Weekly Download 15.16

Here’s a recap of news and notes from around the Web that caught my attention over the past week or so.

Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work provides a nice overview of language and frameworks to look at innovation across different levels of organizational maturity. This infographic depicts the key takeaway.

The title 12 Hidden Gifts of Not Pursuing Happiness confused me for a minute—I thought “not” must have been inserted by mistake. Instead, I found a very powerful and useful list of ideas that resulted from turning conventional wisdom on its head.

Cartoonists take on Hillary and the email scandal in Reply scrawl: 5 cartoons about Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails worth sharing

Sketch by Mark Baker

Two Phrases That Can Change Your Life just begged for a sketch of these secrets to improving business and personal relationships. 

Weekly Download 15.15

Here’s a recap of news and notes from around the Web that caught my attention over the past week or so.

I know I’m guilty of distraction and have written previously about setting aside time to focus. Recently I noticed that I tend to purchase paper books (odd label, isn’t it?) when the topic is a bit more intense and I want to concentrate on reading for longer periods of time. Looks like I’m not the only one. Paper is back: Why ‘real’ books are on the rebound provides the explanation.

Do you find yourself, responding “Busy” or “Hectic” or something similar when asked, “How are you? 7 ways to stop being ‘busy’ and actually start being productive caught my attention with some practical rules.

Think about attention as a form of currency. Whatever you occupy yourself with takes time and mental resources. So, What Is Our Attention Really Worth? Here’s an easy way to give consideration to how we spend this valuable resource.

Weekly Download 15.14

Here’s a recap of news and notes from around the Web that caught my attention over the past week or so. There’s a theme: feeling nostalgic for simpler things and simpler times.

Change doesn’t come easy. With Remembering When Driverless Elevators Drew Skepticism, NPR draws on history to make an excellent point. If it took 45 years and a major strike by elevator operators to drive automation, what are all of the hurdles to overcome with autonomous cars?

Many friends and colleagues know I like to doodle, and have frequently used hand-drawn diagrams to make a point rather than spending a lot of time with computer tools to draw the same.  Simple diagrams and infographics intrigue me. Here are a couple of excellent examples:

• Virtually everything posted on Indexed, and a recent favorite card titled Arts & Sciences
• Sketch Guy: Personal Finance on a Napkin

There is a lot of hype, but Myths about millenials provides data that says we might be just creating our own stories from broad generalizations. Good advice here:

“To get the most out of young workers, it may in fact be wiser to put less emphasis on collaboration and corporate do-goodery, and more on rewarding individual performance and providing clear paths to career progress. Companies need to recognise that individual differences are always bigger than generational differences.”

Vacation planning Before Google Maps was quite a time-intensive, manual process. I remember my grandfather using AAA TripTik booklets during their driving trips throughout the lower 48 in his semi-retirement and retirement years. In just a few short months, the 630 mapping strips will no longer be manufactured. RIP, AAA TripTiks.