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Pitch Perfect
Just for Fun

It was 1994. Sandwiched between my brother and sister in the back seat of a teal blue rental car, I could not put down Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

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Where good ideas come from
Just for Fun

What environments foster unusually innovative ideas? This is a question that Steven Johnson, bestselling author of Future Perfect, sought to answer at a recent talk that I had the pleasure of attending.

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Inklings: Week of 4/4/2014
Employee Experience

We all know what day of the week it is- Friday is upon us! Relax and catch up with what caught our eye on the web this week: Inspirational Career Quotes-Need some pep in your step?

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Thanks, Gloria
Employee Experience

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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Inklings: Week of 3/21/2014
Employee Experience

The weekend is here! Now is the time to get some reading, rest and relaxation in.

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Social Media: Sharing is Caring
Best Practices

Social media- you love it, hate it, obsess over it, or could care less about it. Either way, it continues to rapidly change and become increasingly embedded in most media we consume.

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Stopping to smell the roses and finding joy in the small things
Employee Experience

We've been testing out Gratitude at Work as our team has been recording what we're grateful for and sharing it on BinkPositive, our Tumblr. After a month, we took a few moments to reflect on how this idea, which started out as one of our Test Kitchen ideas, is playing out in our daily lives.

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Inklings: Week of 3/7/2014
Employee Experience

Check out these fresh and interesting articles, we discovered while surfing the web this week. Enjoy Habits 101: Essential Things You Should Know About Your Everyday Behavior- The ways in which we approach our daily habits determines how well we succeed.

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Hacking the Employee Experience
Employee Experience

One week ago today, nearly 100 people joined us at the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco for the first of its kind event: Hack the Experience, a hackathon with the (ahem) modest goal of revolutionizing the employee experience. When we began planning this event nearly a year ago, we had a vision – to bring together people with responsibility for driving employee engagement in their own organizations (corporate communications, HR, OD and CSR professionals) for a free-flowing exchange of ideas that would address some of the most common challenges of employee engagement.

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Words to Live By
Best Practices

Earlier this week, I heard a story on NPR about “The Holstee Manifesto.” Apparently, this short but meaningful collection of motivational statements adorns the walls of dozens of tech companies and startups, from Google and AirBnb to Zappos and TED.

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Gratitude at Work
Employee Experience

Do you believe that your happiness depends on your success at work? Many people feel the same way.

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Inklings: Week of 2/14/2014
Employee Experience

Hooray! It's the weekend everyone!

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