Week 62 - Ten Things That Are Important For Aspiring Engineers To Learn

Are You Ready For Your Entrepreneurial Moment?

You Forget That It’s A Long Road

http://www.forbes.com/sites/williamcraig/2014/11/14/are-you-ready-for-your-entrepreneurial-moment

Surround Yourself with Differently Free People, Not Just Smarter Ones

If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room

http://lifehacker.com/surround-yourself-with-differently-free-people-not-jus-1657702125

Unicorn Data Scientist Shares his Secrets with You

Find the causes (not just correlations)

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141115223554-2426729-unicorn-data-scientist-shares-his-secrets-with-you

The Future of Work Begins with a Renaissance in Digital Philosophy

Technology is Most Effective When It is Invisible

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141113174451-2293140-the-future-of-work-begins-with-a-renaissance-in-digital-philosophy

Ten Things That Are Important For Aspiring Engineers To Learn

Accepting criticism constructively

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/11/12/ten-things-that-are-important-for-aspiring-engineers-to-learn

Week 61 - Are you brave enough to be vulnerable

10 Important Reasons to Start Making Time for Silence, Rest and Solitude

During silence, the mind is best able to cultivate a form of mindful intention that later motivates us to take action

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thai-nguyen/10-important-reasons-to-s_b_6035662.html

Be a Creator, Not a Critic: The Leadership Feedback That Really Works

Coaches must tell their students what to do, not what not to do.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerryweissman/2014/11/04/how-not-to-help-a-woman-or-a-man

Are You Brave Enough to Be Vulnerable?

Is there a message in what I learned that will make my presentation better?

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141106185358-172811-are-you-brave-enough-to-be-vulnerable

Leaders Win (Zebra Tech), Abdicators Lose (Motorola)

Thinking Big

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/11/03/leaders-win-zebra-tech-abdicators-lose-motorola

Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

No one had written the playbook

http://steveblank.com/2014/10/31/born-global-or-die-local-building-a-regional-startup-playbook/

Week 60 - How To Conquer The Fear Of Failure

How To Conquer The Fear Of Failure - 5 Proven Strategies

Visualize Obstacles

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vanessaloder/2014/10/30/how-to-move-beyond-the-fear-of-failure-5-proven-strategies

Isaac Asimov Asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?"

The person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/

Leadership Advice from the Tribal Council

Collaboration is key

http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelliekarabell/2014/10/26/leadership-advice-from-the-tribal-council

Craft a Better Presentation with Zombie Apocalypse Principles

Be Clear and Absolutely kill what is vague

http://lifehacker.com/craft-a-better-presentation-with-zombie-apocalypse-prin-1653315276

Being An Effective Leader Is All About Relationships

Do you informally “check-in” with each of your colleagues every so often

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141101172110-8966999-being-an-effective-leader-is-all-about-relationships

Week 59 – What is Philosophy for?

What Is Philosophy For?

Don't accept things for their face value

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/24/what-is-philosophy-for-alain-de-botton

It Is What You Do After You Get Knocked Down That People Remember

Character is the foundation of all leadership

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2014/10/22/it-is-what-you-do-after-you-get-knocked-down-that-people-remember

Before the Startup

Be an expert on your users and the problem you are solving for them

http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html

When It Comes to Market Leadership, Be the Gorilla

If You Focus on Your Competition, You Risk Becoming the Chimp

http://firstround.com/article/When-it-Comes-to-Market-Leadership-Be-the-Gorilla

The Elements of Wit: 5 Ways to Be Smarter, Funnier, And Better At Parties

Fake it But Don’t Force It

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3037361/the-elements-of-wit-5-ways-to-be-smarter-pithier-and-more-fun-at-parties

Week 58 – To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

How Google Works

Get Smart Creatives and Let them loose

http://www.slideshare.net/ericschmidt76/how-google-works-final-1

The Curse of Meh: Why Being Extraordinary Is Not a Matter of Being Universally Liked but of Being Polarizing

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/10/13/dataclysm-christian-rudder-extraordinary

TED Talks to Ignite Your Innovation and Creativity

How to achieve your personal best

http://blog.slideshare.net/2014/10/03/weekend-reading-achieving-innovation-and-creativity-with-tedglobal/

The One Thing Computers Will Never Be Able to Do

Innovation will come from people who are able to link beauty to engineering, humanity to technology, and poetry to processor

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141016165640-73685339-why-we-need-mozart-and-microchips-for-digital-innovation

Warrior Leadership – No Ways and No Limits

One should not assume a way and believe it is the only way, and apply it to every situation

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141017134239-304070127-warrior-leadership-no-ways-and-no-limits