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Forget all the talk of Blue Monday; work is still (largely) good for us

Workplace Insight

We say ‘officially’, but like the idea of ‘Body Odour’ its common usage hides the fact that it was originally created as part of a PR campaign, in this case one for Sky’s travel channel in 2005. Of course, there is a balance to be struck. But our experience of work is a long way from those depressing characterisations.

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Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” | Driving Collaboration: How Coworking Spaces Foster Connections in Work Communities

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With years of experience running a coworking space in Berlin and extensive research and travel to over 500 coworking spaces across 50 cities, Pauline has gained deep insights into the uniqueness, importance, and impact of collaborative work environments on people and communities. The model can exist in many forms and in many places.

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Arrr-guably Similar: How Coworking Channels The Rebel Spirit Of Pirates

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The emergence of coworking around 2005 provided an alternative lifestyle, too. In both cases, this shared experience of being different brought people together to form communities unlike any other. Pirates spent long periods together, whilst travelling at sea, and formed close-knit communities.

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Natural Productivity – Introducing iAdd for iPhone

Brilliantly Better

Being A Productivity Junkie I had my share of GTD from its early days, back in 2005-2006. Just click on that link and you’ll find out more about what I kept and what I threw out form my GTD experiment. We’re also made to Assess our environment and to Decide whether or not we’re going to do something.

2010 40
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Think Like a Child: What We Lose with Age (and How to Get It Back)

Success

Officials at Google and 3M found fashioning offices akin to kindergarten classrooms resulted in creative, energetic environments where innovative ideas were born every day. It has been theorized by some that play is an integral form of learning,” he says. “It Now, he travels the world with his clean-cut standup routine.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

Ideas.Ted

When 37-year-old neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor had a massive stroke in 1996, she lost her ability to form words and move her body but also experienced what she would later describe in her TED Talk as “euphoria”. Eventually, she traveled to visit those who wrote to her. She wonders: How can we humans help wild animals thrive?

2019 139