This is a story about Sam at human resources, aka people services, at Company X. Sam discovers how to get certified in emotional intelligence assessment, so that he can help all the teams meet their greatness…
Beth Dean is an accomplished designer and is working with Facebook (on authenticity and transparency) – she has also taken some extra time to elaborate on her thoughts on emotional intelligence in design…
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This lecture that Goleman gave at TED is an interesting reflection on compassion, connection and the role of information in caring…
In this video, Melanie Rudd explains the results of some research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Do you have an experience of too little time? Are you time hungry? …
IDEO is a world leader in product design. The founder David Kelley tells us why empathy is so important to good design…
I grew up in a subtly, vaguely, self identifying Norwegian household. We ate lefse and told stories about lutefisk and had a Norwegian version of the lord’s prayer installed in our kitchen. But, most poignantly, we believed Vikings had horns on their helmets. Turns out that’s probably bullshit. We were also pretty much wrong about…
I love the portrayal of Richard Stallman in this short history of Linux by the Linux Foundation. Going strong since 1991.
This piece by Jay Smooth at Illdoctrine is awesome. It’s a three card monty. And the big media spokes people are shills, ringers and ropers. You can also check out the latest news about the People’s Assembly of Victoria.
This short video features Kim Cairns speaking about the joys of working with clients on their emotional intelligence skills.
Nice animation and a bit of news about the good work that Avaaz is doing…
These two are in love. This song proves it. Woooo.
Well hell. The situation today bites. First Past the Post bites. Folks think so in Britain too.
These guys are doing a frickin’ awesome job. Sharp videos. Clear soundbites. Attitude. Nice kitten. Good work. www.shitharperdid.com
My big brother’s name is Dale. The tall skinny guy in this video is my father. Back then he was always dad. This video is a token of my fondness…
This exhibition from the World Science Festival, from the panel on “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus” is a good example of leadership and raises interesting questions about the universality of human capacity and human experience…
This 50 minute presentation by Goleman is of interest because he does a good job laying out the difference between threshold capacities and distinguishing capacities. IQ-like competencies are threshold capacities – that is, people need to meet a basic threshold of IQ to even get in the game. But EQ is a distinguishing capacity in so far as someone’s emotional and social intelligence is directly
Since I seem to be on a kick posting videos, I thought I would post a recentish talk by Clay Shirky about collaboration and cognitive surplus. Clay Shirky is interesting and he wrote Here Comes Everybody, which was pretty good. He has two other TED talks and you can find links to them from his…
Wow, there is footage in here of wolverines doing somersaults. Who knew? I’ve never seen a wolverine. I would love to be involved in making this kind of promotional video! Looks like a solid book. The Wolverine Way – by Douglas H. Chadwick from Wild Collective on Vimeo.
With a variety of global environmental crises upon us, this old newscast casts doubt on our ability to deal with messes effectively. Sometimes, our attempt to manage a scenario results in another, more dangerous, scenario. I appreciate the reporter’s final remarks that, roughly, “should this happen again, the authorities will remember what to do… and…
