From MindTools:
Cialdini’s Six Principles of Influence: Convincing Others to Say “Yes”
Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: Perfecting the Call to Act
From HBR Blog:
Ron Ashkenas: Get Passive Resisters to Embrace Change [First sentence: "People can be extremely indirect in how they resist change. " Amen, brother! Also, there is an interesting comment by "The Grumpy Project Manager."]
H. James Wilson: A Fast Track to 10,000 Hours of Practice
From Gary North:
Gambling and Entrepreneurship: Never the Twain Should Meet
From Lube Tips:
Controlling Lubricant Degradation with Nanoporous Materials
From ReliabilityWeb:
An Introduction to RCM
SAP – The Full Functional Location Set-Up
A Tough Diagnosis – The Saga of the Never Ending Problem
From YouTube
The future of America?: Broken Escalator (2:03) [h/t Rooted in Prosperity]
From TED:
The following videos meander a bit, but draw some pretty strong conclusions, especially Larry Lessig’s presentation. The common theme between the two is that the internal contradictions of two modern institutions (scientific research and copyright protections) are converging on increasingly perverse incentives.
Unfortunately, the perverse incentives are addressed more through moralisms than by the creative solutions that we usually associate with TED. It is much easier to say “this is wrong” than to design a better way of operating that can actually be implemented.
However, business leaders should balance these proposals against the hysterical intellectual-property mindset that is hampering innovation and making competitors out of people who work in the same facilities.
Michael Nielsen: Open science now! (16:36)
Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity (18:59)
. However, it will generally take years of study—a “black belt in Austrian economics”—to crack it. For those who prefer more immediate intellectual gratification, particularly members of the male demographic, this series of videos serves as a gentle introduction.