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In this Youtube video, Dr. Kotter talks about how to win over both hearts and minds in his book The Heart of Change. Within Dr Kotter's 8 Step Process winning hearts and minds is an important part of business thinking and a way to change behavior in an organizational or a cultural change. If you…

Many thanks to our client, Mitch Sowards, from entrust.com (Managed IT Services in Texas), for providing this Friday's fabulously entertaining video. We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that actually happiness inspires productivity. Duration: 12:21 Find out more…

Ok, this week the Atrendia Friday Video is not a video, but a podcast. I'm sure that many of you wonder if we are really getting a lot of productivity out of all these social "productivity" tools. This NPR podcast offers some social productivity tools as well as some balanced advice about productivity in general.…

This TED video is a fun quickie.  Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. The trick is to decide what you're 30-day challenge is…

When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count. In this TED video, ChiChip Conley debates not the act of measuring but…

Last summer my girlfriend and I received a text message from her 17-year-old son telling us that he was headed up to our summer/weekend home with a suprprise - a puppy. Now I'm going to cut to the quick: we had our first major discussion. It's not that I don't like dogs.  I do.  I grew…