, who also argues that now more than ever we can try out practices to suit the company in a way we could never previously do.