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Table of Contents Big Ideas

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Big Issues Big Picture

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Corporate Governance

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Engineering and R&D

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Facilities and Equipment

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Financial Management

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Human Resource Management

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Information Technology (IT)

80

International Business

82

Legal Information & Compliance

91

Management and Best Practices

97

Manufacturing and Distribution

98

Marketing

100

Products and Services

130

Risk Management

141

Sales and Customer Service

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Software & Web Development

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Production and Utilization of Wealth

Acquisitions

What strategic objectives will this acquisition/merger accomplish? Does the company have an estimate of the fair market value (FMV) target of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed? What expense items can be added back to the income statement because the owner has been taking out excessive compensation? Are there deferred inter-company gains or nondeductible write-offs that may result in additional taxes? What is the performance of all operating entities that have been acquired in the past five years? Has the company followed through on all promises and performance guarantees to its subsidiaries? Has the company made any bad acquisitions? What was the gain (loss) on all divestitures in the last five years? Can the company be sold if it gets into trouble? Is there a ready buyer? What organizational structure will best support it? Whose culture will dominate? Has the company developed a post-merger integration management plan for before, during, and after the acquisition? Are key components of the buy-sell agreement updated to reflect changing conditions? What antitakeover protection plans has the board prepared? | shareholder rights plan poison pill | in general: deal-making network: axialmarket | hostile takeovers: Fools Rush In Munk | news: firstlist, themiddlemarket TV | Corporate | Financial Management | Growth | Management | more Stages in the development of human behavior

Adolescence

in general: inner-city youth programs: Mignight Basketball | poor rich kid: affluenza books, movies, music: A Separate Peace Knowles | Beautiful Brains Dobbs | Boyhood Linklater | Dazed and Confused | Dead Poet’s Society | Ferris Bueller | Juno | Ordinary People Guest | Quadrophenia The Who | Risky Business | Schools Out for Summer | Stand By Me | The Catcher in the Rye Salinger | The Perks of a Wallflower Chbosky | We the Animals Torres Women & Men | Family | Sports | more Production

Advertising and Promotion What percentage of revenues (1-10%) is required to competitively advertise and promote the company's products? How effectively does marketing solicit and integrate (communicate) the advertising ideas from other divisions of the company? in general: automated: outboundengine | big data analytics: origamilogic visualization | business cards: cardnetics, moo | campaign types: eloqua | coolhunting: Honda | embedded in video & tv: mirriad | image ad overlay: imagespacemedia | in-call media: voodoovox | interactive out-of-home: reactrix | mobile: millennialmedia | multi-channel (screen) platforms & campaign management: collective-media, 3

impactradius | publicity: Ben Angel, halo | simulation & planning: thinkvine | stadiums: instadium | target IT professionals: techtarget | t-shirts: cafepress, zazzle | viral: Unleashing the Ideavirus Godin local: singleplatform | yodle | classifieds: backpage, oodle outdoor: digital billboards: supponor | digital ink displays: magink | online marketplace: adstruc | out-of-home: Gas Station Radio gas station radio | Shopping TV: most tweeted: Breaking Bad | most viewed: Superbowl yellow pages: craigslist | livedeal | yodle | self-management: yext Video | TV | Big Data | Brand | CRM | Email | more Fields of Technology

Agriculture and Food Production So God Made a Farmer Harvey History of agriculture domestication of plants and animals started 10,000 B.C. 2014: (Remote) Data to Knowledge sp Farm management ADM farmerview pest control: insectaries software: farmeron, profitshotsoftware Crop farming orchards: frost protection: wind machines rice the most important food crop in the world | California: kodafarms | research: International Rice Research Institute Livestock farming: animals raised in agricultural setting for food, fiber, labor Food production, processing, preservation Techniques for controlling the quality of food: farm-to-fork: Food Quality & Safety Food sources Can edible insects provide a sustainable alternative to meat? most food has its origin in plants Food and Beverage in general: buying local: know your farmer, know your food | equipment leasing: www.machinerylink.com Sensors | Immigration | Biotechnology | Sustainability | Family | more Political concepts, ideologies, and problems

Anarchism, Chaos, Liberty, Radicalism, Rebellion, Revolution You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world 4

Beatles

in general: The right to alter or abolish government is the ultimate expression of the people’s sovereignty. | about | Arab Spring: Emel Mathlouthi was voice of Tunisian revolution, timeline | cabal | Che Guevera | coup: Coup d'état, Egypt | people’s mic | separatism | vandalism anarchists, pirates, radicals, separatists, terrorists: Does art inspire anti-social behavior, or does it just describe it? | Al-Qaeda: Inspire 10 | Black Bloc | Catalonia | fifth column: definition | gangs | Greece: Golden Dawn neo-nazi, fascist | Lord’s Resistance Army | Muslim Brotherhood: A Day of Anger | Nigeria: Boko Haram | pirates: Somali | Russia/Moscow: Pussy Riot | Sex Pistols | Syria: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS | Taliban | Ukraine anti: consumerism: freeganism | establishment: Pete Seger dictatorships: Dictactors have weaknesses. | From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp | North Korea | Uzbekistan: Gulnara Karimova revolution: pen is mightier than the sword: Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution Cassel | Hong Kong: Umbrella Revolution self-defense, self-preservation, self-rule: rule thyself: autarchy | Constituional right to bear arms transparency: FOIA: FOIA Machine |in general: cryptome, publicintelligence, WikiLeaks | journalists: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists | whistleblowers: CitizenFour Poitras | Edward Snowden books, movies, music, tv: Captain Phillips Greengrass | Fight Club Palahniuk | From Dictatorship to Democracy Sharp | Les Miserables 19th century France | Revolution Brand | Revolution tv miniseries | Rules for Radicals Alinsky | Savage Continent chaos | The American as Anarchist DeLeon | The Ends of the Earth Kaplan | The Fifth Column and the First FortyNine Stories Hemingway | The Net Delusion Morozov | Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! Hessel | V for Vendetta Moore Social Radar | Cybersecurity | Extreme | SW Asia | Religion | more History of Mankind

Ancient Asia, Africa, Europe SW Asia, Egypt, the Aegean, and North Africa: essential-humanities Ancient Europe & Mediterranean to AD 395: allempires in general: tools: flint knapping stone tools | TV: history channel | World Heritage List books and portals: ancient history sourcebook | Cartographies of Time Grafton | The History of the Ancient World Bauer DIY | more 5

Software

Apps

in general: a/b testing: appiterate | airline info: worldmate | backend-as-a-service: Kii | best sellers: top 25 | bill pay: pageonce | book: Appsters: A Beginner's Guide to App Entrepreneurship Gill | cabs: taximagic | content delivery: www.motricity.com | crash reporting & analytics: crashlytics | data collect/display: datum | Europe: http://amobee.com | health care: app-a-day | inflight internet: gogoinflight | iOS beta test: testflightapp | journal: path | location-based: deCarta, scvngr | medical info: airstriptech | meetings: charlie |monetization: 3 Ways To Monetize Your App That Every Startup Should Consider Sarath | on-demand, interactive, personalized radio: ahamobile | parkmobile | payment systems: monitise, roamdata | personalization: www.changingworlds.com | push notifications: urbanairship | search: apptap, quixey | test applications: deviceanywhere, perfecto | tools to build your app: Fbstart | tours: audioconexus, mytoursapp, sitegeist, tourappbuilder, TourSphere | user matching/acquisition: apphero, fiksu, youappi design-development platforms: appconomy, appnexus, eachscape drag-n-drop, emotive, gocanvas, mobincube, treehouse | could-based: 6 Cloud-based Tools For Creating Mobile & Web Apps Clarke travel: trip advisor: GateGuru articles: Killer Apps in the Gigabit Age Rainie Travel | Health & Disease | Online Advertising | Nature | Internet | more Particular Arts

Architecture, Landscape & Urban Design Art of architecture architectural tours: viaggidiarchitettura innovation portal: architizer windows: cabin in the woods Garden and landscape design backyard: arbor sp | P. Allen Smith education: Frederick Law Olmsted Society energy savings: shading lighting: trees Urban design Experimental: archigram Extreme Neighborhoods walkability Repurposed spaces Belgrade: industrial spaces and unused barges Big Box Reuse by Julia Christensen San Francisco: futuristic Watchcase Building Sag Harbor 6

Sustainability Buildings Sustainability | Green | Energy | Nature | Design | more big picture

Art

Art in General Particular Arts Women/Men | Mind Wandering | more Art

Art in General Theory & Classification of Arts Philosophy of art: Alain Badiou activist art Classification of the arts astract: jazzberryblue contemporary: culturehall | fairs: Art Miami participatory: philinthecircle Art history texts: Getty Research Portal Experience & Criticism of Art Art appreciation: museums | news: artfixdaily, Paris Review Art Criticism: about Scholarship in the arts: National Endowment for the Arts Social, economic, and cultural institutions stolen or missing: artloss auctions: Sotheby’s economics of art: culturaldata data | royalties Training and work of the artist bios: Vincent Van Gogh collaboration: talenthouse funding: kickstarter | patreon gender equity: Guerilla Girls Preservation of works of art Galleries online: Gertrude Museums Dissemination of works of art affordable: art, 20x200 | art fairs: eyeo, friezeartfair, Venice Biennale | auctions: invaluable, auctionata | digital: digitisedart | Granta | member organizations: artspace, paddle8 | online: artbase, art.sy, urchinmovement, artspace | publishers: sequencepress | social networking: society6 | trybefore-you-buy: turningart | visual search: google goggles Arts in Particular Cultures 7

Arts of the Stone Age peoples about: prehistoric art | film: Cave of Forgotten Dreams Herzog Arts of the Western tradition: Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition Arts of Asian peoples: Ai Weiwei, Never Sorry china Arts of the Middle East and of the Islamic peoples: artofthemiddleeast Arts of the African peoples: African art Arts of the Oceanic peoples: Oceanic art Arts of the American Indian peoples: eiteljorg Primitive, folk, and popular arts China: toys: Temari balls Mexico: Huichol disc Nordic: Nordic Cool Popular Culture books: Art/Work Bhandari | Indivisible by Four Steinhardt | The Art Book Phaidon | The Gift Hyde

Pricing | Risk | Collaboration | Valuation | Emotion | more Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence in general: algorithm deelopment: Deep Mind, Vicarious | artificial general intelligence: strong AI | biomimetics: models for design of machines | frame-based systems: recognition and description of objects and classes | portals: Deep Learning | semanitc networks: a set of concepts that are related to one another | Turin Experiment: about | thought experiments: Chinese Room expert systems: automated complaint resolution: cognicor | decision making: decision-making | machine trading: Dark Pools Patterson, Flash Boys singularity big ideas: about | book: The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil | IBM Watson | moore’s law | Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence singinst books and papers: Accelerando Stross | Superintelligence Bostrom | The Emperor's New Mind Penrose Software | Optimized | Robotics | Radio | Production | more Matter and Energy

Atoms

Structure and Properties of Atoms: a simple view of atomic structure Atomic Nucleus and Particles structure: dense region of protons/neutrons at center of atom isotopes: same # of protons of a chemical element but different # of neutrons radioactive nuclei: unstable atom loses energy by emitting ionizing particles neutron: subatomic particle n, no net charge, mass slightly larger than proton reactions of atomic nuclei: nuclear reaction fission: atom splits into smaller parts releasing a huge amount of energy 8

fusion about magnetized target fusion: generalfusion big ideas pulsed power: Z-machine subatomic elementary particles: about | Higgs boson | research: Hadron

Collider

passage of nuclear particles through matter books: An Introduction to Nuclear Physics Cottingham | The Ghost in the Atom Davies Research | more Elements of Technology

Automation

How much additional automation can be implemented in the manufacturing operations? What would be the effects on production? To what extent are finished products and components standardized? in general: customer contact: soundbite | machine-to-machine (MSM): Connected World | manufacturing automation: automationmag, International Society of Automation | personal: ifttt | shopping: jeans store | test automation: spirent | workflow automation: skelta Recycle | Online Ads | Sensors | Practice of Medicine | Big Data | more fTransportation Technology

Automobiles, Truck, Buses if you can dream it, you can ride it in general: alternative: mobiusmotors | car-plane: terrafugia | car-to-car communications: cohdawireless | competitions: EcoCar | donate your car: changinggears | gas: gasbuddy | hybrids: hybridcars | leasing: wheelzinc | parts: rockauto | pricing: www.edmunds.com, kbb, truecar | repair estimates: bodyshopbids, repairpal | view & track repairs | safety: advanced features, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety IIHS | self-driving car: audi, google, toyota | telematics: IMS | tracking: brickhousesecurity | valet parking: zirx | warranty: bgfindashop car sharing and rentals: car pooling & sharing: blahblahcar, www.erideshare.com, relayrides, ridepost, spride | www.geniusride.com | iPhone app: zipcar | long-term parking: FlightCar electric vehicles: Are electric cars truly green? | www.chevrolet.com/electriccar | www.fiskerautomotive.com | www.gemcar.com | www.milesev.com | www.pluginamerica.org v | segway | www.teslamotors.com: super chargers | www.zapworld.com | organizations: electricdrive.org | trucks & buses: Motiv, proterra | charging: pod-point UK | motorcycles: brammo, zeromotorcycles Travel | Shopping | Green | Cities | Drawing | more 9

Philosophy

Balance He who is contented is rich. Lao Tzu in general: concern vs control: Epictetus Square | granularity | Quality of Life freedom: freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose… Me and Bobby McGee inequality/diversity: Biodiversity | food: Engel’s coefficient | income simplicity: What do the Hadza know that we have forgotten? | less is more: live within your means, moderation, Occam’s razor books and articles: Balance, the fundamental verity Smith big ideas | Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity Siegel | The Hadza Finkel | Unintended Consequences Conard | Walden Thoreau | Working Terkel Books | Brand | Decisions | more Life on Earth

Behavior of Organisms Behavioral Responses: response of organism to various stimuli or inputs Behavioral Capacities Higher behavioral characteristics of animals dogs: reasoning: dognition | training: Cesar's Way Groups: coordinated behavior of large groups of similar animals Evolution of behavior: genetic differences > affect fitness > natural selection books: The Behavior of Organisms Skinner | The Horse Whisperer Evans Wellness | Health & Disease | more Fields of Technology / transportation / wheeled vehicles

Bicycles

bicycling is healthy for people and the economy in general: advocacy: National Bike Challenge | bike sharing: citibikenyc, cphbikesshare, divvybikes | bikeways: Tahoe-to-Pyramid | body geometry: roll-online | buy/sell: bikepedia, bikesdirect | coolhunting: horsecycles, pg-bikes | electric: electric | design competitions: oregonmanifest | film festival: bicyclefilmfestival | fixed-gear: purefixcycles, tokyobike | history: Wright Brothers | horn: orpland | hybrids: bicycle-tricycle, Copenhagen Wheel, recumbent | lifetime guarantee: performancebike | lights: bookman, lightlanebike, revolights | magazines: Boneshaker | master plans: campus | racks: parking meters to bike racks | rides: ragbrai | road-to-race: Switch Aero System | route marking: bikecontrail | safety: cyclingsavvy | social networking: strava | tools: Fix It Sticks | travel: city guides | wall mounts: endo | wooden: sanomagic mahogany | videos: It’s Your Ride, my bikes bike-in: coffee: Velokafi | theaters: LA, NYC 10

books, movies, videos: Bicycle Portraits Engelbrecht | Bike, Camp, Cook | Cinelli: The Art and Design of the Bicycle Morano | Fifty Bicycles That Changed the World Newson | Nowhere to Nowhere Telling | Roads Were Not Built For Cars Reid | Slaying the Badger ESPN

Home | Recreation | Sports | Women | Energy | more Information Technology

Big Data

How will your decision-making processes cope with the volume of customer data digital technology can provide? Acenture Is the company capitalizing on complexity? Is the company ready for the deluge of unstructured data coming in from transactions, social media, sensors and machines? What are the ethical issues raised by the spectre of a big data-driven world? Is the organization training workers with the right tools to increase their data literacy and more efficiently incorporate information into decision making? in general: Whoever has the most (meaningful, curated) data, wins. | automated data collection/monitoring: connotate | automated analysis: WolframAlpha Pro | behavioral analytics: ginger.io | business analytics: BeyondCore | consultants: musigma | credit scoring: kreditech big idea | customer analytics: nuevora | democratization: contextrelevant | drag-n-drop: rapidminer | earth: dataone, Planet Labs | energy management: hara | hadoop: hortonworks, karmasphere, mortardata | health care: Visiquate | log & security intelligence: tibcoc | marine and buoy data: marinexplore | market research: keltonglobal | NoSQL: mongoDB | oil & gas: drillinginfo | oncology: flatiron | online behavior: velos | real-time: drawntoscale, webaction, zoomdata mobile | research funding: Big Data R&D Initiative OSTP, Digging into Data Challenge | risk analytics: verisk | Smart Grid: verdeeco | social data: datasift | TV audience predictive analytics: simulmedia | uncurated, unstructured data: Brown Dog | visual analytics: hint.fm, sas machine learning : human language data: Digital Reasoning | massive datasets: skytreecorp, splunk | visual perception: vicarious patterns: The new challenge is not finding the needle in the data haystack, but finding the hidden patterns in the hay. | Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets MINE | Efficient discovery of overlapping communities in massive networks Gopalan Search | Risk | Plants | Health | Customer | more Ideas

Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence | Atoms | Balance | Big Data | Biosphere | Biotechnology | Books | CEO | Checklists | Cities | Climate Change | Cloud | Construction | Coolhunting | Core Competency | Crowd Sourcing | Currency | Cyberspace | Data Mining | Development of Technology | DIY | Earth’s Envelope | Economic Development | Edge.org | Education | Energy Management | Engineering | 11

Exploration | Facebook | Fields of Technology | Future | Gaming | Google | Green | Growth | Health and Disease | Health Care | High-Performance Computing | Ideas | Innovation | Intellectual Property | Internet | Issues | Language Tools | Latin America | Leadership | Lifetime Learning | Megacities | Modeling & Simulation | Optimized Self | Particular Arts | Peace | Political Concepts | Poverty | Predictive Intelligence | Problems & Solutions | Production | Radio | Randomness | Religion | Retail | Robotics | Science | Sensors | Services | Smart Grid | Social Radar | Solar | Startups | Sustainability | Teachers | Technology | think2ool | Transportation | Unequivocals | Universe | University | Utopia/Dystopia | Venture Capital | Visualization | Water | Wind Energy | Women & Men | more

in general: genius grant: MacArthur Fellows Program books: How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Lomborg | Zero to One Thiel Knowledge

Big Picture Matter and Energy Earth Life on Earth Human Life Human Society Art Technology Religion History of Mankind Knowledge Creation more Life on Earth

Biosphere You protect what you love. Chouinard Basic Features of Biosphere Extent of the biosphere: goes from 1800 m (birds) down to -8,372 m (fish) Biodiversity Balance Nature & Diversity of Life Natural Capital The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity TEEB Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ipbes.net

Biological Populations animal sound archive: Macaulay Library DNA barcoding 12

Biosphere Disease and Death Extinction and De-Extinction Ecosystems Terrestrial ecosystems desert: sailing rocks: The Racetrack | Tumamoc Hill estuary: Indian River Lagoon distress prairie: regeneration trophic cascade: wolves Aquatic ecosystems: two main types are marine and freshwater Earth’s Envelope Invasive species: Asian carp Humans in the Biosphere What sets humans apart? they change the environment in which they live Human impact on biosphere I human impact = P population x A affluence x T technology monitoring: SkyTruth Utilization of organisms by humans Conservation of natural resources: Green Sustainability in general: conservation: Wildlife Without Borders | forest land management: imagetreecorp | journals: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | landscape ecology: landscape-ecology.org | organizations: globaia, Millenium Alliance for Humanity & the Biosphere, National Ecological Observatory Network NEON | tree canopy height: nasa books: A Naturalist and Other Beasts Schaller | The Earth's Biosphere Sensors | Elements | Climate | Nature | Randomness | more Fields of Technology

Biotechnology in general: algae: solazyme | biomarkers: rulesbasedmedicine | biomaterial storage: biostorage | certified refurbished instruments: biosurplus, cgenetool | entrepreneurial training: bioconsultants | high-performance computing: hpcbio.illinois.edu | life science community: biospace | news: bioworld, genengnews | neutraceuticals: heliae | phylogenomics: plosgenetics | search: nextbio | tools: fluidigm | venture capital: burrillandco | waste(garbage)-to-fuel: enerkem, fulcrumbioenergy bionergy: algae: sapphireenergy | biobutanol: gevo | biodiesel: www.endicottbiofuels.com | energy crops feedstock: www.ceres.net, www.mendelbio.com, nexsteppe, www.performanceplants.com | energy economics | ethanol: mascoma | general: coolplanetbiofuels, www.gevo.com, www.greenbiologics.com, www.virent.com | search: Knowledge Discovery Framework KDF | yield optimization: targetedgrowth 13

clinical trials and research: research: gobalto | software: cytel, goBalto, y-prime genomics: catalog: 1000genomes.org | cloud-based: DNAnexus | supercomputer: knome | whole genome mapping: opgen life science: antibiotic diagnostics: GeneWeave |awards: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences | business performance optimization: www.decisionviewsoftware.com | content compliance: virtify | data science: galaxy | disease registries: remedyMD | enterprise software: Perkin Elmer | equipment & instrumentation: Harvard Bioscience |informatics software: remedyinformatics | key opinion leaders (KOL) management: openq | learning solutions: clearpointlearning | magazines: thescientist | open access: biopunk | services for the entrepreneur: plsg | supply chain: tracelink personalized medicine big idea : auto-immune diseases: ignyta | nova: personalized medicine stem cells: banking: Neostem, store-a-tooth | bioethics | manufacturing: cellulardynamics | skin: skin gun, ulthera ultrasound Medicine | Health | Ag | Search | Facilities | more Business Organization

Board of Directors Agenda and Minutes: Does the CEO effectively integrate the agenda items of all board members? Has the board tried using a consent agenda to improve the efficiency of meetings? Is the agenda focused on strategic issues that will determine the company’s longer-term positioning; or is it delving too deeply into operational details? | board forms Audit Committee: Is the audit committee about failing to perform its job properly because members are either unqualified or are too close (related) to the management of the company? Does the committee fully understand and comply with all required SEC reporting requirements Form 10-K? Do audit committee members meet the tests for independence necessary to meet SEC guidelines? | Audit Committee Essentials by Curtis C. Verschoor | Institute of Internal Auditors | sample charter Board Makeup: What criteria/objectives are set to establish the makeup of the board? Is the size of the board appropriately scaled to the size and scope of the company’s operations? What are the director profiles needed to compose the board? Is the number of inside vs. outside directors balanced? What can the board learn from the composition of competitors’ boards? Is it appropriate and feasible for the board to have directors from other countries? What are the independence requirements for directors? How do we select the Chair? Do we need a lead director? What specific skills do we need on the Board? What is the director’s job description? What commitments do we expect individual directors to make? What

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compensation should we offer to directors? How long should we expect directors to serve? What questions should we expect from prospective directors? Board Management: Is the board careful to not get involved in micro-managing the operations of the company? Do the CEO and directors effectively address, utilize, and resolve conflict in the boardroom? | on-demand board portal: boarddocs, boardvantage, directorsdesk Board Prerogatives: Do the board and management clearly understand and agree to those decisions and rights the board chooses to reserve to itself? Has the board specified a transaction level or size which requires board review and approval? What is the board’s policy on the use of stock for mergers and acquisitions? How far can management proceed with the exploration of the sale of assets without board approval? What is the board’s policy on when an opinion letter should be required? What transaction size? Who will sign off on valuation? Who will approve letters of intent? Who will approve investment banking fees? Who will approve deal structuring? Chairperson: Should the Chairperson and CEO be one or two people? Has the chairperson taken the lead role in key issue development? Has the chairperson provided adequate opportunities for full and frank discussions of key issues and questions raised? Does s/he lack some essential leadership qualities needed for efficiency in reaching soundly reasoned decisions? How do you rate the interaction among the chair, the CEO, and the management team? | Chairman of the Board: A Practical Guide by Brian Lechem Committees: What are the board’s policies for director committee service? Director Compensation: What compensation elements are available and appropriate? Who should be involved in setting director pay? Is there a director compensation philosophy and is it reasonable? Does current proxy disclosure provide complete and accurate information? What rules should be in place for governing the exercise of options and sale of option shares? What is the appropriate level of share ownership for directors? | compensation surveys and financial benchmarks: culpepper Director Training: Does the board consider it appropriate for outside directors to seek independent legal advice to prepare for certain board issues/meetings? Does the board have a regular schedule of manager presentations designed to orient outside directors as much as possible to the company? Directors and Officers Insurance (D&O): Does the company have any outstanding COLI policies in force? Does management clearly understand how the federal RICO statute can be applied to a corporate setting? Is there anything being done by the company, or an individual employed by the company, which could expose management and/or the board to liability? | kidnap/ransom insurance & response: www.asiglobalresponse.com 15

Nominating Committee: Is the nominating committee applying the rule of least conflicts and the most information when evaluating top director candidates? Outside Directors: Do all directors meet the test for independence? Does the board clearly recognize a lead outside director? Does the board have an appropriate balance of inside to outside directors? Are outside directors holding separate executive sessions as required? Are outside directors given unrestricted access to auditors, counsel, and senior management? Are the audit, nominating, and compensation committees composed of the appropriate number of outside directors? Have outside directors been given primary responsibility for overseeing CEO succession? On key committees such as audit, are all of the directors independent? | article: Directorial Liability: Tips for Outside Directors on Minimizing Personal Exposure in Shareholder Lawsuits by Boris Feldman Performance Evaluation: Does the board perform a self-evaluation on an annual basis? Does management evaluate the board? Based on the most recent evaluation, does the board contain the right individuals to provide effective oversight for the current and future needs of the company? | advisers: directorsnetwork | online tools: boardevals, governancepro books and articles: Board Self-Assessment Carver Art of the Question | Ethics | CEO | Corporate Governance | Decisions | more Major Systems of Communication

Books & Book Publishing deep reading: paper vs digital Is Amazon bad for books? Which books will change your life, and which ones will just pass the time? in general: A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero | audio: audible | awards: National Book Award | book clubs: about | bookshelves: A bookshelf is like a window to another world, another time. sp | library of plays, list of 30, theblogonthebookshelf | comics: image | e-readers: kobo, sony, subtext | festivals: Printers Row | free: kindle store, gutenberg eBooks | kids: Scholastic | library of congress: Books That Shaped America, read | news: bookreporter | printing press: The Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein | read ebooks online: bookglutton | posters | reader for the blind: Intel Reader | second-hand books: hay-on-wye | social reading: readmill | speed reading: spreeder | try before buy: trialpay | visual arts: phaidon | who’s reading what: goodreads, NPR Book Concierge bookstores: embassy: Albertine | My Bookstore Rice | outdoor: Bart’s | repurposed spaces: Waanders In de Broeren encyclopedias: online: www.wikipedia.org | peer reviewed: www.citizendium.org, www.scholarpedia.org 16

lists: 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s buzzfeed picture books: emblem books: about, Emblematica Online | interactive real-time animation object-book: POP ON OP pop-ups From where the sun now stands Johansson The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Book Radevsky my ten books: Atlas Shrugged Rand | Dune Herbert | Islands in the Stream Hemingway | Lord of the Flies Golding | Lost Horizon Hilton | Man's Search for Meaning Frankl | My Bookstore Rice | Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence | Silent Spring Carson | Walden Thoreau | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig big ideas textbooks: bookrenter | textbooks | cloud: chegg | free: boundless | iPad: inkling Self-Publishing | Lifetine Learning | Religion | Location | Libraries | more Advertising and Promotion

Brand Identity and Loyalty I want something that’s always pretty good and never awful. Is your brand culturally relevant? Is it gaining or losing traction? What systems are in place to gain real-time insight into your brand positioning and strength? What strategies are employed to lock-in brand loyalty? What would be required to persuade users of competitive products to switch? What does the company do to insure a consistent corporate image? in general: build a loyalty program: punchtab small business | celebrity endorsement | clout | conferences: brandcampu | consultants: added-value | conversion and retention: Loyalty Lab, www.webloyalty.com | coolhunting | countries: Poland | customer engagement at point-of-experience: NICE | customer reviews: powerreviews, yelp | enterprise social media: www.awarenessnetworks.com | interactive customer collaboration: www.thinkpassenger.com | localized online marketing: balihoo, netsertive | logos: logogarden, logoworks | luxury accessories: marc jacobs | match content to brands: www.musicmakesitbetter.com, skyword | mobile phones: cellfire | personal: brandyourself | physician engagement: medikly | protection: markmonitor | QR codes: visualead | real-time marketing: Understanding Real-Time Marketing spredfast, datarank | relationship building: www.closerlook.com | social media monitoring: attentio | social engagement: 500friends, pluck | strategy | subscribers: ordergroove | video: TubeMogul private label: debit cards: www.mavericknetworksolutions.com, wines: www.wineryexchange.com books: BrandSimple Adamson | Buyology Lindstrom | Likeonomics Bhargava | Logobook Houplain | sonic branding: The Sonic Boom Beckerman Social Media | Music | Video | Balance | Location | more 17

Financial Management

Budgeting

Live within your means. How are corporate objectives integrated with the budgeting process? Is the budgeting process an interactive one that allows for feedback and coordination between top management and line managers? How has historical performance compared with past budgets? What kind of accountability procedures does the company employ? Does the company have a contingency plan in the event actual results vary significantly from the budget? Has management considered transitioning to rolling forecasts rather than annual budgets? Are we identifying gaps between strategic goals and planned financial results before they occur? Are we making budgeting information more relevant to key audiences such as senior management, board of directors, and operational managers? in general: enterprise budgeting: www.centage.com, xlerant | on-demand: www.adaptiveplanning.com more Construction

Buildings Design Directory: openbuildings Energy Management in general: benchmark, firstfuel, scienergy, seriousmaterials | Building Automation Systems (BAS): drift |climate change: Impact of Climate Variability on Energy Use NASA | dashboards: energystewards | dynamic glass: viewglass | estimators: Honeywell, Target Finder | GreenSpaces (India) | LEED: building materials: pharosproject | Living Building Leader: www.cascadiagbc.org/lbl | modeling & optimization: sefaira, Weidt | passive: Passive House Institute | residential: control4 | smart windows: voltage-switching glass | U.S. Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19 | whole building design: energy High-Rise Emporis Skyscraper Awards big ideas, Porsche Design Tower | China: Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort | United States: One World Trade Center Cabins: getting away: Hide and Seek Architecture Borges Homes Repurposing: live & work: Champaign High School in general: architectural ethics: engaged architecture | comfort | disaster recovery: Rebuilding after disaster: Going green from the ground up DOE | HVAC: chilled beam | materials: Pharos Project | wood construction: Wood Architecture Now! Vol. 2 Jodidio books: Why Buildings Stand Up Salvadori 18

Energy | Mapping | Architecture | Lighting | Climate | more Marketing

Business Intelligence in general: about | www.hillsearch.org | www.logixml.com | www.tableausoftware.com | www.versata.com | business information: ceoexpress, cortera, thomsonreuters | cloud: birst | executive dashboard: birst, www.qliktech.com | marketing analytics: openi, ebureau | on-demand: gooddata, indicee | open source: www.pentaho.org | real-time: FirstRain, strategyeye, streambase enterprise information: business performance management: www.qliktech.com | data integration: informatica | integrated marketing management (IMM): teradata | talent results management: volometrix remote data: data synchronization: www.signiant.com | remote access: microsoft Visualization | Big Data | Competition | Data | Marketing | more Institutions that facilitate business formation, production, output

Business Organization

Types Cooperatives: International Year of Cooperatives Management and Control Board of Directors Finance Manufacturing Market Nonprofit | Small Business | more Management and Best Practices

Business Process Reengineering Have we mapped our major business processes? Do the company’s collaborative systems archive projects and processes so they can be reused as best practices? Which processes should we reengineer within three months, six months, one year, and subsequently? What policies apply to the performance of the processes? How do we identify processes that are conducive to redesign? in general: about | Business Process Management (BPM): www.appian.com | value engineering: www.value-eng.org | product strategy and design: www.hlb.com | social business design: dachisgroup Cloud Computing | Continuous Improvement | Engineering and R&D | more

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Production & Utilization of Wealth / consumer & market

Buying Decisions

What are the driving trends of the typical customer? What is the demographic breakout of the company’s customer base? Is the company’s Web site optimized to assist the customer through the buying decision process as quickly and easily as possible? What are the typical stages in the buying decision? What is the typical length of a buying decision? What are the driving criteria in the buying decision? What is the customer’s sensitivity to price? in general: behavior: How Customers Think Zaltman | comparison shop: www.become.com, findthebest, nerdwallet, power2switch, priceonomics, pricespotting, versusio | cell phone scanners: ScanLife | credit cards: http://creditcards.com | credit profile: www.experian.com/business_services/index.html | demographics: census | online collector: www.kaboodle.com Retail | Mobile | Pricing | Automobile | Energy | more Time

Calendar Measurement of time: the basic unit of computation in a calendar is the day Types of calendars Linear: The Linear Calendar mobile: myndcalendar Ancient & religious calendar systems: starting month at first sighting of new moon Western Calendar: Gregorian calendar, internationally most widely used calendar in general: days left till end of year Mobile | Visualization | more Financial Management

Capital Expenditures What is the expected return-on-investment (ROI) over the next 3-5 years for each major expenditure? If the budget would allow, what equipment should be replaced to either maintain or improve production efficiency, or as protection against major production stoppages should this equipment fail? asset management: Where does excess capacity exist in the corporation? Can we liquidate some of these assets? Does the company have any assets that are undervalued? | capital assets and depreciation: www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P07_2900.asp | depreciation calculator: http://ww.bassets.net/depcalc.asp | Fields of Technology critical infrastructures | people and asset tracking: airclic, inilex, sensorlogic | real-time location system (RTLS): awarepoint | remote monitoring: airsis | web-based asset management

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capitalization: Does the company’s aggregate of long term debt need to be reviewed and consolidated for more competitive terms/rates? Are interest rates such that this would be a good time to consider some debt restructuring? Who will put up more cash if the company needs it? Is the company’s debt/equity ratio acceptable to its lenders? | Balanced debt/equity capitalization books: Physical Asset Management Handbook Mitchell | The Capital Structure Decision Bierman

Financial Management | Financing | Inventory | Mobile | more Production and Utilization of Wealth / economic theory

Capitalism

The free market doesn’t guarantee social outcomes, merely economic ones. Friedman Evolution of capitalism: Private ownership of production of goods/services for profit Problems of capitalism Is capitalism the best economic model for every culture and/or every geographic region? If not, why? What is the best alternative? | plutocracy: about in general: innovation: freedom to fail | policy development: American

Legislative Exchange Council

books/movies: Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Rand | The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America Stockman | The Jungle Sinclair Politics | Balance | Democracy | Entrepreneurship | Innovtion | more Financial Management

Cash Management What anti-check fraud procedures are in place? Do we have systems in place to detect money laundering? Are all bank accounts reconciled each month? What minimum cash balance is appropriate for the company? Is the company using every available technique to minimize transfer time for collecting cash balances? Who is authorized to make payments of company funds and what amounts are they authorized to disburse? Are authorized persons bonded at the appropriate amounts? What is the company's plan for optimizing the balance between maintaining the liquidity of excess cash vs. generating maximum short-term and longterm interest income? What proactive measures are taken within the company to prevent embezzlement? cash flow: What are the long-term cash needs for the company for the purchase of property and equipment? What effect does the variation in key assumptions (sensitivity analysis) have on the financial projections? | cash flow statement: direct vs indirect | check fraud: anti-check fraud procedures | money laundering: detect money laundering bankruptcy: How bad a shape is Illinois in? Has the company ever filed, or considered filing, for bankruptcy? Are any of the company’s vendors in bankruptcy 21

or near bankruptcy? | American Bankruptcy Institute: www.abiworld.org | appraisal of asset values: www.accuval.net | banks: bank run |checklist: IRS | IR Internet Bankruptcy Library: http://bankrupt.com | liquidation services: www.liquitec.net investment policies: What is the minimum acceptable investment return on capital items? How are lease vs. purchase decisions evaluated? What is the company's investment policy with respect to excess cash? How much is kept in short-term marketable securities? What is the record of gains (losses) from sales of securities in the company's portfolio? Does the company perform background checks on either the firms or individuals that handle the company's trading in securities? Politics | Checklists | Cities | Identity Management | Personal Finances | more Management and Best Practices

CEO

The genius of Steve Jobs was connecting art + design with technology. big ideas

performance evaluation: Is the incumbent CEO the right leader at the right time? When's the last time our CEO rolled up his or her sleeves and worked alongside employees? Is the CEO in touch with the employee rank and file? Does the CEO have the employees' respect? What behaviors and competencies are desired in the CEO to lead the company today and into the future? Does the board require the CEO to complete a self-evaluation? Has the board benchmarked the strategic performance of CEOs at peer companies? Is the board responsive to the concerns of shareholders about the effectiveness and responsiveness of management? Is the incumbent CEO in good health? On what grounds is the board considering firing the CEO? | Evaluating the Performance of the CEO Weil succession: Promoting insiders is a strategy to maintain consistency, whereas hiring outsiders is a strategy for change. Sessions | Has the board challenged the heir-apparent to be compared against external candidates? Has the board been able to observe and evaluate the heir-apparent in representative trial assignments? Is competition among internal candidates getting out of hand? Does the board have a healthy collaboration with the incumbent CEO in the succession process? Has the board established clear performance benchmarks and an exit timetable for the incumbent CEO? Is the incumbent CEO attracting, hiring, and developing key employees worthy of succession candidacy? Is there a turnover problem with top management candidates? Does the incumbent CEO restrict access by the board to top management? Should the board consider removing the incumbent CEO from the board? Is the board developing and maintaining a familiarity with top succession candidates within and external to the company? Is retirement of the incumbent CEO being delayed by lack of a successor? For the incumbent CEO close to retirement, has the board structured a compensation package heavily weighted towards stock options vesting after retirement giving him/her incentive to cooperate with a successful transition? 22

interim CEO: Does the board have a plan for an interim CEO in the event of a sudden and unexpected departure or death of the CEO? Does the board have at least one member with the qualifications to serve as interim CEO in the event of an emergency? Does the board need to consider an outside turnaround specialist to manage the current crisis in the company? interviews: Is our recruiting message targeting the networks and individuals we want to attract? Are our questions uncovering the skills we need with the position? Are we requiring interview team members to provide written feedback after each interview? Are we getting continuous improvement after each interview process? | interviews: Conversations from the Corner Office | videos: CEOcast books, articles, blogs: CEO Succession Carey | Effective Succession Planning Rothwell | Steve Jobs Isaacson Women/Men | Leadership | Corporate Governance | Executive Education | more Social Organization and Change

Change

everything is accelerating sp Can connecting people of opposing views on a topic lower their inertia against change? Is there a sweet spot for the pace of change that allows for independent thinking? in general: You must learn every day for the rest of your life to keep pace with the world. sp | about | change management: Prosci | community: Harwood Institute, Staging Change Institute | Digital Darwinism | generation gap: The Next America Taylor | music: Changes Bowie | percent-change | personal discovery and development: hoffmaninstitute.org | social change (advocacy): change, visualizing | speed of technological change: Dany Hillis TED books and articles: Data Portraits: Connecting People of Opposing Views Garrido | The Rational Optimist Ridley | What Technology Wants Kelly Libraries | Golf | Lifetime Learning | Critical Infrastructure | Manage | more Thought

Checklists in general: aviation: checkmateaviation | backup procedures | book: The Checklist Manifesto Gawande big ideas | buying: house | camping | captain’s walk | checklists | cybersecurity: CSET, Ntl. Checklist Program Repository | definition | digital pens: adapx | due diligence list | education: project-based learning checklists | employee: succession, termination | everyday: simplychecklists | international travel: tripresource | lawnmower winterize | new product | NIH grant | patient you | preflight | press release: pressreleasechecklist | printable | psychopathic | reusable templates:

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basecamphq | social media: enterprise CRM | software development: scrum | sports | to-do lists & calendar: easilydo, goggle, outlook, tracky | weddings surgery: knee replacement: getaroundknee | surgical Time | Recruiting | Planning | Content | Collaboration | more World Since 1920 / East Asia in the 20th century

China since 1912

Development of the republic 1912-20: old order disintegrated for a new society Interwar years 1920-37: growth and development of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) War against Japan 1937-45: 2nd Sino-Japanese War after 1st Sino-Japanese 1894–95 Kuomintang: anti-communism, Chinese nationalism, conservatism, reunification Chinese Communist ideologies: ideology is dynamic to safeguard the party's rule Emergence of the People’s Republic of China economic reform: 60-point plan Internet e-Commerce: alibaba messaging: tencent search: Baidu orphans: Half the Sky social radar: dissent Will China’s model for growth -- which extracts a heavy sacrifice and toll from its people -- be sustainable? How much does China’s island-like terrain influence its behavior and role on the global stage? in general: book: In Search of History White | buy anything: lightinthebox | consumer marketing: www.prcdirect.com | introduction: http://sacu.org/index.html | IT & software outsourcing: www.freeborders.com, isoftstone | travel: ctrip | U.S. Commercial Service: export.gov Particular Religions | Latin America | World | Real Estate | Family | more Social Organization and Change

Cities

compare cities: Urban Obervtory History of cities growth: city lights tell the story of the spread of humans across Earth historical layers: HyperCities decline of cities Baltimore: end-of-era row houses Detroit: detropiathefilm | attacking blight with citizen-driven data: Loveland Utopia/Dystopia Urban Planning history 24

1869: Riverside, IL farming rooftop: brooklyngrangefarm | What color is your roof? vertical: plantagon forestry advocacy: Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition | assessing and managing community forests: i-Tree planning & government floating urbanization: DeltaSync infill development shelter for all: unhabitat soundscaping traffic commuting: reverse location neighborhoods megacities Modern City government bankruptcy: Detroit | Harrisburg, PA Economic Development in general: art: Murat Germen | citiscapes: Chicago Hines | climate change: c40cities | conferences: Re-Imagining Cities big cities | coolhunting: thrillist | density: persquaremile | elements of style | gamification: paper model, urbanology | ideas: bmwguggenheimlab | magazines: cityscapesdigital.net | models: miniatures, Shanghai, model your town sketchup | offshore: Petropolis | pace of life | parking: parkinginmotion, parkatmyhouse, parkwhiz, sfpark, streetline | rankings: World’s most livable cities | science of cities: mobile data | sensor networks: senseable | transportation: Citymapper | travel guides: valet | trees: urbanair | trends: microurbanist books, portals, radio: Chicago From The Sky: A Region Transformed Okrent | complexity: The New Science of Cities Batty | Next City | NPR Cities Project | Rebel Cities Harvey | Smart Cities Townsend | The Olympic City | Tactical Urbanism Street Plans | Triumph of the City Glaeser Time | Modeling | Visualization | Plants | Crowd | more Earth’s Envelope

Climate Change How does one protect and enhance the value of a real estate asset, community, and infrastructure as the climate changes and sea levels rise? in general: about | advocacy: NextGen Climate, People’s Climate March | www.nrdc.org | activism | Arctic: treaty, walruses | blogs: climate feedback, Icy Seas 25

| business opportunity: Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming Funk | cap & trade | carbon offset | cities: mosquitoes | CO2 levels: co2now | data: data.gov.climate | drought: low rivers | economics: The Climate Casino Nordhaus | glacier deflation: www.extremeicesurvey.org | organizations: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC | rising sea levels rising sea levels | sensor networks: neoninc, Tibetan Plateau | thought leaders: Bill McKibben | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Kyoto Protocol Muenchow

rising sea levels: cities: adaptation | housing: Lagos Water Communities Project books/movies: Chasing Ice big idea | The Island President Issues | Fields of Technology | Hydrosphere | Biosphere | Sensors | more Fields of Technology / Information processing & systems

Cloud Computing

What are the risks of cloud computing? Will moving to the Cloud mean giving up control? How do we make sure the virtual environment is trustworthy? How can we enforce policies? How can we monitor (and respond to) attacks? How can we make these clouds energy efficient? Can we trust a virtual machine infrastructure? Can we monitor the security properties of a cloud? How do we know if the system we are monitoring is operating correctly? in general: chargeback: cloudcruiser | consulting services: glasshouse | cyber threat management: seculert advanced persistent threat | decision-making: Choosing a Cloud Hosting Provider with Confidence thawte | desktop: cloudtop | development tools: cloudbees | encryption: vaultive | java app development: cloudbees | personal: jolicloud | protection & availability storage (PAS): actifio | resources: cloud computing central | science helix-nebula.eu big idea | shipping services: shipwire | storage: cleversafe | testbed| vendors: appirio, cloudshare, netapp, opsource, rightscale | video: Prism Skylabs visualizing spaces | web site hosting: cloudflare | whitelabel personal clouds: funambol applications: accounting: http://us.intacct.com, xero | ad clipper: adkeeper | book: Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott | application development: ravellosystems | browser disposable: authentic8| business intelligence: www.pivotlink.com, www.successmetricsinc.com | call center: www.five9.com | content delivery: http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront | content management: clickability | corporate performance management: www.hostanalytics.com | digital media distribution: overdrive | financial aid: www.regenteducation.com | fleet management: www.xata.com | health & human services: www.harmonyis.com | insurance: www.unirisx.com | IP geolocation: quova | IT automation and virtualization: www.surgient.com | labor: crowdflower| lead generation: actonsoftware, www.eloqua.com | meetings management: http://www2.starcite.com | payroll: cloudpay | pdf converter | power point presentations: www.pptshare.com | property management | ruby on rails deployment: engineyard | sales analytics: 26

www.cloud9analytics.com | sales intelligence: www.insideview.com | scalabale workforce: www.mturk.com surveys | security & compliance: qualys | software testing: www.utest.com | storage: www.pods.com | subscription billing: ariasystems, www.zuora.com | supply chain software: www.intervolve.com | technical support: iyogi | word processing: http://writer.zoho.com medical: case management: eccentex | gene mapping: dnanexus| imaging: lifeimage | project/practice: carecloud data centers: www.datacenterknowledge.com | capacity planner: fieldviewsolutions | co-location: www.interxion.com | cooling: Clustered Systems | DC power: www.validusdc.com | energy management: synapsense | infrastructure-as-a-service: singlehop | ISO 27001 certified | management: itracs, sciencelogic | power optimization: powerassure | real-time monitoring: fieldviewsolutions | scale-up: www.qlayer.com | securing servers: cloudpassage | software: joyent, viridity | virtualization: www.altornetworks.com, SolarWinds servers: low power: seamicro | managed hosting: www.rackspace.com | virtualization www.appnexus.com | www.cirba.com articles: When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism Schneier Big Data | Decisions | Trust | Crowd | Enterprise | more Innovation

Collaboration most (big) achievements are achievements of a team in general: about | academic: academicroom | art+science: Art at the Interface, CERN | cloud: centraldesktop, cx | conference calls: speek | enterprise: huddle sharepoint | live discussions: crowdoptic | online real-time editor: five tools | physicians: sermo | portals: co.create | theicosamagazine | social community: thebackplane | software development: atlassian, github | spaces & places: Grind, think[box] | technical teams: flowdock | translational medicine: Science Translational Medicine | whiteboards: groupboard teams: communication: slack | retreat for programmers: Hacker School | team building: gone bad NPR | technical teams: flowdock web casting: www.freeconference.com | gotomeeting | join.me | www.netviewer.com | www.webdialogs.com wikis: enterprise: www.socialtext.com, www.twiki.net | Microsoft office: thinkfree | online communities: www.wikia.com | openstreetmap articles: Redistributing Leadership in Online Creative Collaboration Luther Design | Teaching | Location | Writing | Art | more

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Social Groups Language & Communication

Communication

Models of communication: sending/receiving messages/info from sender to receiver Types of communication Nonvocal signs: sign language for math and science symbols about | book: Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art Schuster | encyclopedia: symbols | flags: new mexico | images Vocal humor story: The Moth Psychology of communication: personality trait called persuasibility is important in general: coaching: Dardis Communications | degree programs: communicationsdegree | smartphones: SpeakingPhoto Radio | Apps | Jobs | Popular Culture | more Marketing

Competition What are the barriers to entry? Who are the company's five top competitors in terms of financial strength and market share? What does a competitor comparative analysis show about our company's market, product position, and pricing? Are there any expected new entries to the market? Has management developed defensive and offensive strategies to deal with new competing products and services? How will this impact sales and profits? in general: antitrust: Department of Justice Antitrust Division | aerospace: avitas, g2globalsolutions | annual reports: The Public Register Online | book: Competitive Strategy Porter | citing sources: www.noodletools.com/quickcite | competitor intelligence: www.attaain.com, Compass Monitor, hoovers, www.scip.org | corporate info: www.corporateinformation.com | www.hoovers.com | information asymmetry | patent search: www.uspto.gov | ratings: www.ambest.com, www.moodys.com, Standard & Poors | search: masterseek | www.thomasnet.com antitrust: Will the power of the crowd in cyberspace obsolete the concept of a monopoly? If the company is dominant in its market, are there any potential antitrust problems? Does the company use intellectual property as a club to coerce customers and rivals? Is the company slowing innovation in the marketplace by destroying existing or potential competitors? Does the company seek interoperability alliances with its competitors? Does this activity violate any antitrust laws? Does the company effectively set the technical standards for its industry? Does this then allow the company to exert substantial control over the competition? | Antitrust Hovenkamp | pornography: MindGeek

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espionage: Trust but verify. Reagan | CIA: CIA, Inc: Espionage & the Craft of Business Intelligence Rustmann | explosives detection: www.revealimaging.com foreign imports: Does the company face noticeable competition from foreign imports? What are the company’s advantages/disadvantages compared to competing foreign imports? What are the applicable U.S. tariff controls to these imports? articles & reports: U.S. Competitiveness and the Chinese Challenge Xiaonian Online Ads | Key Indicators | Core Technology | Crowd | Business Intelligence | more Legal Information and Compliance

Compliance to Regulations Is there a trend towards more government regulation in this industry? Does the company have in place an effective ethics and workplace compliance program to guide the actions of employees? Does the company have automated compliance systems in place such that the company can use foreign contractors or outsource outside the United States confident that export controlled information will remain secure? in general: commodities: ekaplus | document management: nextdocs | Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Walmart | Long-Term Archive: www.permabit.com | online compliance management systems: www.enviance.com, www.healthflash.com, lumigent | RoHS compliance portable x-ray: www.innov-x-sys.com anonymous reporting: Is the company trying to create an ethical environment? Do employees know how to report illegal or unethical activities using an anonymous hotline? Are avenues for reporting malfeasance actively promoted to suppliers and investors? safety: Is the company a candidate for accreditation under the SA8000 standards (Social Accountability)? (a) child labor; (b) forced labor; (c) health; (d) safety | DuPont’s STOP safety training program | noninvasive alcohol testing American Disabilities Act (ADA): law: www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm, www.adata.org | apps: axsmap Biotechnology | Corporate Governance | Employees | Enterprise Systems | more Information Processing & Communications

Computer Science

History: progression of mechanical to mathematical to modern concepts/machines Architecture: describes a computer system by specifying its parts and their relations Software Software & Web Development artificial intelligence Theory: the modern study of logic and computability Impact of computer systems: everything in daily life incorporates computer systems 29

High-Performance Computing more Information Technology

Computer Security Does IT have the capability to simulate attacks on the network to locate and fix vulnerabilities? When was the last security audit? How high a priority is information security for the company? Who has been the source of a security breach or corporate (economic) espionage in the past year? How much money has the company lost as a result of breaches or espionage in the past twelve months? What is the most important element of the company's information security policy? Are computer users familiar with the security policy? What are the most significant barriers to implementing effective security in the company? What is the potential for daily revenue loss should an attack lock up one of more production servers? in general: automated auditing: Tripwire | book: Network Security Assessment by Chris McNab | Endpoint Compliance Enforcement (ECE) : lumension | enterprise monitoring: www.q1labs.com | organizations: www.issa.org, www.isaca.org, www.asisonline.org | plug-and-deploy appliance: quorumlabs disaster recovery appliance | vulnerability management: beyondtrust, rapid7 encryption: data protection: gazzang, Thales | electronic signature: www.docusign.com, signnow | embedded: PRESENT | enterprise systems: Symantec, www.venafi.com, www.voltage.com | portable: ithinksecurity phishing: anti-phishing protection: Symantec | training: phishme Competition | Cloud Computing | Cybersecurity | Enterprise Systems | more Fields of Technology / Contruction

Construction

Materials concrete: Concrete International sp |solidiatech Green Recycling Supply Chain Management Buildings Construction of civil engineering works bridges: highest prefabrication and shop fabrication: books: Prefabulous World | quadror Project Management: measuring progress D4AR in general: big projects 2012 | BIM: vicosoftware | financial services: www.bluetarp.com | flight assembly | mobile systems: www.awarenessnetworks.com, AutoDesk | online collaboration: aconex | plans & specs: http://planexpress.net, plangrid | preconstruction management: 30

www.isqft.com | prefabricated: projectfrog, www.rocioromero.com | structural bamboo: www.lamboo.us | supply chain services: www.homesphere.com books: Concrete Hall Home | Architecture | Buildings | Electronics | Energy | more Marketing

Content Management Do we have a content management system that will prevent the accumulation of outdated information, dead sites, typos, and unnecessary storage and support costs across multiple web sites and thousands of pages? Do we hear complaints of visitors getting lost within our site(s)? Are we regularly weeding out stray pages that might be useful to competitors, hackers or even terrorists? Have we optimized visitor experience from entry to shopping cart? in general: buy/sell content: Yahoo Voices, mochila, skyword, synacor | content monitoring: www.codegreennetworks.com, www.hisoftware.com | extract important parts of any web page: diffbot | load fast: yottaa | multi-screen: phunware |open source: plone | revenue-generation: OpenText, www.venetica.com | sharing: sharaholic | web publishing: acquia, ceros document management: cloud: digabit, , springcm | enterprise: www.archivesystems.com, www.falcondocumentmanagement.co.uk, Perceptive Software | free documents: www.docstoc.com | online document production: www.mimeo.com | technical documents: latex-project forms & agreements: create: Adobe FormsCentral, filemaker, formotus, goformz | documents: legalzoom | forms online: allbusiness, formdesk, templates scanning: professional imaging services: scanics | text-to-speech: www.plustek.com subscription services: billing management: recurly | recurring reenue: zuora Digital | Radio | Mobile | Online Ads | Self-Publish | more Manufacturing & Distribution

Continuous Improvement Does the company have a regular process of scanning the entire company's inventory of equipment and processes for obsolescence? Does the company review long-term contracts on some cycle for all suppliers? criticism: about | plus-ing an idea quality management: Does the company have a quality manual? What procedures does the company have for testing incoming raw materials and component parts? What are the quality standards for each component and material? What happens to parts or shipments that fail quality standards? What happens to finished goods that do not pass quality tests? What is the average failure rate for products in final test? 31

What has been the company's experience with each supplier of key components? Has any customer or governing body in any of the company's markets mandated a requirement that the company be ISO registered in certain areas? Does the company employ any full-time quality management staff? When was the last external audit? How complete and accurate are the quality records? What system is in place to reduce the possibility of internal theft? in general: hotwash | time & motion: deming | video auditing: arrowsight Business Process Reengineering | Checklists | Manufacturing and Distribution | more Social Organization & Change

Coolhunting

Nerdists rule. What matters more : What 10,000 random people think of a particular idea, or what 50 of the most respected and informed professionals think about it? in general: The Rise Of The Credible Mass Belsky | racing: The Gentleman’s Guide to Racing | teens: The Merchants of Cool | videos: epipheostudios, vimeo awards, www.youtube.com/user/coolhunting | virtual clubbing: www.be-at.tv | young voter registration: Rock the Vote | style: Inevitably, things come back. | zeitgeist | zeroenergy classrooms: www.projectfrog.com coolhunters: coolhunting | www.edge.org | http://formatmag.com | pinterest | www.refinery29.com | http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com | blogs: boingboing | brands: the-collaboratory | startups: techcrunch | theinspirationroom | trendwatching | www.well.com | yatzer gifts: curated: wantful | gselect | pockitt | registry: simpleregistry | surprise me: quarterly.co luxury shopping: by invitation only: www.ideeli.com | China: hk970 | second-hand: www.portero.com shoes: b-ball: chuck taylor | running: http://newtonrunning.com | tags: sizeten articles, books: Coolhunting for the World's Thought Leaders Frick big ideas | Pattern Recognition Gibson Issues | Travel | Sports | Stages | TV | more Management and Best Practices

Core Competency

focus to a point like a pencil What constitutes a core business? What are the corporation's core competencies? Are the company's strategies tightly coupled to these core competencies? How visible is the core competency outside the corporation? Can competitors easily replicate this core competency? Can the company protect against this? Could 32

outsourcing certain functions enable the company to better focus on its core business? Eighty-Twenty Principle big idea : Can it be said that 20% of our products, or customers, or employees, are really responsible for about 80% of our profits? Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? Does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions? If this is true, how do we best use this knowledge? Which products will yield the highest increase in revenues (profits) for a given investment in product enhancement and/or marketing? Which products should we harvest and/or discontinue? Which customers should we keep or not keep? Books: Creating Customer Evangelists McConnell | Strategic Management and Core Competencies Drejer | The 80/20 Principle Koch Core Technology | Design | Management | Risks | Sales | more Management & Best Practices

Core Technology Do you know what is best-in-class and best-in-any-class? What is the corporation's core technology? What is the company doing to maintain or improve its technology position? Does management have a clear strategy for value development of its core technologies? At what stage in the product life cycle is each of the company’s core products? Has the company coasted too long in a technology comfort zone? Is management evaluating the replacement of declining-margin products with higher-margin products? What changes in technology does management foresee in the future? How will this impact the company? How visible is the core technology outside the corporation? Can competitors easily replicate this core technology? What is the company doing to protect its core technology? In what ways is the company leveraging its core technology? S.W.O.T: What are the three top Strengths in the company? What are the three top Weaknesses in the company? What are the three top Opportunities in the company? What are the three top Threats in the company? in general: news: Technology Review Competition | Core Competency | Information Technology (IT) | Innovation | more Methods of Business Organization

Corporate Governance Acquisitions | Antitrust | Articles of Incorporation | Associations | Audit Committee | Board Agenda | Board Audit Committee | Board Chairperson | Board Committees | Board Makeup | Board Nominating Committee | Board of Directors | Board Performance Evaluation | Board Prerogatives | Board Tenure | CEO | Compliance to Regulations | Constituencies | Cumulative Voting | Economic Development | Enron | Ethics | Executive Compensation | Growth | Investor Relations | Key Indicators | Management and Best Practices | Methods of Business Organization | Philanthropy | 33

Risk Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Small Business | Stockholders | Strategic Planning | Sustainability | What If? | Women on the Board | more What are the most important issues facing directors? corporate development policy: Has the board developed a formal corporate development policy? Has the board clarified the responsibilities of officers and other members of management? Is there an internal management committee for reviewing all transactions before board review and approval? What controls are in place to ensure management's compliance with the corporate development policy? transparency: Has the board adopted and acted on the philosophy that transparency with shareholders and all constituencies is good governance that can directly reduce risk and increase market valuation and shareholder value? | www.conferenceboard.org Reseearch Parks

Co-Working Space in general: about | multidisciplinary mashups: Geekdom | pay-it-forward: gangplank | revenue: $50/sf/year hackerspaces: bio: biocurious, genspace.org | Case Western: thinkbox | hackerdojo | history: L0pht | hostels | how-to: www.mindbites.com, eHow, www.wonderhowto.com | makezine | 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse by Garth Johnson | tinkering: about, Artisan & Fab Lab, tinkering school incubators and accelerators: Chicago: 1871 | China: innovation-works | corporations: When Big Companies Support Start-ups… Mitra | food & restaurant: lacocinaf | FREE!: commnexus | health applicatons: rockhealth | IT: galvanize Denver | Orange County: OCTANe.org | tandementrepreneurs | USC: Viterbi Startup Garage | US-China: innospring.net | virtual: Incubator-In-A-Box articles and books : aStore | A Comprehensive Guide to Business Incubation Erlewine | Start Small: Why Tinkerers Get Things Done McGuinness | Startup Nation clusters Entrepreneurship | New Products | Collaboration | Libraries | Innovation | more Ideas

Creativity Is risking a part of creativity? Are people more creative in green spaces biophilia hypothesis? Why? What kind of thinker are you? Does the uncertainty of creative ideas make people uncomfortable? Do people dismiss creative ideas in favor of low-risk, tried-and-true approaches? How much does objective evidence motivate people to accept creative ideas? Does anti-creativity bias block peoples’ ability to recognize a good idea? What can children teach adults about doodling? in general: cards: intuiti | courses: crash course | creativityatwork | deciding/picking: sleep on it | doodling: doodle4google, themonsterengine | festivals: lunga | gaia: 34

Biophilia Wilson | imagination | information management: www.mindjet.com | inventiveness: The Art of Rube Goldberg George | mindtools | motivation | portals: fastcocreate, 99u | strawman proposal | testing: National Creativity Aptitude Test NCAT | whack of the day: creativethink | whiteboards: groupboard, wall flow: about | Are you in the channel? Innovation: old technology acoustic speaker + new technology 3D printing = innovation space: Where do people do their best thinking? How does environment/space impact creativity and innovation? What characteristics, elements or resources from other peoples’ environments might be applied in your spaces? How would people describe the ideal environment that inspires collaboration and teamwork to produce more creativity and innovation? | shop: The Aviary Collaboration | Humor | Mind Wandering | Music | think2ool | more Law

Crime, Corruption, Power, Violence, Cronyism Was GM too big to fail? sp How can we rethink security beyond mass incarceration? How can transnational organized crime networks be stopped? Is there anything goingon in the company that can result in an Enron-style financial collapse? in general: archive: Crime Library | biology: The Anatomy of Violence Raine | city shootings: ceasefirechicago, Cradle-to-Grave Program | cybersecurity: antiphishing, AccessData, onguardonline | depravity: Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky | gangs: Home Boy Industries, knockout game | gun violence/control: gun-rights lobby | insider trading: Rajaratnam | jewel thieves: Pink Panthers | kidnapping | organized crime: Hell’s Angels | policing software: Mark43 | recidivism: don’t go home NPR | research: Crime Lab | school shootings | sex offenders: Miracle Village | TV shows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_television_dramas, Orange is the New Black prison | whistleblower: about |white collar: nw3c insider trading: Has the company made a reasonable effort to make all insiders (executives, employees, directors) aware of the insider trading rules? | documentary: To Catch a Trader | SEC Filings: www.10kwizard.com power: Have political partisan attacks escalated to the point of criminalizing political differences? How is power consolidated in the company? Are directors careful to not get involved in the internal politics of the company? | greed: about, The Wolf of Wall Street books/movies: con: American Hustle, Pink Panther, The Sting | Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky | Inside Job | Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy Johnston | The Onion Field Wambaugh Religion | Emotion | Democracy | Family | Politics | more 35

Risk Management

Crisis Management Has the company rehearsed its responses to various crises? Does the company carry business interruption insurance? Is the CEO responding promptly and decisively? Are we communicating frankly and truthfully? Do we have the internal competencies to manage the crisis, or do we need outside expertise? How is it going to affect the bottom line? board of directors: How can the board help? Did the board stay calm and united, get the facts and assess the situation? Was the board’s involvement timely and appropriate? Did the board stay on top of the situation? Was the board helpful to the CEO? Did the crisis reveal any weaknesses in the company’s strategic planning and risk management processes? How might we apply what we have learned to improve the way the board functions and relates to the CEO? disaster relief agencies: Action Against Hunger | American Red Cross | CARE | Direct Relief International | Doctors Without Borders | HED | International Medical Corps | International Relief Teams | Meds and Food for Kids | Mercy Corps | Operation USA | Oxfam America | Partners in Health | Save the Children | Stop Hunger Now | UNICEF | World Concern | Yele Haiti emergency disaster plans: Does the company have a written plan kept off-site to guide the restart of the business in the event of major fire, flood, or other catastrophe of nature? Are the appropriate people trained in the implementation of the plan? | campus security: ravewireless | book: Damage Control Dezenhall | emergency kits: redcrossstore | human behavior: man made vs natural | incident lifecycle management (ILM): interact911 | on-demand systems: sendwordnow | prepare/recover: planning, restoreyoureconomy | wireless LAN: rajant Water | Network | Practice of Medicine | Risk Management | What If? | more Fields of Technology

Critical Infrastructures

Energy Alternative Fuels research: Energy Security Trust Electricity: Smart Grid Nuclear Power Solar Energy Water Internet Recycling Telecommunications: communication electrical/electromagnetic signals/waves Transportation questions: What is the current state of our assets? What is the required level of service and performance? Which assets are critical to sustained performance? What 36

are the best investment strategies for both operations and maintenance and capital improvement? What is the best long-term funding strategy? What can we learn from European Union’s long-term integrated infrastructure planning? in general: land policy think tank: www.lincolninst.edu | Report Card for America's Infrastructure Sustainability |Cybersecurity | Change | Smart Grid | Trustworthy Systems | more Marketing

CRM

in general: auto dealer service: xtime | appointment scheduling: timetrade | channel management: www.talisma.com, zymesolutions | conversation analytics: callminer | CRM open source systems: www.sugarcrm.com | gmail-based: streak | higher education: Hobsons | platforms: Microsoft Dynamics | small business: www.infusionsoft.com | speech analytics: www.callminer.com, Genesys influencer marketing: To find the best-connected individuals in your network, ask the people in your network. | advocate marketing: influitive | identify influencers: klout, peerindex, peoplebrowsr, traackr | mylikes | pursway | testimonials: Post Kudos | volunteers: high school, college books: Influence: Science and Practice Cialdini | The New Influencers Gillin Sales | Social | Trust | Advertising | Big Data | more Knowledge Management

Crowd Sourcing, Funding, Decision Making crowdsourcing quiet, beauty and happiness: UrbanGems Is the crowd always wise jury theorem? What is the crowd looking at? in general: www.cambrianhouse.com | animal classification: snapshotserengeti | bug bounty programs: bugcrowd | bus routing: datero | creative design 99designs | dell: ideastorm | digitizing books: reCAPTCHA | drawings: Draw A Friend | enterprise social innovation: spigit | fashion: fabricly | fiction: Are You Certain? sp big ideas | gaming: fold.it, hivemind | grading homework: crowdgrader | medical: crowdmed | military intervention: KONY 2012 | mobile app testing: utest | ranking: ranker, top10 | sales: www.right90.com | science: galaxyzoo, fish species id | skills testing & ranking: smarterer | social media: ushahidi | telepathology malaria | travel planning: mygola | videos: thejohnnycashproject | poptent funding: benchmarking deals: equitynet | platforms: crowdvalley, RocketHub | podcast: The New Disruptors real time: focus: How to Perfect Real-Time Crowdsourcing | opinions: thumb | twitter-generated: poptip Research | Predictive | Social Media | Cities | Services | more 37

Production & Utilization of Wealth/Money

Currency and Exchange

Will the rise of Bitcoin bring a monetary paradigm shift that will forever change the world? What has been the impact of the fluctuating value of the dollar on the company's import and export activities? What protective measures does the company take against currency fluctuations? What exploitive measures does the company take with respect to currency fluctuations? in general: calculators: www.x-rates.com | open source: opencoin | paper: fortresspaper | sending/receiving: stellar | trading: forex, www.fxall.com, www.oanda.com | virtual currencies: amazon coins, webmoney | Wolfson Economics Prize big idea bitcoin: about: FBI assessment | ATM | buy/use/accept: coinbase | documentary:

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin

Payment | Globalization | Financial | Risk | Inflation | more Marketing

Customer Feedback How likely is it that you would recommend net promoter us to a friend or colleague? In what ways does the company gather customer feedback? How is our product being rated and reviewed? Are we proactively managing the organization based on realtime, accurate understanding of each stakeholder's brand experience? focus groups: local: meetups | products: gutcheckit questions for customers: Do you like the product? Has the company lived up to its claim of quality? Have you ever been shipped defective goods? Has customer service met your expectations? Was the price fair? How important is brand identity to you? How would you compare the company's product(s) vs. competitors? Will you buy from the company again? How much will you spend? What changes would you suggest in the product(s)? What is your impression of the company's employees? in general: books: The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth Reichheld | complaints: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | corporate reputations: www.bbb.org, www.planetfeedback.com | local services: http://cityvoter.com | loyalty: Net Promoter |mobile: talkbin | product reviews: www.reevoo.com, viewpoints, wize | real-time customer intelligence: NICE | surveys: mshare | track what customers are saying: callminer speech analytics, www.w2groupinc.com | user relationship management: user communities E-commerce | Big Data | Brand | Crowd | Market | more

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Sales and Customer Service

Customer Service and Satisfaction What are the top service complaints? What have been the most costly complaints? What is the trend in customer complaints? How does customer service interact with sales? Does the company use any third-party providers? Does the company have a system in place for automatic response and follow-through to e-mail requests for information and/or customer service? Is the company integrating an online learning center within its e-commerce platform to increase brand loyalty and sales? Are product returns easy and efficient for the customer? in general: automated: http://web.interactions.net | book: The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence Spector | happiness guarantee: Tesla | mobile: desk, www.experticity.com | winner-take-all call centers: Is the company reducing its brick-and-mortar capital investments by using a remote agent network? | automated virtual agents: spoken, Nina Web, [24]7 | clusters: India, Portugal | on-demand: www.liveops.com | quality control: www.hyperquality.com self-service: automated customer service: Nuance technical support: automated systems: www.nextnine.com | online: www.fixya.com, iyogi, www.plumchoice.com | remote monitoring: axeda | software: zendesk | user manual: search: http://owneriq.net/ | PCs: backup: www.carbonite.com | online technical support : www.plumchoice.com | optimize: soluto voice self-service: animated character: www.sitepal.com | online self-service: Astute Solutions Pricing | Big Data | AI | Digital Content | Intl | more War

Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, Cyber Warfare Should the NSA be broken up? big ideas Are we moving towards a surveillance state, or is the idea of online privacy a myth? Is cybercrime a bigger threat than terrorism? in general: conferences & training: blackhat | consultants: savidtech | critical infrastructure: carmaggedon | cyber armies | education & awareness: esetfoundation.org, Natonal Cyber Security Hall of Fame | homeland security: Fusion Centers | Innovation: security-innovation | policy & regulation: CISPA, Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program | portal: Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center | research: Cyber Security Research Alliance | science of cyberspace | stuxnet: article, symantec whitepaper | tools list | video series: Building a Cybersecurity Program Tutorial | vulnerability scanning: auraredeye 39

enterprise: How cyber-secure are public companies? Do the (a) risks associated with cyber incidents, (b) the costs of mitigating those risks, and (c) the consequences of a cyber incident rise to the level of materiality that would require disclosure to investors and regulatory authorities? Are you certain your employees do not send intellectual property or private data over any Internet channel, including Gmail and Facebook? Do you understand the security policies of your offshore providers? | network policy management: untangle hacking & hactivism: cars: DARPA | conferences: DEFCON | gamification: controlalthack | hackers: anonymous, Cult of the Dead Cow, LulzSec, Syrian Electronic Army, the consortium | search for hackers: shodanhq | tools: Burp Suite, fakenamegenerator, 411.info, Ping Tree | training: www.thehackeracademy.com, the jargon file | Web Hacking Incident Database incident response: analysis: prelert | detect & respond: countertack, mandiant, soleranetworks | info management: www.fishnetsecurity.com | situational awareness: lgscout malware: Can biology serve as an effective model of the signature (genome) of malware? | botnet | heartbleed | worm: configur, flame, stuxnet | W32.Duqu protection: website security: shapesecurity war: Was Stuxnet an act of war? How do we define and differentiate cyber crime and cyber war? What are the obstacles and difficulties on international cyber arms limitation? | international law: The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare books: Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Singer | Cyber War Clarke | Cyber War Will Not Take Place Rid | Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet Berkman | The Director War | Anarchy | Network | Critical Infrastructures | Jobs | more Mathematics / Applied

Data Mining

Are we making critical business decisions with the benefit of automatic geoparsing tools to discover spatial patterns from large quantities of data linked to a geographical location? in general: animal tracking | book: Web Data Mining Liu | content optimization: ramp | data warehousing: infobright, kalido | forecasting large-scale human behavior big ideas | geointelligence: metacarta | open source tool for analyzing large data sets: www.cloudera.com | personal digital profile | security: imperva, privatecore, McAfee | unstructured text analysis: www.clarabridge.com Mapping | Big Data | Biotechnology | BI | Cloud | more

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Information Technology

Databases

Does the company maintain a secured inventory of all its databases of measurable intangible value? Does IT have a strategy for managing the data growth on the network and maintaining the necessary performance levels for mission critical systems? in general: audting: www.lumigent.com | data integration: www.expressorsoftware.com | find data: infochimps | geographically distributed relational SQL database server: TransLattice | hardware scalability: clustrix | open data platforms: factual, junar, safecast radiation | security: Trustwave | virtualization: delphix | warehousing: paraccel statistics: Best Places: www.bestplaces.net | Bureau of Labor Statistics: www.bls.gov | computing: revolution-computing | Fedstats: www.fedstats.gov | Internet Statistics: www.clickz.com/stats | popular culture: Harper’s Index | population: factfinder | Regional Data: www.econdata.net | U.S. Statistical Abstract: www.census.gov/compendia/statab | UMich Documents Center: www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs | US Census Datamaps: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html Big Data | Cloud | Open Source | Population | Research | more Thought & Thought Processes

Decision Making

What are the questions to ask for the really hard decisions? How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change? Can you spot the key patterns? Can you extract critical insights from data? in general: about | choice overload | confirmation bias | crowd-sourced: ahoona, small vs big | groups: collaboration platform, group think | medicine: participatorymedicine | rubric | software: quid | Star Trek: Theories of Decision Making | think tanks: Center for Decision Research | tools & techniques: mindtools | visualization: Waymark Systems intuition: counterintuitive | gut instinct | sixth sense lessons of history: Are those who cannot remember the past, condemned to repeat it? Santayana | bubbles: We loosen mortgage standards, there’s a bubble, and then there’s a crash | holocaust museum: www.ushmm.org | power corrupts | timing for shared sacrifice books: Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis Allison | How We Decide Lehrer | Judgment Calls Davenport | Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich Shirer | The Diary of Anne Frank | Thinking Fast and Slow Kahneman Predictive | Politics | Entrepreneurship | Startups | Services | more

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Political concepts, ideologies, and problems

Democracy

For a Chinese living in China, everyone craves for democracy, looking at it, longing for it. Zhang Xin in general: about | America: Democracy in America De Tocqueville | leadership: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Turkey, Profiles in Courage Kennedy | portal: democracynow | quotes: We are the friends of liberty everywhere, custodians only of our own. Jefferson Crime | Leadership | Anarchism | Capitalism | China | more Particular Arts / Design

Design

product roadmap: An Introduction to Design Thinking Process Guide Plattner in general: active design: Center for Active Design | appliances: delonghi, Dieter Rams | carpet: land carpet | cars: Toyota | complexity: Spruce Goose |conferences, festivals, forums: A Better World by Design, Milan Design Week, pechakucha presentations, Reasons to be Creative | daily deals: fab | digital: thingiverse | firms: peoplepeople, porsche-design, think2build | foods: labstoreparis | glass blowing: esquedesign | graphic design: In Search Of The Miraculous or One Thing Leads To Another Glaser | hotels: bellaskycomwell, designhotels | materials: Material Innovation Dent | mentoring: The Dinner Series | portals: Change Your Game, designboom, Design Indaba, fastcodesign, Komfort prague, psfk new ideas and inspiration | process: pinterest | schools: dschool | search for creatives: thecreativefinder | skyscrapers: Adrian Smith | stationery: twiddleandbard | textiles: Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010 Volker | umbra furniture: brands: bludot, Vitra, homecode modular, LIMN, vitra | chairs: acapulco chair, blowfield inflatable, gesture | desks: focaluprightfurniture, stand-up | objects: everyday objects jewelry: www.ice.com | designer: baublebar | n-e-r-v-o-u-s | private home parties: stelladot interiors: flooring: Cuban tiles |glass doors: nanawall | lighting: davidweeksstudio | six-sided transparent tiling vinyl: hex6agon | stairways Collaborate | Drawing | Homes | Books | New Products | more Technology

Development of Technology History of Technology Technology and contemporary life: Utopia / Dystopia Intellectual Property Innovation International Space Station: the most complex machine ever built big ideas Organization of Human Work 42

Organization of work supplies: poppin Application of scientific methods Research and Development Time management The Morning Person sp tracking time: getklok team/projects, rescuetime computer Relation between man and machine Trustworthy Systems DIY Education for Technology What does it take to effectively interest and prepare students to participate in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce of the future? | search: goorulearning Is rapid technological change destroying jobs faster than it is creating them? in general: conferences: D, www.nature.com/nature/meetings/scifoo/index.html | consultants: Accenture | idea forum: ted | market research: hype cycle, www.luxresearchinc.com | news: www.xconomy.com | top ten IT books and articles: Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? Oncken | Ruling the Waves Spar | Technology, Humans, and Society Dorf | The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood Gleick Marketing | Big Data | Future | Management | Randomness | more Particular Arts / Broadcasting

Digital Content

Neon is organizing the world’s images and finding the ones you care about. in general: any device to any device: twistpair | digital magazines: www.newsstand.com, www.zinio.com | digital rights management: FileOpen, iManuscript | distribution: Velocix, overdrive | end-to-end system: www.vantrix.com | enterprise platforms: acquia | entertainment: www.deca.tv, http://wwbiggies.com | fastmobile | Integrated customer management: amdocs | mobile phones: mig33 | multi-format print/electronic publishing: RR Donnelly | nature/wildlife field guides: greenmountaindigital | podcasting: NPR | photos: www.eye.fi | real-time compression: storewize | royalty tracking: www.royaltyshare.com | self-service ad platform: isocket | slide-to-digital converter | video compression: envivio Libraries | Intellectual Property | Content | Photos | Drawing | more Development of Technology / Human Work

DIY do it yourself

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in general: democratization of making | about | apps: Mobile Makers Academy | autos: local motors design | bicycles: sandwhichbikes | big data: clearstorydata | blocks: marble plans | bookmark: post-it sp | cakes: fondant | comics: I Draw Comics Sketchbook & Reference Guide | crafts: craft production, craftsy learn | digital designs: thingiverse | films: Robert Rodriguez, swedefest | fold tee shirt | forums: Boy/Girl Scouts, diynetwork, instructables, makerfaire | furniture: AtFAB, sketchchair | global village construction set: opensourceecology | guides: snapguide | hardware: Raspberry Pi | homegrown food | houses: WikiHouse | kids: DIY.org | knife kit | learn/teach: Boy Scouts, skillshare | legal documents: MOU sp, rocketlawyer | MacGyver | magazines & portals: familyhandyman, Makeshift | mapping: balloon mapping | marketing collaterals: makrplace | online bookstore: aStore | planners | projects: diynetwork | screen printing: Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, lumi.co | surfboards: mobile classroom | tee shirts: snorgtees, threadless | trading algorithms: quantopian | wall decals: stickytiki | woodblock prints: etchpop curation: art: articurate electronics: circuits: Circuit Scribe |hardware platform: teagueduino | infrared cameras: flir, infrared | keyboard: makeymakey | kits: Evil Mad Scientist | parts: radioshack, sparkfun | soldering: MightyOhm | spectrometry kit | synthesizer: littleBits hobbies & toys: cardboard animals: kineticcreatures | comic strip: magnetcomic | dollhouse | Free Universal Construction Kit | model airplanes: paper, thequadshot | robots: Moss repairs: carmd, ifixit | waterproofing: getflexseal tools & machines: fablab | laser cutting: epiloglaser | shop class: Shop Class as Soulcraft Crawford | windmills | zen and the art videos: cloud: animoto, shakr | film thyself: swivl | hyperlapse: Google Street View | mobile: directr.co | monetize: pivotshare | tracking shots: cinetics articles, blogs, books, magazines, portals: Animoto Video Platform for the NonProfessional sp | Make | ReadyMade 100 Project Manual | Handmade Nation Levine | The American Boy's Handy Book Beard Legal | 3D | Drones | Video | Innovation | more Particular Arts

Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography drawing and sketching about | buy what you love | chalk: Peter Han | crowd-sourced: sketchbookproject | diagrams: venn | digital: adonit.net, Adobe Ink & Slide | doodling: doodle, doodlersanonymous > toys: sunnylittlestudio | Excel spreadsheet: Tatsuo Horiuchi | learning: sketch-based learning | masters: Rembrandt | news: Wordless News | online: gliffy |optical tools: NeoLucida | 44

photo-to-sketch: mydavinci | sketchbooks: The Sketchbook Project | portraiture: fabulousnoble custom | posters: internationalposter | science illustration: scienceillustration | vector graphics: inkscape painting: hand-painted oils: dutchtouchart | murals: Pow Wow Hawaii | vermeer printmaking: Katsushika Hokusai photography other forms collage: Romare Bearden | thedumpsterproject dioramas: Anastassia Elias graffiti: davidchoe | reverse origami Akira Yoshizawa | engineering: Workshop on Origami Engineering | Paper Engineer’s Workshop | space structures | nano-structures papercutting: Joe Bagley, wycinanki street (urban) art floating art Global Model Village Slinkachu The Wrinkles of the City, Los Angeles JR tattooing: HORIKAZU. Lifework of the Tattoo Master Lifetime Learning | Design | Engineering | 3D | Autos | more Robotics

Drones in general: aquatic: ziphius | autonomous killing: terrorists | distribution: amazon | facial recognition: Drones With Facial Recognition Tech Will End Anonymity Conte | journalism: news gathering | Micro-Air Vehicles: MAV | modular: PlexiDrone | quadrocopters: Viacopter DIY | Modeling | Optimized Self | Issues | Utopia/Dystopia | more big picture

Earth

Earth’s Properties Earth’s Envelope Earth’s Surface Features Earth’s History Sensors | more

Earth

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Weather and Climate Atmospheric humidity and precipitation Precipitation clouds organizations: Cloud Appreciation Society pictures: Cloud Atlas research: clouds fog: fog on the boulevard sp rain: effects of dust storms Major forms of weather disturbances cold: polar vortex hurricanes National Hurricane Center: www.nhc.noaa.gov | perfect storm: book & film | Halloween Nor'easter of 1991 | Storm Sandy 2012 | superstorms: photos | supercell | video tornados: research Climate Change Meteorological measurement and weather forecasting darksky | data: Engineerng Weather Data | farms: vitalfields Is there a chance that human intervention could tip the entire world into a new climatic state? And if so, does that change what we should do about it? in general: advocacy: surfrider | local, regional, national info: Skye Explorer | rainbows | weather becomes art books, articles: global warming: An Inconvenient Truth Gore | Boiling Point Gelbspan | Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes Emanuel | Global Weirdness Climate Central | Quick-Change Planet: Do Global Climate Tipping Points Exist? Levitan | The Last Polar Bear Kazlowski | Understanding Weather and Climate Aguado Robotics | Unequivocals | Buildings | Photography | Biosphere | more Earth

Earth’s History Origin & Development of Earth: Earth is one-third the age of the universe Interpretation of the Geologic Record Paleontological interpretation dinosaurs: about | digital recreation Page Paleontology Science Center Eras & Periods of Geologic Time: chronological measurement of stratigraphy to time in general: www.scotese.com/earth.htm | time lapse imagery: Landsat Annual

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books: Earth: Portrait of a Planet Marshak | Historical Geology Wicander | Paleoclimatology Bradley | The Man Who Found Time Repcheck Change | more Earth

Earth’s Properties Planet Earth: Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest Physical Properties: the world or the Blue Planet Structure of Earth’s Interior: earth’s crust: Project Mohole Earth’s Constituent Minerals & Rocks: minerals are the building blocks of rocks in general: www.usgs.gov/science/science.php?term=287 | planet earth discovery books, magazines, movies: Earth Luhr | Earth's Dynamic Systems Hamblin | Foundations of Earth Science Tarbuck | Journey to the Center of the Earth science fiction | National Geographic | Planet Earth German Space Center | Smithsonian Handbooks: Rocks & Minerals Pellant Time | Big Data | Exploration | more Earth

Earth’s Surface Features Physical Features of the Earth’s Surface Vertical relief of the Earth's surface waterfalls: Niagara Falls Oceanic deeps and ridges coral islands, reefs, atolls: types | conservation: globalcoral | Marianna Volcanoes Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano: dynamic visualization of plume, pictures Philippines: Mount Mayon Geomorphic Processes Earth's major environments Subterranean environment: caves in general: Greenland is ice, and Iceland is green. | about | data: National Land Cover Database | google earth | high-resolution satellite imagery: geoeye books: A Sand County Almanac Leopold | Exercises in Physical Geology Hamblin | Fundamentals of Geomorphology Huggett | Mountain: Portraits of High Places Hill | Physical Geography McKnight World | Photography | Biosphere | Exploration | Maps | more History of Mankind

East, Central, South, SE Asia China to Late T’ang AD 755: T’ang imperial dynasty preceded by Sui China from T’ang to Ch'ing 755-1839: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800 47

Inner Asia to 1750: War-making across region and impact of firearms and artillery Japan & Korea to 1910: Treaty of 1910 made Korea protectorate of Japan India & Ceylon to 1200: evidence of Homo erectus 500,000 years ago India 1200-1761: Mughal Empire Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1200-1505: arrival of European Colonialists in the 16th century SE Asia to 1600: international demand for its unique forest and sea products in general: antiquities: tkasian more Philosophy

Eclecticism What do the objects we keep say about us? Which things are the ones we wouldn't want to live without? in general: about | activities: The Portlandia Activity Book | arts: nortemaar, paintedlightphotoframing, thespace, Zina Nicole Lahr | blogs: The Knowledge Effect | books: Book of Everything Holmes, Hello Nature Wegman | brand: shinola | cities: Marfa | coffee: bacon-flavored | conferences & festivals: fest300, ideacityonline, wanderlustfestival yoga | crafts: Haystack | essays: Kaufmann Mercantile | field & stream: mollyjogger | games: fredericksandmae | literature: dalkeyarchive, McSweeney’s, ninthletter, Oulipo | keepsakes: photo stories NPR | magazines: Prospect Magazine | music: Light in the Attic | performance: symphonyspace | portal: nowness | quirky | restaurants: dirtcandynyc, freemanrestaurant | travel: atlasobscura Women & Men | Entertainment | DIY | Family | Electronics | more Software & Web Development

Ecommerce

in general: auctions: auctionzip, channeladvisor, dovebid, equipnet, truition | barter: listia | design/develop: fluid | DIY: shoplocket, volusion | eLab: http://elab.vanderbilt.edu | Electronic Commerce Guide: www.ecommerceguide.com | on-demand: bluesnap, www.demandware.com, esellerpro, www.netsuite.com, www.shopatron.com, truition, www.venda.com | order fulfillment: www.comergent.com | personalization: baynote | platforms: elasticpath, mozu | product content management: www.webcollage.com | sales tax automation: avalara social commerce: bazaarvoice | thinkpassenger | worldofgood.ebay | consumerdriven: consumerist, ModCloth, needle, socialtoaster | social analytics: compete, trampolinesystems | user interest fingerprint: intenthq | word-of-mouth: paypal, zuberance | youth marketing: archrival books: Marketing to the Social Web Weber Retail | Social Media | Customer | Art | Competition | more 48

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Economic Conditions Does lowering the federal corporate income tax rate result in employers creating more jobs?

industry and market trends: Are companies concentrated in any particular way? Does this industry have a high dependence on key customers? What is the industry growth rate? What are the factors affecting future growth of the industry? Has there been any consolidation in the industry? Will the concentration in market share change in the next five years? Will price competition increase in the next five years? in geneal: Consumer Price Index (CPI): Chained CPI | economic data: Moody's, federal reserve beige book Janet Yellin | fuel prices: www.lundbergsurvey.com books: Ahead of the Curve Ellis | Recessions and Depressions Knoop Decisions | Competition | Inflation | International Business | Pricing | more Cities

Economic Development in general: Advanced Energy Economy | American Planning Association: www.planning.org | American Recovery & Reinvestment Act: www.recovery.gov | broadband development: broadbandillinois.org, gigabitsquared big idea | business attraction: Airbus to Mobile, AL | culture: micro-urban | data-driven solutions: Illinois Open Technology Challenge | Economic Development Administration: www.eda.gov | FEMA Federal Disaster Declarations: www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema | international: www.iedconline.org, Peace Corps, www.worldbank.org | local food systems: Double-Up Food Bucks SNAP | mashups: theironyard | modeling software: www.implan.com | multipliers: bea | out-migration: Illinois | rust belt refugees: Manufacturing Migration | visa programs: EB-5 books: Boomtown USA Schultz | Producing Prosperity Pisano Poverty | Globalization | Immigration | Women & Men | Balance | more big ideas

Edge.org To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. 2014: What scientific idea is ready for retirement? 2013: What should we be worried about? 2012: What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? 2011: What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? 2010: How is the Internet changing the way you think? 2009: What will change everything? 49

2008: What have you changed your mind about? Why? 2007: What are you optimistic about? 2006: What is your dangerous idea? 2005: What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? 2004: What’s your law? 2003: What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world…..? 2002: What is your question? Why? 2001: What now? 2001: What questions have disappeared? 2000: What is today’s most important unreported story? 1999: What is the most important invention in the past two thousand years? 1998: What questions are you asking yourself? Science | more Human Society

Education Rich kids get taught; poor kids get tested. Aims and Organization of Education Philosophies of education adaptive learning: knewton learning theories: diagram Learning process and the teaching art critical thinking: thinkCERCA reading fluency Asia & Africa: Room to Read helpsprogram Organization of education phases or levels of education Education Around the World Systems of education Blended Learning: edelements Teaching History of education Cities Philadelphia: Unrelenting Poverty Leads To Desperation In Philly Schools by Eric Westervelt International education activities advocacy: centerforcsri, projectappleseed | European Union: Bologna Declaration | films: waitingforsuperman | Issues in general: www.edutopia.org | audience response systems: iclicker | campus-wide lecture recording: tegrity | charter schools: seedfoundation | conferences: wiseqatar | course management system (CMS): moodle | digital classroom: Bridge International Academies, www.hotchalk.com | dress codes | free: 50

flatworldknowledge, MITOpenCourseware | globalization: http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com | Immigration | knowledge center: emtech, www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter | networking & communication: www.echalk.com | one laptop per child: www.amazon.com/xo | prize: $10 Million Global Literacy X PRIZE big ideas | project-based learning: http://college.hmco.com/education/pbl/background.html | question & answer: piazza, yahoo | virtual public schooling: www.k12.com books and movies: Cultural Literacy Hirsch | Finnish Lessons Sahlberg | roomtoread | Spellbound | The Teaching Gap Stigler | Ubiquitous Learning Cope Google | Teaching | Popular Culture | Poverty | Innovation | more Energy Conversion & Utilization

Electronics

in general: book: Irresistible! Markets, Models, & Meta-Value in Consumer Electronics Bailey | flexible: displays: www.plasticlogic.com, microprocessors | learning kits: http://sparklelabs.com | search: www.retrevo.com | trade shows: Consumer Electronics Show CES | warranties: squaretrade gadgets: Ambient Baseball ScoreCast | cell phone holder: getgripgo | desktop devices: www.ambientdevices.com | guides: gizmodo | medical: medgadget | scissors: pencut | shop: geekorize, stuff.tv iPad: art: artfinder | boardroom: board packet sp | data: roambi | kids: Peekaboo Forest | magazines: stipla | microsoft office: cloudon | news: editions tablets: playbook blackberry | reviews: www.tabletpcreview.com | smallest: www.oqo.com | Surface wireless: charging: powermat | music: lynx, sonos speakers Music | Elements | Innovation | Mobile | Sensors | more Technology

Elements of Technology Energy Conversion & Utilization Devices and echniques for conversion and utilization of energy water energy hydroelectric about | environmental impact: DamNation, Hetch Hetchy.org, Sensor Fish magnetic & electrical energy: Electronics rotational energy: Bicycles heat energy: stove biolitestove | thermovoltaics gmzenergy solar energy wind energy 51

engines electric: torqeedo | hybrid-electric drive systems: hetv, www.isecorp.com | natural energy engine: www.delugeinc.com | power density: ecomotors | prototypes (6) | steam: cyclonepower | transonic combustion: www.tscombustion.com | turbo-chargers: VanDyne SuperTurbo | wankel Tools and Machines Hand tools Bicycles | multipurpose: leatherman | my toolbox sp | table saws: sawstop Machines and machine components: micro-devices Modeling & Simulation Measurement, Observation, Control Industrial Raw Materials Primary conversions of raw materials plastics bioplastics: solegear.ca | frxpolymers flame retardant steel: arcelormittal | nanotechnology Advanced materials: Materials Genome Initiative Industrial Production Processes Packaging: edible wikicells books and magazines: The Most Powerful Idea in the World Rosen | Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets: A History of Technology Cardwell Biosphere | Food | Manufacturing | Energy | Electronics | more Major Systems of Communication

Email

direct mail lists: www.infousa.com | yesmail | Intelligence: www.whosmailingwhat.com gmail: social networking: ming.ly in general: analytics: www.emaildatasource.com | anti-virus | Archival and Recovery: Symantec, sonian | campaign management: www.mailnetexpress.com | direct marketing and communications: clicktactics, www.constantcontact.com, www.echomail.com, www.icontact.com, powerinbox | Enterprise Rights Management (ERM): EMC | legal discovery and compliance: Symantec, proofpoint | live content: movableink | mobile: www.seven.com | Outlook plug-in: www.xobni.com | outsource outbound: sendgrid | restaurants: www.fishbowl.com | security-as-a-service: proofpoint | unified e-mail management: mimecast | video: www.helloworld.com | virus detection: eset instant messaging: archiving: www.facetime.com | book: Google Talking by Joshua Brashars | financial trading pivotinc | IM wireless device: www.zipitwireless.com |

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live chat customer support: TouchCommerce | mobile: www.nimbuzz.com/en | texting: enflick free permission marketing: e-mail: exacttarget Monetize | Advertising | Computer Security | Enterprise Systems | Sales | more Human Behavior / internal states

Emotion

Defintions and humanistic background boredom: Boredom arises when you don’t have a plan. sp happiness music: Happy Williams | September Earth, Wind & Fire revenge: The Count of Monte Cristo Dumas worry: What’s the worst thing that can happen? sp Contemporary approaches: apps: happier | measure emotion: affectiva movies: Bird Man Particular Arts | Family | Crime | Music | Equations | more Human Resource Management

Employees & Labor agreements: Have employment agreements and non-compete agreements been perfected for all senior management? culture: What are the core values of the company's culture? Are employees tolerant of growth and associated chaos? Does the company have fun? Does the company have a way to understand and manage its corporate culture to achieve positive results? How do you strike a balance between the employee wish list and the corporate bottom line? | online assessment: www.cindexinc.com Employee Assistance Program (EAP): What range of personal matters does the program address? | divorce360 | get it off your chest: PostSecret | psychological selfassesment (journalists) | therapy: findcounseling equal opportunity: What percentage of the company's key positions is held by women? | Don’t ask, don’t tell | bias: Gender and Racial Bias in Hiring | facts about age discrimination benefits: benefits management: adam | wageworks | pharmacy plan: truveris labor: Is the supply of skilled labor adequate for this industry? Are the labor pay rates in this industry competitive with those of other industries? | Bureau of Labor Statistics: bls.gov | Right-to-Work morale: Randomly choose one day each year to pass out a $100 bill to every employee that shows up. Is trust the most decisive element of good workplace relationships? Does the company have interactive systems that allow HR to quickly determine root causes to internal problems? Is there generally a strong work ethic 53

among employees? Is there a strong team feeling? Is the company's energy and productivity being drained by turf wars between departments trying to protect power and resources? What is the level of stress in the company? How does the CEO monitor morale? What specific methods and techniques has the company found and applied to motivate hourly employees? Does the company annually survey employees to assess their overall morale and job satisfaction? | employees tell the truth: camaraderie: | Morale Audit sp | gaming: keas | monitor: gethppy payroll: apps: activehours | benchmark compensation: Compease, payscale | global payroll platform: celergo | payroll service: www.managedpay.com Retail | Apps | Recruiting | Crime | Services | more Fields of Technology / Urban Community Technology

Energy Management

How can growing energy demands be met safely and efficiently? Can we efficiently, reliably, safely, sustainably, and economically get 100% of our energy from wind, water, and solar (WWS) power? in general: climate-neutral and net-zero: definitions | conferences: worldfutureenergysummit| conservation | demand response services: www.enernoc.com, www.poweritsolutions.com | Department of Energy: energy.gov | electricity marketplace: ChooseEnergy | energy flow: graphic | energy survey: www.think2ool.com/think2ool_files/EnergyReductionSurvey.pdf | energy storage: ice-energy, PowerThru, terrajoule | high ceilings: zoofans | lighting management: www.lumenergi.com | network: joulex | smart windows: ravenbrick | state profiles: eia.gov | turnkey solutions: nexamp | waste heat recovery: alphabetenergy | wind energy: www.windenergy.com | wireless sensors: www.synapsense.com batteries: bi-polar: atraverda | green electric vehicles | lithium-ion: enviasystems, sakti3 | mobile devices: techtium | optimization: element energy | rechargeable: powergenix | Smart Grid storage | thin, flexible printed: bluesparktechnologies | ultracapacitors: nesscap | wireless charging buildings: Corporate Energy Managers Consortium: www.esource.com | energy reduction survey pdf | performance-oriented contracting: measurement & verification M&V | Power Management for PC Networks: www.verdiem.com demand-response : comverge | education: opower | peak load management: cpowered, energy orb, Power Smart Pricing | silverspringnetworks electric power : consumer initiatives: www.galvinpower.org | storage: pumped fuel cells: bloomenergy big ideas | fuel cell drives: clean-mobile | hydrogen: clearedgepower | intelligent-energy | polymer: cellera harvesting / scavenging: braking energy | bicycles: copenhagen wheel | humans: walking | pressure reduction valves: rentricity | shock absorbers 54

books, blogs, portals: Energy Realities | Guide to Energy Management Capehart | Successful Implementation of a Long-Term Energy Management Program sp | The Green Guide to Power Bowman Smart Grid | Buildings | Home | Optimized | Green | more Matter and Energy

Energy, States, & Transformation of Matter Chemical Elements: pure chemical substance distinguished by its atomic number Chemical Compounds: pure chemical substance consisting of two or more elements Chemical Reactions: transformation of one set of chemical substances to another Heat, Thermodynamics, Nonsolid States: energy transfer from one body to another Solid State of Matter: the atoms take up an ordered, three-dimensional structure friction: air bearing | hoverboard Mechanics of Particles Principles of classical mechanics: physics engine: PhysicsJS Fluid mechanics and gas dynamics Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): exa Electricity and Magnetism: interactions of positive and negative charges Waves and Wave Motion wave energy 5 types, nsf, www.orecon.com, pelamiswave sea snake | fans: uekus, verdantpower | pumps: aquamarinepower | tidal: scotrenewables books: A Guide to the Elements Stwertka | Classical Mechanics Goldstein | CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Lide | Einstein's Dreams Lightman | Gases, Liquids and Solids Tabor | Introduction to Heat Transfer Incropera | Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism Maxwell | Wave Motion Billingham | Why Chemical Reactions Happen Keeler in general: physics: hyperphysics, lightandmatter, Natural Philosophy Alliance worldnpa Technology | Bicycles | Energy | Equations | Fields | more Methods of Business Organization

Engineering and R&D A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery Big Ideas | Billable Capacity | Bioinformatics | Biosafety Level 2 | Biotechnology | Business Process Reengineering | Cleanrooms | Computational Linguistics | Construction | Continuous Improvement | Contract R & D | Core Competency | Core Technology | Design | Drawing | Elements of Technology | Energy / Mechanics / CFD | Fatigue Analysis | Fields of Technology | Green | High-Performance Computing | Ideas | Innovation | Invention prototyping | Intellectual Property | Laboratories | Mathematics | Methods of Business Organization | Modeling & Simulation | Nanotechnology | Patent Searches | Problems and Solutions | Product Engineering & 55

Design | Project Management | Research and Development | Science | Software Development | Technology | Visualization | Wind Energy | more in general: engineering education: cdio, bigbeacon.org, engineerguy, Olin College experiment, threejoy | fatiguecalculator | funding for big ideas: www.darpa.mil, www.iarpa.gov | grand challenges: National Academy of Engineering grand challenges: Make solar energy economical | Provide energy from fusion | Develop carbon sequestration methods | Manage the nitrogen cycle | Provide access to clean water | Restore and improve urban infrastructure | Advance health informatics | Engineer better medicines | Reverse-engineer the brain | Prevent nuclear terror | Secure cyberspace | Enhance virtual reality | Advance personalized learning | Engineer the tools of scientific discovery Information Technology

Enterprise Systems in general: botnet protection: damballa | compliance: hiperos | Enterprise Data Lifecycle Management: utopiainc | ERP (enterprise resource planning): www.compiere.com, kenandy, www.openbravo.com, workday | indexing: virtualworks | integration platform: informatica, mulesoft | log data: splunk | mobile device management: Citrix | Platform as a Service (PaaS): pivotal | search: lucidimagination | security: www.imperva.com, proofpoint, www.tracesecurity.com, tripwire | social media management: syncapse | software reviews: G2crowd | IT management: servicenow | workforce management: kronos core systems and platforms: advertising, content, publishing: mediaspectrum | insurance: guidewire SAP: HANA, www.panayainc.com, winshuttle | Integrate GIS and Project Management www.impress.com | RFID Integration www.acsisinc.com | voice automation www.voiceobjects.com social: collaboration dapulse, moxiesoft | media management syncapse Mobile | Cloud | Risk | Big Data | Biotechnology | more Recreation, Entertainment, Sports, Games

Entertainment

in general: books: Fantasy Life | circus: Gamma Phi Circus | cruise ships: Quantum of the Seas | dance: ballroom | horse racing: Kentucky Derby | nightlife: sociéteperrier | parties: getspeakeasy | performing arts: shenyunperformingarts | racing: The Gentleman’s Guide to Racing | tours: getyourguide | with friends: weotta amusement parks: heavy equipment playground: digthis | life-size board games: Mousetrap fantasy sports: We are a country that likes to root. | cash prizes: draftday, DraftKings, FanDuel | insurance | predictive analytics: numberFire 56

gambling: poker: The Noble Hustle Whitehead restaurants & dining: Alinea | Chez Panisse | cliff diving: Casa Bonita |dinner parties: Le Diner en Blanc, Superb | on-table tablets: elacarte | philadelphia | private chefs: kitchit | ratings: forkly tickets: seatwave | seatgeek | showclix | stubhub | ticketfly | viagogo | broker: ticketevolution | discount: scorebig, TicketLab Golf | Sports | Kinds of Literature | Travel | Popular Culture | more Innovation

Entrepreneurship Are you willing and able to bear great financial risk? Are you willing to sacrifice your lifestyle for potentially many years? Is your significant other on board? Do you like all aspects of running a business? Are you comfortable making decisions on the fly with no playbook? What’s your track record of executing your ideas? How persuasive and well-spoken are you? Do you have a concept you’re passionate about? Are you a self-starter? Do you have a business partner? What is so badly broken in the industry that consumers are desperately seeking a solution? What is your solution? How big is the market? How do you make money? How do you plan to reach your customer? What is it about you and your team that gives an investor confidence that you will succeed? | shark tank in general: http://blog.gcase.org/ | bootcamp: www.nxlevel.org | credit card: founderscard | education: deshpandefoundation, http://edcorner.stanford.edu, www.kauffman.org | entrepreneurship 101: www.fasttrac.org | food & restaurants | handmade: craftsvilla, elo7 brazil, etsy | kids: lemonadeday | microloans to entrepreneurs: www.kiva.org | MIT Forum: http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu | napkin entrepreneurs | necessity entrepreneurship | news: quibb | research and teaching: www.effectuation.org | social networking: Global Entrepreneurship Network, TIE | startup religion: www.moltz.com | workspace for entrepreneurs: dogpatchlabs | young entrepreneurs: extremetour, lemonadeday , livewire 16-30 failure: Failure is inevitably a part of discovery. | forums: Failure:Lab | How business failure paves the way to success | mistakes in judgement: jump the shark social entrepreneurship: avaaz | food: growingpower | funding: theimpactengine | getup | homeless: Street Medicine Detroit | incubators: theimpactengine, unreasonableinstitute | L3C | moveon | performance management of human services: socialsolutions | prizes: The Purpose Prize | the feast | therespublica students: funding: nciia | note-taker | solar farm | under30ceo books: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Harford | Bounce! Moltz | Entrepreneurship Kuratko | The New Artisans Dupon | The One-Hour Activist Kush Decisions | Co-Working | News | Startups | Capitalism | more

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Mathematics

Equations and Algorithms energy = force x distance value = knowledge x action sp in general: algorithm | algorithmic art: verostko | computational knowledge engine: wolphramalpha | diminishing returns | equation editor | extraterrestrial life: Drake Equation | flowcharts [ golden rule: do unto others = others do unto you | google calculator | happiness: better than expected, likes minus dislikes | humancomputer interaction: fitt’s law | legos | life | list | love | metcalfe’s law value of a network | pace layers of civilization | mathematica | Maxwell’s | motion | photosynthesis | playwriting | polynomial equation | power of thinking | practice | prediction | progress | reputation management: eigentrust | rubik’s cube | S-curve | Sieve of Eratosthenes | spacetime | success | social exchanges | solar energy applied | stereotypes | tensor | theory | thought | tree carbon calculator | vens: thisisindexed | zipf’s theory books: Indexed Hagy | What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Brockman Golf | Math | Emotions | Extraterrestrial | Balance | more Philosophy

Ethics

Do good companies launch more new products? Is moral hazard our greatest global social threat? How can ethical considerations become more routinely incorporated into global decisions? What is the day-to-day visibility, awareness, and discussion level of ethics within and outside the company? What are insiders and outsiders saying? Has the board adopted a code of conduct and ethics policy? How do the organization's mission, vision and values relate to the culture? How does the ethical code apply to foreign operations? Who are the champions of ethics? How is ethics communicated and how are people educated in it? How is compliance to ethical standards measured and monitored? Where do people go for advice or issue resolution? How do ethics conflict with the rewards system and how are violations handled? How does the company deal with whistle blowing? How does an organization's ethics change with time? in general: www.business-ethics.com | www.ethics.org | www.ethics.senate.gov | www.managementhelp.org | www.theecoa.org | www.usoge.gov | auditing: www.acton.org, www.centerpointforleaders.org, www.ci.austin.tx.us, www.ethicscan.ca | centers: Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, Emory Center for Ethics, National Ethics Center | corporate guidelines: www.oceg.org | model policy: www.icann.org/committees/coi/coi-policy04mar99.htm | moral hazard | situation(al) ethics: A system of ethics by which acts are judged within their contexts instead of by categorical principles.

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board of directors: Are people in our organization provided with a safe opportunity to discuss ethical issues of concern? How does a director really know the ethics code is actually working? Do any affiliated transactions exist between the company and any of its officers, directors, or their relatives other than in their capacity as an officer or director? Do any stockholders supply products and/or services to the company? Do any directors supply products and/or services to the company? Is general counsel to the company also a director? social accountability: Is the company in compliance with SA 8000 www.sa-intl.org? Does the company employ a web-based public participation system to efficiently manage public comments on controversial initiatives? www.commentworks.com | non-smoking: CVS books: Business Ethics Ferrell | On Being a Scientist | The Market for Virtue Vogel | The Responsibility Revolution Hollender Values | Board | Crime | Corporate Governance | Employees | more Corporate Governance

Executive

compensation: Are the directors sufficiently independent for purposes of serving on a compensation committee? Is it clear who (e.g. management and/or advisors) is recommending and/or supporting the reasonableness of the compensation recommendation? Are there appropriate rules and guidelines in place with respect to share ownership and share related transactions? Does the Board understand and feel comfortable with compensation that may be payable in special circumstances such as change-of-control? Is the company regularly benchmarking its compensation programs to keep them competitive yet reasonable? | benchmark executive salaries: www.rileyguide.com/execpay.html | enterprise management systems: www.workscape.com | online wizard: www.salary.com | say on pay | Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans (SERP): planaserp education: International Coach Federation: www.coachfederation.com | midwest: www.thecoachinghouse.net | on-demand: http://candogo.com | peer-to-peer: vistage | train the trainer: www.coachinc.com | universities: Chicago Booth, Harvard | Worldwide Assoc. of business Coaches: www.wabccoaches.com | Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute emotional intelligence: Is it ok to cry in the workplace no? How is EQ being measured, monitored, and used as tool for management and leadership development? books: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People | The Power of Coaching MacDonald Board | Emotion | Knowledge Management | Leadership | Lifetime Learning | more

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Fields of Technology

Exploration Surface: Lewis & Clark | mobile robots Underground: Journey to the Center of the Earth Above sea: Antarctica Southern Ocean: Polar Pod Undersea: We’ve only explored about three percent of what’s out there in the oceans. Space: art: Robert T. McCall | asteroids: planetaryresources, Rosetta big ideas | commercial travel: www.spacex.com, virgingalactic | 50-year map | music: Major Tom | propulsion: ion | research: International Space Station, National Space Biomedical Research Institute | Mars | Space Shuttle | space sling | youtube spacelab Why do we (you) explore? What is the final frontier: ocean, or space? in general: about | everyday: play | funding: http://www.waittinstitute.org | Hubbard Medal | images | portable power: brunton | vagabond: aroundtheworldin80jobs, expertvagabond, onestep4ward books, movies: Back to the Moon xprize | Beyond the Blue Campbell Unequivocal | Universe | Transportation | Innovation | Recreation | more Biosphereb

Extinction and De-Extinction Are we really going to try to balance the equation? sp

extinction = de-extinction Extinction about advocacy: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species sixth extinction: about species: butterflies | echinoderms: sea stars | wolves De-Extinction Why would we want to do this? What are the unintended consequences? Does the prospect of de-extinction change how we think about extinction? Does the extinction of a species leave a gap in nature that can only be filled by returning the species to life and to the wild? Or will a functionally close relative serve? If it is too difficult and expensive to revive every extinct species, what are the criteria for deciding which ones to work on? What ethics and aesthetics should guide those decisions? Edge in general: TEDx DeExtinction big ideas Randomness | Future | more

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Universe / Cosmos

Extraterrestrial Life about | distribution in the universe: panspermia | research: SETI.org | Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs): ufoevidence books and movies: Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Contact | The Day the Earth Stood Still Equations | Nature & Diversity of Life | more Human Behavior / Capacities

Extreme

If they don’t tell you you’re crazy, then you’re not doing something. in general: architecture: 72hoururbanaction | bicycling: Paris-Brest-Paris | commercial fishing: Deadliest Catch | EV World Tour | golf: speed golf | hiking: Andrew Skurka| obstacle course: high ropes, warriordash | photography: stephansiegrist.ch | ships: EEE | skiing: Tuckerman Ravine | surfing: silver dragon | train car jumping | transportation entertainment: rollercoaster | world’s largest pool prison escapes: Papillon by Henri Charriere | The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill books: Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost Sports | Anarchy | Road Trip | Photography | Unequivocals | more Social Networking

Facebook big idea in general: about | advertising: nanigans | band page: rootmusic | career networking: branchout, talent.me | connect facebook with salesforce: faceconnector | games: farmville | manage applications: vitrue | messaging: messenger | transitive trust: facebookera books, film: Inside Facebook Baloun | The Facebook Era Shih | The Social Network Fincher Apps | Mobile | Google+ | Online Advertising | Social Media Tools | more Methods of Business Organization

Facilities and Equipment Automation | Automobile | Biotechnology | Creativity | Design | Electronics | Energy Management | Green | Identity Management | Laboratories | Location | Manufacturing Facilities | Methods of Business Organization | Real Estate Holdings | Recycling | Rentals | Signs | Solar Energy | Sustainability | Video Sureveillance | Videoconferencing | Water | Wind Energy | more in general: boxoffice460 | capital planning/asset management system: www.vfa.com | CCTV: Agility Video | global office search: www.globalofficesearch.biz | shared 61

facilities: wework | virtual office: www.intelligentoffice.com | working at Google: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZhbOhEunY facilities management: How often does the company evaluate the cost-effectiveness of its branch office(s)? | automated Irrigation: www.hydropoint.com | on-demand asset lifecycle management: www.axispointe.com | quantified office: Robin used: heavy equipment: www.ironplanet.com questions for landlord: How long have you been renting to the company? How many square feet does the company rent from you? Does the company make its rent payments on time? Have you ever had to contact the company to get your payment? Does the company maintain the property in good condition? Would you rent to the company again? books: Corporate Interiors Yee | The Other Office: Creative Workplace Design Stewart Social Groups

Family, Kinship, Friendship Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. Young Family History: save your memories forever: Chronicle of Life The Modern Family family medical leave: maternity/paternity leave Home Marriage: alimony reform | documentary: 112 Weddings Personal Time sisters: Twin Sisters Bertheussen Friendship How long do you keep your friends? sp | relationships: selection | saturation: Dunbar’s Number in general: We all want the same thing. sp | adversity: A River Runs Throught It | beach: Dune-Water Dash sp |care services: care, carezone | dinner table | domestic violence: Courage Connection, National Network to End Domestic Violence, No More | genealogy: ancestry, www.dnaancestryproject.com, mocavo free | good vs evil: East of Eden Steinbeck | movies: Rocket Gibraltar | short story: brushstroke’s song sp | reunion sp | Social Networking: http://corporate.familylink.com | traditions: thanksgiving sp, No TV for 40 days and 40 nights sp Issues | Parenting | Emotion | Human Behavior | Issues | more Technology

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Utilities in general: Edison Electric Institute, edisonfoundation education: electricalengineerngschools Construction Technology Transportation Technology Information Processing & Communications Communication and information theory: Claude Shannon Computers: monitors: LCD displays Computer Science Information processing and systems: Cloud Computing Major Systems of Communication Military Technology Electronics UAVs: Aerovironment Nano Hummingbird | www.insitu.com | www.proxyaviation.com Urban Community Technology Technology for new urban problems Energy Management geothermal exchange Exploration Biotechnology books and magazines: Crisis and Opportunity Ikerd | My Father, the Captain Cousteau | National Geographic | Open Innovation Chesbrough | The Power Makers Klein Climate Change | Biotechnology | Change | Energy | Engineering | more Information Technology

File Sharing

in general: www.beinsync.com | www.bittorrent.com | www.box.net | dropbox | www.filesanywhere.com | www.onetruemedia.com | cloud access: bitcasa | document library: www.scribd.com | large files: HighTail | secure wireless transfer: iTwin | sync, backup, share: www.syncplicity.com | web: sharethis photos: www.fotolog.com | instagram | http://picasa.google.com | moving objects: crowdoptic | www.snapfish.com | your shot: national geographic Cloud | Entertainment | Music | Photography | Videos Methods of Business Organization

Financial Management Accumulated Earnings Tax | Acquisitions | Asset Management | Asset Purchase | Audits | Backdating Stock Options | Bond Offering | Borrowing | Budgeting | Business Organization | Buy-Sell Agreement | Capital Expenditures | Capitalization | Capitalization of Software | Cash Flow | Cash Management | Corporate Performance | Cost-of-Goods Sold | Currency Fluctuations | Financial Markets | Financing | 63

Incentive Compensation Program | Inflation | Inventory | Investing | Investor Relations | Key Indicators | Liabilities | Methods of Business Organization | Payables | Profitability | Quick books Setup | Risk Management Hedge Fund | S Corporation | Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Sensitivity Analysis | Stockholders | Taxes | Transaction Taxes | Valuation | Venture Capital | Venture Capitalists | Z-Score Financial Management

Financial Markets in general: Big Charts: http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com | CBS Marketwatch: www.marketwatch.com | interactive charts: ycharts | Money Central: http://moneycentral.msn.com | private markets | Quicken http://quicken.intuit.com | The Motley Fool | Yahoo Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com futures/options: Commodities Charts: www.cbot.com | Futures Quotes: http://quotes.ino.com indices: NYSE Euronext | Averages & Composites: http://money.cnn.com/data/us_markets | Dow Jones: http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow | Nasdaq: www.nasdaq.com | NYSE: www.nyse.com international: Canadian Companies: www.site-by-site.com/canada/astock.htm | World Portfolio: http://quotes.ubs.com/quotes/ movers: Upgrades & Downgrades: http://finance.yahoo.com/mru stock screener: Yahoo: http://screen.yahoo.com/stocks.html News Financial Management

Financing

banks: What are the major covenants in loan agreements that give the bank(s) substantial control under certain conditions? Is the company in default of any provisions? | bankrate | consumer platforms: Yodlee | federalreserve | finance students web world| mobile: myfoundry | online: ibank | Personal Financial Planning: personal finance questions for bankers about the company: How long has the company banked with you? How does the bank rank the credit worthiness of the company? What is the current credit limit for the company? What is the lowest and highest credit balance with this bank? Has the company ever been denied credit? When and why? How is short-term debt collateralized? How is long-term debt collateralized? Has the company ever been in default on a loan payment(s)? Does the company have any operating problems? What is your evaluation of management? Is management listening to your best advice?

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bond offering: Is there adequate cash flow now and in the future to cover interest payments on this debt? book: Bond Markets, Analysis and Strategies Fabozzi equity financing: What type of equity financing best fits this stage of funding? What valuation is being used for this offering? What is the investor's IRR based on the company's projected cash returns to the investor? Will this return be sufficient relative to the perceived risk of the investor? What impact on the distribution of ownership will be affected by the proposed equity financing? Is angel financing appropriate for this stage of funding? in general: accounting: accountingnet, intacct | basics: www.studyfinance.com/lessons/finstmt/ | CFO: www.cfo.com | deals: www.dealipedia.com | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP: FASB | government contracting: JAMIS | investment banking: dealogic | sample balance sheet template: www.toolkit.cch.com/tools/balshe_m.asp | SBA resources: http://www.sba.gov Personal Finance | Movies | Homes | Legal | Capital | more Recreation, Sports, and Games

Fitness

Is your fitness program well-rounded? in general: anti-G treadmill: www.alter-g.com | bands: halfhourpower | dance: zumba | entertainment platform: netpulse | extreme: beachbody, crossfit, Mad Skills Encyclopedia Mushholt | franchise: Crunch | machines: surgept | mobile: noom | monitoring and tracking: bodymedia, enflux, equinox, fitbit, www.fitlinxx.com, fitstar, fuelband, mapmyfitness, misfitwearables, mybasis, withings weight | musclebuilding: musclemilk | natural exercise: around the house sp | nutrition tracking: www.nutristrategy.com | parkour: www.americanparkour.com | posture: lumoback | vibration training | walkingschoolbus | weight loss: noom Time | Personal | Bicycles | Design | Extreme Fields of Technology / Agriculture & food production

Food and Beverage

You are what you eat and drink. Victor Lindlahr

in general: calorie-free: zevia | chefs: The Professional Chef Culinary | cooking encyclopedia: www.foodista.com | cookware: cooking | delivered: dinewise | donuts: cronut | enterprise systems: www.afsi.com | freshness sensors: www.fqsinternational.com | greenkitchen | hot sauce: sriracha | ice cream: Smitten Ice Cream | non-refrigerated, all-natural: lookwhatwefound | organic snacks for kids: http://snikiddy.com/index.php/ | portals: food52, foodzines | sandwhiches: horseshoe | search: findeatdrink, foodspotting | sweetener: stevia | takeout: www.grubhub.com | tea: All In This Tea Blank, davidstea, mariagefreres | tools: baking steel, butter knife 65

coffee: coffeecommon | coffee culture | concordiacoffee self-serve | conferences: letstalkcoffee | makers: bonaverde, espro & Portland press french press | shops: bluebottlecoffee local: farm-fresh: farmigo | seasonality & regionality: aglocal meats, roadfood, Stewards of the Land recipes: www.cookstr.com | foodily | search: yummly restaurants: www.restaurantowner.com | automated dispensing: www.exactap.com | BBQ: Stubb’s | delivery: grubhub | design | discounts: groupon | eliminate waste: zeropercent | experimental: moto vid | online reservations: www.getquik.com, www.opentable.com | organic & local: sweetgreen | pop-ups | social ordering: exit41 | worldwide bookings: bookatable wine: Cecilia | music for the occasion: winedj | The Scholium Project Wellness | Plants | Elements | World | Art | more Fields of Technology / Agriculture & food production

Food Production Can the world feed itself without ruining the planet? What is the impact of biofuels production on the world’s food supply? Do our foodenergy decisions recognize the high degree of integration between these two imperatives? in general: books: Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown | World Food Programme: http://www.wfp.org | dupont global collaboratory | visualization of agricultural markets: ADM global markets, marketmaker | world hunger: freerice Poverty | Future | Robotics | Humans | Wellness | more Time

Future Why can’t we remember the future? What is emerging? What impact will it have? in general: The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Kay | aircraft/car | digital archive of you: lifenaut | education: Houston Foresight, thefutureschannel | energy: The Future of Energy | food: The Future of Food NG | gamification: gaming the future | history: Italian Futurism Manifesto 1909 | paperless society portals: BBC Future, Matter longform journalism, PBSK Labs editorial | soothsayer | time capsules: one second per day | trends: paperless society think tanks: www.aspeninstitute.org, bakas, fastfuture, Institute for Global Futures, iftf, thefuturelaboratory | atlantic council | big issues: www.millennium-project.org, www.fhi.ox.ac.uk, thersa.org | directory: www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psthink.html#comp | energy security: Institute for the Analysis of Global Security iags.org | European security: European Leadership 66

Network ELN | extremism: quilliamfoundation | international affairs: chathamhouse | long-term thinking: Club of Rome clubofrome, futuristspeaker, hybridreality.me, longbets, Long Now Foundation big ideas | survival of the species: Future of Humanity Institute books: Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge Brockman | The Competition of Ideas Weidenbaum | The Extreme Future Canton | The Tyranny of Dead Ideas Miller War | Megacities | Extinction | Food | Jobs | more Software

Gaming in general: addiction | anti-cheat protection: cognisafe | casual gaming: www.casualcollective.com, popcap, www.wildtangent.com | consoles: ouya| developers: Reloaded, www.ngmoco.com, trionworlds, www.turbine.com, wooga | development platforms: unity3d | documentary: The Story of Mojang | drive traffic to games: playerize | free: kabam strategy, nexon | game for good: hoopla | genetics: phylo | gesture recognition: omekinteractive | hand motion sensing: eyesight-tech, http://www.invensense.com/ | industry news: www.gamesindustry.biz, idlethumbs | in-game advertising: supersonicads | kids: Brooklyn Game Lab after school, spongebob | literacy: instituteofplay | massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG): curse, redrobotlabs, zam | new game a day: bigfishgames | on-demand: chess, gaikai, www.gametap.com, kongregate, onlive, http://www.powerchallenge.com/ | professional gaming: www.mlgpro.com | puzzles: cartalk, http://thinks.com | search: gaming | social gaming: minecraft, playdom, 6waves | trading cards: fightmymonster | ugo | video network: machinima, twitch | virtual trading: www.livegamer.com | zero-sum gamification big ideas: kids learn to code, and, code to learn | about | blogs: seriousgamesmarket | brain training: lumosity | charity: theplaymob | corporate learning: axonify | education: classroom, gamedesk.org, gogolabs, tutpup | forums: gamification summit | health: healthprize, reflexionhealth rehab | kids build games: gamestarmechanic, ScratchJr | quizzing: quipper | science: global warming | social change & impact: gamesforchange | social rewards & loyalty: badgeville, bigdoor | tools: twochop mobile: http://www.xendex.com/ | zynga real-time player behavior | King: Candy Crush books, articles, reports: Creating Casual Games for Profit & Fun Partridge | Ender’s Game Card | Fun Inc. Chatfield | Of Dice and Men Ewalt | Reality Is Broken McGonigal | Solving tough problems with games Schrope | Violent Video Games: More Playing Time Equals More Aggression | Why Gamification Is Serious Business Ryan Wellness | Popular Culture | Parenting | Golf | Sci-Fi | more

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Globalization As the world becomes more interconnected, are (cyber) threats and risks growing exponentially? Is the company practicing reverse innovation by leveraging developing economies as incubation centers for growth and innovation? How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone? How effectively is the company meeting the challenges of globalizing its operations? in general: http://globaledge.msu.edu | Bottom of the Pyramid BOP | conferences & forums: Buttonwood | G8: The G 7/8 by Hugo Dobson | logistics: UPS pdf | Strategic analysis: www.oxan.com | wealth + well being: Legatum Prosperity Index |web site content translation: myGengo | world stats real-time: worldometers books and movies: A River Changes Course Mam | Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World Bremmer | Life in a Day | International Business: The Challenges of Globalization Wild | New World Economy Business Week | The World Is Flat Friedman | World Order Kissinger Economic Development | War | Currency | Health | Climate | more Sports

Golf When will you shoot your age? Is golf a sport? who cares, we love it in general: big hole golf | Fedex Cup | foot golf | handicap: formula | magic | online game: http://pgacharitychallenge.worldgolftour.com, Virtual U.S. Open | outings: player grid sp | PGA: pgatour | performance: priming | Ryder Cup: Ryder Cup, Ryder Cup Diary 2012 sp | rules: smartphone, videos | sand: soft sand, hit hard; hard sand, hit soft | social: topgolf | speed golf | soul of the game | trends: The Future of Golf | youth: Drive, Chip & Putt courses: top ten: Chicago books: Golf Rules Finder sp Entertainment | Equations | Change | Unequivocal | Gaming | more Preservation of Knowledge

Google

What’s next? adwords | alerts | apps for business | area calculator | art project | artificial intelligence: DeepMind | blog search | blogger | body browser | books | calendar | checkout | chrome | chromebook | Classroom | cloud | code | customize: home page, search | data sharing online: fusiontables, public data explorer | desktop | docs | doodle 4 google | earth | enhance search: www.surfcanyon.com | finance | 411 | Glass | gmail | google + | google cardboard big idea| google fiber | google for 68

entrepreneurs | google ideas | google play | groups | infrastructure: growth | IP patents: search | images | keep | knol | labs | Maps: biking, maps | news | open social api | open web | orkut | picasa | play | politics & elections | products | project hosting | reader | scholar search | search features | self-driving car | shopping | sites | sketchup | tablet: nexus | toolbar | trends | videos Education | Articial Intelligence | Games | Maps | more Elements / Measurement

GPS Applications How do we know where we are? in general: humans: brain cells | radio-location: locatacorp | tracking: www.blacklinegps.com, www.contigo.com, TrackR | wireless-driven: www.skyhookwireless.com location-based services: analytics: placed | build your own game: scvngr | data: momentfeed, placeIQ | geographic intelligence : www.metacarta.com | happening near you: spindle | mobile networks: Gokivo | navigation systems: www.destinatortechnologies.com | positioning systems: www.skyhookwireless.com | safety: locationlabs Medicine | Automobiles | Big Data | Gaming | Location | more Biosphere / Humans / Conservation

Green

How would nature solve green building challenges? in general: AC-DC controller: greenplug | bamboo: grovemade, soloeyewear | biodegradable plastics: www.novomer.com | chemicals: bio-amber | ecofont | elevated strip park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrRyTpKne7o | foundation & wall systems: www.arxxbuild.com | GE’s ecoimagination: ecomagination | lifecycle of each product | natural gas: thinkaboutit |news: www.greentechmedia.com | organizations: envirolink | paraben-free: yestocarrots | pest management: Bayer Crop Science, ecosmart, vestaron big idea | printing paper: printeco auto-optimize | products: abesmarket, goodguide | radio: Go Green Radio | runoff management: www.cdfinc.com | seed-infused cardboard: lifeboxcompany | think tanks: www.thebreakthrough.org | waste heat recovery: electratherm | wood stove: biolitestove ecological footprint: calculators: calculator, myfootprint | carbon sequestration: Global Thermostat, research | futuregenalliance | car fun footprint | homes: hobbit house low impact | lifecycle of a product | monitoring & reporting: apple, tracking | online analysis gardening: sensors: Flower Power | urban gardens: myurbio | vegetable: Edible Gardens LA

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kids: environmental education: ecokids, national geographic kids, planitgreenlive | national park service: webrangers | natural history | plant-for-the-planet | schools: greenschool | treetures books, documentaries, portals, videos: Bike Snob BikeSnobNYC | Grist | Hot, Flat, and Crowded Friedman | Jens Jensen: The Living Green | Our Ecological Footprint Rees | Plastic Paradise Sun | Silent Spring Carson Recycling | Autos | Sustainable | Energy | Climate | more Production and Utilization of Wealth / Economic Growth & Planning

Growth

Is growth the problem, or the solution? Or is growth inevitable if we are to feed and provide jobs for 9 billion people? Are we truly caught between a rock and a hard spot? in general: book: Japan as Number One? Lessons for America | Brazil-Russia-IndiaChina (BRIC): bricsonbrics.org | franchising: about | hypergrowth: about, Inside the Tornado Moore | idea generation: www.eurekaranch.com | traffic: Austin, TX Social | Population | Sustainability | Problems | Acquisitions Human Life

Health and Disease Structures and Functions of the Human Body mind & body Cardiovascular system: CPR handsonlycpr.org Respiratory system: Sports Immune system: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. | wellness Excretory system: Wellness Nervous system brain: research brain-map | wearable device: ybrain Human Health Definitions of normality in human health blood pressure: about Stress: stress in the city Wellness nutriion, diet, exercise, sleep Human Diseases Global Burden of Disease Characteristics, causes, and classifications of human disease Infectious diseases virus: ebola: about | song: If you like the monkey, don’t eat the meat. Detection and diagnosis of disease: Biotechnology Treatment of disease 70

addiction What is so powerful about the 12-step program? Why does it not work for some, especially teenagers? What other programs are successful against addiction? | Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff cryotherapy: csamedical gene therapy: uniqure placebo: placebo effect Tumors, cancers, hyperplasia, atrophy cancer: collabrx targeted therapy finder | visualization: tumor paint colon: check-cap Diseases of particular bodily systems ears: tinnitus eyes glaucoma: Aerie Pharmaceuticals eye drops presbyopia: KAMRA inlay Social Radar How can the threat of new and reemerging diseases and immune microorganisms be reduced? Practice of Medicine & Care of Health in general: alzheimers: alzheimersreadingroom, An Alzheimer’s Request | autism: asperger, iPad apps, rethinkautism | mind & body books and videos: Human Anatomy & Physiology Marieb | Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria Frontline | The Journal of Best Practices Finch | What I've learned from my autistic brothers Jegede | Zoobiquity Natterson-Horowitz Apps | Medicine | Sports | Music | Globalization | more Practice of Medicine & Care of Health

Health Care

in general: The dilemma is, a poor person will remain impoverished without healthcare; or, they will remain impoverished trying to pay for healthcare. | cash flow improvement: www.medassets.com | consumer cost management: www.changehealthcare.com, www.redbrickhealth.com | data: healthinnumbers | directories: zocdoc | Electronic Medical (Health) Records (EMR/EHR): healthIT, patient self-advocacy, practicefusion | Health IT: drchrono EMR / EHR, mednet, motherknows, smartplatform software platform, webPT physical therapy | homecare/hospice: hchb | house calls: Alegis Care, ringadoc | integrated health delivery: caremore | medical records storage: www.mymedicalrecords.com | mobile devices: patientsafesolutions, westwirelesshealth | patient engagement: medseek | phone/video consultation: teladoc | portals: www.healthline.com | real-time network: navinet | reimbursement tools: www.remitdata.com | second opinion | sensors: earlysense | value-based benefits: seechangehealth 71

insurance: Affordable Care Act: Health Insurance Marketplace | freelancersunion | Health Savings Acoount: Dr. Carson speech | tangohealth | Medicare: A doctor's vision for Medicare | search for insurance coverage: www.healthplanone.com, ourbloomhealth | self-insured: changehealthcare telemedicine: reachhealth | teladoc | mobile: Doctor on Demand big idea | video: Avizia | virtual: therapy | whiteglove books and articles: Caring for the Poor Without Medicaid Bureaucracy Eck | How American Health Care Killed My Father Goldhill | Redefining Health Care Porter | The

Ebola Patient Was Sent Home Because of Bad Software EHR Software | Video | Big Data | Apps | Search | more Computer Science

High-Performance Computing big ideas in general: cellular computing | hardware accelerators | machines: Cray blue waters | quantum computing: www.dwavesys.com | software development & optimization: allinea | supercomputing centers & networks: ncsa, xsede | tools: webtrilinos | trading algorithms: finatechnologies books: An Introduction to Quantum Computing Kaye | The Fourth Paradigm Microsoft Biotechnology | Engineering and R&D | Research and Development | Science big picture

History of Mankind knowledge of the past matures the soul Ancient Asia, Africa, Europe Medieval Europe, Africa, Asia East, Central, South, SE Asia Sub-Saharan Africa to 1885 Pre-Columbian America (1540) Modern World to 1920 World Since 1920 Who | Science Fiction The Physical Sciences

History of the Physical Sciences Astronomy: picture of the day

Physics Physics in the 20th century: Einstein: His Life and Universe Isaacson Physics in the 21st century: Physics for Future Presidents Muller

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Family

Homes in general: advocacy: www.naca.com | appraisal: www.reply.com, www.zillow.com | backyards: extreme sparkler sp | décor products: http://mydeco.com, blinds | design: www.dwell.com | dinnerware: Fiesta | driveways: pavers | flooring: lumberliquidators | geothermal systems: climatemaster | green: sierraclubgreenhome | household products: hayneedle, wayfair, worldstores | lowincome: Habitat for Humanity | moving: moveline | portable hot tub: thespaberry | prefabricated: airplane, popularity | remodeling: houzz | renting: American Homes 4 Rent |search: www.trulia.com, www.zillow.com | tools: knives crkt | water leak detection: wallyhome energy efficiency: energy management: alertme, BEopt, EcoFactor, energy.gov, energysavvy, www.greenenergyoptions.co.uk, Home Energy Scoring Tool | passive energy: Passive House Institute | retrofit financing: WHEEL | windows: indowwindows mortgages: amortization: calculator | mortgage resets: www.mortgageresets.com | refinance | shop for mortgage: lendage | underwater sensors: electricity: Kill-A-Watt meter | propane tank: refuel | thermal energy: Infrared laser thermometer smart home: automation: nexiahome, zonoff | connectivity: Life360 | electronics: Consumer Electronics Show | HVAC: tado | monitor & control: control4, icontrol, nest, smartthings | museum: Museum of Science and Industry | network: piedigital | security: best-home-security-companies, www.icontrol.com, lifeshield, SimpliSafe | sprinkler systems: www.cyber-rain.com | video surveillance: dropcam | water management: watersmartsoftware articles, portals: Technology anticipates, meets our needs for health, efficiency Sorensen | The Future of Home Living Design | Personal | Wellness | Bicycles | Energy | more Human Life

Human Behavior Human Nature & Experience Human behavior and conscious experience disorders: face blindness magical thinking Stages in the development of human behavior Current Environment’s Influence on Conscious Experience Perception Current Internal States Motivation: hope: about | book: The Scalpel and the Soul Hamilton 73

Emotion Sleep & dreams Sleep is like a dove which has landed near one’s hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it; if one attempts to grab it, it quickly flies away. Frankl lucid dreaming: lucid dreaming | improving performance | organizations: lucidity snoring: My SnoringSolution Capacities and Inclinations Nature of human capacities performance: Extreme | Human Performance Institute hpiinstitute Sensorimotor abilities: visuospatial Theories of intelligence: genius | prodigy | renaissance man: polymath Attitudes resilience: That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Nietzsche Learning and Thinking Diverse theories of human learning Memory forgetting: when it is good Future memory tools: big picture | memory palace: method of loci,

presentations

short-term memory: effect of mobile devices Is it a good idea if we remember (or can retrieve) every memory? What might be the unintended consequences of this power? Thought and thought processes Play blogs: Good Thinking Cummins Personality and the Self Definitions of personality Freud: id, ego, superego Introvert vs extrovert free spirit: Frances Ha Baumbach Measurement of personality Myers-Briggs: Does it pay to know your type? by Lillian Cunningham Mental disorders anxiety: My Age of Anxiety dementia and alzheimer’s With dementia, you forget where your keys are. With alzheimer’s, you forget what a key is for. diagnosis: dementia self-test healing & therapy: birds 74

programs: Chain-free initiative transgenderism: Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solution Mchugh What are your “broken windows”? books: A Universe Of Consciousness Edelman | Games People Play Berne | Memories, Dreams, Reflections Jung | Mindsight Siegel | The Blank Slate Pinker | The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci Spence Sports | Family | Photography | Randomness | Human Rights | more big picture

Human Life Stages of Development Health and Disease Human Behavior Methods of Business Organization

Human Resource Management Appraisals | Background Checks | Benefits Sharing | Comp Time | Conflict Management | Contract Workers | Education | E-Learning | Employee Survey | Employees | Employment Agreements | Enterprise Systems | Ethics | Health Care | Health Insurance | Identity Management | Immigration | Incentive Compensation | Information Sharing | Jobs & Career | Knowledge Management | Labor | Lifetime Learning | Methods of Business Organization | Mobile Workforce | Organizational Structure | Outsourcing | Productivity | Recruiting | Right-to-Work | Seminars | Sexual Harassment | Short-Term Disability Insurance | Sick Leave | Social Groups | Spanish for Office and Service Professionals | Values | Wellness in general: enterprise systems: silkroad | magazines: Human Resource Executive | online HR advisory systems: peoplefluent | outsourced benefits administration: plansource, www.trinet.com | payroll services: checkpointhr, paylocity | policy manuals: www.personnelpolicies.com | social HR software: tribeHR Political Concepts

Human Rights Historical development Definition of human rights Liberty: The Miracle of Freedom Cruz United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights International human rights dictatorships: Kim Jong-un North Korea globalization: impact on children migrant workers: Cesar Chavez

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in general: www.amnesty.org | darfur: http://eyesondarfur.org/ | gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender: www.hrc.org | Geneva Conventions | Human Rights Watch: hrw | oral histories: Voice of Witness | UN Global Compact films: Harvest of Shame Murrow Women | Human Behavior | Food Production | Poverty | Anarchy | more big picture

Human Society Social Groups Social Organization and Change Production and Utilization of Wealth Politics and Government Law Education Human Life

Human Stages of Development The Origin of Species Charles Darwin

Human Evolution Human Heredity hbes Sports | Wellness Communication

Humor

Video Game High School What makes things funny? | The Humor Code McGraw in general: Don’t take yourself too seriously. | blog | cards: dordles nikdaum | cartoons: STRIPPED: The Comics Documentary, New Yorker Caption Contest, The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote | crowd-based: 9GAG | healing effects of humor: www.patchadams.org | improvisation: Second City | jokes: www.jibjab.com | lip reading: BadLipReading | magazines: spy | marketing: cartoonlink | miscellaneous: Darren Cullen | movies: airplane | newspaper: www.theonion.com | parody: This is Spinal Tap rock-n-roll, weird al yankovic | political satire: Capital Steps, Jay Leno Clinton, Jon Stewart, Mort Sahl, oulitnet comics | puppets: Team America, Triumph the Insult Dog | radio: Larry Lujack | research: humorresearchlab | satire: The Best Page in the Universe maddox | sketch comedy: Capital Steps, Carnac the Magnificent, Monty Python, prairie home companion radio, saturday night live, secondcity, Sid Caesar | social network: cheezburger | standup: donald glover, Eddie Izzard, frank tv, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Robin Williams, www.rooftopcomedy.com 76

TV: cartoons: South Park | sitcoms: Big Bang, Seinfeld, The Office, 30 Rock | talk shows: Funny or Die books: Dave Barry | Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert Adams | what used to be funny: American Cornball Miller | The 2000 Year Old Man Reiner & Brooks Politics | Zeitgeist | Popular Culture | World | Creativity | more Earth’s Envelope

Hydrosphere oceans are the lungs of our planet

Saltwater bodies Research: Scripps Institute Oceans Waves in the hydrosphere: tides Freshwater bodies rivers research: Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries | National Great Rivers Research and Education Center lakes museums: Chicago Maritime Museum ice: disks Water in the biosphere Water Effects of human activities on the hydrosphere: Global Ocean Health Index books: The Blue Planet Fothergill | Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge Toedtemeier Climate Change | Location | Biosphere | more Knowledge Creation

Ideas

write everything down: spark file Johnson in general: The day before something is a breakthrough, It is a crazy idea. Diamandis | big thinkers, forums, conferences, portals: www.bigthink.com, chicagoideas, dldconference, DO Lectures, www.edge.org, www.flowidealism.org, gelconference, 99u, The Mind Unleashed, www.youtube.com/user/eurozeitgeist08, www.ted.com, theUPexperience, whatmattersnow | dream big: HBR’s Audacious List | funding: kickstarter, The Awesome Foundation | interdisciplinary: einsteinforum | matching problems/solutions: www.ideacrossing.org, www.innocentive.com | publications: www.oneworld-publications.com | re-inventing instant film: www.the-impossibleproject.com | self-healing concrete | skysails | social innovation: www.poptech.org | storyboards: andyleestoryboards | swarm power: LichtBlick | teachers deliver healthcare: www.youtube.com/watch?v=19yIGjH3joE | thought-to-action: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2009/06/braingate2 | technology petting zoo: 77

www.davidleeking.com/tag/technology-petting-zoo | Zayed Future Energy Prize: www.zayedfutureenergyprize.com centers: College of Creative Studies | Creative Education Foundation | Creative Problem Solving Institute | International Center for Studies in Creativity | International Forum of Creativity Organizations | veer notebooks: chronotebook | electronic: evernote, livescribe, omnigroup, OneNote 2013 | field notetaking: adapx, mollyjogger | handmade: Fabulous Cat Papers | lifelogging: daytum, gordon bell, looxcie videocam, one second per day, personalarchiving, quantifiedself | paper: Action Runner, A-log, behance, blurb personalized, cork, inspiration pad, moleskine, plumb, resketch, rhodiapads, start here, white lines books: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Gladwell | Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius Michalko | Doodles Gomi | Imagination First Liu | Imagine: How Creativity Works Lehrer | Leonardo's Notebooks da Vinci | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die Heath | Making Ideas Happen Belsky Writing | Recreation | Invention | Visuo | Problems | more Network

Identity Management in general: access governance (enterprise roles): arubanetworks, www.aveksa.com | biometrics: www.lumidigm.com skin tissue measurement | Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart: captcha >> GOTCHA | customer verification: www.chosensecurity.com, dnb, www.verid.com, onelogin | enterprise systems: www.authentify.com, www.courion.com, cyber-ark, www.aveksa.com, okta, www.pingidentity.com, www.sailpoint.com | facial recognition | fraud detection: www.idanalytics.com | hospitals: caradigm, imprivata | open source: forgerock | software development: stormpath fingerprint authentication: computer access: www.validityinc.com | fingerprint sensors: www.validityinc.com authentication systems: How strong are the company's e-commerce authentication systems? Are they easy and straightforward for customers to use? phone: pindropsecurity | two-factor authentication | webcam: jumio secure video streaming identity theft: www.isekurity.com | FTC Guide: www.ftc.gov/infosecurity/ | personal hack-proof flash drive: www.takeanyware.com | personal protection: www.lifelock.com, www.garlik.com, www.trustedid.com | voice authentication: RSA SecureID books: Authentication and Key Establishment Mehta Facilities | Cyber | Cloud | Computer Security | Email

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Population

Immigration in general: agricultural labor: Mexico | community-building: shelbyvillemultimedia | data: Migration Policy Institute | green card: roadmap | management system: www.immigrationtracker.com | trains: The Beast books, essays, films: Borderland NPR | Of Mice and Men Steinbeck | Sin Nombre | The Arrival Tan | The Real Story of the Superheroes Pinzón | Welcome | Welcome to Shelbyville Snyder Survival | Economic Dev | Ag | Data | Economic | more Human Resource Management

Incentive Compensation Program The Life Cycle of CEO Compensation Martin stock options: Are stock options for executive management contingent on performance standards pegged to stock price? | portal: mystockoptions gift certificates and cards: www.giftcertificates.com | buy/sell/trade: cardpool, plasticjungle | customized cards: www.cashstar.com | mobile gift cards: mocapay performance appraisals: Does stack ranking squelch internal innovation? How is performance measured and communicated to employees? Are C-level executives taking advantage of the benefits of peer group feedback? | online HR advisory systems: peoplefluent recognition: Is there an online platform for employees to nominate people doing good, innovative things? | reward programs: achievers | Purpose Prize: ENCORE CEO | Employees | Executive Education World Since 1920

India

in general: Bangalore: www.asklaila.com | economic development: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UdFkkROYV0 | gold: weddings | social net: gupshup | travel planner: http://us.makemytrip.com movies : Midnight’s Children Mehta Leadership | Entrepreneurship | Travel Macroeconomics

Inflation & Deflation What impact has inflation www.inflationdata.com had in terms of restating inventory costs to current prices? What impact has inflation had in terms of restating book value of property, plant, equipment, and leases to replacement value? Generally in the last few years, have price increases in the company's products been enough to

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offset increases in production costs? In international markets with high-inflationary economies, how does the company protect its assets and earnings? in general: cost disease | global price tracking: premise | organizations: www.federalreserve.gov, www.imf.org Pricing | Currency Fluctuations | Economic Conditions | Education Methods of Business Organization

Information Technology (IT) Antigen Software | Authentication Systems | Big Data | Business Intelligence | Cloud Computing | Computer Security | Content Management | Contracts | CRM | Cyber Warfare | Data Mining | Databases | Digital Content | E-Commerce | E-Mail | Enterprise Systems | File Sharing | Identity Management | Internet | Methods of Business Organization | Mobile Access | Network | Outsourcing | Photography | Product Engineering / Design | Search Engines | Secure Software Systems | Shopping Cart | Small Business | Software Leasing | Technology | Virtual | Web Site in general: audit & compliance: coalfiresystems | book: Inside the Minds: Leading Chief Technology Officers Schroth | cost estimates: costxpert | equipment lifecycle management: elasalle | IT governance: www.agiliance.com, planview, www.troux.com | jobs network: www.techtribe.com | IT management: BMC | outsourced services: MindShift |research: www.gartner.com | security compliance: www.tracesecurity.com | Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): apptio | Training: learningtree Development of Technology

Innovation

Create a path that makes it easy for good people to do good things, and they will do it. Garages are the authentic American fablab. sp | Is innovation predictable? Does every innovation begin with a question? What can pirates, terrorists, computer hackers and inner city gangs tell us about the misfit economy? Where do big ideas come from? Does public scrutiny and high expectations of stock value impede corporate innovation? Do your innovation teams have a blend of cognitive types? Who is the greatest innovator of the past decade? How is innovation management handled across the enterprise? What internal and external resources innovation-framework are used to stimulate and guide innovation? What percentage of revenues is from new products introduced in the last two years? Is innovation blocked or stagnated in the company? Why? How fast can a new idea be tried out at the company? Months? Weeks? Days? Hours? Does the company's new product satisfy the requirements for rapid diffusion into the marketplace? Do we focus our creative efforts toward the creation of value for others? Do we consistently see opportunity in the face of adversity? Do we cultivate collaboration through diversity in our social and professional networks? Do we make the most of our programs for learning and 80

training? Do we cultivate a healthy work/family balance? Do we work on becoming good presenters? Do we have a good understanding of our core competencies and how to focus them on opportunities in the marketplace? Do we periodically challenge long-held assumptions (assumption busting) to open up possibilities for novel solutions that are rooted in a fundamentally different understanding of the problem? in general: www.ninesigma.com | digital literacy | conferences: innovation.economist | commercialization: copycats | corporate sponsorship: Shell’s GameChanger | crowd-sourced: openIDEO | design: catapultdesign | digital brainstorming: branddelphi | energy: ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit | enterprise social innovation: 3ds | federal sponsors: NSF I-Corps | follow the patents | quid | games: disruptus | global innovation index: www.managementtoday.co.uk/news/610009 | government impact: Permissionless Innovation Thierer | incentivization | innovation ecosystem | marketplace: planeteureka | museums: nobelmuseum | on-demand management: acceptsoftware, brightidea | resources: strategos, centricsoftware, ninesigma | product lifecycle management: www.centricsoftware.com, rymatech, www.acceptsoftware.com | states: illinoisinnovation | students: Design for America, hackathon | team building: www.celemi.com | timeline: stages of evolution | ultra high-speed networks: gig-u | young innovators: Disney's Big Hero 6 - XPRIZE Challenge academic research: Research Excellence Framework REF breakthroughs: FAST’s top 50, popular science top 100, Wharton’s 30 over 30 disruption > obsolescence: A Total Disruption | Blackberry | creative destruction: ice > refrigerator | devices: sliderule | education: imagine K12 | gigaomnetwork | top 10 | trends: techie xprize: Revolution through Competition | exponential innovation: overview | xprize.org big ideas | tricorder books, articles, essays, portals: Abundance Diamandis | Closing the Innovation Gap Estrin | Creating Innovators | Epistemology of Innovation Vojak | fastcoexist | Open Innovation Chesbrough | Reverse Innovation Govindarajan | Ten Steps for Innovators Houtman | The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel Fallows | The Innovator's Dilemma Christensen | The Medici Effect Johansson | The Power of Two Shenk Philanthropy | Social | DIY | Retail | Exploration | more Development of Technology

Intellectual Property How could competitors benefit from a weak intellectual property protection strategy? Is it possible for competitors to copy aspects of the company's products without authorization? How much protection do copyrights provide? 81

in general: Association of University Technology Managers AUTM | buy/sell/auction: fusionIP, oceantomo, yet2 | creative commons licenses | enterprise IP management software: anaqua, pirate party, SGA2, sharing model | licensing and royalty accounting: rightsflow | piracy: SOPA sp | plagiarism monitoring: turnitin | royalty tracking: www.royaltyshare.com | valuation: valuationresearch intangible assets: Is the methodology of capitalization well documented and defensible? Has the company documented a description and explanation of how all its intangible assets arose? patents: application cost estimator: www.globalip.com | assistance: www.inventhelp.com | basics: www.walaw.com/patent.html | buy/sell: zettaresearch | first-to-file: America Invents Act AIA, flowchart | genes: Myriad decision | inventor scorecard: patentriver | monetizing patents: intellectualventures | patent maps: www.delphion.com/help/citelink_help, http://www.patentmaps.com | patentability and marketability: ashmarip | Patent Office: www.uspto.gov | patent rating system: oceantomo | plaques: www.patentawards.com | portfolio costs: www.portfoliocosts.com | research: nerac |risk mitigation: rpxcorp | search: freepatentsonline, Google | strategy development: http://caerusinstitute.com | trademarks search: LegalForce | twitter: Innovators Patent Agreement big idea | validation services: articleonepartners tradesecrets: What is the risk to the company should trade secrets get in the hands of competitors? books: Intellectual Property Goldstein | IT Financial Practices Wiggers Digital Content | Marketing | Research | Content | Crowd | more Methods of Business Organization

International Business Afghanistan | By Country | China | Cities | Competition | Currency Fluctuations | Customer | Economic Conditions | Etiquette | European Operations | Exporting | Globalization | Growth | In General | India | International News | Language Tools | Maps | Megacities | Methods of Business Organization | News | Supply Chain Management | Travel How does the company mitigate the impact of volatility? How long will it take realize positive benefits from entering new markets? Is compliance to regulations in international markets cost prohibitive? peer-to-peer education resource for board directors of multinational corporations: BankDirector in general: Digital Look: www.digitallook.com | expatriate: transitionsabroad | global alerts: www.nair-co.com/lp/globalalerts.htm | International Business Resources: http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp | International Corporate Governance Network: www.icgn.org | International Stats: offstats | Market research and lead generation: www.roivision.com | statistics: www.piers.com, www.wisertrade.org 82

| Startup Services: www.nair-co.com | training: ciber | travel warnings: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html | Wrights Research Center: www.wrightinvestors.com By Country: Afghanistan | Canada: www.cbr.ca, http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/engdoc/main.html, www.sedar.com | Cuba: Lonely Planet Cuba, www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm | Europe: www.europages.com, www.thomasglobal.com | Finland: www.tekes.fi/eng/ | France: paris real estate | Japan External Trade Organization: www.jetro.org | Scotland: www.scottishdevelopmentinternational.com, www.scottish-enterprise.com International News: BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk | Globe and Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com | Herald Tribune : www.iht.com | Le Monde: www.lemonde.fr | London Times: www.timesonline.co.uk/global | World Press Review: www.worldpress.org | Interntional News: www.ceoexpress.com/asp/newspapers.asp Etiquette: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_etiquette Exporting: export programs guide: www.ita.doc.gov/media/Publications/abstract/epg2006desc.html | market surveys: www.exportnavigator.com books: Exiled in Paris Campbell | Global Business Etiquette Martin | Making Globalization Work Stiglitz Fields of Technology

Internet

What happens in an Internet minute? How is the Internet changing the way you think big ideas? How are Internet business models impacting traditional business models in our industry? What are the key timing issues now and in the next 3-5 years with respect to our Internet plans, our business, our industry, and technology? net neutrality: about: theopeninter.net, http://techliberation.com, http://www.savetheinternet.com | free culture in general: AJAX tools: www.jackbe.com | conferences: LeWeb 2011 | market intelligence: emarketer | transcontinental fiber: Hibernia Networks IPv6: IPv4 market: accuro, addrex, ipv4marketplace, tradeipv4 | open, equal access: internetsociety.org | technical development: Internet Engineering Task Force ietf.org wireless service: www.wildblue.com | balloon network: www.spacedata.net | charging systems: ubeam energy/batteries | distributed antenna system (DAS): extenetsystems | performance: rootwireless | process industry: www.apprion.com | tower sites: www.optasite.com Apps | Critical Infrastructures | Technology | Cloud | Energy | more

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Invention

Not Invented Here: People have an “ownership bias” toward things they create and ideas they come up with, and they devalue things they did not make and ideas they did not generate. in general: history: Ancient Invemtions by University of Vermont | inventors: inventist, popeil (ronco), thomasedison | Inventor’s Handbook | maker movement: The Maker Movement Manifesto Hatch | organizations: National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance NCIIA | problem solving: TRIZ | social product development: quirky | toothbrush: The Quest For The Perfect Toothbrush Palca | unused: marblar prototyping: If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth a thousand pictures. Plattner | fablabs: TechShop | fast failures | metrology: hexagonmetrology | mockup | rapid prototyping & injection molding: protolabs, quickparts books: The Upside of Irrationality Ariely Toys | Visualize | Ideas | Drawing | Unequivocals | more Manufacturing and Distribution

Inventory

cost of goods sold: How does the company accurately capture its direct labor costs? How does the company monitor and control the costs of production? in general: www.apics.org | e-bay bid optimization | reverse logistics: channeladvisor, optoro returned/excess inventory warehouse management: automated storage & retrieval systems: www.fkilogistex.com/default.aspx, kivasystems | jointless industrial floor: Rabine Group | online systems: www.ldsinc.com, www.mra-tech.com | optical indoor tracking: TotalTrax | voice systems: www.vocollect.com writedowns: Were there any recent write downs that surprised the company? What was the impact to net income? Is the company anticipating any significant write downs? What will be the impact to net income? Automation | Buildings | Capital | Purchasing | Robotics Personal Time

Investing in general: alternative investments: secondmarket | consumer investing behavior: dcisions | earnings whispers: www.whispernumber.com | books: The Only Three Questions That Count Fisher | gamify: kapitall | idea investing: motifinvesting | impact investing: Global Impact Investing Network GIIN | IPOs: www.hoovers.com/global/ipoc/index.xhtml, http://biz.yahoo.com/reports/ipo.html | Morningstar: www.morningstar.com | Motley Fool: www.fool.com | MSN Investor: 84

http://moneycentral.msn.com | regulation: FINRA | Silicon Investor: www.siliconinvestor.com | startups: DataFox | The Street: www.thestreet.com brokers: E*Trade: https://us.etrade.com | Fidelity: https://www.fidelity.com | kapitall | Schwab: https://www.schwab.com | TD Ameritrade: www.tdameritrade.com | thinkorswim Personal Finance | Gamification | Startups | Financing | Stockholders | more Financial Management

Investor Relations Does the CEO ask shareholders regularly about their perceptions of key corporate issues? Does the company have a means of assessing (in real time) the external impact of its communications efforts? in general: annualreports | book: Annual Reports 101 Thomsett | National Investors Relations Institute: niri public realtions: Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship | online campaign management: www.marqui.com | presentation tools: www.brainshark.com | online PR systems: marketwire | www.vocus.com Cybersecurity | Innovation | MDA) | Stockholders Social Organization and Change

Issues

abortion | AIDS: progress, (Red) | Balance inequality/diversity | Biosphere human impact | birth control | Blogs | bullying: It Gets Better Project LGBT, thebullyproject | campaign finance laws | Capitalism | Change | Child Abuse: call for help | child marriages: girlup.org | Cities | Civility | Climate Change | Creationism: Creation Museum | Crime, Corruption, Power, Violence | Cuba embargo | Cyberbullying | Cyber Security (Warfare) | darkness: darksky | Death Penalty: deathpenaltyinfo | Debt crisis | dengue fever | Denial of Science | Don’t ask, don’t tell | Drinking Age | Drones | dropouts: boostup, Drop Out Nation | drugs: methamphetamine, spice | Earth’s Envelope global warming | Education | Employees equal opportunity | Energy | Entitlement | Entrepreneurship social | Ethics | Eugenics | extinction / de-extinction: Biosphere | Family family medical leave: maternity/paternity leave | felon voting | Food Production | Fracking, horizontal drilling, tar sands | Freedom | Gamification | Gang Violence | Genital Mutilation: Desert Flower | Genetically-Modified Crops | Globalization | Climate Change | gold standard | Green | Growth | Gun Violence / Gun Control | Hacktivists | Hazing | Health and Disease | Health Care | Heredity and Evolution | Home Birthing | homelessness: Athens, Housing First, HUD Annual Survey, mellvilletrust | Human Rights | ideas | Immigration | Incivility | inequality: World Top Incomes Database | Insider Trading | Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Lemon Tree | Leadership | legalized drugs | LGBTG | medicinal drugs: kratom, Marijuana | Megacities | Morals | narcissism cultural | News | Nuclear Power | Nuclear Weapons non-proliferation | nuclear waste | Obamacare | Obesity wellness | oil dependence: 85

securenergy | oil spills: nano-sponges, X-Challenge | overfishing | Peace human rights | Performance-Enhancing Drugs | Philanthropy | Philosophy | Politics & Government grand strategy | Population | Poverty | Prison Reform | prisons: overcrowding | privacy vs national security | pro-con: livingvotersguide, ProCon | Problems and Solutions | pro-life: Personhood USA | PTSD | Religion intelligent design | Rich vs Poor: occupywallst big ideas | Right-to-Work | same-sex marriage: about, states | Separation of Church & State | Slavery | Smart Grid | Social Organization racism | SOPA | Space junk | Stand Your Ground | student debt: loan education | suicide: physician-assisted suicide | Sustainability | tar sands oil | Technology | Torture | Toxic Chemicals ban | transparency: whistleblowers | University Manifesto | US presidents | Values | Veterans | Violence crime | Violence against women | Voting Systems | War | Water | Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): chemical | Wind Energy | Women | Women in combat | World Cafe | more in general: publishers: www.newsociety.com, www.oneworld-publications.com | social action: greenpeace | tipping point | whatmattersnow books, articles, magazines, movies: good | My Plan to Fix The World's Biggest Problems Gates | The Tipping Point Gladwell | The Urban Cave Reese | What Have You Changed Your Mind About? Brockman | What Matters Cohen forums: commonwealthclub | http://fora.tv | www.cityclub.org | www.intelligencesquaredus.org | Lifeboat Foundation | www.mtv.com/thinkmtv | www.pbs.org/now | www.thisibelieve.org | wedialogue | Union of Concerned Scientists: ucsusa Human Resources

Jobs, Career, and Personal Growth What do you do well? Success in the New Economy Who am I? compasslite, woofound Are you happy with your life vocation? No? Then escapethecity. Are you indispensable? Are you satisfied with your compensation? Are you satisfied with your quality of work? Are the people who work for and with you happy? Are your customers happy, healthy, and satisfied? If not, what do you plan to do about it? How well are you harnessing your personal network jibe to find that next job? in general: blue collar: Work Hands | career management: ACT Explore, connectedu, gild | cobbling | college degree worth thielfellowship.org? | disabled: Getting Hired, SourceAmerica | entry-level & graduates: aftercollege, www.roadtripnation.com, www.vault.com, www.gradspot.com | flex-time: flexjobs | freelance: freelancer | funding: upstart | hot jobs: data scientist | indispensable? | internships: interninc, InternMatch | labor shortages: Conference Board | mini-jobbers | networks & portals: www.careercast.com, collegefeed, www.jobfox.com, www.jobster.com, jobvite, simplyhired, startwire | 100K: www.theladders.com | people with disabilities: gettinghired | professional score workday? | research companies: glassdoor | search: indeed | skills training and development: skillsusa.org, mindtools 86

| steel industry: Steel Worker for the Future | transition: www.grayhairmanagement.com | venture-backed companies: ventureloop resumes: business social networking: LinkedIn, Silo |curate you portfolio: pathbrite | online visual: prezume, www.visualcv.com self-assessment: When dealing with other people, what are your three biggest challenges? What are three barriers in general to achieving your personal and professional goals? What are the three most important skills you need to do your job well? What three things can stop you from being an effective _________ and the ________ world? | find the job you love: themuse blogs, books, movies: David and Goliath Gladwell | Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Godin | Don’t Go Back to School Stark | On the Boulevard: At this point in my life sp | Outliers: The Story of Success Gladwell | Roadtrip Nation Gebhard | The Happiness Project Rubin | The Internship | The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success Breitbarth | The Start-up of You Hoffman | The Three Signs of a Miserable Job Lencioni | Think and Grow Rich Hill Search | Future | Poverty |Strategic Planning | Software | more Management and Best Practices

Key Indicators

State of the USA What key performance measures instantis have been benchmarked in the company? How does the company perform to these benchmarks? Has the company developed methods to visually analyze key performance data clearmomentum? Are key indicators being effectively communicated iexecutivedashboard to staff and the board? Are employees given the key measures of business success so that they can understand those measures and use them to improve business performance? Does management openly discuss wins and losses with employees so they can keep learning and getting better? in general: balanced scorecard | benchmarks | metrics: dilbert | open book management: greatgame | word clouds: free dashboards: business: domo, freeagent, geckoboard, instantis | DIY: Dashing, prezi sp | personal finance Competition | Big Data | Marketing | Buildings | Business | more Literature

Kinds of literary composition Poetry Fiction Satiric: humor Nonfiction Children’s 87

What we have loved / others will love, and we will teach them how. William Wordsworth

book reviews: Meghan Gurdon comics: anime: crunchyroll video | comic-con fantasy: Frozen Disney | The Chronicles of Narnia Lewis fiction adventure: Robinson Crusoe The Phantom Tollbooth Juster picture books: Penguin preschool narrated: iStorytime How I Became a Pirate Long Press Here Tullet | Richard Scarry ten best authors Entertainment | Books | Eclecticism | Parenting | Values big picture

Knowledge Creation create and destroy, create and destroy, create and destroy… Logic Mathematics Science History and the Humanities Philosophy Preservation of Knowledge books: Beginner's Guide to the Humanities Bishop Political Power Knowledge Creation

Knowledge Management in general: www.innocentive.com | www.wikipedia.com | enterprise: palantirtech | tagging: www.connectbeam.com native intelligence (institutional memory): What incentives do workers have to share their native intelligence or tribal knowledge of processes, methods, and techniques? Has management and the culture of the company created disincentives? What manual and automated recording systems are in place to capture this closely-held knowledge? in general: executive education: Apple University | survey & assessment: questionmark questions & answers: general: bepl, quora, wayin | health: healthtap | legal: lawpivot 88

books: The Fifth Discipline Senge | The Wisdom of Crowds Surowiecki Decisions | think2ool | Lifetime | Predictive | Biotechnology Engineering and R&D

Laboratories in general: architects: www.hok.com | cryogenics: www.discountcryo.com | data management: datainnovations middleware | design: http://www.labdesignnews.com | LIMS: genologics, labguru, quartzy, thermo | portable lab benches: http://formaspace.com, www.lfsystems.com, tennsco, www.workplacesystemsinc.com | shell lab video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSp5PLTXzc4 | used equipment: biosurplus Automation | Biotechnology | Compliance to Regulations | Facilities Social Groups

Language Tools in general: automated language translation | learn by translating: duolingo big ideas | on-demand: livemocha, mangolanguages | online translator: www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en | pronunciation: howjsay | social network: busuu | spoken english training: carnegiespeech, elutian ESL, globalenglish, guanyaenglish, openenglish, TutorGroup | training: babbel, fsi-language-courses, www.rosettastone.com | visual text translation: word lens questvisual | welcome: www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/welcome.htm translation systems: Is the company employing language translation systems www.globalizationpartners.com so that product documentation, software interfaces, web sites, manuals and marketing collaterals can be localized in many languages quickly and in a highly cost-effective manner? in general: www.lingotek.com | www.russtechinc.com | automatic machine translation: www.languageweaver.com | document translation: www.morningtrans.com | dynamic translation: bing translator | Visual: kwikpoint China | Vizualization | Mobile | Cloud | Globalization World Since 1920

Latin-American & Caribbean Nations Mexico since 1920: geographic challenges Central America and the Caribbean since 1920 Nicaragua Transoceanic Canal: China big idea | Panamal Canal: expansion | ship sizes: panamax | Chile since 1920: Augusto Pinochet: No! (movie) Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay: The Motorcycle Diaries Che Guevara Brazil since 1930: visualizing the economy Latin American culture in the 20th century: poetry: Canto General Neruda 89

China | more Human Society

Law

Philosophies and Systems of Law Philosophies of law: justice Ancient and Modern Legal Systems Supreme Court Intellectual Property Recent Decisions Profession and Practice of Law Online Dispute Resolution (ODR): about documents: legalzoom | linklaters warranties: squaretrade Public Law Criminal law Wrongful convictions: Innocence Project Laws governing taxation: Production & Utilization of Wealth distribution / taxation Private Law Civil procedural law: individual vs corporation hotcoffeethemovie book: Law and Society Vago | portal: www.law.com Social | Right-to-Work | Test Prep | Anarchism | Crime Marketing

Lead Generation in general: clash-media, Velocify, marketo, www.pontiflex.com | affiliate marketing: www.affiliatetips.com, www.amnavigator.com, amazon affiliates, hasoffers performace advertising, skimlinks | automated systems: www.eloqua.com | book: A Practical Guide to Affiliate Marketing Prussakov | caller-ID for web: visistat | crowd-sourced: netprospex | health care: brightwhistle | international: www.roivision.com | social networking: netprospex | voice-based marketing automation: ifbyphone call-based: connectandsell | Invoca Sales | Crowd Sourcing | Health Care | Online Advertising | more Social Organization and Change

Leadership

Lead by example. Can companies still rely on single individuals at the top to handle the complexity and uncertainty of the global environment?

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in general: accountability: The buck stops here. Truman | anti-leadership: despotism | bios: Amazing People Library | greatness: about | journals: Leader to Leader | narcissistic leaders | team of rivals | toxic leaders | training: disneyinstitute charisma: research: measurement | visualization empowerment: thinkingmanagers | quotes: woopidoo | self-management: morningstarco | situational leadership heroes: As a leader, are you passionate and focus on a few key principles which you will not sacrifice under any circumstances? How strong is your willpower? Does your willpower have staying power? Can you weather a long storm? Can you effectively communicate your key principles? Are you getting the message across? Do you strive for generosity, nobility, humility, and strength of character? | Finding A Hero Amid Fading Memories NPR wisdom: A skillful leader can use a light touch to solve a vexing problem. Miller | clinical wisdom nursing | quotes: www.wisdomquotes.com | National Urban Fellows books, articles, forums: CEOs Out of Bounds sp | Good Boss, Bad Boss Sutton | Heroes Johnson | Heroes of History Durant | How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie | Leadership Ensembles Thomas | Made to Stick Heath | Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges Scalia | Maverick! Semler big ideas | On Becoming a Leader Bennis | On Leadership Gardner | Renaissance Weekend | Start with Why Sinek | Strengths-Based Leadership | The Age of Lincoln Burton | The First 90 Days Watkins | The Last Lecture Pausch | The Little Big Things Peters | The Starfish and the Spider Brafman | Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Godin | What to Ask the Person in the Mirror Kaplan CEO | India | Unequivocal | Trust Methods of Business Organization

Legal Information and Compliance Antitrust | Arbitration | Competition | Compliance to Regulations | Content Security | Contract Signing Authority | Cybersecurity | DIY | Employees equal opportunity | Financial | Government Contract Administration | Intellectual Property | Knowledge crowd | Law | Methods of Business Organization | Network | Nonprofit Organization | North American Free Trade Agreement | Outsourcing | Purchasing | Recycling | Regulations | Risk Management | Sarbanes-Oxley Act | Taxes | Truth-In-Advertising | Water Are backups of all key documents in a secured, disaster-proof location? Are the board minutes up-to-date and secure? questions for lawyer(s): What is your evaluation of management? Is management listening to your best advice? What has been the trend in outside attorney fees for the last three years as a percentage of revenue? Is it reasonable? Is the company's cost for carrying inside counsel resources reasonable?

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environmental regulations: Have any environmental regulation violations or warnings been given to the company? What actions are being taken to resolve the problem(s)? The cost? Is the company a candidate for accreditation under the ISO 14000 standards? Is the air quality odotech of the plant internally and externally in compliance with relevant environmental laws? What percentage of the company's revenues is spent to maintain air quality to mandated levels? Is it reasonable or getting out of control? | carbon monoxide detection: www.carbon-monoxidepoisoning.com/symptoms.html | EPA Regulations: http://www.epa.gov | smartphone sensor in general: ABA LawLink: www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/lawlink/home.html | corporate counsel: law | create documents: www.legalzoom.com | digital signatures: echosign | enterprise document management: intralinks | FindLaw: www.findlaw.com | Hieros Gamos: www.hg.org | Lawyer Locator: http://lawyers.martindale.com | outsourcing: www.pangea3.com, www.unitedlex.com | SEC : www.seclaw.com, http://securities.stanford.edu class actions | spend management: www.datacert.com Federal/State Codes: Code of Federal Regulations: www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrtable-search.html | State Code: www.findlaw.com/casecode/#statelaw | Tax Code | US Code: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode regulatory agencies: Has the company ever been a defendant in any enforcement proceedings by regulatory agencies? Any actions threatened or pending? Is the company in compliance with all federal, state and local laws? What are the troublesome occupational hazards for the company? What has the company's record been with past OSHA inspections? Any fines? Has the company corrected all violations? waste production and disposal: How much and what kinds of scrap or waste are generated by the production process? How is waste/scrap disposed? Is the company in compliance with environment control regulations for each type of waste or scrap byproduct? Are there any major capital requirements needed in the future to maintain compliance? Has the company allocated funds in the long-term financial plan? Has the company ever had an industrial spill? Does the company carry sufficient catastrophe insurance? | residential: thebagster | medical wastes: Stericycle | optimization of pickup: enevo | solar compactor: godawn | treatment and recycle: newearthsolutions Financial Management

Liabilities

Do any defaults or violations exist in any of the company’s corporate obligations including loan agreements, notes, leases, etc.? Is the company current with all payables? Does any one creditor hold 5% or more of the current total accounts payable? Are there any contingent liabilities not shown or footnoted on the balance sheet? Accounts Payable: about: theaccountspayablenetwork 92

Accrued Liabilities: Has the company properly disclosed any environmental liabilities from actual or threatened legal proceedings, and the financial impacts that may result from emerging trends in environmental regulations? What are the accrued liabilities outstanding in general and how did they arise? Are they accounted for properly according to GAAP? Has the company accrued all liabilities that it should? Loans: Are there any loans to or from management or key stockholders or employees? Can the loans be terminated at any time at the discretion of the board? | amortization calculator: dinkytown | buy/sell online: debtmarket | design your loan: zestcash | financial literacy: everfi | personal loans: www.lendingtree.com | peer-to-peer lending: fundingcircle, lendingclub, prosper, zopa Warranties: What types of failures have been most likely to trigger claims? What percentage of annual revenues is spent to fulfill the company's warranty obligations? How much warranty reserve does the company maintain? | consumer warranties online: squaretrade | never event warranty: clearcount Financing | Home(s) | Law | Lifetime Learning | Personal Financial Planning Preservation of Knowledge

Libraries

History 21st century advocacy: EveryLibrary censorship: Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom disruption: Libraries: At the EpiCenter of the Digital Disruption Library materials digital content magazines: zinio streaming: hoopla human libraries: Human Library The Library profession and professional financial sustainability: local fundraising campaigns organizations: Center for the Future of Libraries | IMLS in general: Let this be a holy place for the human spirit, consecrated to the forces which magnify the soul. James | Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) | Microlibraries: Little Free Library sharing | beautiful: The 25 Most Beautiful College Libraries in the World, 20 Beautiful Private and Personal Libraries | sustainability: Free For

All: Inside the Public Library

books, articles, presentations: Banned Books Doyle | Library as Infrastructure Mattern | digital disruption: Public library engagement in the United States Zickuhr Change | Digital Content | Books | Social | Utopia | more

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Life on Earth Nature & Diversity of Life Structure and Function of Organisms Behavior of Organisms Biosphere Education

Lifetime Learning in general: People should be allowed to package learning no matter how they acquired it. Rubio | adult education: learnerweb, The First Grader Chadwick | floatinguniversity | compressed: getabstract | content modules: cnx | www.criticalthinking.org | e-learning: apollidon, delivery platform | e-textbooks kno | flashcards: studyblue | free: floatinguniversity, OpenClassroom | Great Courses | grownup school | homeschooling | homework: Chegg, myhomeworkapp | lesson plans: betterlesson sharing, www.thinkfinity.org | Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): academicearth, coursera big ideas, edx.org, udacity | mastering a skill: 10,000 rule | medical: epocrates | mobile: quipper |platforms: wiziq | search: www.campusexplorer.com, classfill local | self-directed learning: 21st Century Worker | share what you know: coursehero, learni.st | specializations: Coursera | study guides: www.studygs.net | travel programs: roadscholar.org | vendors: trainingplace | videos: khanacademy, learnzillion college: admissions: aristotlecircle guidance, www.autoadmit.com | credentials: parchment | employee assistance: United Technologies Employee Scholar Program | predictive analytics: civitaslearning | tuition payments: peerTransfer kids: 2-12: mindshapes | sketch-based learning online degree programs: americansentinel, capella, www.waldenu.edu | art and design: www.sessions.edu | directory: www.elearners.com | graduate programs: 2tor | nursing education: orbiseducation | security: Henley-Putnam.edu platforms: blackboard | coursekit | www.desire2learn.com | embanetcompass | www.elementk.com | www.knowledgenet.com | Bluedrop | udemy | open source: edcast, rsmart | school-as-a-service: Synergis Education software: learning: learnkey, lynda, techknowledge | real-time feedback: repl.it testing & grading: cheating | Jung Myers-Briggs: humanmetrics | memory improvement | online: respondus, tests | prep: benchprep, revolutionprep | software: test | test anxiety training: Does the company consciously cross-train employees to mitigate problems from absenteeism or sudden departures of employees? | authoring tools: articulate storyline, mindflash | corporations: Chief Learning Officer | Internet marketing: literatiinstitute | platforms: LearnerNation | retail pharmacy: learnsomething | video screen recording: bbsoftware.co.uk, Camtasia Studio 94

Drawing | Books | Personal Finances | Collaboration | Universe | more Design

Lighting in general: How will we control this space? | addressable: encelium | control systems: www.lumenergi.com | flexible: gorillatorch | gravity-driven: GravityLight | intelligent: ilumisolutions | light emitting plasma LEP: luxim |modular: anthonydickens tekio | solar: mwangabora | solid state: www.lifi.com, gotham | wireless energy management: www.aduratech.com LEDs: flat panels: axlen | Light Emitting Capacitor (LEC): www.ceelite.com | Light Emitting Diaodes (LED): bridgelux, cooledgelighting flexible, ecosenselighting, illumitex, lsgc, www.luminus.com, www.mrbeams.com, relume | organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs): blackbody, novaled photography: portable hand-held theicelight street lights: solar/wind: Urban Green Energy Buildings | Architecture | Energy | Green | Home Particular Arts

Literature I write to know what I think. Kinds of literary composition History of Literature rare books: Bible | Voynich Manuscript translation: wordswithoutborders Writing in general: coolhunting: corpse, ninthletter | festivals: jaipurliteraturefestival, Youth Literature Festival | search: proquest Preservation of Knowledge Cities

Location, Place, and Space Decide where you want to live your life, and then build your life around that. sp Is your state magnetic or sticky? Is it difficult to attract new personnel to this location? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? Do you feel safe? Does the area you are in seem unique? Does it appear wealthy, clean or even energetic? in general: best places | creative class: DUMBO Brooklyn | currency tracking: wheresgeorge | find friends/family: buzzmob | location analytics: blexting, placed | powersofplace | privately-owned public spaces: POPS | quiet places: stereopublic | research: Place Pulse | retail: christmas retail scorecard | science cities: kaust | 95

search for movers: movity | social media: natural (virtual) cities | thin places (celts) | Wear You Live site selection: In evaluating expansion sites, does the company consider the direct and indirect costs from: | community info: www.developmentalliance.com | consultants: www.dcgcorplan.com | economic strength of communities: www.policom.com | europe | global: http://www.redhotlocations.com | online databases: www.locationone.com, www.loopnet.com, www.sitenet.com, www.sspropertymarketplace.com | online property data places: Have you ever been touched by a place? Have you ever been changed by it? Do you know why? Is location the most important decision of your life? | co-working lab: Collision Works | off-the-grid cabin: scottandscott | treehouse: tree tents books: Place-Based Conservation Stewart | Rise of the Creative Class Florida | The Image of the City Lynch | Who's Your City Florida Stages | Collaboration | Hydrosphere | Books | more Knowledge Creation

Logic

Formal Logic, Metalogic, and Applied Logic Applied Logic Epistemic logic Common Sense: about | Benjamin Franklin | columns: Ask Amy books: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Fulghum | Common Sense Paine | Introduction to Logic Copi Problem Solving | Values | more

Popular Culture

Magic & Myth Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight, Red is gray and yellow white, But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion? Moody Blues

in general: about | animation: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice | gaming: wizards | Houdini | magazine: magicmagazine | magical realism: about | placebo effect | Rasputin books and movies: Big Fish Wallace | Harry Potter Rowling | Jorge Luis Borges | Life of Pi Martel | Beasts of the Southern Wild | One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez | The Conjuring Arts Research Center | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge Castaneda Randomness | Weird | Golf | Maps | Particular 96

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Major Systems of Communication

Books, newspaper, and magazine publishing Books & Book Publishing Online Advertising Postal systems: digitized postal mail: earthclassmail, outboxmail Telecommunications enterprise management: www.rivermine.com, tangoe | Web Based PBX: Vonage. www.fonality.com Radio Television Satellite systems enterprise: rignet oilfield imagery: skyboximaging Electronic networks e-mail video Encryption and decryption anonymity browsing: Tor e-mail: lavabit books: The Medium is the Message McLuhan Thought | Cybersecurity | E-mail | Enterprise Systems | Humor | more Methods of Business Organization

Management and Best Practices Acquisitions | Benchmarking | Business Performance Management (BPM) | Business Process Reengineering | Business Simulations | CEO | CEO Performance Evaluation | CEO Succession | CEOs Out of Bounds | Change | Checklists | Continuous Improvement | Core Competency | Core Technology | Corporate Governance | Crime | Customer Feedback | Decision Making | Development of Technology | Entrepreneurship | Executive Compensation | Executive Eduction | Growth | Humor | Innovation | Key Indicators | Leadership | Knowledge Management | Modeling & Simulation | Music | News | Organizational Structure | Outsourcing | Politics | Project Management | Retirees | Small Business | Startups | Strategic Planning | Succession | Trustworthiness | World Cafe In what ways does management communicate with employees? How would employees evaluate the effectiveness of these programs? in general: book reviews: www.ceoexpress.com/asp/ceobookreview.asp | company info: www.cortera.com | Harvard Business Online: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu, Working Knowledge | INSEAD: http://knowledge.insead.edu | Knowledge @ Wharton: 97

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu | McKinsey Quarterly: www.mckinseyquarterly.com | peer-generated best practices: executiveboard | professional development: www.amanet.org | Strategy & Business: www.strategybusiness.com | White Papers: www.itpapers.com Methods of Business Organization

Manufacturing and Distribution The things we make, make us. Jeep Agriculture & Food Production | Automation | Biotechnology | Capital Expenditures | Cloud Computing | Competition | Complexity | Construction | Continuous Improvement | DIY | Electronics | Elements of Technology | Growth | Invention prototyping | Inventory | ISO Standards | Lean Maufacturing | Manufacturing Capacity, Equipement, Facilities | Manufacturing Flow and Processes | Methods of Business Organization | Nanotechnology | Outsourcing | Parts | Productivity | Purchasing | Quality Management | Recycling | Robotics | Sales Information | Shipping | Supply Chain Management | 3D Manufacturing and Distribution

Manufacturing Capacity, Equipment, Facilities capacity: At what percentage of capacity is the company operating? What is the minimum feasible increment in the expansion of production capacity? What is the incremental sales volume required to break even on the minimum feasible incremental production capacity? How does the company's utilization of production capacity compare with its competitors? equipment: How much downtime does the company experience with equipment? Is there a backup plan to every critical piece of production equipment in case of shutdown? Are replacement parts readily available? Is the company's equipment comparable, if not superior, to the age and sophistication of competitors' equipment? Is any of the production equipment highly specialized or custom-made? | electronic components: supplyframe | solar-generated steam: glasspoint facilities: How old is the existing plant(s)? What condition is the plant(s) in? Are the annual maintenance and repair costs reasonable? Is there a formal preventive maintenance program in effect? What is the remaining useful life of the plant(s)? Is the production capacity of the plant(s) adequate? Is the plant(s) operating at capacity? What is the rationale for the current distribution of production capacity across plant sites? How much flexibility is there to shift production between plants? What is the replacement value of the plant(s)? What is the book value of the plant(s)? What is the liquidation value of the plant(s)? Is there adequate insurance coverage on the plant(s) to cover replacement value? Have there been any recent appraisals? | design: transparent factory

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software: collaboration: Delmia | cost optimization: apriori | outsourcing: www.serus.com | pharmaceutical industry: aegiscorp | process control: rockwellautomation | suppy chain: demandpointinc, ultriva articles, books: Future factories let workers build a car from home Marks Automation | Biotechnology | Design | Energy | Facilities Manufacturing and Distribution

Manufacturing Flow and Processes Is the production flow generally efficient? Are there any bottlenecks that are a problem in any of the production segments? Has production been completely stopped in the last year? How much flexibility exists to shift production between plants? Can the company increase throughput in any of the production segments? How do the company's production processes benchmark with competitors? What is the procedure for identifying and reporting production problems? How many quality test points are there in the production process? How does the company monitor and evaluate the performance and impact of its just-in-time delivery? raw materials: Is the company planning strategically to deal with the global challenge of materials scarcity by reducing material demand through material efficiency? What are the principal materials used in manufacturing each product? What is the company’s physical proximity to raw material sources? How are raw materials transported? How would a slowdown in transportation services affect the company’s operations? Are any of the raw materials used by the company dependent on a harvest each year? What percentage? How does the company control the risks associated with the price fluctuation of these materials? What procedures does the company have for testing incoming raw materials? How many component parts and raw materials are used in the production process? How many parts or components are available from only one supplier? What are the lead times for critical components? in general: book: Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design Lefteri | lean flow manufacturing: invistics, www.pelionsystems.com Automation | Quality Management | Recycling Elements of Technology / Measurement, Observation, Control

Mapping & Cartography

in general: buildings: IndoorAtlas | cities: Madison | crumpled | coolhunting: MapLab | custom hand-made: alacartemaps | educational tools: www.abroaderview.com | equal-area projection: futuremaps | fiction: On Exactitude in Science Borges | globes: bellerbyandco | imaginary: Marauder’s Map, Middle Earth, New Penzance Island | measure online: distance | national parks: naturevalleytrailview, parks.mapquest | nationalgeographic | office: my map sp | ondemand: cartodb | route maps: www.travelblog.org/gmaps/create.html | self99

publish: imapbuilder | social mapping: plotterapp | tools: LiDAR | unexplored: here be dragons | world map mural geospatial: geo data & analytics: digitalglobe, urbanmapping | geoplace | open source: OpenGeoDa books and notebooks: Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations Virga | Map As Art Harmon | Maphead Jennings | MAPS Scher | On the Map Garfield | The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet Larsen

Sensors | Open Source | Cities | Buildings | Visuospatial | more Marketing

Market Research in general: www.marketresearch.com | consultants: crmmewtrix | consumers: GfK | customer interaction networks: www.networkedinsights.com | demographic data: nielsen | digital communications: www.instat.com | Enterprise tools: markettools | global panels: gmi-mr | industry analysis: www.bccresearch.com, www.plunkettresearch.com | internet: www.comscore.com | macro trends: www.iconoculture.com | medical: http://verilogue.com | mobile: www.yankeegroup.com | neuromarketing: blog | visualization: magic quadrant Gartner

questions: How big is the overall market? What percentage is domestic vs. international? What has been the overall market growth rate for the last five years? What has been the market growth rate by product for the last five years? What is the geographic distribution of the market? How will that geographic distribution change in the next five years? Is the market typically a seasonal or cyclical one? What is the demographic breakout of the company’s customer base? What is the company's share of the market? What is the trend for the last five years? What is management's strategy for increasing market share? sampling & surveys: www.census.gov | general: www.gmi-mr.com, www.peanutlabs.com, popsurvey, www.surveymonkey.com, Verint | global panels: CriticalMix | real-time questions: qriously | rewards programs: www.e-rewards.com | trends: futureconceptlab | web polling: www.vizu.com Business | Visualization | Brand | Buying | Customer Methods of Business Organization

Marketing

Advertising and Promotion | Alerts | Barriers to Entry | Blogs | Brand Identity and Loyalty | Business Cycles | Business Intelligence | Business Writing | Buying Decisions | Casual Gaming | Clickstream Data | Commercials | Competition | Competitive Threats | Consolidation | Content Management | Content Mining | Content Monitoring | Coolhunting | CRM | Customer Dependence | Customer Feedback | Customer Profile | Development of Technology | Digital Content | Ecommerce | Economic Conditions | Educational Marketing | Email | Globalization | Humor | 100

Ideas | Images | In-Game Advertising | Industry Specific Research | Intellectual Property | Key Indicators | Lead Generation | Lifetime Learning | Maps | Market Research | Music | News | Online Advertising | Photo search | Pricing | Publications | Radio | Research and Surveys | Retail | Sales Information | Self-Publishing | Small Business | Social Networking | Stages of Human Behavior | Trade Periodicals | Video / DVD Production | Video Commercials (online) | Virtual | Visualization | Writing for the Web | more Knowledge Creation

Mathematics History and Foundations of Mathematics History of mathematics museums prizes: Fields Medal Foundations of mathematics fractions: using rhythm to teach fractions pi: March 14 3.14 symbols Branches of Mathematics Set theory: Mandelbrot Set Algebra education: The Algebra Project advocacy Equations Trigonometry triangles: calculator Geometry Fields of technology / construction Learning Mathematics gamification: dreambox mindmap: hypermath problem solving: Wolfram Problem Generator Applications of Mathematics statistics: programming languages: R tools: MathWorks books: Journey through Genius Dunham | Principia Newton | The Millennium Problems Devlin

Equations | Big Data | Visual | Engineering | Toys | more big picture

Matter and Energy Atoms Energy, States, & Transformation of Matter Universe 101

books: On The Shoulders Of Giants Hawking Elements of Technology

Measurement, Observation, and Control

Units and standards of measurement Time Common types of measuring instruments Measuring basic dimensions length: floor plans: roomscan Instruments used for observing and recording telescopes: Hubble | crowd-sourced: ARKYD | radio: ALMA cameras: lytro Special instruments used in scientific research pH meter: senovasystems Major measurement & observation systems Mapping & Cartography Oceanographic measurement: research ship Sikuliaq Navigational techniques & devices GPS gyroscopes: qualtre Running | Design

Practice of Medicine

Medicine: Research and Technologies in general: anesthesia: universal anesthesia machine | Blood sampling: 7sbio | Bioresorbable: amaranthmedical stents | Brain | clinical trials: search: trialreach | Deep Brain Stiulation (DBS) | Diagnostics: molecular cytology: veracyte | Non-invasive: neurosky | Diabetes | donate blood for research: sanguinebio | Mobile: cellnovo, glooko | Digital medicines: Proteus Digital Health big ideas | Electronics | Eye tracking: tobii | genetic testing: hereditary disorders | glucose monitoring | Heart: artificial: SynCardia, heart-powered pacemaker | Implants: medisse resorbable soft-tissue | Knees: knee replacement: conformis | Noninvasive detection: miraculins | Point-ofcare diagnostics: daktaridx | prosthetics: bionic leg, BiOM, AlterG | regenerative medicine: Histogenics | Robotics | Transplantation: transmedics | Wireless: cardiac rhythm monitoring irhythmetech | ECG: lifesynccorp tissue-engineered: adhesive: coheramedical | transplants: trachea Health & Disease | Biotech | GPS | Wellness | Visualization | more Cities

Megacities Kapital Creation: A Beijing State of Mind big ideas

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Is growth the problem, or the solution? Are we ready for 75% of the world’s population living in cities by 2050? Will we see the proliferation of dystopian megaslums or the triumph of so-called smart cities? megacities: Where are the next urban frontiers? If the megacity is a trend that will continue to grow, what specific changes will it bring about? What profound changes has it already produced? What are the cultural and political implications of megacities? How can critics, theorists, artists, and urbanists address these implications? megacity task force: www.megacities.uni-koeln.de technopolis: Are we achieving an integrated living, working, and recreation program within an efficient and self-contained habitat? Are we maintaining over 50 percent of the land as a wildlife conservation area? Are we providing the most advanced technologies? Are we using “green” building materials and techniques to reduce energy consumption? Are we providing a structure that enables the private and public sectors to partner to meet financial and economic goals? in general: gaming: cities XL | forums: The Future of Urban Development Initiative | Masdar City | movies: Slumdog Millionaire | pop-up cities: burning man | simulation: urbansim | technopolis | 360 degrees panoramas | urban laboratory: www.arcosanti.org | urban planning: cyburbia books, documentaries: Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century Silver | Population Bomb | Social Culture and High-Tech Economic Development Phillips | The Endless City Burdett | The Human Scale Dalsgaard Utopia/Dystopia | Future | China | Extreme | Issues | more Organization of Production and Distribution

Methods of Business Organization books | Corporate Governance | Engineering and R&D | Facilities and Equipment | Financial Management | Human Resource Management | Information Technology (IT) | International Business | Legal Information & Compliance | Management and Best Practices | Manufacturing and Distribution | Marketing | Products and Services | Risk Management | Sales and Customer Service | Software & Web Development Thought and Thought Processes

Mind Wandering

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Merton in general: about | absent minded | anti-boredom | browse engine: think2ool | daydreams | eureka effect: about, hiking in the woods books: Daydreams at Work Fries | The Shallows Carr Randomness | Creativity | Art | think2ool

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Mobile

in general: analytics: mixpanel, flurry | applications limelife.com | browsers: skyfire.com | file access soonr.com | free: blyk.com, testPlus, groupflier texting | images: photobucket | live text-message alerts: 4info.net | portable ultrasound | privacy certification: truste | security: zimperium | video: tremorvideo android: apps: bluestacks | virtual keyboard: swiftkey, swype advertising: www.medialets.com | millenialmedia | mobgold | www.ringleaderdigital.com | incentives | interactive audio advertising: Soleo | platforms: AdMob, flurry cell phones: brands: iphone | photo and video sharing: instagr.am | live video from cell phone: qik | money transfer | real-time messaging: whatsapp | ringtones: muzicall, www.vringo.com games, fitness, entertainment: development/distribution platform: playscape | fitness workforce: Is the company taking advantage of wireless and web-based applications to streamline field service operations making routine business processes more efficient, the mobile workforce more productive, and customer service more responsive? Can field personnel access their e-mail accounts from a cell phone? Is it secure? | platforms: agentek, corrigo, inmotiontechnology, peoplematter service, quickoffice, servicepower, shoretel, toatech, xora TV | Payments | Enterprise | Network | Humans | more Elements of Technology/Tools & Machines

Modeling and Simulation Does the company take advantage of software simulation tools to model and predict outcomes in mission-critical situations for the company? in general: about | applications | biosimulation: entelos | www.bts.com | Ai systems: about | CFD: exa | football: kicking | government policy: outline | physical systems: txcorp | social systems: ancient world biomimicry: Nature respects hierarchy. | about: biomimicry | adhesion | antibacterial: cicada wings | bullet train: kingfisher beak | car design: Lamborghini | catalog: AskNature | collective behavior: ants | electric organs: eel | fluid flow: butterfly wings | jewelry: n-e-r-v-o-u-s | materials: peacock mantis shrimp | micro aerial vehicle big idea | resiliency: bamboo bend not break, immune system cyber | swarm behavior: fish, kilobots Cities | Robotics | Smart Grid | Autos | Drones | more

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Modern World to 1920

United States and Canada from 1763 to 1920

Profitability

Monetization ad networks: widgetbucks | games & social networks: www.appssavvy.com, www.mochimedia.com, upsight, playjam | mobile apps inner-active | Monetizationas-a-Service (MaaSTM): playspan | platform optimize: monetate| social networks: www.appssavvy.com | tv: deliveryagent | user-generated content | video: auditude, www.extend.com, www.freewheel.tv, realgravity E-Mail | Apps | Blogs | Currency | Digital Philosophy

Morals about | moral compass: depravity | moral intuition | moral relativism: there is no objective truth | research: moralresearchlab | test yourself: www.yourmorals.org | tolerance: live and let live books, TV: Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists Neiman | Moral Minds Hauser War | Big Picture | Ethics | Humor | Issues Particualr Arts

Movies

History of motion pictures Critics: Roger Ebert: Life Itself The Art of Film independent and documentary immigration: Welcome to Shelbyville | national parks: The First 70 | photography: terragalleria | on the edge: snagfilms, Werner Herzog | submarinechannel festivals and competitions cimmfest | kickstarter, sundance, tribecafilm | independent and documentary: flahertyseminar, sheffdocfest | overlooked: ebertfest | underground: Chicago Underground Film Festival cuff.org Technology of Motion Pictures animation: Waking Sleeping Beauty Disney IMAX: MacGillivray Freeman Films documentaries Product Engineering 3D 70mm film: Samsara in general: big and immersive screen: giantscreencinema | clips: movieclips | colorization: www.legendfilms.net | international: nollywood | mediadesignschool |

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museums: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art |on-demand: www.moviebeam.com | reviews: moviefone | short films: cinema16, Jameson First Shot | warnerarchive Museums | DIY | Social Change | Financing | Popular | more Preservation of Knowledge

Museums and galleries History of museums: about Types of museums abstract expressionism: clyffordstillmuseum | airports: SFOarts | aviation: museumofflight.org, nationalmusuem.af.mil | botanical gardens | ceramics | comics: Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art | conservatory: Garfield Park Conservatory | design: design-museum | emerging artists: Miguel Abreu Gallery, Thomas Dane Gallery | estates: Biltmore, Vizcaya | general: Tate.org | human behavior: Museum of Broken Relationships | interactive: big bambu, dithyrambalina musical house | laboratories: teslasciencecenter.org | manhattan project: losalamoshistory | maritime: National Maritime Museum rmg, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary | mathematics: momath | motor museum: beaulieu | music: Motown Museum, Musical Instrument Museum mim, Rock-nRoll Museum | news: newseum | Nobel Prize: nobelmuseum | notable: maxxi | planetariums: adlerplanetarium | postal museum: National Postal Museum |repurposed spaces | science | space: space shuttle | virtual: google art project, smarthistory Museum operations contributions: herbanddorothy visualization: diarama web sites: design keepthinking in general: artifacts: pastels books: The Participatory Museum Simon Movies | Toys | Transportation | Libraries | Science | more Particular Arts

Music

Sources of musical sound digital: thumbjam percussion: clapping stringed banjo: Earl Scruggs Music Theory muscial notation: harmonia Styles blues: Johnny Winter folk: Inside Llewyn Davis Coen 106

rock-n-roll Beatles Rolling Stones: Life Richards Rundgren: Todd Rundgren Recording & reproduction of music: online: mog History of music: Leonard Bernstein Music Today Popular Culture | Electronics | Emotion | more Music

Music Today MUSIC + art + creativity + dance + design + DIY + entrepreneurship + ideas = SXSW in general: Greatest band ever? | apps: smule, timbre | artists | augmented music: rjdj | CD storage: murfie | clubs: theslowdown | collaboration: hitRECord | concert search: www.songkick.com | country: Billy Joe Shaver | discographies: princevault | DJ: White Shadow paul blair | documentaries: Searching for Sugar Man | downloads mp3: 7digital | drummers: Leon Ndugu Chancler | experimental: bttls | festivals: dimensions electronica, pickathon, sterngrove, SXSW | Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways | Germany: Herbert Gronemeyer | hip-hop: www.globalgrind.com, microphone check, outkast | history: Sound City Studios | instruments: Roli Seaboard piano | jazz: Blue Note Records | jingle: short and gets in your head | licensing: licensing & royalty payment services, themusicbed stock music | live music: austincitylimits, worldcafelive | magazines: Green Room | musical theater video archive: www.bluegobo.com | new artisits: All Songs Considered NPR, First Listen, muse: the 2nd law | playlists & curation: BBC, last.fm, www.onellama.com, spotify, TastemakerX, tunehog | pop: popdust | portals: Cambio | publishing: www.kobaltmusic.com | record your own: www.sonomawireworks.com | remix: pgomix | rhythm & blues: John Hammond | rock documentaries/operas: Quadrophenia, 20,000 Days on Earth Cave | soul: Aretha Franklin | speakers: klipsch | streaming: Pandora, rdio | TV: American Idol, The Voice | vinyl: shadydog, the78project, vinylmeplease for musicians: education and practice: chromatik, gTar, thezoen | facebook band pages | get noticed: balconytv | Grammies: grammy awards, grammy365 voting | interactive sheet music: tonara | licensing: musicdealers | management: nettwerk | pitch correction: StarMaker | promo networks: hellomusic, www.sonicbids.com | sheet music album: beck | social media: Taylor Swift | studio access: Real World Records | video training: www.ivideosongs.com search & analyze: DJ: roqbot | echonest | identify the song: shazam | lyrics |sound search: soundcloud, soundhound | world music: putumayo books/movies: Guerrilla Music Marketing Handbook Baker | Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail King | The World in Six Songs Levitin | Twenty Feet from Stardom Neville, backup singers 107

Road Trip | Branding | Unequivocals | Emotion | Health | more Elements of Technology

Nanotechnology coatings: hzo.me, nanomech | education/training | fuel additives: www.cerionenergy.com | inks | micromachining: picodrill | steel: nanosteelco | thermoelectric coolchip: www.nanofreeze.se Manufacturing | Biotechnology | Engineering | Lifetime Learning | Modeling | more Life on Earth

Nature & Diversity of Life Characteristics of Living Things Life beyond the earth: Extraterrestrial Life Origin & Evolution of Living Things Stages in emergence of life: Did early life forms start on land? Process of evolution evolutionary convergence: mapoflife.org Origin of species and process of speciation 97, 312 D. Phylogeny: software tools SATé - Simultaneous Alignment and Tree Estimation | tree-thinking.org Classification of Living Things Plants Animals birds counting: ebird, The Big Year hawks: hawks live cam | red-tailed: Pale Male sounds: birdsnap | warblr cats: big cats extinction dogs: Underwater Puppies Casteel in general: activism: Roots & Shoots Goodall | digitization of biological collections: invertnet, Notes From Nature.citizen science | diversity of living things | field guides: greenmountaindigital | magazines: La Hulotte | self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell | TV: discovery channel | zoos & sanctuaries: The Wild Animal Sanctuary books and magazines: Biology: Life on Earth Audesirk | Classification, Evolution, and the Nature of Biology Panchen | discovermagazine | The Biodiversity Crisis Novacek | The Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution Pagel Apps | Randomness | Photography | Travel | Biosphere | more

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Cities

Neighborhoods in general: about | apps: SeeClickFix |community building: barn raising, unca | images | search: neighborhoodscout | sharing & lending: neighborgoods | social networking: nextdoor walking: Walking is man's best medicine.Hippocrates | cities: americawalks.org, walkability, walkscore, walkyourcity | personal walking program | predictive: average walking speed books: The Abundant Community McKnight | Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Speck Crowd | Family | Bicycles | Fitness | Home | more Software & Web Development

Network

Does the company have a means to maintain a current understanding of all interconnected business applications in spite of the complexity, constant change, and scattered information? What backup systems cya are employed to ensure that the company’s network can be fully restored in the event of a complete system crash? in general: application performance monitoring: www.netqos.com | automatic server failover: www.neverfailgroup.com | cloud apps: backupify | co-location Facilities: venyu | configuration management www.cirba.com auto detection | consultants: netforecast | continuous data protection: ASG, backblaze, doubletake, netapp | data deduplication: sepaton | hardware: unitrends | high-availability software: Stratus | home electrical wiring: www.intellon.com | PC backup: carbonite, memeo | PC power management: http://verdiem.com | server backup & recovery: acronis, bocada, datacastlecorp, evault, hexistor, ironmountain, retrospect | smartphone: mylookout | software restore systems: arcserve, www.inmage.net | threat prevention: Palo Alto Networks, trustwave | virtual desktops: leostream, Moka5, unidesk, vbridges | visualization: www.skyboxsecurity.com | Windows-based management: www.solarwinds.net backup & recovery: What backup procedures are in place for the company’s network? Are all data on all systems backed up? Does the system call for the removal of a complete backup to an offsite storage facility at least once per month? Has the company ever done a complete restore of its network after a system crash? If not, have we verified that capability? Is the recovery process tested annually? code42 | cloud: axcient Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): mobile is the IT platform | bradfordnetworks, catavolt, BYOD, Good Technology, nativeflow | platforms: lookout, mobileiron escrow agent: Does the company utilize a third-party escrow agent to safeguard critical systems and propriety software? Do customers require this of the company's 109

software products? Does the company maintain a current inventory list of what's in escrow? Is it available for review? Cyber | Mobile | Identity | Cloud | Crisis Products and Services

New Product Assessment Is the product revolutionary? Can it solve a commercial problem? Have clear competitors emerged? Is the team ready and capable of delivering a working product? What market characteristics demonstrate attractiveness for the new product opportunity? What risks are associated with developing and delivering the new product or service? What is the adequacy of the company’s resources to successfully develop and commercialize this new product idea? What are the competitive advantages of the new product or service? product differentiation: Does management clearly understand the positioning of its products and services in the marketplace? What are we offering? What problem does our offer solve? Why is it worth trying or buying? Who is our target audience? Do we have the right credentials? Who are our competitors and how are we different from them? What resistance or objections will people have to this? What is the purpose of our pitch? When, where, and how do we want to take people to action? books: Consumption Economics Wood | Pop!: Stand Out in Any Crowd Horn Innovation | Research and Development Products and Services

New Products find a need and fill it Have new products/services achieved expected levels of profitability? What are management’s short-term (1 year) and long-term (5 years) new product/service plans? Are new product managers following a rigorous and consistent checklist and project plan for new product development and launch projects? After the product is announced, is the sales team ready to sell it? Is the product introduction process characterized by last-minute heroics? Did the organization miss a launch deadline because important details were overlooked? Has the launch budget been reduced because the ROI has not materialized? product features: What are the top five features of this product(s)? What could be considered proprietary features? Have there been any reviews and comparisons of the product(s)? What is the market positioning strategy for each product? Is the company using a Web-based system to gather customer feedback and iteratively test design options affinnova and preferences? product value: Is the product a luxury item or necessity? What need does the product(s) fill for the customer? What factors increase/decrease the customer’s need 110

for the product? Does the product save the customer money? Does the product improve efficiency for the customer? What alternatives does the customer have? borrow: bagborrowsteal | netflix: Netflix 60 Minutes, hassle map in general: best practices: http://launchclinic.com | enterprise systems: Teamcenter 9 | invention-to-license: absolutelynew | life of a product: Field Notes |materials search engine: inventables | project management: www.gensight.com | spiral development | training: Google Associate Product Manager APM books, articles: Lean, Rapid and Profitable New Product Development Cooper Design | Co-Working | Big Data | Checklists | Coolhunting Kinds of literary composition

News

Who will watch the journalists who are watching us drones? How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact? in general: www.inform.com | AP Wire: www.newsday.com | Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com | briefings: www.bulletinnews.com | business: Business Insider | citizen journalism: examiner | cloud publishing platform: newscred | data-driven: FiveThirtyEight | Google News: http://news.google.com | local: topix | mobile: pulse , scribblelive, Yahoo News Service | news to video: gui.de | NPR: www.npr.org | portal: ceoexpress | Reuters: http://today.reuters.com | search: newsbank | social news network: sitrion, xing | NewsHour: www.pbs.org/newshour | UPI: www.upi.com | VentureWire: www.venturecapital.dowjones.com blogs: advertisers (brands)/bloggers: payperpost | business & professional: sixapart | comment systems: disqus, livefyre social TV | content rating: outbrain | corporate social networking: blog-well | crowdsource content: kapost | cryptography: schneier | directories: blogcatalog, technorati | free: automattic, blogger, tumblr | microblogging: identi, twitter | monetization: triond | search: technorati | enterprise social networking: socialtext | templates | TV | videos: huffingtonpost books: Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers Jenkins | The New Rules of Marketing and PR Scott | The News Sorority Weller | Words & Money Schiffrin international: Al Jazeera | AP | BBC | CNN | NPR | Reuters | Latino: Fusion journalism reportage: adversarial: First Look Intercept | awards: Pulitzer Prize |documentary: Unreported World | forums: frontlineclub, hackshackers | immersion: Hunter Thompson | investigative: Lucy Morgan | politics: theprojectveritas | public interest: www.propublica.org | security: Journalist Security Guide participatory media: www.commonsensemedia.org | http://digg.com | ebyline | www.federatedmedia.net | http://secondlife.com | storify | www.sunlightfoundation.com | wikileaks

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politics : Inside Politics: www.cnn.com/POLITICS | The Hill: www.thehill.com press releases: checklist: pressreleasechecklist | News On Women: http://newsonwomen.typepad.com | online: http://home.businesswire.com, www.marketwire.com, www.prnewswire.com, prweb | surveys: whitepaper pdf RSS: www.feedburner.com | enterprise: sitrion | marketing communications: www.simplefeed.com | news aggregators: www.inform.com Utopia/Dystopia | Politics | Women | SW Asia & Africa | University | more Business Organization

Nonprofit (Membership) Organization in general: books: Membership Essentials by ASAE | Charitable Auctions Online: BiddingforGood | churches: fellowshiptech | Directory: www.guidestar.org | discounted technology products: techsoup | executive recruiters: moppenheim | financing: iff | fund raising: blackbaud | jobs: www.idealist.org | on-demand operations management: www.avectra.com, www.daxko.com, http://vtribes.com | membership & subscription management: www.amember.com Financing | Open Source | Philanthropy | Small Business | Startups Fields of Technology / critical infrastructures

Nuclear Power

Has nuclear power’s time come? Is nuclear power a Faustian bargain, or can it be our best chance for a clean, safe terrestrial energy? pro: Power to Save the World Cravens | con: Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer Caldicott in general: software: devonway books: The Future of Nuclear Power MIT Energy | Issues | Sensors | Sustainability | War Advertising and Promotion

Online Advertising Are mobile ad viewers really buying anything? What’s our pay-per-click bidvertiserstrategy on Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and smaller search engines? How do we select and manage an agency? Have we done our homework on prime keywords targeting? What are our conversion strategies? How will we integrate pay-per-click with other advertising campaigns? How will we test and optimize our ad copy? What special issues do we have with B2B and B2C campaigns? What’s our plan for improving and testing our landing pages? in general: ad management systems: www.adconion.com, www.adjug.com, www.admeld.com, aggregateknowledge, appnexus, www.extremereach.com, sovrn, marinsoftware, www.operative.com, pubmatic, www.rightmedia.com, www.specificmedia.com | ad server: www.invisioninc.com, www.openads.org | 112

animated: cinegif | audit & verification: www.doubleverify.com | automation: rubiconproject | best practices: aicpshow | book: The Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Marketing Brown | buy/sell: rubiconproject advertiser/publisher | contextual advertising: inform, conversant, grapeshot, pulsepoint | crowd sourced: trada | digital video: extremereach | enterprise planning: www.doubleclick.com, www.marketingpilot.com | facebook ads: syncapse | health insurance: BrokersWeb | hispanic | in-text advertising: www.kontera.com | local advertising: reachlocal | online gaming: www.jagex.com/corporate/Advertisers/general.ws | optimization systems: www.admeld.com | paid search marketing: www.adapt.com | search engine marketing (SEM): kenshoo | self-service: www.adready.com | social sites: adaptly | technology audience: netshelter | type-in ad: solvemedia behaviorally-targeted advertising: datapop | mediaforge | www.proclivitysystems.com | AudienceScience | analytics: scoutanalytics | audience planning & management: Adobe Audience Manager, fanbridge, lotame| financial services: Investing, www.responseanalytics.com | quantcast | matching consumer interests with ads: adknowledge, othersonline, resonateinsights | real-time: proximic, rocketfuel, taykey | visual DNA http://visualdna.com Competition | Apps | Automation | Content | Ads Software & Web Development

Open Source

in general: ad server: www.openx.org | automobiles: Tesla | backup & recovery: www.zmanda.com | business intelligence: www.jaspersoft.com | business process management (BPM): bonitasoft | China: gongkai | Cloud Computing: www.eucalyptus.com, openstack operating system | content management: www.alfresco.com, http://drupal.org | coverity scanner | CRM: concursive | data integration: www.talend.com | data warehousing | distributed computing: hadoop | e-mail & collaboration: www.open-xchange.com | enterprise search: www.lucidimagination.com | hardware: Open Source Hardware Association | healthcare: www.medsphere.com | Hypervisor: www.xensource.com | Internet applications: www.optaros.com | IT management : www.zenoss.com | license agreement: gnu | MySQL: Oracle | netbook OS: jolicloud | network security: gazzang | repository: sourceforge | www.untangle.com | search for source code: www.krugle.net | sensor networks: xively | server management: www.groundworkopensource.com | Xen: citrix Mapping | Autos | Plants | Big Data | China | more Zeitgeist

Optimized Self big idea questions: What’s my next move? Is it time I got married?

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skills: When you feel yourself losing a skill or a simple pleasure in your day, resist the urge to acquiesce to technology that is ultimately transferring a lot money and control to someone else. sp in general: coaching/training: runcoach, snow skiing | embeddables | emotions: body language, micro-expressions | fiction: are you certain sp | food: upgraded self | informavore | marriage: Time/Facebook | sensors | surveillance | wellness: CarePass, self-monitoring and diagnosis Wellness | Sensors | AI | Utopia/Dystopia | Energy | more Human Resource Management

Organizational Structure How will the next generation of millennial employees impact your business? Is the organizational structure working within the company? What is the level of employee buy-in to the company's efforts to match its structure to the demands of the situation? Has the organizational structure been changed too often in the past? Are there too many layers of management in the company? | management without managers: Holacracy | reverse engineering: Social Networks Reveal Structure (And Weaknesses) of Businesses organization chart: Does the company maintain a current organization chart showing all reporting relationships? What is the company's philosophy on making its organization chart accessible to employees? The public? Employees | Design | Competition | Decision Making | Management Manufacturing and Distribution

Outsourcing

questions for company: Is outsourcing an appropriate and effective strategy to keep the company as lean as possible and reduce working capital requirements to a minimum? What functions are being considered for outsourcing? What are the anticipated benefits and cost reductions? questions for provider: Do you work from home or from an office? What is your availability for projects? How do you feel about your spoken English skills vs. your writing skills? How would you prefer to communicate? What is the bandwidth of your Internet connection? Have you worked on this type of assignment before? Can we review some samples of your work? Do you have the development tools/environments for this assignment on your PC? Have you worked directly with remote buyers before? Have you worked on a team with remote providers before? Is this assignment something you would be interested in working on? If you are chosen, how long will it take you to review the assignment specs? Are these specs detailed enough for you to begin work? If not, what clarifications would you like? Do you think this assignment is within your abilities? Can you commit to this assignment for X months, Y hours a week? Can you make this deadline? 114

independent contractors: Is the company confident that all IRS tests are met for suppliers classified as "independent contractors"? Is the company employing a webbased system to optimize the procurement and management of contract labor and consulting services? Does the system seamlessly integrate with key existing enterprise systems? What is the list of all work-for-hire contracts? Are there any problems with subcontracted work? Are there multiple alternative subcontractors for these services? Are there any critical parts/services from one subcontractor? business process outsourcing: aegis | IT: www.datamatics.com in general: www.fieldglass.com | www.iqnavigator.com | factory sourcing: Maker’s Row | healthcare: noworldborders | HR services: Insperity, Aon Hewitt | News and intelligence: www.globalservicesmedia.com | on-demand: odesk | software & IT: vmware books: The Executive’s Guide to Consultants Fields | The Offshore Nation Vashistha Supply | IT | Cloud | Legal | Software & Web Development | more Stages in the development of human behavior

Parenting

the hardest job in the world sp in general: sixtysecondparent | www.thetotaltransformation.com | accomplishments | allowance | baby products: diapers, sproutbaby, www.upspringbaby.com | caregivers: care | celebration: Bring in Your Parents Day LinkedIn | cell phones: The Big Disconnect Steiner-Adair | grandparenting: www.grandparentgames.com | grit: The Duckworth Lab | helicopter parents: no parent wants their kid to cry | monitoring & communication: Filip, traxfamily, uknow | parent tested, parent approved: ptpamedia | resources: parentfurther | talk about drugs grandparenting: cooking: My Grandmother's Ravioli | play: tree swing kids and babies: activities & skills for the new economy: Barefoot Books, 50 things to do before you are 11-3/4, remakelearning | kiwicrate | books: zoobean | childhood: modern life | chores: choremonster | design: tools-at-schools | DIY | entertainment: free to be you and me, Muppets | exchange clothes: thredup hand-me-downs | gaming: herotopia | learning: nativebrain | reading: infinite adventure machine, studydog | safe sites: Disney, www.kidzui.com | shop: zulily | stories: pbskids | tantrums | TV: thetvboss | Virtual Worlds: woozworld books: Bringing Up Bebe | How Children Succeed Tough | How Toddlers Thrive Klein | Screamfree Parenting Runkel | Someone Could Get Hurt Magary | The Art of Roughhousing DeBenedet | The Dinner Koch Family | Poverty | Play | Nature | Gaming | more

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Particular Arts in the eye of the beholder Literature Theatre Kinds and methods of theatrical production Opera performers: lucianopavarotti venues: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasting Broadcasting as a medium of art: Mean Opinion Score (MOS) Digital media: edream | Digital Content Movies Music Dance art of dance: choreography Primitive, folk, and popular dance: Weird morris Architecture, Landscape & Urban Design Sculpture Diverse kinds of sculpture dynamic: suspended mobiles: calder sand: sand in your eye underwater: underwatersculpture Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Collage Decoration & Functional Design Types of materials used and methods design: spaceplanning | software: 2020technologies Arts of functional design: thread wrapping Other Performance Art Lisa Park Marina Abramovic Institute physical movement > drawings: Heather Hansen Umbrella Project books and portals: Architecture in Detail | Art DK | Colossal Extreme Architectures Slavid | IKEA the Book | Life Richards | Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon Hopkins | The Art Museum Phaidon big ideas Emotion | Writing | Radio | Cities | Weird | more

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Religion

Particular Religions Prehistoric & Primitive Religions: traditional, isolated, preliterate cultures Religions of Ancient Peoples: invested gods of Nature with divinity Hinduism: prescribes daily morality based on karma, dharma, societal norms Buddhism: Indian subcontinent, Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha, the awakened one Religions of East Asia: Tao, the flow of the universe Taoism: wu-wei: about, Trying Not to Try Slingerland Judaism History of Judaism: popular culture Christianity Islam about blasphemy laws: Was (is) The Satanic Verses Rushdie blasphemous? Muhammad: The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad Hazleton Modern Religions New religious movements Cults China: Church of Almighty God | Family International | Scientology: Is Scientology a cult? | education: Applied Scholastics Intelligent design: New Apostolic Reformation mega-churches: Hillsong Negro cults in Western cultures Spiritualist groups: snake handlers Atheism: clergyproject Noetic Sciences: The Untethered Soul Singer Books, articles, movies: Blasphemy and Free Speech Marshall | Encyclopedia of World Religions Merriam-Webster | Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Wright | The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad Hazleton | The Master China | War | Social Networking | Anarchism | more Ecommerce

Payment Systems digital money: about in general: www.billeo.com | www.clearcommerce.com | www.efunds.com | www.ipaytechnologies.com | www.paybytouch.com | www.paymentus.com | www.paymetric.com | www.precash.com | cash/coins-to-games: rixty | consolidate: doxo | healthcare payments: instamed | mobile: Apple Pay, boku, braintreepayments, dwolla, gopago, tabbedout, transactionwireless, zipmark | money transfer: xoom | pay cash online: paynearme | pay-by-phone: boku biometrics: keystroke dynamics: admit one security | payment systems: www.paybytouch.com | voice recognition: www.agnitio.es 117

credit cards: accept payments online: wepay | accept payments by phone: squareup mobile | compare engine: creditcards | enterprise transaction management : www.paymetric.com | large transactions: plastiq | make payments by phone: SoftCard |managed global IT services: www.datapipe.com | payment terminals: www.exadigm.com | PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance: www.forescout.com Currency | Mobile | Advertising | Cloud | Gaming | more Politics & Government / peace and war

Peace

How can shared values and new security strategies reduce ethnic conflicts, terrorism, and the use of weapons of mass destruction? in general: call to action: www.peacejam.org | organizations: forusa | research: Human Connection Project | Speak Truth to Power books: Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace Fry | Peacekeeping: A Barrier to Durable Peace? Greig big idea | Thirteen Days in September Wright SW Asia/Africa | War | Issues | Nuclear | War | more Human Behavior / Current Environment’s Influence on Conscious Experience

Perception

General considerations color: Color shapes everything we do. Perception of space: Flatland Abbott Perception of time amount: You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away Mogilner Illusions and hallucinations Types of illusory experience Intersensory effects: synesthesia beauty: Do we think beauty, or do we feel it? | about | evolution of beauty | first impression: You never get a second chance to make a first impression. | landscapes | books: The Secret Language of Color Eckstu Visualization | Time | Art | Design Personal Time

Personal Finance How much debt sp should you keep in retirement? How much do you know about trading and investing? Are you reviewing your plan regularly? Are you making decisions emotion-free? Are you diversifying? Are you dollar-cost averaging? Are you avoiding market timing?

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in general: www.assetplanningsolutions.com | client management systems: www.northstar.com | debt management: debt snowball | digital wallet: lifelock | documents: safelyfiled | education: Better Money Habits | loans: AvantCredit |money management: hellowallet, www.mint.com | news & info: tastytrade | ondemand: futureadvisor | post-retirement sp: On Unretirement, Retirement, Now What?, Starting a business IS my retirement credit cards sp : For a disciplined credit card user, the interest rate is essentially irrelevant because a credit-smart consumer pays off the most recent transactions with each monthly bill; i.e., you never carry an outstanding balance which is the most powerful way to build a solid credit rating…..more | credot score: quizzle retirement and estate: annuities: reverse mortgage, seniorannuityalert | assisted living: seniorhomes | international: internationalliving | planning tools: AIG, www.vfos.com | social security: www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator student loans: net price calculator | online comparisons: www.simpletuition.com wealth creation: The Trump Entrepreneur Initiative books, blogs: Money Rules: The Simple Path to Lifelong Security Chatzky | Richistan Frank Lifetime Learning | Planning | Financing | Investing | Home | more Family & Kinship

Personal Time What’s your passion? Hemingway's Boat Hendrickson antiques: mimi’s sp |Art | Ask a Question | Books | Bucket List | Chat | Checklists | clothing | Coolhunting | curated goods: kauffman-mercantile | Entertainment | File Sharing | Financial Markets | Fitness | flowers | Food and Beverage | Gaming | Goal Setting resolutions | Green | headphones: skullcandy | Health Care | Home | Human Life | Humor | Investing | jeans | Jobs | Kinds poetry | Leadership | Lifetime Learning | Looxcie ideas / notebooks | mens’s clothes: bonobos clothes make the man | multi-tool | Music | NBA | News | Online Games | Parenting | passwords: 1Password, LastPass | Personal Broadcasting | Personal Finances | Philanthropy | Play | portfolio management: Betterment | Real Estate Holdings | Recreation | Reference | Running | Services | Sports | Time | Toys and Games | Travel | TV | Video calling | Video Sharing | Virtual | Wellness | Women & Men | more Education

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Philanthropy

in general: Lord, teach me to be generous. St. Ignatius | http://fdncenter.org | www.philanthropy.com | give while you shop: giftback, toms | match social networks with sponsors: true | social investing: ussif | sponsorship | verification: charitynavigator | wealth identification: wealthengine fundraising: www.convio.com | fundable | fundly | giveforward | kimbia | salsalabs foundations: resources, Walton Family Foundation grant funding: www.grants.gov | www.grantstation.com | www.macfound.org | www.wmkeck.org | SSTI | foundation search books and films: The Artful Journey Cultivating and Soliciting the Major Gift Sturtevant | The Collector of Bedford Street Innovation | Issues | Art | Crowd | Entrepreneurship | more Knowledge Creation

Philosophy

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable -- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -think about such things. Saint Paul the Apostle in Philippians 4:8

Philosophical Schools and Doctrines Theories of thought, knowledge, faculties of mind other minds problem Theories of conduct Ethics Morals Values Eclecticism Truth: there is a measure of truth in everything sp Truth is where you find it

books: Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury | Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell = internet of things + big data + military-industrial complex sp | Story of Philosophy Durant in general: http://plato.stanford.edu/ Search | Location | Emotion | Eclectic | Balance | more 120

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Photography

History and art of photography Magazines: LIFE | National Geographic | Rolling Stone: The Bomber: Does this cross the line? Technology of photography Lighting Digital photography editing: aviary mobile panoramas: gigpan photos-to-art software cameras: pelicanimaging time lapse + motion control: astro wear it: gopro Special techniques and applied photography: dearphotograph Photography industry expositions: Paris Photo photo journalism: Reportage by Getty Images Can photography can change the world. in general: alphabet in nature: createsticksandstones | babies: adele enersen, annegeddes | iPhone: thebestcamera | limited edition: rockpaperphoto | magazines: aperture, tasjmagazine | rentals: lensprotogo | royalty-free: Getty Images, Wikimedia | tethering: tethertalk blogs, books: Around the World in 125 Years NG | Humans of New York Stanton Human Behavior | Nature | World | Digital | Crowd | more Thought and Thought Processes

Planning & Organizing planning: about | cities: American Planning Association, planetizen | geopolitical: stratfor | life | New Year’s Resolutions | operational: anaplan | weddings: Aisle

Planner

Personal Finance | Checklists | Budgeting | Business Intelligence | CEO | more Nature & Diversity of Life

Plants

Evolution and paleobotany: tree ring research Classification Trees counting: from space | data visualization: The Book of Trees Lima | education: arborday.org | leaves: leafsnap | planting: Trees for the Future |

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Play

in general: girlgames | hand games: rock-paper-scissors | inventing toys | movies: big | museums: National Museum of Play | playgrounds: Adventure Playgrounds, around the world, Rainbow City, TrapezeSchool | programs: Play 60 | trees: tree swing sp, treehouse | school recess books, articles, film, photos, videos: hopscotchium sp | Last Child in the Woods Louv | Project Wild Thing Bond | The Overprotected Kid Rosin | The Walk to Paradise Garden Smith Parenting | Homes | Toys | Plants | Sports | more Kinds of Literature

Poetry

in general: www.poetry-online.org | Adrian Rich | Chicago audio poetry tour | illuminated | illiustrated: popshotpopshot | links: wave poetry | festival: www.dodgepoetry.org | magazines: poetryfoundation | motionpoems | Shatoetry humor

books: Flamingos on the Roof Brown | I know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou World since 1920 | Emotion Politics and Government

Political concepts, ideologies, and problems Political power: Power concedes nothing without a demand. Frederick Douglass manipulation false flag events: about propaganda: influencing power and knowledge: Michel Foucault presidents: Lyndon Johnson Human Rights Modern ideologies < left < the poor want to survive < pull-|||-pull > the rich get richer > right > Anarchism & Revolution 122

Communism Democracy Liberalism Socialism: The state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny. Reno hayekcenter Government is just as subject to the laws of self-interest as the marketplace. Contemporary political issues and problems Grand Strategy: Should nations always operate under a grand strategy? How can policymaking be made more sensitive to global long-term perspectives? Principle of Subsidiarity big ideas: Nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. nationbuilder tax & spend: teapartypatriots books: Death of the Liberal Class Hedges | The Communist Manifesto Marx | The Political Economy of Grand Strategy Narizny | The Road to Serfdom Hayek Science | Knowledge | Ethics | Issues | Peace | more Human Society

Politics and Government The conflict between justice and tyranny occurs in every political order because it occurs in every human soul. Marini Political Theory Political action as viewed in political theory political will: History shows, sometimes it takes a catastrophe. sp Political concepts, ideologies, and problems Political Institutions: create, enforce, apply laws that represent the populous Political Process The ways in which political power is exercised Methods for change and reform: change.org | firedoglake | budget: REINS Act Geopolitics What is the red line, and what happens when it is crossed? How will shale gas impact geopolitics? | Water Peace and War Use of intelligence and counterintelligence: Carlos the Jackal Peace War in general: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/links, www.realclearpolitics.com | fact checking: www.factcheck.org, www.opensecrets.org, thepublicnotice | local: patch | movers and shakers: http://news.muckety.com, world leaders | news: politico |social networking: votizen | Whitehouse

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legislature (US): Is political incivility eroding our national and political promise? | Federal budget and key documents: http://www.gpoaccess.gov | Federal Register: www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html | legislation: trackbill |Legislator Search Engine: www.congress.org | Legislative Source Book: http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook | Thomas Legislature Search: http://thomas.loc.gov | US House: www.house.gov | US Senate: www.senate.gov lobbying: consultant: www.lewis-burke.com | corporate record: www.opensecrets.org | grassroots campaigns: soapboxconsulting books, articles, jouornals, movies: conservative: The Public Interest | The Perfect Dictatorship | The Prince Machiavelli | Time for Outrage! Hessel | Zero Dark Thirty Decisions | News | Values | Humor | Religion | more Social Groups

Popular Culture in general: action heroes: Doc Savage | American Dream | americana | buzz: flavorwire, lost at E minor | coolhunting: benlyons | cowboys | dance: gangnam style | drive-in theaters | FAME: fashion, art, music, entertainment | food: twinkies | games: pinball | Jewish: sixthandi | jobs: the paper route | language: about, code switching | midwest: haywirecreations | movies: Breaking Away, Godzilla | music: beastieboys, Big Star | 92nd Street Y | online: netizens | Oprah | philosophy: andphilsophy | radio: Kitchen Sisters | restaurants: Paschals | This American Life | songs: rap lyrics rapgenius | superheroes: Superman | Texas: Sengelmann Hall | throw-back Thursday | trends: Branson, MO holidays: Halloween: conventions: ScareLA | thriller dancing TV: horror & sci-fi: Ghoulardi Shock Theater articles, books, magazines, portals: A Colossal Wreck Cockburn | Birdman | darkrye whole foods | mandatory | qz quartz | Twentysix Gasoline Stations Ruscha | vice Sports | Stages | Women & Men | Humor | Music | more Social Organization and Change / Urban & Rural Communities

Population

95% of today’s consumers live outside the U.S. How can population growth and resources be brought into balance? in general: visualization: LandScan | world population clock growth: There were approximately 200 million people in the world (50M

in Roman Empire) at the birth of Christ. Capital

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Poverty

1/6th of Americans don’t have enough food to eat. Is skid row America’s largest manmade disaster? Does America need a raise? minimum wage Should where you are born dictate whether you live or die? sing for change Can marriage mitigate poverty? How can ethical market economies be encouraged to help reduce the gap between rich and poor? Is profit-motivated capitalism still the best hope to create jobs and lift people out of poverty? in general: www.poverty.com | agriculture: driptech irrigation | asset building: http://www.newamerica.net/programs/asset_building | class structure: favelas, untouchables | dimensions of development: Economic Security Index, hans rosling | disease: reinvent the toilet | education: barefootcollege | energy poverty: 1.5 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity | ethnic groups: romani gypsies | food & nutrition: Feed the Children, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP | income gap: Promise Zones | invest in the best: robinhood.org big idea | kids: Poor Kids Frontline, World Vision | migration | minimum wage: living wage calculator | scarcity mindset | solutions: http://web.mit.edu/d-lab/index.html | soup kitchen: The Backpack Project | unbanked: about food desert: half a mile from a grocery store with no cars and public transportation microloans: grameenfoundation | www.microenterpriseworks.org | India: www.ujjivan.com | micro-saving | FINCA | South Africa: www.zimelecommunity.org books and films: A Place at the Table Colicchio | Creating a World Without Poverty Yunus | The Blue Sweater Novogratz | The Revolutionary Optimists Economic Development | Parenting | Social | Food | Jobs | more Health & Disease

Practice of Medicine & Care of Health

Education emergencies: sudden cardiac arrest | mini-medical school | patient casesimulation: therasim Health Care Practice of medicine Hospital services and facilities: RTLS Practice Management: athenahealth Medical Research & Technologies Automation | Biotechnology | Crisis

Data Mining

Predictive Intelligence & Modeling big ideas in general: app score: appbackr | Can keyword searches reveal a buyer’s mindset? | baseball: Money Ball | cloud: predixionsoftware | consumer: infer scoring, 125

http://inklingmarkets.com | gamification: kaggle | global events: The Good Judgement Project | health care: picwell |news: visualrevenue | online retailing: granify | policing | prioritize sales leads: canopylabs | supply chain: llamasoft | tools: RuleFit regression | traffic: inrix, Road Frustration Index, trafficcast | music: scoreahit, tonemedia consumer behavior | TV | venture capital: correlationvc Decisions | Crowd | Software | Big Data | Buying | more Knowledge Creation

Preservation of Knowledge Institutions and Techniques Protection and storage of objects and artifacts museums and galleries libraries tools & techniques: archivists: Maryland Institute for Technology in the

Humanities MITH

Image Permanence Institute Storage and retrieval of information DVD: M-DISC | Wayback Machine Reference Search Advancement/dissemination of knowledge in general: organizations: Institute of Museum and Library Services books & articles: Library: An Unquiet History Battles | Why Libraries Should Be the Next Great Start-Up Incubators Badger Books | Digital Content | Literature | Museums | Research Parks Marketing

Pricing How is pricing strategy developed in the company? What are the factors that affect pricing strategy? What has been the price trend for the past five years? What is the price trend for the next five years? Will price competition increase in the next five years? Is there a price leader in the industry? If it’s not the company, why? Do salespeople (and others) have the approval to sell products at a price that differs from the approved price list? Are prices reviewed/adjusted each year? Can cost increases generally be passed on to the customer? Are we routinely using online comparative shopping systems to monitor and adjust our pricing relative to the competition? Do we have a good understanding of how our customers react to price changes or discounting policies? Have we correctly segmented our customers when it comes to pricing and discounting? Do we provide our sales channels clear discounting guidelines and targets? Do our sales people offer discounts outside of margin guidelines? Can we quickly adapt to market changes to achieve short-term 126

objectives without sacrificing margin or damaging long-term growth? Do we have real-time visibility into profit performance by channel, product, and customer segment? Are we able to quickly sense and respond to emerging opportunities and competitive threats as they arise? Is our pricing and promotion strategy driven only by costs and competition, or more by our customers? in general: pros | www.vendavo.com | www.zilliant.com | price fixing | real-time pricing intelligence: blacklocus | revenue management: modeln categorical thinking: Does bundling products together undermine their value? lease pricing: What percentage of sales are leases? What is the length of a typical lease? What percentage are full payout leases? Does the company have any thirdparty leasing agreements at present? Are the company’s license agreements effective revenue generators? software: Can we demonstrate an immediate return on investment (ROI) for our software customers? Can we track the success of our technology implementation? Do we map the cost of our software to our customers' business needs in measurable ways? Do we help customers justify software purchases internally? Are our software contracts easier to understand than the competition's? Do we offer more manageable terms that do not lock-in customers to outdated products? Is our warranty and performance guarantee credible? | digital licensing: www.protexis.com | recommend new software at install time: opencandy books and articles: Competitive Pricing: Harnessing the Power of the Waterfall Model Accenture | Customers Will Pay More for Less Chernev | Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value Poundstone | The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing Nagle Art | Customer | Supply Chain | Inflation | Buying | more Thought and Thought Processes

Problems and Solutions big ideas PROBLEM:

shortage of emergency specialty physicians

SOLUTION:

Specialists on Call

Kites rise highest against the wind. Churchill | How would you spend $10B to improve the state of the world? How would you accomplish the opposite of what you are trying to solve? in general: Buick Human Highlight Reel | cleaning: queenofclean | connect the dots | crowd sourcing: challenge.gov, challengepost | funding: www.google.org | metaphysics of quality: www.moq.org | top ten: copenhagenconsensus | trial & error: Always throw out the first pancake. | visualization: Scientific Animations Without Borders books: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking Dennett | The Existential Pleasures of Engineering Florman | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig 127

Logic | Ideas | Health |Visualization | Growth | more Engineering and R&D

Product Engineering & Design How do manufactured objects that surround us such as cars, phones and chairs influence our daily lives?

in general: Every object tells a story if you know how to read it. | CAE: altair, www.cometsolutions.com | competitions: cutandpaste | consultants: frogdesign, www.hlb.com | desktop search: x1 | life cycle assessment LCA: Umberto NXT | outsourced systems: cadforce | plant design: Intergraph | product design: engineous, londondesignfestival | Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL): www.ul.com collaborative software: construction: Autodesk BIM 360 | design, bid, construction documents: http://planexpress.net | document change control: workshare | enterprise: www.centricminds.com, www.jivesoftware.com, marklogic | Ideas creativity | online: www.cestagi.com | sharepoint apps: corasworks questions: Is the Chief Engineer a “registered professional engineer” in the headquarters’ state? Other states? Are there engineering plans in progress for each product? Does the product require customization for each customer? What is customization’s percentage of the total cost-of-goods sold? Can the customization be self-designed online by customers? Can the product(s) be reengineered and marketed in such a way as to be mass-produced? Is the company making maximum use of computer-aided design (CAD) and other software tools to shorten the total new product design and development life cycle? Are marketing and engineering working together to use interactive customer-preference systems to evolve current product enhancements and new product designs? What new product plans does the company have? Is engineering developing innovative or “me-too” products? reliability: What is the mean time to failure for each product? How does the company rank the reliability of each product? How sensitive is the customer to product quality? reverse engineering: Has the company reverse engineered any competing products? Is the company aware of any of its products being reverse engineered by competitors? self-design and fit: furniture: smartfurniture, thefloydleg | running shoes books: Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People Pilloton | Smart StartUps Silver | The Design of Everyday Things Norman | The Shape of Design Chimero 3D | Zeitgeist | Science | Visualization | DIY | more Human Society

Production and Utilization of Wealth Economic Theory and Systems Economic Theory: index of economic freedom 128

Economic Systems Capitalism The Consumer and the Market Scarcity, utility, and value: behavioral economics: | Valuation Consumer behavior: Buying Decisions | inelasticity Markets: markets hate uncertainty | Randomness Organization of Production and Distribution Institutions that facilitate business formation, production, output Money Currency & Exchange Stock exchanges: AI Banks International: Bank for International Settlements BIS business organization stock markets: Volatility Index (VIX) fear index Government’s role in production & distribution: privatization Methods of business organization Advertising & Promotion Distribution of Income and Wealth the rich get richer and the poor get poorer Matthew Effect

Distribution by categories of the population: Forbes 400 | gini coefficient How government affects the distribution Capitalism Taxation Laffer Curve postulates that no tax revenue will be raised at the extreme tax rates of 0% and 100% and that there must be at least one rate where tax revenue would be a non-zero maximum. Poverty Macroeconomics National income and employment theory: misery index Inflation and deflation Economic Growth and Planning Planning for economic growth and stability Growth books, forums, journals: Capital in the Twenty-First Century Piketty big ideas big ideas | Stealth of Nations Neuwirth | The Mystery of Capital De Soto | The Wealth of Nations Smith | Wall Street Journal | World Economic Forum Davos Trust | AI | Climate Change | Globalization | Buying

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Productivity

What are the current trends in manufacturing productivity for this industry? Do these trends reveal any technical obsolescence in the company’s operations? Does product design restrict process selection for manufacturing? Is the design conducive to an efficient manufacturing process? Is there good integration between product engineering and manufacturing engineering? How well do productivity factors benchmark with competitors? What are management’s goals to improve productivity? How long will it take to achieve these goals? Does the company anticipate the need for any future layoffs? Will there be any problems? manufacturing personnel: How is productivity measured? How competitive are the company's manufacturing wage rates? Are any incentive plans in effect? Is the turnover rate acceptable for manufacturing personnel? Are there backup personnel for each position? What are the top manufacturing personnel problems? Has the company experienced any Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) problems in the last twelve months? | www.i4cp.com Methods of Business Organization

Products and Services Brand Identity and Loyalty | Coolhunting | Electronics | Food | GPS Applications | Innovation | Methods of Business Organization | Modeling | New Product Assessment | New Products | Profitability | Retail | Services | Software | Sustainability Financial Management

Profitability

How can the company increase its operating profit? What is management’s forecast for net earnings in this fiscal year? What is management’s explanation of the forecast’s variance to budget? Is profitability of individual business units and product lines monitored? What is the gross margin on sales? Is any one product or division considered the “cash cow”? If not, what are the chances that could happen with an existing product or division, or that opportunities exist to acquire or develop one? Does the company have a clear understanding of its business model for each product? Should other models be considered? How does the company’s return on investment (ROI) compare with other companies in the same industry? in general: Fortune 500: list archive, visualize, volatility | ratios | triple bottom line:

people, planet, profit

break-even analysis: What are the fixed and variable components of all overhead expenses? What is breakeven in sales dollars for each product? Breakeven in units? After reaching breakeven, what is the incremental pre-tax profit on a $1 increase in sales for each product? | calculator

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Economic Value Added EVA: Currect Operations Value: COV | Economic Value Added: EVA | Future Growth Value: FGV | Market Value Added: MVA | Relative Wealth Added: RWA | Wealth Added Index: WAI expense control: Does the company have an ongoing program focused on expense control? Has the company implemented a web-based system for enterprise-wide expense control? | www.expensewatch.com | optimization tools: www.marketsharepartners.com products: What is the sales volume for each product? What is the profitability (gross margin) of each product? Is there a relationship between a product’s sales/profitability ranking and incentives for salespeople? quarterly operating results: How volatile is the fluctuation in revenues from quarter to quarter? What are the major reasons for fluctuations in revenues? Is the pattern of quarterly revenues hard to predict? How does the company try to encourage more uniform buying patterns? How volatile is the fluctuation in expenses from quarter to quarter? How volatile is the fluctuation in profit from quarter to quarter? books: Breakeven Analysis and Operating Leverage Harvard | Business Models: A Strategic Management Approach Afuah Sustainability | Taxes | Core Competency | Growth | Monetization | more Management & Best Practices

Project Management How are costs monitored and controlled? What is the profitability (gross margins) of each major project type? Does the company utilize a project management software system? Is the company able to integrate resource capacity planning across the enterprise from a web-based platform planview? What is the record for project completion within budget and schedule? Does the company have a project management training program? Does the company separate the responsibility for billing from project management? Does the company follow a detailed project termination checklist to close out each project? Is contracts administration taking advantage of a secure web-based, centralized, searchable, automated Contracts Management System? in general: collaboration & task management: basecamphq, mindjet auto prioritization, sharepoint, smartsheet, wrike | free web-based systems: www.achievo.org, podio | gantt charts: wrike, gantter, ganttify, tomsplanner | hosted systems: www.bijingo.com, clarizen | knowledge base: www.projectsmart.co.uk | Project Management Institute: www.pmi.org | Project Portfolio Management (PPM): www.innotas.com billable capacity: How does the company optimize the billable time among all its billable employees? How are billable rates determined? Will the market bear higher rates? Is the company’s total cumulative billable competitive with industry norms? Can we track time using a web-based system? | functionfox 131

architects, engineers, construction (AEC): newforma | construction: www.procore.com events management: plancast share | economic impact: leamgroup | event planning: www.amiando.com, www.bizbash.com, http://commongroundpublishing.com, cvent, eventbrite | groups: rallyhood |things to do: Get Your Guide | invitations: paperlesspost | keynote speakers: Greater Talent Network | online registration: www.regonline.com | party planning: www.mypunchbowl.com | search: www.zvents.com meetings management: book space: eventup, www.worktopia.com | events: Lanyon | polling: www.doodle.com, www.polleverywhere.com | scheduler: www.timebridge.com | software: www.meetingsense.com practice management: healthcare: www.athenahealth.com, originhs | legal: goclio | QuickBooks integrated: bigtime teams: about | psychological profiling Apps | Collaboration | Financials | Visualization | Checklists | more Manufacturing & Distribution

Purchasing procurement Has the company’s web-based procurement system achieved CMM Level 2 Certification? Have we been audited by OCC (if that is relevant)? What were the results? Do the company’s database systems allow purchasing to aggregate spending across business lines and geographies? Are there any inventory items for which less than two suppliers are available? Does the company feel it has the best prices and credit terms achievable from its major suppliers? Are we exploiting the buying power of a “reverse auction pool” of businesses to negotiate corporate rates for core services from brand-name providers? How are product specifications developed for items purchased? Is the company’s purchase requisition/approval procedure tight or loose? Is there a written procedure? What would an external audit conclude? | cost management: www.akoyainc.com | Services On-Demand: www.reardencommerce.com | spend management: coupa, www.emptoris.com IBM, ketera Small Business | Inventory | Legal Information and Compliance Social Organization and Change

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World Since 1920 | Sports | more Major Systems of Communication

Radio

What’s your story? Are am radio’s days numbered? in general: archives: radioarchives |business news: http://www.marketplace.org | cognitive radio: dynamic tuning | DJ-riven: TheFuture | free: slacker | HD radio | ideas: joe’s big idea | interviews: Radio & TV Interview Report RTIR | kids: radio rookies | latin america: Radio Ambulante | music: rdio | online advertising: www.targetspot.com | personalized: NPR ONE | players: hidden radio, radioplayer | playlists: iTunes Radio big idea | podcasting: radiotopia |popular culture: stateofthereunion | satellite: siriusxm | science & technology: science360 | smartphone: stitcher, tunein | teens: In Other News | tell your own story: snapjudgement, www.storycorps.net (animated) | theater of the mind: The Big Broadcast | visually impaired: Radio Reader formats: shock: Howard Stern | talk talk radio: magazines: Talkers | talent: Rush Limbaugh Communication | Content | Popular | Art | AI | more Risk Management

Randomness The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry. Burns in general: You never know when a submarine will attack. | about: random | chaos theory |coincidence: about | luck: Spanish lottery | prospect theory serendipity: Serendipity is the extraordinary sense of suprtise and delight when you enter a bookstore in search of one book and discover another. | about | post-it notes: www.3m.com/us/office/postit/pastpresent/history.html | Is there a way to encourage serendipity in our lives? unintended consequences: chaos theory: butterfly effect | examples: buildings melting jaguar, electric cars, GI Bill, one child policy, VA Loan, Interstate Highway System | museum: Museum of unintended consequences | nature: Let nature take its course. | slippery slopes: academic freedom | technology: Le Conte Hall sp articles, books: Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises Didier | Engineering Serendipity Lindsay | How psychological framing affects economic market prices Sonnemann | Serendipity: Accidental Discoveries in Science Roberts | The Black Swan Taleb big ideas | Welcome to the Serendipity Economy Rasmus | Why Things Bite Back Tenner Time | Nature | Humans | Extinction | Thought | more

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Real Estate

Can the board see a complete listing of all real estate holdings, both owned and leased? In the event of due diligence on the company, are copies of all executed property leases and property purchase agreements in one reasonably accessible location? Also real estate tax bills? Does the company maintain current appraisals on all real estate holdings? Is land an appreciating asset for the company? Should the company own or lease the necessary land assets for production and operations? | data/analytics: CoreLogic commercial real estate: www.loopnet.com | buy vs. lease calculator | Corporate Real Estate Network: http://www2.corenetglobal.org | energy management: wegowise | planning and dynamic modeling: www.leam.uiuc.edu | portfolio management: Argus | research and valuation: www.joneslanglasalle.com, reonomy | search: 42floors | social networking: honestbuildings | visual database & valuation: www.zaio.com | marketing: vht residential realestate: apartments: http://apartments.cazoodle.com, mynewplace | buy/sell: www.redfin.com | search & evaluate: www.smartzip.com, www.trulia.com | title search: www.redvision.com China | Valuation | Big Data | Earth | Energy | more Social Groups

Recreation, Entertainment, Sports, Games Entertainment Outside camping tents: car top: Tepui Tents, tent/hammocks magazines: Outside Magazine picnicking: cooler: Coolest Sports in society History Do the Olympics pay for themselves over time? Summer Olympics: London 2012 Winter Olympics 2014 Sochi: opening ceremony | Sochi 2014 | athlete profiles Sports Fitness Bicycles | Ideas | Autos | Exploration | Unequivocal | more Human Resources

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(b) loyalty is to one’s peer network, not to a particular company (c) failure is not shameful, but a badge of honor In five minutes, could you explain something to me that is complicated but you know well? Is our hiring process optimized to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent? What are the terms of engagement for outside search firms? What are the barriers to recruiting qualified personnel? What are the major universities where the company recruits entry-level management and technical talent? Does the company use lie detector tests? Does the company use psychological profile tests? in general: The best way to recruit is through the collective personal and professional (trusted) networks of your employees. sp | background check: www.hireright.com, www.pre-employ.com | candidate matching and tracking: bullhorn, evolvondemand, monster, theresumator, smartrecruiters free | cross-enterprise collaboration: www.jobvite.com | employee screening: www.escreen.com | job networks: www.jobster.com, linkedin | mobile: assuredlabor low-medium wage | recruitinghop | multi-national, multi-lingual: kenexa | online people search database: zoominfo | prospecting e-mail: dear candidate sp | recruiter network: www.dayak.com, www.ere.net | social media: bullhornreach | temporary: elance | video interviews talent management: www.cornerstoneondemand.com | www.enkata.com | kenexa | namely | oracle taleo | risesmart | silkroad | www.zapoint.com | assessment: iscopia | incentive systems pay-for-performance: Workstream, HRsoft Employees | Values | Checklists | Economics | Growth | more Sustainability

Recycling in general: books: discoverbooks | clothing: http://wearablecollections.com/index.php | collection: BigBelly | competitions: recyclemania | fundraising: planetgreen, rrewards | glass: ecullett | incentive programs: erecyclingcorps, www.recyclebank.com | instruments from recycled trash: Lanfill Harmonics | pavers | pencils from paper: rainbow pencils | plants: Preloved Roots | plastics: agilyx crude oil, ban single-use bags, www.mbapolymers.com | recycled products: www.ecoreintl.com | rubber: lehightechnologies | solid waste | sorting: auto + manual | textiles/clothes: SMART | waste food-to-compost: ecoscraps | wood: afterthebarn e-waste: Is the company prepared to factor in the cost of end-of-life disposal of its products to meet state requirements? Does the company have an effective program of recycling electronic equipment? Does the company know how the parts, components, and materials are ultimately separated, processed, and disposed? Is it safe for humans and the environment? | iphones: ecoatm | www.electronicsrecycling.org | cell phones: gazelle | www.intechra.com | rechargeable batteries: www.rbrc.org secondary use: beer bottles: WOBO 135

books: Bottled and Sold Gleick | It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living Trask | Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade Minte Green | Automation | Construction | Electronics | Elements | more Preservation of Knowledge

Reference

encyclopedias: Britannica: www.britannica.com | CIA World Facts: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html | Consumer Info Center: www.pueblo.gsa.gov | Encyclopedia.com: www.encyclopedia.com | fast facts: www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm | NationMaster: www.nationmaster.com | RefDesk: www.refdesk.com | Translation Site: bing | Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org dictionaries: Oxford English Dctionary oed | urbandictionary | www.yourdictionary.com | www.onelook.com | idioms: The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms fact checking: corporations: Walmart push back | factcheck.org | inbox widget: lazytruth | snopes libraries: Internet Public Library: www.ipl.org | Library of Congress: www.loc.gov | National Archives: www.archives.gov Trust | Knowledge crowd big picture

Religion Religion in General Particular Religions Religion

Religion in General Knowledge & Understanding Philosophy of religion good vs evil: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Religious experience faith about | Dune | quote: Over the long haul, religious faith has proven itself the most powerful and enduring force in human history. Reno magazines: sojo Separation of Church and State: First Things religion in public life Institutions & Practices Do you know what your religion’s position is on the origin of the universe and evolution? Tegmark

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apocalypse: about | crisis planning: NISAC | doomsday: doomsday groups millennialism, mayan calendar | fantasy: Tokyo Genso creationism vs evolution: Does it damage children to teach them biblical creationism and deny biological evolution? | debate books, movies, TV series: bible: God Said, Man Said | How We Believe Shermer | One Second After Forstchen | Proof of Heaven Alexander | The Bible History Channel | The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Henderson | The Varieties of Religious Experience James Crime | Books | Politics | Time | Art | more Engineering and R&D

Research and Development What’s likely to be the “next big thing?” What might be the most fertile areas for innovation? Where should countries and companies invest their limited research funds? What technology areas are a company’s competitors pursuing? How are projects chosen for R&D? What is R&D’s past record for successful completion of projects to budget and schedule? When does management expect products will reach the market from research projects currently underway? Is the company working smart to optimize the FDA approval process? How would management rate the company’s R&D operations against its competitors? How well does R&D integrate its work with marketing? End user? Engineering? Production? Is R&D’s major emphasis applied or basic research? How much do the company’s projected financials depend upon successful new products developed by R&D? Does the company effectively protect the secrecy of R&D projects? Is there sufficient federal financing to support R&D at adequate levels? What is the company’s approach towards capitalization of R&D expenses? Is management well informed of R&D activities? Are the company’s research facilities adequate? How confident is management that R&D’s team and plan will lead to the right product(s) at the right time? Has management evaluated the cost-effectiveness of shifting some portion of R&D expenditures and operations to external sources? in general: Chance favors the prepared mind. Pasteur | citations: zotero | crowd funding: experiment | design of experiments: about | electronic lab notebooks | ethics: Integrity in Research and Publication | europe: cordis | evaluating research centers | incentivization: prize challenges | magazines: rdmag | matching problems with solutions: www.innocentive.com | molecular imaging: www.visenmedical.com | networks: internet2 | patents: mapping | pharmaceutical R&D: www.teranode.com, Perkin Elmer | poster template | rent & read: deepdyve | research universities: www.aau.edu | videos: labtv academic: The traditional metric of academic capital is citations. | Should researchers make their source code available when submitting a research paper to a peer-reviewed scientific journal? | bio template: publications.ca | data sharing: figshare | funding opportunity announcements: grantforward | impact: h-index | news: futurity | scientific literature: Action Science Explorer | Association of Research 137

Libraries | open access, peer-reviewed joournals: peerj, plusone.org | social networking: academia.edu | Search: academic.research.microsoft federal labs: Argonne National Laboratory: www.anl.gov | Idaho National Laboratory: www.inl.gov | Kansas City Plant: www.kcp.com | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: www.lbl.gov | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: www.llnl.gov | Los Alamos National Laboratory: www.lanl.gov | National Renewable Energy Laboratory: www.nrel.gov | Oak Ridge National Laboratory: www.ornl.gov | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: www.pnl.gov | Sandia National Laboratory: www.sandia.gov | Y-12 National Security Complex Heilmeier Catechism: What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon. How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice? What's new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful? Who cares? If you're successful, what difference will it make? What are the risks and the payoffs? How much will it cost? How long will it take? What are the midterm and final "exams" to check for success? lab management: workflow management: accelrys | software: quartzy free multidisciplinary research: What are the top ten actions that Congress, the federal government, state governments, research universities and others could take to assure the ability of the American research university to maintain the excellence in research and doctoral education needed to help the United States compete, prosper, and achieve national goals for health, energy, the environment, and security in the global community of the 21st century? Stanford | synthesis centers: science incubators | World Café charrette translation of project results: To what extent do the research issues being pursued relate to challenges along the pathway towards achieving meaningful use? How effective are the methods used to accelerate translation of research into application(s)? To what extent has the project identified the salient, potentially breakthrough challenges? Are innovative research methods being applied to meet the ultimate research agenda? What problems have been encountered in implementing all of the required features of the project? What relationships has the project established with industry to facilitate the translation of the research? | funding: action science: definitions | proof-of-concept books and articles: Breakthrough Stefik | Closing the Innovation Gap Estrin | Evaluating Research Centers & Institutes for Success! Tash | Scientists Popularizing Science: Characteristics/Impact of TED Presenters Sugimoto | spinoffs: On spinning out (commercializing) a university research center sp Crowd | Startups | Sustainability | Wellness | Automobile | more

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Research Parks in general: aerial photos | associations: International Association of Science Parks iasp, United Kingdom Science Park Association UKSPA | search: IP point-openinnovation | seed finance documents: seriesseed | space: espacecenter| video best practices: incubators sp, research parks sp business plans: back-of-the-envelope-plan sp | best approach: www.dfjmercury.com/c_submit.htm | competitions: 15 top college competitions | executive summary: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/04/the_art_of_the_.html | MIT Enterprise Forum | outline | template: Business Model Canvas, Sequoia Capital clusters: Having a high concentration of people working on similar problems in the same location speeds progress. | about | campuslondon | data: U.S. Cluster Mapping | fusionopolis Singapore | robotics: Zurich | skolkova moscow books and articles: Technopoles of the World Castells | Why Life Science Needs Its Own Silicon Valley Ghadar Biotechnology | Collaboration | Co-Working | DIY | Economics Sales and Customer Service

Retail

mobile, mobile, mobile Is the UNIQLO a good or bad place to work? Will the mall survive the Internet? How do moms use their smartphone coupons before and during a grocery store visit? Does the company’s merchandising planning systems make it possible to quickly test out the viability of any scenario and fully understand the financial impacts and other implications of a variety of decisions? Are systems in place to measure and improve the effectiveness of the company’s customer acquisition, servicing and retention activities? Does the system make it possible to visually simulate an exact 3D replication of the store shelf and the products in order to get a true preview of the shelf schematic? Does the system allow for web-based collaboration with internal and external partners? Are we performing cluster analysis to optimize our merchandising decisions? Is the company using a web-based demand analytics system to get a clear view of product movement through all the distribution channels? What are the benefits? in general: analysis of consumer demand data: www.retailsolutions.com, www.terratechnology.com | big data: blacklocus big idea | Black Friday: top retailers | coupons: thefind | cross-channel promotions: clicksquared, www.universal-ad.com | customer intelligence: marketforce | delivery: dollarshaveclub | demand generation: www.reachforce.com, orchestro | dynamic personalization: richrelevance | electronic shelf label: www.altierre.com | enterprise systems: www.junctionsolutions.com, www.steelwedge.com | handheld devices: retailgent | in-store video analytics: retailnext, ShopperTrack | inventory management | mobile 139

ad attribution: placed | payment systems: newcomlink| Point-of-Sale Systems: OrderMagic, vendhq | pop-up stores | planograms: shelflogic | price optimization: www.revionics.com | secure transactions: magtek | self-service/checkout: 365retailmarkets, www.zoomsystems.com | shopping cart lifecycle: www.allurent.com | showrooming: Have you purchased an item on Amazon.com after looking at the same item in a physical retail store? placed | tracking: projectslice, storeflix | transaction metrics: www.recordant.com | vending: vengo | video network: www.sellpoint.net | Virtual walkthrough: incontextsolutions | web analytics: compete, manthansystems employee performance: leaderboards: objectivelogistics | workforce management: www.reflexisinc.com grocery shopping: coolhunting: www.mpreis.com | coupons: www.coupons.com, www.thegrocerygame.com | delivery: instacart, relayfoods | online network: www.groceryshopping.net | organic: milehighorganics | plan menus & grocery list: ziplist in-store experience: Is the company taking advantage of technology to analyze video tracking data towards optimizing the in-store experience for customers? How long do customers wait in line? How many customers abandon the line? What are the busiest sections of the store? Are self-service kiosks in the right location? How quickly are my employees serving customers? What path do customers take through the store? Do in-store promotions attract customer attention? Where do customers go after interacting with a display? customer experience: creativegood | in-store feedback: gigwalk, www.marketforceinfo.com | micro-location: nearbuysystems Employees | E-Commerce | Innovation | Crowd | Shop | more Employees & Labor

Right-to-Work What percentage of employees is unionized? What is the union(s)? When does the present contract(s) expire? What issues will be addressed during the renegotiations of expiring contracts? Have there been any strikes in the past? Any work stoppage? How are grievances handled? How many grievances are outstanding? Does the company have a good working relationship with the union leader(s)? Is the union due compensation for a planned plant shutdown? In management's opinion, have the unions resisted changes to improve productivity in the company? Have there been any recent attempts to unionize employees? What specific plans has the company implemented to reduce the possibility of the employees becoming unionized? What significant issues should be addressed with non-union employees? in general: articles: What Public Employee Unions Are Doing to Our Country McGurn | leadership: Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge Walker Social Organization & Change | Law | Sports | Issues | Leaders | more 140

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Risk Management Big Data | Business Continuity | Cash Management | Checklists | COLI | Computer

Security | Credit Risk Management | Crisis Management | Cyber Security and Warfare | Enterprise | Entrepreneurship | Fraud & Bribery | Forensics | Hedge Fund | Identity Management | In General | Methods of Business Organization | Randomness | Red Cross | Risk Assessment | Risks | RoHS Compliance | SarbanesOxley Act | Supply Chain Management | Sustainability | Threat Management | Trustworthy Systems | Video Sureveillance | What if? | more

Is unlimited risk mitigation burying our society? How do we integrate risk management with the corporation’s strategic direction and plan? What are our principal business risks? Are we taking the right amount of risk? How effective is our process for identifying, assessing and managing business risks? Do people in this organization have a common understanding of the term “risk”? How do we ensure that risk management is an integral part of the planning and day-to-day operations of individual business units? How do we ensure that the board’s expectations for risk management are communicated to and followed by the employees in the company? How do we ensure that our executives and employees act in the best interests of this organization? How is risk management coordinated across the organization? How do we ensure that the organization is performing according to the business plan and within appropriate risk tolerance limits? How do we monitor and evaluate changes in the external environment and their impact on the organization’s strategy and risk management practices? What information about the risks facing the organization does the board get to help it fulfill its stewardship and governance responsibilities? How do we know that the information the board gets on risk management is accurate and reliable? How do we decide what information on risks we should publish? How do we take advantage of the organizational learning that results from the risk management program and activities? What are our priorities as a board in the oversight of risk management? How does the board handle its responsibility for the oversight of opportunities and risks? How does the board ensure that at least some of its members have the requisite knowledge and experience in risk? How do we, as a board, help establish the “tone at the top” that reinforces the organization’s values and promotes a “risk aware culture”? How satisfied are we that the board is doing what it should in overseeing risk? in general: Chief Risk Officer (CRO) | data: orx | enterprise governance, risk, compliance (GRC): brinqa, greenlightcorp, openpages | geointelligence & political risk: eurasiagroup | governance risk indicators: MSCI forensics: Anthropology and forensic odontology: www.swganth.org | Click fraud detection: www.clickforensics.com | Computer forensics & electronic discovery: www.forensicon.com | Controlled substances: www.swgdrug.org | Crime scene analysis: www.swgstain.org | DNA and forensic biology: www.dna.gov, www.cstl.nist.gov/strbase | Fire debris analysis and arson scene investigations: 141

www.ncfs.ucf.edu/twgfex | Firearms and toolmark identification: www.swggun.org | latent prints | Medico-legal death investigations, including forensic pathology: www.swgmdi.org | Questioned documents: www.swgdoc.org | Shoeprint/tire tread examination: www.swgtread.org | Toxicology: www.swgtox.org | Trace evidence: www.swgmat.org fraud and bribery: To mitigate bribery, what is the level of integrity capital in the organization? | Association of Certified Fraud Examiners: www.acfe.com | Cash Management embezzlement | click fraud forensics: www.clickforensics.com | corporate monitoring: www.memento-inc.com | detection: threatmetrix | insider risks | prevention: www.guardiananalytics.com, www.iovation.com, www.the41.com hedge fund: What is the company’s policy on using derivatives to hedge assets, liabilities, and future transactions? What is the company’s current gain (loss) position on its derivatives? Is there any evidence of misuse of derivatives? How did the company select this hedge fund? How does the company’s hedge investment strategy work? What are the risks? What market conditions favor the fund manager’s strategy, and which ones work against it? What is the fund manager’s experience and track record? How long before the company can withdraw its money? How is the fund manager being compensated? Could the use of weather derivatives be a cost-effective strategy for mitigating the company's risk exposure due to weather volatility? Global warming? | performance database: www.hedgefund.net | real-time options pricing: www.derivix.com | Resources: www.derivativesportal.org | Treasury and risk management: www.reval.com risk assessment: Does the company have automated business process monitoring www.memento-inc.com systems in place that will improve risk and loss assessment? Are we doing too much or too little high-risk, high-reward research for good profitability, and is the corresponding financial risk level acceptable? What is the worst case financial scenario if we suffer a period of bad luck with our research projects? What are the overall chances of poor performance if we drop the high risk and go to lower risk research or vice versa? How do we design an R&D plan consisting of multiple projects involving different degrees of risk in terms of overall company profitability, profit lead times and investment risk? What are our overall research strategy options for recovering from an impending severe profit loss situation due to a potential shortfall in new technology from R&D? | Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): about Risk Management

Risks

What are the key areas where the company has, or could have in the future, the greatest risk exposure? How volatile is the fluctuation in operating results from quarter to quarter? How much backlog does the company generally carry? Does the company derive a substantial portion of its revenue from a few key customers? What assurances does the company have that sales will continue to these 142

customers? Would a substantial reduction in revenue from these customers adversely affect the company? What percentage of sales is to one industry? Would an economic downturn in this industry have an adverse impact on the company? Does the organization have a strategic plan of diversification and expansion to mitigate risk and increase revenues and profits? Do any of the company’s competitors have substantially greater financial, marketing, and technical resources than the company? Could competitive pressures or price wars cause the company’s products to lose market acceptance? How much time delay and cost risk is inherent in the product development process because of technology complexity? In spite of testing and QA procedures, is it possible for existing and future products to experience defects or operating deficiencies? What is the risk that the company’s product liability exposure could adversely impact cash resources? What is the risk to the company’s competitive position if it loses its proprietary protection? How much dependence on key personnel does the company have? Is the company dependent on a few key suppliers? customer dependence: Is the company dependent on a few key customers? What percentage of projected sales is represented by these key customers? Are any of these customers in financial trouble? Does anyone in the company routinely monitor this? Does the company have any contracts or special arrangements with key customers? Has the company lost any major customers in the past two years? Is the company about to lose a major customer? Have any new major customers been added through increased global trade? Art | Core Competency | Insurance | Threats | Thought | more Popular Culture

Road Trip Why do we crave the road trip? Hitting the open road is really the impulse to explore that is hard-wired into our being from the first day we crawl from the living room to the kitchen; or run down to the creek in the woods; or bike across town without our parents knowing about it; and we never stop. It is “on-demand exploration” for all of us and the impulse is so strong that we return to satisfy that drive year after year. So the question within the question is, why do we explore? sp in general: www.roadandtravel.com | www.roadtripusa.com | film: Easy Rider, Thelma & Louise | iconic roads: Route 66 |music trail: thecrookedroad bluegrass | yahoo: on the road books: car: On the Road Kerouac, Travels with Charlie Steinbeck | hitchhiking: Carsick Waters | planes, trains, automobiles, et al: Book Your Trip Music | Extreme | Popular Culture | more Automation

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in general: accelerators: alphalab gear | AI+robotics+gaming: anki | animatronics | autism | bees: Robobees | big dog: www.bostondynamics.com | clusters: Zurich | coatings: www.autonomicmaterials.com | companies: irobot | co-robots | DIY: ezrobot, kit-robot, multiplo, Sparki | farm: harvestautomation | fish: robofish | fulfillment: kiva | gliders | hair transplantation: restorationrobotics | hospitals: www.aethon.com | human-robot interaction | iCub | lawnmowers: Deere Tango E5 | magazines: servomagazine | manufacturing: flexible objects, Rethink Robotics | microrobotics: robo-insect | museums: robotville | NASA | ocean: liquidr, robotboat | platform: hansonrobokind big ideas | precision machine control: www.novariant.com | remote presence: www.intouchhealth.com | rideable robot | sewer inspection: redzone | soccer: Peter Stone | soft robotics: indestructible | surgery: da Vinci | toys: sphero ball | underwater: openROV, seaperch.org | Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): uxvuniversity education | walking: argomedtec | window cleaning: ecovacs books, articles, journals: How To Survive a Robot Uprising Wilson | Robotic insects make first controlled flight Perry | Soft Robotics 3D | Earth | Modeling | Food | AI | more Sports / Track & Field

Running

Run for quality to stay in the game (arena) as long as you can. sp in general: barefoot: runningbarefoot, vivobarefoot | coaching: runcoach | fitness tracking: runkeeper | forums: letsrun, runnersworld | gear: isaora | girls: Girls on the Run | marathons: marathonguide | routes: walkjogrun | safety: group running in Caracus | shoes: shoeftr, skechers gorun | sprints: Usain Bolt | walking: mapmywalk books: Born to Run McDougall | The Curse of Lono Thompson Utopia/Dystopia | Weird | Women & Men | Measurement | Optimized Self | more Methods of Business Organization

Sales and Customer Service Backlog | Bonded Seller | Buying Decisions | Consumer Credit Reports | Core Competency | CRM | Customer Feedback | Customer Service | Facebook | Knowledge Management | Language Tools | Lead Generation | Methods of Business Organization | Mobile Workforce | Payment Systems | Predictive Intelligence | Retail | Sales Information | Sales Management | Sales Ratios | Shopping Malls | Small Business | Speech Analytics | Time | Trade Shows | Travel Sales and Customer Service

Sales Information What are the sales breakdowns www.hoovers.com by various categories? What is the size of a typical order? The trend? 144

Demand: Will the industry be able to meet demand now and in the future? What product(s) don't we have that are in need or would complete our current product line? Forecasting: Does the company share forecast data across different organizations? Does the company have a formal yet streamlined forecasting process? Do most people consistently adhere to the company's forecasting process? Does the company invest considerable resources, time and capital into improving forecasting? Are accurate forecasts highly valued by executive management? Does the company have cross-functional teams that have real power to improve forecasting? Does everyone in the company use world class technologies to capture and analyze forecasts? Does the company integrate forecasting technology with upstream and downstream systems? Does the company use standard metrics to measure forecast accuracy? Is the company very good at forecasting accurately? Are the company's forecasts well aligned to corporate goals? Does the company reward people for accurate and timely forecasts? in general: business contact information: cloze, Salesforce | business directories and data: www.hoovers.com | forecasting: www.right90.com | online audience: comscore | real-time monitoring: IBM Pricing | Retail | Social Networking Sales and Customer Service

Sales Management Is there a sales strategic plan and objectives? What is the general sales process? What is the general sales compensation plan? Is this compensation plan competitive with the industry? What reports are the most effective at managing the sales force? How is sales productivity measured? How is sales training conducted? Is the cost of training reasonable? Have the company’s key negotiators been trained in professional negotiation strategies and tactics? in general: communications: clearslide | contacts enhancement: fullcontact | e-mail: yesware | federal market: fedmarket | incentive programs: www.globoforce.com, leveleleven, www.xactlycorp.com | intelligence: insideview | multi-level marketing: Direct Selling Association dsa| negotiation: campnegotiationinstitute | ondemand CRM: crushpath, futuresimple base, campaignerCRM, www.salesforce.com, www.selltis.com | online customer interactivity: www.genius.com | proposals: www.bigmachines.com, SalesEdge | screen & qualify: www.doublepositive.com backlog: How is backlog defined and computed in the company? How does the current backlog compare with the trend for the past two years? As a percentage of net revenue? What is the backlog by product line? The trend? manufacturer’s representative: Has the standard agreement proven to be effective? How does the company evaluate the cost-effectiveness of manufacturer's reps vs. a

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direct sales force? Do any of the company's reps sell competing products? What do reps say about the company and its product(s)? productivity: What training do we have planned or have they had? What training do they need (by specific need)? How often do we coach? Who coaches? Does sales management have the tools they need to do the job? Are there technologies that can assist? Are they being asked to do too much other stuff (like administrative tasks)? Do we have a plan for dealing with underperforming salespeople? Do we have a single system to track, monitor, manage and coach all salespeople? sales personnel: How important is in-person selling to sell the customer? What level of competence is required in salespeople? Are competent sales personnel available? Who are the top salespeople for the company? How long have these individuals been with the company? What are the ages of the top performers? What is the average salary plus commissions of the top performers? What is the average sales volume of the top performers? Have the top performers met their quotas? sales territories: How are sales distributed among the following? Are all the sales offices producing enough to justify maintaining? Is the geographical area served reasonable for each office? books and articles: Crossing the Chasm Moore | The End of Solution Sales Adamson | The Greatest Salesman in the World Mandino | Transforming Your Go-to-market Strategy E-mail | New Products | Pricing Management | Randomness Legal Information and Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley Act in general: compliance software: accelus, www.agiliance.com, infor, axentis, informatica | Master Data Management security compliance: enterprise data leakage: www.fidelissecurity.com | enterprise systems: www.elementalsecurity.com electronic evidence: www.clearwellsystems.com, storediq ediscovery| www.recommind.com | compliance: www.cya.com | data collection: www.renewdata.com | discovery Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC): Has the CEO filed a disclosure with the SEC certifying last quarter's financials? If not, is there a problem? Edgar Online People: http://access.edgar-online.com | FreeEdgar | NAICS/SIC Codes: www.naics.com | SEC Database: www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm | SEC Document Primer: www.sec.gov/info/edgar/forms/edgform.pdf | SEC News Digest: www.sec.gov/news/digest.shtml Corporate Governance | Enterprise | Identity | IT | Risk Management

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Science

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Newton Is scientific genius a thing of the past? What are the barriers to cross-border scientific collaboration? Do values shape your interpretation of science? History and Philosophy of Science History of science: corporate influence: ScienceCorruption | Project TUVA The Physical Sciences History of the physical sciences Astronomy and astrophysics: The Astronomer vermeer Chemistry education K-12: Kids’ Lab The Earth Sciences History of the Earth sciences: The Geographer vermeer Nature, scope, methods of Earth sciences geoscience: earthcube The Biological Sciences Nature, scope, & methodology of biological sciences: biology online Medicine and Affiliated Disciplines Social Sciences and Psychology and Linguistics Economics: encyclopedia | supply-side Geography: gamification: geoguessr, Geo Quiz Psychology experimentation: Hawthorne Effect reality TV sports The Technological Sciences Core Technology in general: www.earthsky.org | www.sciencedirect.com | http://undsci.berkeley.edu | competitions: Science Olympiad | conferences: falling-walls | crowd (citizen) science: crowd-sourced data collection, Discover Life | education: edumedia-sciences interactive simulations, sciworks, secret life of scientists | journal search: www.scirus.com | news: science360, whyfiles | podcasts: grokscience | portals: The Naked Scientists |science kits: www.thamesandkosmos.com | scientific equipment: www.daiscientific.com | scientists: skepticism | scientometrics | TV/video: Curiosity, science360 | university science: futurity black box: about | Artificial Intelligence | brain | CIA | Cloud Computing | complex systems | dreams | IOLab | mind | Santa’s workshop | Science | stock market | systems of systems books: Pasteurs Quadrant Stokes | Science and Human Values Bronowski | Science from Sight to Insight Harmon | Six Easy Pieces Feynman | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 147

| The Two Cultures Snow | What Are You Optimistic About? Brockman | What Science Is and How It Works Derry | What We Believe but Cannot Prove Brockman Kuhn big ideas

Politics | Humans | Visualization | Products | Research | more Fiction

Science Fiction Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card

Is science fiction failing? Is there an imagination barrier? in general: aliens ufo | avatarmovie | flying: flying pictures | parallel universe | superheros: sandman, women | syfy | tom swift | twilight zone time travel: about | calendar 2012 | comics: Calvin & Hobbes, Superboy | films: About Time Curtis, Safety Not Guaranteed, Timecop | video games: Back to the Future, Chrono Trigger, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time | videos: Timeless Man TV: Dr. Who: When will Dr. Who be a woman?, BBC site, history | Terra Nova | The Outer Limits: Gettysburg articles, books, movies: Dune Herbert | Outlander | Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights Mitsuse | The Best New Science Fiction | The Continuing Scientific Relevance Of SciFi Tozer Gaming | Creativity | Crowd | Future | History Internet

Search in general: desktop: copernic | engines: bing, duckduckgo, google, wolframalpha, yahoo | enterprise: ba-insight, coveo, qsensei | local search: www.americantowns.com | magazines & newspapers: www.highbeam.com | medical terminology: e-imo | natural search: www.conductor.com | news: www.altsearchengines.com | online ads: moat | online video guide: www.ovguide.com | optimization: www.icrossing.com | rent: rentstuff | researchers: kgrove | robots & spiders: www.the-art-of-web.com/system/agents/2385938736/ | semantic ad network: isense | shopping: www.thefind.com | state/mall/product: www.nearbynow.com | structured results: www.grokker.com, www.hakia.com | summarize: summly | trusted sources: goasterisk | validation by social networks: www.lijit.com search marketing: pay-per-click (PPC): wordstream | search engine optimization (SEO): altruik, brightedge, ginzametrics, sycara directory search: 800 Directory: www.anywho.com | AnyWho: www.anywho.com | Area Code Finder: http://decoder.americom.com | Free: www.free411.com | International Dialing: www.countrycallingcodes.com | Switchboard: 148

www.switchboard.com | yellow pages: www.superpages.com | Zip Code Finder (Business): http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp images: archive/buy/sell images www.digitalrailroad.net | recognition cortica Jobs | Philosophy | Big Data | Health | Politics | more Books & Publishing

Self-Publishing in general: amazon | art-on-demand: www.zazzle.com | bindings: Choosing the Right Binding Type | consulting: authoright | e-books: wattpad | games: gamesalad |iPad: mazdigital | open entertainment platform: www.vuze.com | paperbacks: accurance, createspace, www.iuniverse.com, lulu | picture books: www.blurb.com | podcasting: www.hipcast.com, www.hipcast.com | six ways to publish your book | travel journal: everlater | unified all-platform distribution: RebelMouse | videos: www.onetruemedia.com Books | Music | Writing | Content | think2ool Big Data

Sensors and Sensor Networks sattelite imagery: Planet Labs in general: www.lumasenseinc.com | www.sensorlogic.com | aerial data collection: PrecisionHawk | fiber optic temperature sensors www.sensortran.com | hydrogen www.h2scan.com | motion sensors movea, qualtre | optical www.spectrasensors.com | plant water level: plant link | radiation safecast | realtime sensor network: cosm | security: mocana | thermal light valve http://redshiftsystems.com | water levels: gaugecam | wireless: twine internet of things IoT: air quality egg | application development platform: thingworx | connect devices: electricimp, Nest | embedded systems: freescale | human interface: glass | plants: PLEASED big ideas | theinternetofthings medical: back: lumoback | medication: proteusbiomedical | orthopedic implants: orthosensor remote monitoring: www.icontrol.com | bio-physical: zephyr-technology | ruggidized communications: www.talend.com RFID: chips: impinj | extended capability: www.intelleflex.com | hospital inventory: www.wavemark.net | software: odinrfid, www.rfcode.com | www.thingmagic.com | systems: www.higtek.com | www.power-id.com | www.skyetek.com | www.tagsysrfid.com Biosphere | Optimized | Earth | Climate | Agriculture | more

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Services

On Hiring a Consultant sp What are the top five features of this service? What could be considered proprietary features? Have there been any reviews/comparisons of the service? How sensitive is the customer to service quality? At what stage in the service life cycle is each of the company's core services? Is the service a luxury item or necessity? What need does the service fill for the customer? What factors increase/decrease the customer's need for the service? Does the service save the customer money? Does the service improve efficiency for the customer? What alternatives does the customer have? in general: booking: booker | chores: taskrabbit | cleaning: homejoy | laundry: washio | lifecycle management: servigistics | management software: getjobber, insightdirect | mobile platforms: prompt.ly | on-demand professionals: pearl | trusted referrals: angieslist, betterfly, checkbook, redbeacon, taskrabbitt. thumbtack | small services starting at $5: fiverr profitability: What is the sales volume for each service? What is the profitability (gross margin) of each service? Is there a relationship between a service's sales/profitability ranking and incentives for salespeople? revenues: How many sales people in your organization are focused solely on selling services? Are you effectively contacting your entire installed base, including the small and medium-sized accounts? Do you have the time and resources necessary to hire, train, manage, motivate and retain your service sales team? What are your renewal rates by segment? Are you prioritizing resources accordingly? Can you accurately assess the renewal pipeline and forecast? Do you have formal processes for communicating the value of your service offering? Are you coterming/consolidating contracts whenever possible? Multi-year contracts? Upselling higher service levels? Are your resellers and distributors getting maximum service revenue? Is your customer contact information up-to-date and correct? Do you have detailed reports and data to make intelligent decisions and analyses regarding your service business? optimization: servicesource service level management: Can the enterprise forecast the impact of the expected growth and changes in database design, hardware and software parameters to identify potential bottlenecks and take corrective measures to continuously achieve performance goals? www.bez.com | www.vieo.com | Real-time monitoring www.nimsoft.com supply chain: Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now by George Stalk | Has the company implemented a web-based service parts planning system to optimize the balance between supply chain costs and customer availability? Are we tracking the gains against a baseline? pets: dog care: dogvacay | pharmacy: myvetsfirstchoice 150

Decisions | Crowd | Personal | Employees | Weird | more Supply Chain

Shipping Is there a written procedure(s) for shipping? How does accounting confirm what goods are shipped? How does the company confirm that the customer received the goods? What systems are in place to prevent theft? Has the company used the ISTA test procedures to assess the performance of packaging for shipment? If so, have we reduced or eliminated damage using the ISTA standards? Also with high value goods? in general: design: apps: shippo | Intelligent paper: www.cypak.com | marine operations: marinecfo | outsourcing: www.shipwire.com | packing materials: ExpandOS freight: newgistics package delivery: collection network: www.kiala.com | dropship: dropship | www.fedex.com package tracking: DHL: http://track.dhl-usa.com | Express Mail: www.usps.com/shipping/trackandconfirm.htm | Fed Ex: www.fedex.com/Tracking?cntry_code=us | marking systems: www.datalase.com | sensors: www.paksense.com, senseaware | UPS: http://wwwapps.ups.com/etracking/tracking.cgi Apps | Cloud shipping | Green | Inventory | Sensors | more Retail

Shopping in general: www.bizrate.com | www.savings.com | www.shopping.com | catalogs: catalogchoice, coffeetable | comparative shop: findthebest, hukkster, Price Machine, TrueCar | coupons: coupontrade | deals: nomorerack |delivery: delivery | flash sales: gilt | furniture: Joss & Main | holiday: www.christmasorganizer.com | kids: totsy | local: milo | member-only: ideeli, lockerz | mobile apps: aisle411, getmonogram iPad | what are people buying: blippy, shopflick shopping cart: abandonment tracker: seewhy |bonded transactions: www.buysafe.com | checkout: www.allurent.com, https://checkout.google.com/seller/integrate.html | integrated e-commerce: 1shoppingcart, www.storefront.net | remote managed services: www.totality.com | store setup: shopify shopping malls: online entertainment: www.deliveryagent.com | Video Display Monitors: www.adspacenetworks.com Auto | Unequivocal | Services | Travel | Pricing | more

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Small Business family business: Focus on resilience for the long term. Is the board in-effect controlled by one dominant family member? Is this situation dysfunctional towards good governance? Is the board effectively meeting its responsibility as corporate arbitrator? in general: accounting: freeagent, waveaccounting free | advisory boards | apps: bestvendor | arbitration: www.arbitration-forum.com | books: Small Giants by Bo Burlingham | credit reports: cortera | credit unions: marijuana | CRM Systems: infusionsoft | www.visitar.com | cybersecurity: 10 tips | data intelligence: insightsquared | directory: manta | discounted services: www.myceo.com | domains: about.us | e-business roadmap: ebusinessnow.org | economy of scale: OrderWithMe | financial services: indinero dashboard | free online training: www.sba.gov/services/training/onlinecourses/index.html | freelance: nextspace, writing | funding: www.businessfinancialservices.com, smallknot | general: allbusiness, Small Business America Huffington Post, www.smsmallbiz.com | integrated business management platform: www.everestsoftwareinc.com, sohoos | inventory management: stitchlabs | IT management: spiceworks | loans: www.ondeckcapital.com | on-demand: Microsoft Online Services | online advertising & marketing: www.clickfuel.com, hubspot, manta | IRS tax tips: www.irs.gov/businesses/small/index.html | multi-channel e-commerce: www.infopia.com | office tools: ceoexpress | publicity: helpareporter HARO | regulatory alerts: www.sba.gov/advo/laws/law_regalerts.html | resource network: www.buzgate.org | simulation: www.nfib.com/page/YEFJohnnyMoney.html | social networking: partnerup | solo enterprises: http://sohodojo.com | VoIP: ooma, www.vocalocity.net | wall street journal | web sites: www.web.com Web Site | Sales | Purchasing | Board | Brand | more Fields of Technology / Critical Infrastructures

Smart Grid

What is the Smart Grid? Generation Distributed generation Energy harvesting Renewable power: vizimax | stats: Renewable Energy Data Book Microgrids about | design: Energy Surety Microgrid ESM | modeling: homerenergy | towns: The Only Grid-Independent Village In The World? Shahan Wind Energy storage

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primuspower | associations: Energy Storage Association | batteries: aqueous hybrid ion: aquion | flow: enervault, pdenergy | flywheel: Beacon Power Transmission and Distribution automation and control hardware/software: bplglobal, bridgeenergygroup, nexant, silverspringnet resiliency: synchronization of major interconnects Consumption Home Energy Management consumer incentives: peak time rebates | time-of-use pricing tendrilinc Commercial & Industrial Building Energy Management agentisenergy | peoplecube | dashboards: Hill Energy Dashboard, Oberlin Environmental Dashboard Local energy aggregation: leanenergyus.org Security Is smart metering a failed public-sector IT project? Are smart meters safe? In Smart Grid 2.0, can we manage power flow like Internet data, i.e., by managing power packets the way the Internet manages data packets? big idea, digitalgrid Should we move the Smart Grid to the cloud? | blackouts: American Blackout Ntl. Geo in general: big data: auto-grid | big money for big ideas: ecomagination | communications: grid2home | consumer education: Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative smartgridcc | cybercecurity: 2011 Roadmap to Achieve Energy Delivery Systems Cybersecurity, thepowerfilm.org | Department of Energy | distributed energy storage: ice-energy | energy management systems: energyhub, Google PowerMeter, tendrilinc | euro projects | Future: report | IFCL superconducting cable | innovation: surgeaccelerator | load management: consert | maturity model | modeling & simulation & visualization: powerworld, VERDE | overview | physical attacks: Silicon Valley 2013 | privacy: futureofprivacy | research: tcipg | roadmapping: CA ISO | Smart Grid as a Service | social network: smartgrid | transformers: hexaformer smart metering: meters: itron, meterpedia, TED | software: emeter, lowfoot books: The Smart Grid Library Energy | Modeling | Sustainability | Trust | Crime | more Human Society

Social Groups Peoples & Cultures of the World: mapping historical cultural production: pantheon Popular Culture Race: The Race Card Project Development of Human Culture Processes of cultural change success: The Triple Package Chua 153

survival Major Cultural Components & Institutions Family & Kinship Other social structures Status slavery: books/movies: Twelve Years a Slave Other elements common to all cultures Recreation, Entertainment, Sports, Games Language and Communication Communication Written language: systems of notation Language and society: Popular Culture Languages of the world esperanto spoken: What is lost when a language goes silent? Vanishing Voices Rymer Language Tools books: A Universe Of Consciousness Edelman | Interpretation of Cultures Geertz in general: http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/cultural.htm | World Heritage List: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list Poverty | Libraries | Crime | Sports | Jobs | more Social Networking

Social Media There are 1 billion social media posts every 2 days. in general: advertising: kineticsocial | advocate b-2-b marketing: influitive | benchmark social brand: unmetric | buying/planning: www.mbxg.com | catalogue of tools | centralized sharing: friendfeed | compliance: cmp.ly | content curation: percolate, trap.it personalization | data analysis: datasift | enterprise systems: shoutlet, sprinklr, syncapse | Google | influencers: flowtown, superspreaders | IPOs: Alibaba | linkedIn | managing multiple feeds: tweetdeck, hootsuite, cotweet, spredfast |marketing management: crowdfactory, grosocial, vocus | monitoring: brandwatch | optimize: grapheffect | share content: shareaholic | social entertainment: milyoni | social recommendation: extole | social ROI: wayin |statistics: socialbakers | username search: namechk real-time: search & analysis (buzz): socialmention | integrate social content: massrelevance twitter: about | Bill Gates | business | data: gnip, topsylabs | feeds: twitterfeed | IPO | growth most followed: listorious, pulseofthetweeters, wefollow | search users with related interests: twitterel | video: twitvid | wine: fledgling | yellow pages: twellow video: analytics: tubemogul

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Social Networking The Friendship Paradox: Your friends have more friends than you do. Would you turn down $3B in cash from Facebook? Are social networking sites good for our society? As the number of social contacts increases, does the closeness with each contact decrease? Is there a point of diminishing returns? in general: about: degrees of separation |advertising: www.lotame.com | aggregator: www.power.com, http://socialthing.com | application development: www.smallworldlabs.com, socialmedia | B2B: company, jivesoftware | behaviors: trolling | building community: http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2008/03/online-communit.html | cell phones: http://mig33.com/index.php, www.mocospace.com | chain letters | cluster analytics for advertisers: http://media6degrees.com | comic books: graphic.ly | community: Yik Yak | corporate web sites: www.igloosoftware.com | create your own: everyme, ning | customer communities: www.lithium.com | dating: crazyblinddate, flikdate, skout, smartdate, specialty dating, zoosk | desktop-in-abrowser: www.ecirkit.com | enterprise: jivesoftware, yammer | financial industry: socialware | flipboard | gay men: grindr | health care: alliancehealthnetworks, www.friendshealthconnection.org | hub: www.fallon.com/skimmer | in person: http://techcocktail.com/home | industry-specific knowledge clusters: tallyfox | latin america: www.sonico.com | life experiences: experienceproject | map your interests cloud: mirror.me | matchmaking: 1mind, www.be2.com | micro-social: kibits | military: yourmilitary | mobile: www.mobango.com | patientslikeme | niche career communities: beyond | physicians: www.sermo.com | pictures: snapchat | professional: linkedIn, viadeo | scientists: researchgate | sentiment monitoring: visibletechnologies | six degrees of separation | storytelling: cowbird | teachers and students: edmodo | techies: www.inetinteractive.com | trading community: www.zecco.com | video: airtime | wellness: www.patientslikeme.com | writers: www.redroom.com cascade effect: The fraction of the network with a certain number of friends is a crucial indicator of the network’s vulnerability to cascades. articles, books: Groundswell Li | LOLing at tragedy Phillips Jobs | Women & Men | CRM | Family | Religion | more Human Society

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Social control Class structure: Utopia/Dystopia Factors operative in social change Change Coolhunting Migration: centroid of population Volunteerism: Points of Light Social movements and social change advocacy: documentaries: POV NPR | forums: netrootsnation causes user-created advocacy groups | data mining | Reboot America | Tea Party movement, liberal tea party Group Structure of Society Various types of groups: unions Racism and Ethnic Prejudice Social services The people with the lowest (social) value have the most potential. History of social and welfare services How big is the gap between doing and accomplishing? sp Fields of service Family welfare: food stamps | social security | worker’s compensation Medical and psychiatric services: Medicare | Medicaid School social services: Head Start Correctional services: probabtion and parole Social Status: honor or prestige attached to one's position in society Urban and Rural Communities Population Cities in general: advocacy: TakePart | United Nations | musicians for social change: atctower books and plays: Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society Fuchs | Bowling Alone Putnam | Eating the Dinosaur Klosterman | Good People Abaire | The True Believer Hoffer | welfare: Never Enough Voegeli Law | Innovation | Movies | Right-to-Work | Philanthropy | more Politics & Government

Social Radar

in general: China: censors | civil unrest monitoring: Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups (CREG) | crowd communications: mesh networks |movies: Hunger Games | movements: Occupy Wallstreet | riot contagion | social media analytics: google ideas, socialradar | twitter: flu | unstructured data emails, instant messages, social media: Idibon | violence: flash mobs papers: Mathematicians Analyze Social Divisions Using Cell Phone Data Brown 156

Anarchy | Venture Capital | Utopia/Dystopia | Optimized | China | more Methods of Business Organization

Software & Web Development top programming languages AJAX | Apps | Artificial Intelligence | Automation | Buildings | Checklists | Cloud Computing | Collaboration | Computer Science | Content Management (Web) | Crowd | Cybersecurity | Decision Making | Ecommerce | Enterprise Systems | Gaming | Health Care | Information Technology | Job Search | Lifetime Learning | Methods of Business Organization | Mobile | Network | Open Source Software | Outsourcing | Predictive Intelligence | Quality Management | Search Engines | SharePoint | Shopping | Startups | Teaching | Threat Management | Web Site | more Should we be teaching first-graders how to code? Does the company have an ongoing training program that builds advanced levels of skill and productivity in the developer workforce? Does the company have a network-based software configuration management system to control its software development projects? Have we considered outsourcing our QA testing to a CMM Level 5 software testing specialist? Is the company making maximum use of state-of-the-art software tools to enhance the productivity and quality of every function? Is IT using automated tools to scan source code www.klocwork.com and optimize performance? in general: automated testing & continuous deployment: circleci |book: A Software Design Manifesto by Mitchell Kapor | bug fixes: patterninsight | conferences: DreamForce | code protection: www.vilabs.com | refactoring | identify open source code: www.blackducksoftware.com, www.palamida.com | launchpad for emerging technology: www.demo.com | lifecycle management: www.rallydev.com, www.versionone.com | On-Demand Distributed Software Development: www.collab.net | outsourced: www.globallogic.com, www.persistentsys.com | professional development & skills: codeacademy, learn to code, skills | construx | search for software/apps: bestvendor, quixey | security: Building Security In Maturity Model bsimm | software production automation: www.electric-cloud.com | training: innerworkings | visualization before application development: www.irise.com | virtual factory: topcoder competitions agile: about | project management: rallydev java: collaboration: www.java.net, ProgramCreek source code: Is IT using tools to rapidly scan application source code to identify coding flaws that leave critical applications vulnerable to attack and exploitation, so that these flaws can be addressed proactively? | auto QA: www.coverity.com, www.solidw.com | distributed version control: github | free code hosting: bitbucket | secure development platforms: RhodeCode

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Solar Energy

in general: arrays: Fibonacci-based design | backup power: www.gridpoint.com | boats: planetsolar | concentrators: www.skyfuel.com | consumer information: http://1bog.org | crowd funding: joinmosaic | direct solar liquid fuel: jouleunlimited | education: solar pavilion | financing & operations: sunedison | franchises: solaruniverse | grid parity: socket parity | ground-mounted: portable | highconcentration (HCPV): www.greenvolts.com, morgansolar | industrial uses: www.sunnylandmills.com/solar_power.shtml | inverters: enesys | leasing: solarcity, sunrun | map solar potential: geostellar, mapdwell | modules: b-squares | monitoring: drakerlabs, real-time | outsourcing: www.tiogaenergy.com | panels: www.soliant-energy.com | photovoltaic systems: about, www.day4solar.com, innotechsolar, www.petrasolar.com | organic-based: heliatek | parking lots: Solaire Generation | power output: 10 acres/1MW | research: test bed sp | residential: gen110, oneroofenergy, www.solarcity.com, sungevity | roadways: Solar Roadways big idea| shared solar/collectives: about, community solar, Kit Carson solar decathlon: www.solardecathlon.org | stirling engine: infiniacorp | storing solar energy: molten salt, suncatalytix | street lighting | tensile structures: ftlsolar | test bed: Equinox House | thin film: ampulse, www.heliovolt.net, www.innovalight.com, www.nanosolar.com, www.semprius.com, www.xunlight.com | tracking systems: aasolartracking | turnkey installation: spgsolar | utility scale: brightsourceenergy, esolar | water heating: skylineinnovations tools and calculators: KWh: PVWatts | software for installers: cleanpowerfinance Critical Infrastructure | Design | Transportation | Energy | Buildings | more World Since 1920

Southwest Asia and Africa Since 1920

Turkey since 1919: The Gülen Movement Prime Minister: Recep Tayyip Erdogan Arab states Iran: Why should we go to war in Iran, when we never waged war with Russia who could have destroyed us in an instant? Syria: 2013 | ISIS: Not in My Name Regional: Arab Spring 2011 Israel: equality & democracy: New Israel Fund nif | peace: peacenow Egypt 158

What happened to the promise of a free, democratic Egypt? | 1978 Camp David Peace Accord | geographic challenges Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia since 1920 Afghanistan: Taliban | The Places In Between Stewart Sub-Saharan Africa Nigeria: novelist: Chinua Achebe South Africa: Long Walk to Freedom Mandela | music: Hugh Masekela in general: news: FLAME News | Peace | Anarchists | War | Music | more Recreation, Sports, and Games

Sports

Team Sports Baseball Players: Mickey Mantle: The Last Boy Leavy strategy: Moneyball by Michael Lewis Basketball High School: Hoop Dreams College: Billion $ Bracket | my 2014 picks sp | parity NBA: hoopshype | Jeremy Lin: Linsanity | movies: top ten Football NFL: Should Roger Goodell resign? concussions: League of Denial conference championships: 2014 superbowl: Super Bowl XLVI Hockey: pond hockey: MadCityPondHockey Polo: bicycle Rugby: rules: rugby 101 Soccer: Howler Volleyball: 9-man Individual Sports Bicycling Boxing men: Muhammad Ali: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. women: T-Rex Car Racing: Rush Howard Freediving: about | movie: The Big Blue Besson Golf Hiking: Extreme skurka Horse Racing: KentuckDerby Lacrosse: The Medicine Game Korver Motorcycles: Texas Tornado Bootcamp Rock climbing 159

free solo: Alex Honnold Scuba diving: trainining pool Skateboarding: 43 magazine | zboardshop | three wheels: trickstartr Skiing goggles: reconinstruments | men: axlski | women: lindseyvonn Snowboarding: (Sick): A Cultural History of Snowboarding Howe Surfing artificial wave: wavegarden | magazine: acidsurfing | movie: Endless Summer Brown | pictures: Surfing Heimann Swimming: training: instabeat Tennis book: The Inner Game of Tennis Gallwey | players: rafaelnadal | Wimbledon: www.wimbledon.org Track & field running Technology eSports: League of Legends equipment breathing: Armourbite mobile: Nike+ Accelerator player tracking: zebra TV ESPN cricket: www.cricinfo.com rugby: www.scrum.com high school: playonsports Video: automated team analysis: AutoScout channels: flocasts training: coachseye, dartfish The Mental Game Athlete Determination: It ain’t over till it’s over. Philosophy (Attitude) Fans: Praying for a win sp Why do we want our kids to participate in athletics? in general: amateur team management: bluefields, www.teampages.com, teamsnap | basketball: hooping | coaches: coachup | community-driven interactive news: http://bleacherreport.com | military wounded: Warrior Games | news: bleacherreport | performance: choke | tour de France: www.letour.fr | unionization: Northwetern University | youth sports: Silent Sunday, www.weplay.com

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Stages in the development of human behavior General aspects of human development Nature vs Nurture: beespace research Parenting Infancy: research: Yale Baby Lab Early childhood (1-12): competitiveness Adolescence Young adulthood and maturity: generations: posts Old age and death: Thinking about death brings clarity to your life. beforeidie retirement places: The Villages death education: the death class end-of-life preparation last wishes: Conversation of a Lifetime | The Conversation Project singing: Threshhold Choir suicide: How do you choose to die and not hurt the loved ones around you? books, movies, music: Amour | Modern Man Young at Heart Chorus | Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Sheehy Location | Popular Culture | Family | Music | Parenting | more Entrepreneurship

Startups

How do you design a 100-year startup? big idea As a startup founder, are you being very frugal with your salary? What do you use for your accounting, billing & invoicing? What do you use to track and analyze your traffic? What do you use to acquire new customers? Which CRM do you use? What do you use for your financial transactions? in general: accelerators: differential, top 15 in US | at sea: blueseed | benchmarks: Compass, Startup Genome Report | board governance: earlystagetechboards | cities and ecosystems: startup ecosystems, top 12 in US | community, networking, resources: FirstSteps peer-to-peer, founder2be, www.gobignetwork.com investors, publicmediax, Startup America Partnership s.co, www.tradevibes.com | conferences: leweb | documents: Founder Adviser Startup Template FAST, venturedocs | education: generalassemb.ly | how to start a startup: www.paulgraham.com/start.html | 161

immigrant entrepreneurs: startupchile | lean startup customer development | mentors: clarity advice over the phone, GrowthWheel, startupplays, startX, The Accelerators | odds of success calculator: www.startupnation.com/NET_ROOT/calculator | pivoting: hotornot | speaker series: startupatwork | students: www.ncet2.org, nciia.org, startx, 3daystartup, ventureboard.co | the autodesk file: www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/autofile.html | university startups: www.ncet2.org, 3daystartup | women: women2 raising capital: crowd funding: circleup, crowdtilt, growvc, gust, kickstarter, indiegogo, ongreen, thefundersclub | www.youngstartup.com | Small Business Innovation Grant (SBIR): SBIR Alerting Service books, videos: Startupland | Startup Mixology Gruber | The Art of the Start Kawasaki Research | Decisions | Future | Management | Co-Working | more Corporate Governance

Stockholders What good are shareholders? What value do they provide? What are the details of all changes in ownership within the last five years? Does the company have a complete shareholders list? Do the current directors and executive officers own, in aggregate, a majority of the outstanding shares of the corporation? Is the company responsive to shareholders? Does the company respect basic shareholder rights? Is the process of selecting new board members substantially driven by a major shareholder(s)? Is this in the best interests of the company? Do the by-laws specify cumulative voting? Were there any major problems with dissenting stockholders at the last annual shareholders' meeting? Are we making it possible for non-attending shareholders to participate in a Web-cast meeting? Do management and the board appropriately consider and attend to the interests of all of the company's stakeholders? Has the company ever paid cash dividends on its common stock? IRS definitions and rules: www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc404.html common stock: What is the number of shares authorized? What is the number of shares outstanding? Do any restrictions exist on any of the company's common stock? Do any options or rights of first refusal exist on any of the company's common stock? Do the by-laws of the corporation call for cumulative voting in all elections for directors? definition | election services: electionservicescorp | ESOPs: www.nceo.org Initial Public Offering (IPO): Is the market right for a stock offering? What were the results of a stock offering in the past year? How was it accepted by the investor community? Is an IPO a realistic consideration for the company? Edgar Online: http://ipoportal.edgar-online.com/ipo/home.asp | news: IPOfinancial, IPOscoop Major Shareholders: Is the process of selecting new board members substantially driven by a major shareholder(s)? Is this in the best interests of the company? Who owns more than 5% of the outstanding common stock? Does the company disclose this information on its investor relations web site? Is the company in danger of 162

triggering an accumulated earnings tax? What steps could be taken to prevent or mitigate triggering this tax? Do institutional investors play a special role on the board of the company? Active or passive? What is their impact on management? calculator: www.denvertax.com/bardahl/default.htm | institutionalinvestor | news & info: liquidnet Preferred Stock: What is the number of shares authorized? What is the number of shares outstanding? Do preferred stock shareholders have a preference in liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the affairs of the company? Do preferred stock shareholders have preemptive or subscription rights? Is each share of preferred convertible into one share of common stock? Are there any puts, calls, or rights of first refusal with any outstanding equity repurchase agreement? What preemptive rights exist with all outstanding securities? | What put/call rights are outstanding? leverage: www.riskglossary.com/articles/leverage.htm Stockholders' Equity: Does the company have a list of all classes of stock? What activity has occurred in treasury stock for the past three years? What has been the annualized growth rate in stockholders' equity for the last year? Five years? Ten years? Since incorporation? Have any restrictions been violated on any of the issued and outstanding equity securities? What is the most significant action taken during the past year to improve stockholder value? Acquisitions | Financing | Investor Relations | Valuation Management and Best Practices

Strategic Planning What difference (impact) do we want to make? How do we know we are making a difference? What is the difference we are making? Can we prove that we made a difference? social audit

How embedded is our strategic plan? Do employees get it? Is there a corporate fountain of youth? Or are most businesses destined to start, grow, mature, and die? Can you fit the strategic execution plan pdf on one page? Does management effectively include directors in the strategic planning process? Does the company use a third-party professional to facilitate the strategic planning process? Is the company careful to not over commit to too many strategies? What will be the main focus of the company in the next five years? What strategic blunders can the company admit to? What is being done to mitigate the adverse impacts? Besides traditional financial measures, what other information does the board study as good indicators of future performance? How is strategy defined at this organization? Is the definition of strategy in this organization shared by all directors and management? What are we ultimately trying to accomplish and where do we eventually want to get to? What is our purpose – or, why do we exist? What are the internal ethical and cultural priorities that attract stakeholders to us? What are the specific measures and targets that we will use to judge our progress in achieving our macro-level vision, mission 163

and values goals? In what specific business arenas have we chosen to operate for the purposes of achieving our objectives? Are they the right ones? What are the major business strategies making up the overall corporate strategy? Do circumstances warrant the board's involvement in (i.e. review, assessment and approval of) the organization's operating plan? Does this organization have the right strategy and, if not, what should it be? What was the process followed at this organization to formulate the strategy contained in the strategic plan and does the plan's document contain all of the proper information? Does the strategy have the right vision? Does the strategy have the right mission? Does the strategy have a proper statement of values? Does the strategy contain objectives which are well formulated and well stated? Have the proper organizational arrangements been selected, designed and aligned to reflect, reinforce and support the strategy? Have all the significant internal and external strategic risks been identified, quantified and addressed in the plan? Are appropriate mechanisms in place to provide the board with timely feedback on the organization's progress against its strategy, the underlying causes of any performance variance and any changes in the internal/external environments or risk factors which would cause the board to consider altering the organization's strategy? Are the board and its directors constructively involved in the organization's strategy? Does the board conduct a strategic planning retreat allerton park separate from the normal planning activities of corporate staff? How is the board’s strategic planning output integrated with the staff’s? What are management's plans for developing strategic alliances to maximize profits and reduce costs? What are the risks and how are they controlled? | consultants: prtm | executive retreats: Allerton Park sp, Q Center sp | S.W.O.T. goals: What are the top five strategic goals for this fiscal year? What is the one big audacious goal the company has set for the next 3-5 years? Is the goal S.M.A.R.T.? | facilitator: www.nfdb.com | personal goal setting: mygoals | Simplified Strategic Planning: www.cssp.com | automotive: www.autoconsulting.com mission and vision: all you need to know – on a napkin | Do employees understand the mission of the company? Does management feel it is doing a good job of ensuring that individual and department goals support company goals? Do employees understand the vision of the company? leadertoleader | Ethics | visioning: backcasting roadmapping: consultants: albrightstrategy | cybersecurity research | semiconductors: International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors itrs.net | software development: Mozilla | software tools: acceptsoftware, innovationframework, sopheon | strategic-alliances | technology roadmap wargaming: How could black swan events cripple our company? What are our company’s biggest vulnerabilities? Will increasing M&A activity affect our target markets? Which emerging competitors pose a threat to our company and why? What new policies and regulations that impact our industry will the government implement? Which grassroots efforts will influence the direction of our industry? 164

What financial/economic events may occur that will impact our industry? How do we anticipate which events to plan for and the results of these events? Which opportunities should we pursue going forward and/or where should we cut back? | Next Generation Wargaming Accenture articles and books: How to Help Employees "Get" Strategy Galunic | Mapping the Global Future NIC | Strategic Intuition Duggan Jobs | Change | Brand | Budgeting | Core | more Life on Earth

Structure and Function of Organisms Cellular Form and Function: first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell Relation of Form and Function: designed to perform a function(s) effectively Coordination of Vital Processes: physiological functions essential to maintaining life Covering and Support: body coverings provide protection, insulation, other functions Nutrition: intake of nutrients and utilization in every living cell of the body Gas Exchange, Internal Transport, Elimination Reproduction & Sex: create new organism by combining genetic material of two organisms Growth, Differentiation, Morphogenesis: how organisms grow & develop shape Heredity & Evolution Physical basis of heredity 19:705 chromosomes and genes telomere molecular genetics Things written in pen (DNA) you can’t change. Things written in pencil (epigenetics) you can. DNA: desktop sequencing: gnubio gene expression: Cloud gene mapping Human genetics: Sports books, articles: Ghost in the cell Johnson | The Diversity of Living Organisms Barnes Manufacturing & Distribution

Supply Chain Management Is your vehicle routing as efficient as it could be? What’s the optimum balance of service vs. cost? Does the company have a supply chain methodology and systems in place to mitigate risks and volatility in its sourcing agreements? How many distributors does the company use? What is the geographical distribution of distributors? What is the average number of salesman per distributor? What percentage of distributors’ sales are company products? How are distributors selected? What is the compensation arrangement with distributors? Is the compensation arrangement competitive with their other product lines? What credit terms are extended to the distributor? Does the distributor purchase products from the company or simply take a commission on sales? How much company support is 165

provided to distributors? How does the company insure a consistent sales approach among its distributors? What is the availability of qualified distributors? How does the company evaluate the cost-effectiveness of distributors vs. a direct sales force? in general: book: Supply Chain Management Chopra | cold chain management : www.sensitech.com | forest products: Forest2Market | global: amberroad, aravo, e2open, pchchinasolutions, SAP | inventory optimization: datacraftsolutions | logistics platforms: globaltranz, odysseylogistics | M2M Magazine: www.m2mmag.com | map sources: sourcemap | middle market: www.redtailsolutions.net | procurement: sciquest | RFID: www.savi.com | risk management & compliance: icix | service business: www.servicebench.com, www.highjumpsoftware.com, logility, www.optum.com, www.perfect.com, www.sterlingcommerce.com, www.tibersoft.com, www.tradecard.com | software platforms: cdcsoftware, kinaxis | standards: GS1 fleet management: driver safety: www.smartdrive.net | fleet management: shepherdis, www.utility.com, xrscorp | fuel optimization: lysanda, Trailer Tail | incident monitoring: www.smartdrive.net | real-time tracking GPS: fleetmatics, Octo Telematics, www.sage-quest.com, www.skybitz.com, www.supatrak.com logistics: Is the company deriving the full benefits of global transportation and logistics software descartes which enables the company to move goods through the supply chain, across all modes and geographies, as a single, integrated, collaborative process? chemical processing: odysseylogistics | freight comparison engine: freightquote | satellite communications: www.orbcomm.com suppliers: Has the company set up an electronic payment and remittance system to speed transactions and reduce costs? Do the company's database systems make it easy to identify the best and worst suppliers? How are suppliers selected? Does the company maintain an "Approved Vendors List"? How often do suppliers fail to deliver on time? What are the chances of a serious interruption in delivery from a key supplier? Are any suppliers near bankruptcy? What effect on production schedules has this had? Are there any unsatisfactory relationships with key suppliers? Are the company's major suppliers in stable industries? In the future? Are any of these key suppliers vertically integrating such that they look more like competitors? Does the company have an over dependence on one or a few key suppliers? What would be the delay and cost impact if the company were to lose one of its key suppliers? Are the company's trade payables current? Is the company considering developing information system linkages (extranet) with its key suppliers? questions for suppliers: Do you anticipate any shortages in the items you supply to the company? How promptly are you paid by the company? Is it ever a problem? What do you like about the company? How would you describe your relationship with the company? How are you treated as a supplier? Will you continue to supply the company? information management: www.aravo.com Outsourcing | Manufacturing | Pricing | Big Data | Automation | more 166

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Survival

in general: 5 things | adolescence: Ordinary People Guest | ageism in the workplace: The Brutal Ageism of Tech Scheiber | clothing: There’s no bad weather, just bad clothing. | forest: Dersu the Trapper Arseniev | in the elements: survivaltopics | necessity: We are the most inventive when we are challenged to survive. sp | prison: Papillon Charriere | sea: All is Lost Chandor | self-determination: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. Invictus Henley | tv: Dude, You’re Sscrewed, man vs wild apocalypse and post-apocalypse: Coronal Mass Ejections | network: PostApoc books & movies: never give up | Between a Rock and a Hard Place Ralston | The Knowledge Dartnell | The Road McCarthy | The Way Back DIY | Immigration | Jobs | Invention | Crime | more Biosphere

Sustainability What do we need to do today to reach that successful outcome in the future? in general: about: Sustainability Primer | banks: stress test |buildings: Living Building Challenge | campuses: Green Revolving Investment Tracking System GRITS | carbonneutral cities: Malmo, Sweden | clean technology venture network: www.cleantech.com | climate change | co-housing: www.cohousing.org | corporations: www.nau.com | design: inhabitat| diapers: www.gdiapers.com | dwellings/homes: www.dwell.com, pit house, tumbleweedhouses | education: Strawbale Studio, Tracker School | enterprise software: verisae | forests: Sustainable Forestry Initiative SFI | forums & institutes: www.liveearth.org, www.sustainablelifemedia.com, sustania.me, www.tallbergforum.org, theinstituteforsustainability, www.wbcsd.org, Worldwatch Institute | globalization: telecoupling big ideas | graphic design: re-nourish | metrics: energypoints | product standards: To create a product that is safe, healthy, affordable, effective, and designed to be returned safely to nature or industry after use. C2C, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute | push mowers: www.peoplepoweredmachines.com | repopulation: Interstellar | research: Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Quest | scooters: vespanomics | SmaRT: http://mts.sustainableproducts.com/index.htm | student competitions: netimpact, www.thunderbird.edu/sites/tsis/index.htm | triple bottom line energy transition: the point at which the composition of a nation’s installed capacity for the generation of electricity is greater from renewable than from non-renewable sources farming: advocacy: Growing Home | backyard animals: hens | hydroponic farming: cityhydroponic, video | organic farming: equalexchange | software: cropster financial impact: How are sustainability considerations impacting the major investment decisions that chief financial officers regularly make? What role is 167

sustainability playing in achieving a more nuanced understanding of certain risks and investment opportunities? How involved is the finance function in identifying the metrics and indicators that are truly material in assessing risk and performance, and collecting this data? What is the evolving best practice in sustainability reporting and where is this heading? What impact is sustainability having on relationships with mainstream investors? Ultimately, how is sustainability impacting the value creation approach of a company? fish farmng: sustainably farmed: cleanfish renewable energy: biomass: gekgasifier, Proton Power | development: lincolrenewableenergy | energy management platforms: www.gridpoint.com | food waste: harvestpower | plants & trees: moringa | R&D: Energy Park sp small-build: containers, dumpster, George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces, japan, tiny house | apartments: Nakagin | buildings: Small Architecture Now! Jodidio articles, books, magazines, movies, portals: CEO Study on Sustainability Accenture | Collapse or Sustainability of Societies Motesharrei | Cradle to Cradle McDonough | Crowd Supply | Greening the Media Maxwell | Mother Nature Network | Sustainable Chicago | Sustainable Freshwater Aquaculture Romanowski | Vitamin Green Bolchover Universe | Critical Infrastructures | Research | Profitability | Climate | more Financial Management

Taxes

Is the company current on all taxes owed? Did any new tax regulations have a material impact on last fiscal year’s operating results? Can management summarize for directors the latest three years of federal and state tax returns, including amended or Net Operating Loss (NOL) carry back returns? What is the list of states and foreign countries in which the company does business and where sales/use tax returns are filed? What is the status of any tax appeals and litigation? Have the auditors confirmed that the reported year-end earnings reconcile to the taxable earnings reported to the IRS? Is the company's tax planning adequate? Has the company taken advantage of all potential tax savings? Are the company's tax basis records in good shape? Has the IRS proposed any tax audit adjustments that would adversely affect the company's financial performance? Federal Income Tax: Have there been any recent examinations by the federal tax authorities? Were there deficiencies? Adjustments? Which tax years are open and closed to future tax authority examination? Are there any special industry tax considerations of material significance? Does the current income tax reserve cover the current income tax requirements? sales taxes: Is the company complying with all sales tax regulations? What is the status of any sales or excise tax audits?

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Teaching in general: analytics: BrightBytes | capstone project | careers: breakthroughcollaborative big idea | classroom management: engrade | games: mindlab-group | interactive tools: prometheanworld | online collaboration toolkit: merlot | online (cloud) platforms: blackboard, lore, schoology | professional development: www.teachscape.com | short videos, complex topics: www.commoncraft.com | supplies: chalkfly | videos: ed.ted common core: curriculum, assessment, tracking, reporting: Common Core Standards, MasteryConnect | organizations: International Center for Leadership in Education | personalized learning platform: OpenEd software: K-12: tynker tutoring: www.brightstorm.com | www.globalscholar.com | thinkwell | http://tutorvista.com/ | find: tutorspree | flash cards: anki, flashcardexchange, studyblue digital | reading: Lindamood-Bell | study with friends: grockit, StudyRoom books: Building a Better Teacher Green Collaboration | Big Data | Parenting | Social | Lifetime Learning | more big picture

Technology moving faster and faster Development of Technology Elements of Technology Fields of Technology How can scientific and technological breakthroughs be accelerated to improve the human condition? Energy | Venture Capital | Innovation | Internet Mind Wandering

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Learning and Thinking

Thought and Thought Processes In general Elements of thought: listening Process of thought concentration: game show recollection Motivation emotion fear: monsters | what are the odds Types of Thinking realistic thinking problem solving collaboration thought experiments about | best of | books: Thought Experiments Sorensen | definition | ethics | TV in general: paradox: Paradoxes are not something you solve, they are

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Threats

Is climate change the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction? Kerry

Is the company employing adequate threat management solutions that detect, analyze, and respond to malicious computer attacks (penetration testing coresecurity) enabling secure and uninterrupted business operations? Is application software being automatically analyzed fortify for vulnerabilies? Are adequate security measures in place to reduce the risk of tampering with incoming and outgoing mail? Are mission-critical building and facilities monitored by intelligent video, GPS, 360-degree cameras imoveinc and other sensors to automatically detect threats and issue alerts? in general: chemical detection: spectrafluidics | gun shot detection: www.shotspotter.com | optoelectronic screening: www.optosecurity.com | personnel security screening: www.safe-view.com homeland security: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards | terrorist preparedness: www.ready.gov terrorism: Have we evaluated our exposure to random terrorist activities? Who is going to attack? What are they going to attack with? What can we do to stop that attack? If we can’t stop it, how can we lessen the impact? Where can we get help? Are we developing business continuity response plans in that event? Can the company feasibly scale down and apply a governmental homeland security model to a multinational corporate model? Climate Change | Recreation | Crisis | Cyber Warfare | Identity Management Manufacturing and Distributiona

3D

in general: augmented reality: www.t-immersion.com | baseball cards: www.timmersion.com | body scan & measure: http://it-fits.info | books: Tactile Picture Books Project | CAD: spaceclaim | drawing and sketching: JJKAirbrush, pixologic, 3Doodler pen | facility/process modeling: www.geomagic.com, www.quantapoint.com | free models: grabcad | gaming: musegames | learning: 3dvinci | maps: popviewmaps | presentations: impress.js | software tools: geomagic, autodesk, sketchup, spaceclaim | tour: floored, Google Business Photos | 2D-to-3D conversion: legend3D movies | training: tactustech | TV: shop printing, carving, cutting: www.dimensionprinting.com, shapeways | animation-toprint | buildings: Canal House, sand castles to buildings | carving: Carvey | collaboration: thingiverse | fingers: Robohand | handheld: lixpen | hstory: stereolithography | laser cutting: Ponoko | movies: Print the Legend | printers: Isis3D, MakerBot, printeer kids, printrbot, 3dsystems, Voxeljet | store: Amazon 3D Printing Store | trends: Wohlers Report DIY | Robotics | Drawing | Product Engineering | more 171

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Time

Role in thought and action Future Organization & order: mise-en-place Perception Philosophies of time Biblical: A Chart on the Course Of Time from Eternity to Eternity sunrise and sunset: drive-by sunset sp Time as systemized in a scientific society Time measurement Clocks: Long Now Foundation: 10,000-year clock | unconventional Watches smart watch: pebble watch making: George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker & His Art Clerizo in general: calendars: Google, pdfcalendar printable, www.trumba.com | diary: pin | forecasts: www.intellicast.com, www.weather.com, http://weather.yahoo.com, wxtrends year-ahead | advisories: www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp, www.cnn.com/WEATHER | one year ago: timehop | time: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl, www.time.gov, timeanddate, www.worldtimeserver.com | other: www.ndbc.noaa.gov/rmd.shtml, http://weather.yahoo.com/imgindex/index.html | stopwatch | ten things | time capsules | time/expense tracking: www.equative.com, www.timeslips.com articles, books: By the Silent Line Folk | George Daniels: A Master Watchmaker & His Art Clerizo | You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away Mogilner Earth | Randomness | Cities | Checklists | more Play

Toys and Games robots that teach: play-i in general: fun, educational, safe | cards: funybonetoys | cars: Cozy Coupe | children around the world: photos | digital: akinator, tetris |eco-friendly: topozoo | inventors: www.toyandgameinventors.com | kites | paper airplanes | pinball: restored | puzzles: International Puzzle Party, redfishtoys | reviews: National Toy Hall of Fame, timetoplaymag | tradeshows: www.chitag.com, T&G Con, toyassociation | trivia: triviaasylum | wooden toys board games: about | boardgamegeek | Jeopardy: The Final Wager | mobile: playdekgames Museums | Invention | Entertainment | Mathematics | Parenting | more

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Transportation Technology History of transportation Geography of primitive transportation bridges: rope Wheeled vehicles: Bicycles Water: Oars and sails Machine-powered transportation Oceanic navigation: worldslargestship EEE | real-time: MarineTraffic Railroad: stations Automobile Roads and highways Asset Management Construction Design GeoTech Hydraulics Pavements performance evaluation: www.ltpp-products.com repair: potholes System Preservation Vehicles and devices Automobile Rail transportation maglev: about | Hyperloop | video passenger booking: silverrailtech subways: Crossrail big idea Stationary conveyance systems: gondolas: The Gondola Project Water transportation Air transportation human-powered flight Sikorski Prize: Gamera jets: bottom line: $cost / airseat-mile | remanufactured nextantaerospace remote: bush pilot Required Navigation Performance: RNP Solar-powered: Solar Impulse in general: automated customer service: logictree | route optimization: crowd, taxi drivers, waze | traffic control: intelligent cars, superstreets Unequivocals | Exploration | Museums | Cities | Solar | more

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Travel

accommodations: bed-n-breakfast: www.bedandbreakfast.com | cottagecountry | dogs: dogvacay | Expedia: www.expedia.com | extended stay: www.valueplace.com | hotels: booking, Top10, trivago | in-room entertainment: www.koolconnect.com | last minute: hoteltonight | log cabins: Hills O’Brown | luxury travel: inspirato, porticoclub, secretescapes, tablethotels, www.travelintelligence.net | Orbitz: www.orbitz.com | peer-to-peer rentals: airbnb, 9flats | residences: onefinestay | room views: room77 | Small Luxury Hotels: www.slh.com | social travel: couchsurfing | st. thomas: mafolie | Travelocity: www.travelocity.com | video search: www.tvtrip.com adventure travel: aqua biking: boraboraunderwaterscooter | Arctic: Spitsbergen | b17 | books: The Lunatic Express Hoffman, The Rough Guide to Ultimate Adventures Witt | canoesandkayaks | custom mobile guidebooks: offmap | guides: gadventures, Yonder | hiking: alltrails, new zealand | hitchhiking | motorcycle travel: horizonsunlimited | national parks | new7wonders | paragliding: advancedparagliding, parahawking | performance driving: astonmartindrivingexperiences | rallys: theadventureists | tour operators: adventurecentral, Wilderness Collective | wanderfly airlines: charter: flyjetbird | general: ceoexpress | inflight broadband: row44 | midwest: planemasters | other: fly happy, great circle mapper | systems: itasoftware cities: general: CNN | coolhunting | Berlin: The Berlin Design Guide Stappmanns | Copenhagen: Herb Lester Guide | Los Angeles: Best Things to Do in Los Angeles Yoon | San Francisco: vantigosf discount travel: getgoing | www.isango.com | www.kayak.com | http://tickets.priceline.com | sprice | www.travelguru.com | blogs: Frugal Traveler | discount attraction card: www.smartdestinations.com | incentives: The Points Guy, rocketrip | lift tickets: liftopia driving, buses, taxis: driving directions: www.mapquest.com | point A to point B: ridescoutapp |road traffic and construction: www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo, taxi & limos: flywheel, gettaxi, hailocab, limos, lyft, sidecar, uber | traffic planning: www.traffic.com, waze grand canyon: grandcanyonskywalk | www.nps.gov/grca | book: Trail of Time international: business cards: asianbusinesscards | health Information: www.cdc.gov/travel, health insurance | legal assistance: http://travel.state.gov/law/law_1734.html | New Zealand: www.blacksheeptouring.co.nz | passport services: http://travel.state.gov/passport/passport_1738.html | phone calling: truphone | social atlas: dopplr | travel warnings:

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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html, Smart Traveler Enrollment Program | USA Today Travel: www.usatoday.com/travel rentals: bed-n-breakfast: airbnb | distribution networks: leisurelink | sabbaticals: www.sabbaticalhomes.com | UK: themodernhouse | vacation rentals: www.homeaway.com, www.luxurylink.com, www.vrbo.com ticketing and T&E management: www.expedia.com | http://us.makemytrip.com | www.orbitz.com | www.travelocity.com | airport codes: www.world-airportcodes.com | ski lifts: liftopia | T&E management: concur trains: www.amtrak.com, silverrailtech | South Africa: The Blue Train |subway navigator: hopstop, www.landcentre.ca/lcframeweb.cfm?ID=3731 travel guides, tours, trip planning, diaries: apps: fieldtripper | AAA: www.aaa.com | AmEx Travel: http://www134.americanexpress.com/travel | Concierge: www.concierge.com | Europe Diary sp | Facebook gtrot | Fodors: www.fodors.com | Frommer’s: www.frommers.com | italy: urbanitaly | local connections: triptrotting | personal planner: mygola | search/compare: triporati | sightseeing: seemoresights | trip planning: travelmuse, tripbirds, www.tripit.com itinerary | User-generated (trip sharing): everytrail | World Heritage List: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list books, blogs: Bon Voyage Jetsetter | The Man Who Walked Through Time Fletcher | The Middle Seat McCartney Apps | Autos | Entertainment | Nature | Unequivocals | more Development of Technology

Trustworthiness The glue that holds together relationships, marriages, organizations, governments, and countries, is TRUST sp Parameters of trust Integrity So we are all human? Of course we are, but it doesn't mean we give up on our values. Leaders must believe in their own commitment to integrity (trustworthiness over time) and lead by example, still the most powerful "situational" leadership tool. The trickle-down effect of integrity is very powerful and drives the culture of the business. sp Privacy Electronic Privacy Information Center epic | Ponemon Institute | personal privacy management: disconnect.me, privacyfix | Privacy By Design | terms of service: crowd ratings, | track the trackers ghostery Resiliency: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Taleb Terms of Service: monitoring: docracy | ratings: crowd ratings Truth (correctness) photography: A bullet can kill a man, but a lying camera can kill a nation. 175

lying: white lies vs black lies Technologies of trust If you’re not paying for the product, then YOU are the product. big data cyber-physical systems: terraechos certifications: kikscore federations: InCommon passwords: keepersecurity relationship mining: intersecting people sp | Relationship Science scoring trust: TrustCloud Fields of Application Societal Risk Management (SRM): graduate program Software: Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors questions: Can we trust the NSA? Who do you trust? How do you know if someone is trying to win, or lose? in general: advertising: evidon, doubleverify | medical devices: Open Medical Device Research Library omdrl.org | electronic voting: Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process? | Failed States Index: fundforpeace | financial institutions: credit cards, financialtrustindex | healthcare | internet | sports | transportation | water articles, books: Dare: Accepting the Challenge of Trusting Leadership Weiss | Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage Peppers | Just How Fragile Are America’s Bridges? Sofge | Likeonomics Bhargava | The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime Hill Reference | Family | Utopia | Production | Leadership Major Systems of Communication

TV

Does reality TV thrive on the Hawthorne Effect? Is TV the opiate of the masses? What do people watch and buy nielsen? Is TV good or harmful for babies? in general: You are what you watch. | ad-to-video matching: www.adap.tv | advertising: www.backchannelmedia.com, www.invidi.com, www.spotrunner.com | Asian primetime: dramafever | automated online monitoring www.criticalmention.com | book: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television Mander | cable-in-the-cloud: bedrocket | critics: TV Worth Watching | football: Superbowl XLVIII was the most watched/streamed/tweeted sporting event in history. | HD video player: www.movenetworks.com | Honey, I Shot the TV | independent tv: www.plumtv.com | industry: thehollywoodeconomist | in-store advertising: http://rippletv.com | interactive platforms: ensequence | late night shows: Arsenio Hall, David Letterman, Graham Norton Show, Jack Par, Jay Lenno, Steve Allen, Jack Par | mobile: www.mobitv.com | movies: Network | National Geographic: natgeotv | online: blinkbox, www.hulu.com, www.joost.com, www.kyte.tv, www.maniatv.com | pay-TV content security: www.verimatrix.com | PC-to-TV: boxee, streamsworld | 176

personal broadcasting: www.orb.com | program guide: clicker | ratings: NielsenTwitter | science: Vsauce | second screen: viggle | shopping platform: Delivery Agent | smartphone-to-smarttv: movl | social networking: http://tioti.com | streaming media players: Amazon Fire TV | TV-to-mobile: nuvyyo, slingbox | vimeo: High Maintenance | world tv: viki | youtube: AwesomenessTV, Maker Studios Mobile | Weird | Universe | Zeitgeist | Services | more World Since 1920

Unequivocals climb to Everest summit, jump off, fly down What is the most heroic thing you have ever done? in general: base jumping | buildings: Kingdom Tower big ideas | Empire State Building | Golden Gate Bridge | high wire: Freddy Nock | kicking | Lawrence of Arabia | memorials: D-Day, UTA Flight 772 | migrations: monarch butterfly | mind-contolled prosthetic leg | models: Miniatur Wunderland, Metropolis II | mutain climbing: Into the Silence Davis | Mount Rushmore | Panama Canal | par three | races: Iditarod, Pamplona | records: guinessworldrecords | ships: Noah’s Arc | shopping: Mall of the World | singing: polyphonic overtone | smoke jumpers | space: Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic freefall | swimming: Cuba-to-Florida diananyad | toys: World's Largest Toy Car Collection | car walking/hiking: Out of Eden Walk comebacks: about | business: Arthur Anderson | music: Kate Bush | myth: Phoenix Rising | sailing: America’s Cup 2013 | baseball: Boston Red Sox 2004 first person to: take off from a a ship flying: adrift: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan | humanpowered: Sikorsky Prize | solo: Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh sailing: Antartica: Eric Forsythe | Kon-Tiki | solo-circumnavigation: jessicawatson books: The Sun Also Rises Hemingway Exploration | Music | Transportation | Earth | Values | more Modern World to 1920

United States and Canada from 1763 to 1920 United States 1763 to 1865 Constitution: The law of God trumps the law of men. about | Center for Constitutional Studies & Citizenship Amendments: Amendments 1-10 Bill of Rights | Amendments 11-27 Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address | Lincoln Library & Museum Native Americans: The Long Walk | Trail of Tears books: An Empire of Wealth Gordon | Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Nelson | The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend Frankel 177

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United States after World War II

Kennedy administration (1961-63) Museum: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Johnson administrations (1963-69) Martin Luther King, Jr autobiography: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. King | broadway play themountaintopplay | museum: thekingcenter | Nobel Prize: nobelprize | timeline: 1929-1968 Clinton administrations (1993-2001): Humor Jay Leno Bush administrations (2001-2009): September 11 attacks Obama administration Seantor: The Audacity of Hope Obama 2009 to present designing-obama | inauguration | speech: A More Perfect Union speech 2012 Presidential Election Candidate Comparison Chart | election results | Obama’s Way Lewis cabinet: Secretary of State in general: native american experience: Sherman Alexie Politics | Humor | Social Change | Capitalism | Decision Making

Matter and Energy

Universe

When will we find another Earth? Cosmos Structure and properties of the universe: dark matter and dark energy Space-time continuum parallel universe: The Fabric of Reality Deutsch big ideas Origin and development of the universe: Extraterrestrial Life Which of our basic physical assumptions are wrong? How does the observable universe evolve? How does gravity work on macroscopic scales? How does quantum gravity work in the real world? Why was the early universe hot, dense, and very smooth but not perfectly smooth? What is beyond the observable universe? What rules govern the evolution of complex structures? Is quantum mechanics correct? How many bits are required to describe the universe? Will “elementary physics” ultimately be finished? in general: about: the search for a theory of the universe as a whole system | Foundational Questions Institute fqxi.org | universetoday | multiverse theory Galaxies and Stars Exoplanets: StarShade 178

kids: kidscosmos Solar System The Sun: about | solar cycle: about, analemma Planets and their satellites nineplanets Venus: about | transitofvenus.org Earth Moon: exploration Mars: missions: Curiosity, MAVEN, Rover books, movies, TV: Cosmos Sagan | Full Moon Light | Gravity | Neil DeGrasse Tyson | The Edge of the Sky Trotta | The Fabric of Reality Deutsch | The New Solar System Beatty | The Universal Book of Astronomy Darling | The Universe in a Nutshell Hawking | The Universe is Only Spacetime Macken Sustainability | Exploration | Lifetime Learning | TV | Exploration | more Phases (Levels) of Education

University

Is a college education (still) worth it? Will competency-based education be the BIG DISRUPTOR of universities? How has politicization of university governance (by state governments) critically damaged the university? Is the notion of the large, massive public university dead? Why? Can the university continue to be all things (education) to all people? Is a new approach to tenure needed to ensure the university stays relevant to students and the outside world? What is it? Is the footprint of the university just too large to sustain? Can corporations mitigate this problem by buying and/or long-term leasing underutilized assets? What are the advantages and disadvantages to this notion? Is the university’s educational model increasingly falling behind the Internet-inspired leveling of the social playing field? If so, why? What academic programs and operational functions should and/or could be outsourced more efficiently and with equivalent if not better quality of service? How much and how fast should the university migrate academic programs and operational functions to the cloud? What can we learn from California today to take action on tomorrow? Is online education a threat to tenured professors? If so, how would that affect their objectivity towards radical change to survive? What kind of changes would alumni want to see first before they step in to help out? Are universities vulnerable to the lure of short-term, job-hopping academic administration superstars? Do they damage the university? Are too many kids going to college? in general: competency-based education: flex | conferences: Schools for Tomorrow, Summit On Online Education 2012 big idea | democratizing education | faculty performance tools: digitalmeasures | fraternities & sororities: Theta Xi, 1971 sp | Massively Open Online Courses MOOC | online platforms: kaplan, straighterline, 2U | student loans: pay it forward NPR | students speak out: unitingillini | watchdog:

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books and articles: Academically Adrift Arum | Change.edu: Rebooting for the New Talent Economy Rosen | College (Un)Bound Selingo | Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much Vedder | Mismatch | MOOCs lead professors to rethink online ‘classroom’ strategy Helenthal | Precipice or Crossroads? Fogel | Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate Boyer | The Great American University Cole | The Higher Education Bubble Reynolds | Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate? Cuban Sustainability | News | Lifetime | Digital |Change | more Social Organization and Change

Utopia/Dystopia

Detroit has 50,000 unoccupied buildings. If we had believed then that it could happen now, what would we have done differently? sp Why does science fiction gravitate towards dystopia and not utopia? big brother: Is big brother upon us? Is technology the quiet enabler? | Drones | facebook | internet of things: sensors | journalism: Big Brother Watch dystopia: art: Deadpan Comedy| about | books/movies: Brave New World Huxley, The Hunger Games, Blade Runner, Citizen Kane Welles, Divergent Roth, The Hunger Games, The Trial Kafka | music: Deltron 3030 | nazi germany: The Book Thief | postapocalyptic: Snowpiercer, The Giver, The Road McCarthy | slums: Torre de David chain amazon surveillance & people tracking: digital footprint: Dragnet Nation Angwin | license plates | NSA: No Place to Hide Greenwald, Utah Data Center | Rapid Information Overlay Technology | photography: gigapixel | satellite | Social Radar | spying on citizens: The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State utopia: Amana Colonies | Arcosanti | Atlantis | books/movies: In Utopia Hallman, Lost Horizon Hilton, Peace Among the Willows White, Somewhere To Disappear | communes & cooperatives: Marinaleda, Spain | fountain of youth | Garden of Eden | governments: The Seasteading Institute big ideas | Havvada Island | Woodstock books and movies: On Such a Full Sea Lee | The Maze Runner News | Megacities | Social Radar | Running | Optimized-Self | more Production and Utilization of Wealth

Valuation

Are business, financial, and liquidity risks all considered in a business valuation? How does the company value its equity securities? Is the last valuation report available for review? What is the current valuation of the company? in general: antiques & collectibles: Price It! | art: artprice, Mei Moses All Art Index MMAAI | book: How to Value and Sell Your Business Heslop | business valuation: quistvaluation, shareholderinsite | EBITDA | services: www.accuval.net 180

options: Has the company engaged in backdating stop options for executives? 5 steps to enhance stock option plan: www.illinoistech.org/technologynews.aspx/924 stock: How has the economy affected the market price of the company's stock and its price-to-earnings ratio? Does management believe that the company's current market valuation is appropriate? What does management believe the appropriate price-to-earnings ratio to be? How has the company stock performed as compared with the overall market? What steps is the company taking to improve its stock value? Have significant swings in the company's stock price affected its ability to obtain equity financing? To improve market perceptions, does the company need to consider a reverse stock split to restructure the per-share price upward? www.marketwatch.com Art | Real Estate | Family | Financial | Pricing Philosophy

Values Can nice guys finish first? How visible and well understood are the values of the corporation among management and employees? How much responsibility does the CEO take in communicating those values? in general: corporate responsibility: Hilton | persuasion: nudge technology civility: Do you pay attention? Do you acknowledge others? Do you think the best? Do you listen? Are you inclusive? Do you speak kindly? Do you avoid speaking ill? Do you accept and give praise? Do you respect “no”? Do you respect others’ opinions? Do you mind your body? Are you agreeable? Do you practice quietness? Do you respect other peoples’ time? Do you respect other peoples’ space? Do you apologize earnestly? Do you assert yourself? Do you avoid personal questions? Do you care for your guests? Are you a considerate guest? Do you think twice before asking for favors? Do you refrain from idle complaints? Do you accept and give constructive criticism? Do you not shift responsibility or blame? Forni | acts of kindness: www.behospitable.com cooperation/self-interest: fairness | Tragedy of the Commons: about, NSF chalk talk humility: Action speak louder than words. | Don’t overplay your hand. kindness: acts of kindness: www.behospitable.com, hellohumankindness, suspended coffee resilience: homelessness: Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars

60 Minutes

books, poems, articles, reports: beliefs: This I Believe Allison | civility: Choosing Civility Forni, Civility in America 2012 | cooperation over self-interest: The Penguin and the Leviathan Benkler | evolution: The Cooperation Instinct Ohlson | humility and strength: If Kipling | life: The Prophet Gibran | resilience: Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds Fu, Unbroken Politics | Ethics | Unequivocals | Family | Recruiting | more 181

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Venture Capital finding the next big thing big ideas IARPA’s Foresight & Understanding from Scientific Exposition FUSE in general: cash is king | http://venturecapital.dowjones.com/products/prod_vw_pro.html | www.ventureone.com | www.venture-capital-forum.com | associations: www.nvca.org, www.strategicventureassociation.com | Berlin: earlybird | cannabis: arcviewgroup | data and stats: https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.jsp | dealmaking: buckswoodside restaurant | entrepreneur-in-residence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur_In_Residence | europe: www.tornadoinsider.com | Israel: ivc-online | jobs at startups: www.ventureloop.com | news: http://venturebeat.com | open directory: www.crunchbase.com | pacific nw: www.nwinnovation.com | pitch deck: dwolla private investment: caplinked | recently-funded deals: www.crunchbase.com, Dow Jones, www.privateequityinfo.com, https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/MTPublic/ns/index.jsp, www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/11/version-2-of-crunchbase-released, http://www.thealarmclock.com, www.thedeal.com, www.thefunded.com, www.tornado-insider.com, http://venturecapital.dowjones.com/index.html, www.VentureLoop.com | reviews of funds: www.thefunded.com | rocky mtn: www.techrockies.com | silicon valley: www.silicontap.com, www.alleyinsider.com | southern ca: www.socaltech.com | texas: www.texastechpulse.com | travel: Concur Perfect Trip Fund | uk: www.angelnews.co.uk | university research: innovation density | venture magazine: www.avce.com angel investors: AngelList | angelpad | angelcapitalassociation | canada | Gust | keiretsu | student run: Dakota Venture Group books: Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs Preston | Grassroots Philanthropy Somerville | Term Sheets & Valuations Wilmerding | This 18-Slide Pitch Just Landed Payment Startup Dwolla $16.5 Million Shontell Social Radar | Innovation | Technology | Crowd | Acquisitions | more Major Systems of Communication

Video

advertising & commercials: Is marketing exploiting every major form of online advertising www.viewpoint.com? ad networks: www.blackarrow.tv, http://brightroll.com, www.digitalsmiths.com, www.yumenetworks.com | bid and pay per video: www.spotxchange.com | end-to-end video publishing: www.extend.com | interactive pre-roll: innovid | platforms: videology

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Virtual

cloud: vmware desktops: www.desktone.com | Ncomputing manufacturing: community supply chain management (C-SCM): www.mitrix.com

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trade shows: How does the company evaluate the marketing effectiveness of its top three trade shows where the company exhibits? | end-to-end event management: AllianceTech | rentals: www.iccrents.com | virtual: inxpo worlds: www.gaiaonline.com | secondlife | animation studios: http://disney.go.com, image-metrics, www.wildbrain.com | avatars: http://fix8.com | books: A Rape in Cyberspace Dibbell, Mirror Worlds Gelernter | currency: tapjoy | cyberspace: Berkman Center | developers: www.electricsheepcompany.com, www.metaversum.com | events: www.unisfair.com | headset: oculusvr | immersion: CUBE | Kids: www.dizzywood.com, www.rocketon.com, secretbuilders educational, http://tribalnova.com | learn english: 8dworld Visualization | Gaming | Construction | Cyberspace | DIY Modeling and Simulation

Visualization

If what you do is beautiful, it will turn out to be useful. What makes a data visualization memorable? in geneal: awards: information is beautiful | business applications: http://www.irise.com, xplane | data sets: www.inforsense.com, www.siderean.com, visualcomplexity | deconstruction: cities | feltron | charts & graphing: bubble plot, chartio, graph theory, plotting | circular: Circos | gifs: graphonaute | infographics: coolinfographics, fathom.info, football grid of shame, infographics, Oxford Internet Institute, visual.ly | language: Chineasy | mobile apps: irise | real-time data analysis: panopticon | royalty-free: gumgum, istockphoto | scientific visualization (big data): www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/vislab, SciDAC Institute of Scalable Data-Management-AnalysisVisualization | server network: www.qlayer.com | share: zingzag | word frequency analysis: tagcloud | world trends: gapminder graphic design: book covers: http://bookcoverarchive.com | brochures: microbrochure sp | colors: the science | online production: www.vistaprint.com | photoshop training: www.youtube.com/user/IceflowStudios | visual elements: veer holography: projection systems http://lightblueoptics.com mashups: www.kapowtech.com | enterprise data: www.jackbe.com | self-publish mobile: www.rocketalk.com mind mapping: directory: www.topicscape.com/mindmaps, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software | tools: www.mindapp.com, mindjet presentations: big displays: mersive, planar, projection mapping | charts & graphs: chart.js | crime scene: Evidence Room |kinect projection: personifyinc | pecha kucha: 20 images x 20 seconds | prezi: best examples | slideshare | multimedia: smilebox | screen capture & recording: camtasia, snagit | situational awareness:

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sitscape | Spacial Operating Environment (SOE): oblong | training: presentationtrainers | video/slide synchronization: compare all platforms surgery: Checklist Manifesto | color coding big ideas | illumination: invuity | microsurgery: www.truevisionsys.com visual search: www.like.com | parts: www.imaginestics.com x-ray: port inspection www.passportsystems.com | through-wall vision: www.camero-tech.com books: Beautiful Evidence Tufte | Indigo: The Colour that Changed the World Legrand | Information is Beautiful McCandless | 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design Heller | Prezi For Dummies Diamond | The Back of the Napkin Roam | The Best of Brochure Design 9 Godfrey | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Tufte | The Visual Miscellaneum Perception | Cities | Invention | Science | Market | more Human Behavior / capacities & inclinations

Visuospatial

Does puzzle play improve math skills? in general: about | card sorting: iCardSort | cognitive test: Alzheimer's | games: xcube | maps: BeachMap sp | toys: paperpunk, skallops blocks: digital + real: cloudBoard | legos: home, sculpture | magnetic: tegu cursive: How does one take quick notes without being able to write and understand cursive? How important is cursive (handwriting) to study and learning? Writing | Maps | Books | Ideas | Art | more Politics & Government / peace and war

War

Is war destined to be permanent to the human condition? Should we allow autonomous drones to make the kill decision without a human in the loop? Should the United States continue its use of drone strikes abroad? Is the war here or there? Can we avoid war if at all possible? If we can’t avoid war, have we committed all our resources to win? If we made a bad decision to enter a wrong, unjust war, are we making every effort to pull out? in general: Afghanistan: Korengal Junger | data: Correlates of War.org | guerilla & insurgency: Find Fix Finish F3 | landmine removal | lessons learned: http://call.army.mil | music: What’s going on? Gaye | social radar: CIA Open Source | strategy: kingsofwar | war crimes (UN international criminal court): www.un.org/law holocaust: museums: www.gfh.org.il/eng, www.ushmm.org invasion: Pottery Barn Principle: You break it, you buy it. 185

killing by machines: movies: Colussus: The Forbin Project, Terminator nuclear weapons: Can Iran be trusted and/or verified that they are complying with international non-proliferation laws? How can we reduce the risk of human extinction? | www.ploughshares.org | www.thebulletin.org | ballistic missile threat: www.missilethreat.com | electromagnetic pulse attack: www.empcommission.org | non-proliferation: Institute for Science and International Security isis-online | Monterey Institute of International Studies miss.edu war in Iraq: Should the U.S. have attacked Iraq? Is Iraq a safer place now compared to what it was like during Saddam Hussein's regime? about | news books and movies: @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex Harris | Army Field Manual #3: Principles fo Warfare | Catch-22 Heller | El Libertador Bolivar | Man's Search for Meaning Frankl | On War von Clausewitz | Railway Man redemption | Seven Pillars of Wisdom Lawrence | The Iraq War Reader Cerf | The Long Walk Castner | The Narrow Road to the Deep North Flanagan Cybersecurity | Future | Weird | Globalization | Peace | more Hydrosphere

Water

We pay for water when we use it, and we pay for water when we get rid of it. GLOBAL: How are humans changing the global water cycle, the associated biochemical cycles, and the ecosystem function of the global water system? What are the socio-economic and environmental feedbacks arising from these changes? Will a lack of water threaten energy production? How can everyone have sufficient clean water without conflict? INDUSTRY: Is the water quality of the plant internally and externally in compliance with relevant environmental laws? What percentage of the company's revenues does it spend to maintain water quality to mandated levels? Is it reasonable or getting out of control? in general: | about | catastrophes: West Virginia | conservation: Americans have no idea how much water they’re using Yoshida | images | point-of-use (POU) purification: www.halosource.com, hydronovation | serionix, SODIS solar disinfection | modeling: aquaveo, WaterML 2.0 | organizations: water.org | rain barrels | recycling: stillsuit | research: Global Water System Project | scarcity: When the well runs dry, we shall know the value of water. Franklin, The End of Abundance Zetland | smart sprinkler systems: www.cyber-rain.com | sponsored projects: bluewater.rbc, charitywater | underground lakes: Kenya |water cycle: video, diagram | water from air: islandsky big ideas | waterless textile dyes: airdye | water rights: California Water Wars educational literacy: α (1 / diarrhea) α (clean drinking water) α (solar rays + water) water quality: arid environments: sand dams | rooftop tanks: Inside City’s Water Tanks, Layers of Neglect Rivera | filter mechansisms: drinksoma, puremadi, WaterBean 186

|bottleless water coolers: quenchonline | denitrification: eosenvironmental | desalination: www.altelainc.com onsite, voltea | on-site potable water purification: www.clearwatercomplianceservices.com, www.miox.com | pool-in-a-river: pluspool | USEPA Sole Source: Mahomet Aquifer | wastewater filtration: mmfwater books: The Big Thirst Fishman | Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit Shiva Poverty | Fields | Biosphere | Crisis | Cities Internet

Web Site Why do customers abandon our web site tealeaf? Can the company continuously measure website users' satisfaction and future behaviors, such as the likelihood to return to the site or refer the site to others? Is the company optimizing its web site for wireless access on mobile devices? Does the company's Web site consistently meet a set of standards that promote credibility with customers? How does the company fully exploit its Web site? Is the Web site being used to integrate and increase the speed of information exchange among parties inside and outside the company? What impact is the Web site having on the company's overall advertising and promotional programs? Is the company considering providing multiple language translations of its Web site? How robust is the search engine on the company's site? Are customers generally pleased with the relevance of results listings? Does the company have a content strategy that recognizes the different requirements and limitations of an online environment? Is the content carefully checked, edited, and refreshed on an appropriate cycle? Does the company's IT staff have the expertise to handle the latest Web applications? Can the IT department ensure reliable performance, including the ability to allocate more hardware and Internet bandwidth when traffic volume surges? Is the company prepared to budget sufficient funds to set up and operate internal hosting? in general: APIs: www.mashery.com | application development: www.laszlosystems.com | awards: lovieawards, webbyawards | books: The Big Switch Carr | browsers: authentic8, chrome, firefox, ie, safari | build one free: yola | code generation tools: www.nexaweb.com | creation: skyword | enterprise tools: ektron | fonts: typekit | integrated applications: www.atomz.com | portal: Webmaster.M106 | reputation monitoring: stopthehacker | security: trustwave, whitehatsec | templates: www.homestead.com | third-party reviews: consumerwebwatch | translation: smartling | walk-throughs: walkme analytics: Do we have the right tools for testing content to optimize conversion rates? www.compete.com | coremetrics | www.covario.com | customer experience: clickfox | quantcast | multivariate testing & segmentation: maxymiser | outsource: www.mu-sigma.com | real-time: chartbeat | record/playback each click: www.clicktale.com | web performance optimization: hiconversion, tracelytics, webtrends

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design: A/B testing: optimizely | commenting systems: IntenseDebate | conferences: warmgun | drag-and-drop: pagelines, moonfruit, webflow, weebly | galleries: http://cssmania.com, www.thefwa.com | html code: code inspector, table generator | launch (splash) pages: launchrock | mobile: https://www.networksolutions.com/learning-center/mobi-guide.pdf, responsive design | online publishing tools: hibu, onepagerapp, squarespace, http://triggit.com, wix, www.zude.com | open design community: www.alistapart.com, http://opendesigns.org, www.csszengarden.com | optimization: monetate, yottaa | real-time functionality realtime.co | search box: elicitsearch | three-column layout: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts flash: development platform: http://bluestreaktech.com, flypaper | download free image viewer: www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/ | museum of pre-load screens: www.prettyloaded.com | web site tools: wix hosting: domain names: www.amenworld.com, www.directnic.com, www.godaddy.com, www.networksolutions.com, http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com | ftp: filezilla | hosted content management system (CMS): webvanta | Internet Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS): dyn mobi: Is the company’s web site optimized for mobile phone users? online emulator: http://emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php | social networking: http://icebreaker.mobi URLs: popular URLs to the latest web buzz: http://popurls.com | shorten: http://bit.ly Software | Social | Small Business | Museums | DIY Popular Culture

Weird Cool Funny Scary Absurd Quirky Ridiculous Shameful Horrific in general: action figures: Captain Picard sp | blogs: RandomWeekend Projects | Borogove | Burning Man | cats: How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity | circus & carnival: clowns, Wall of Death | cities: ecosystems | clothes: chubbies | comics: xkcd | conventions: ventriloquists | dance: chicken dance, gangnam style, Morris | dinosaurs: chicken from hell |fact or fiction: Area 51, Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster | fake paparazzi | festivals: duct tape festival, Insect Fear Film Festival, Kanamara Festival | fitness: shakeweight | facial hair | food: dirt | gossip: TMZ | jackass | John Hodgman | lawn rangers | Mad Magazine | mascots: Sparky the Sun Devil | Mondo Elvis | movies: big fish, borak, cable guy, edward scissor hands, fight club, Star Wars dubbed in Navajo | movie watching: Piscine Pailleron | photography: The Lytro–izer, tiger in the tall grass | Pirates | poetry: Shatoetry | politicians: Anthony Weiner | portals: Off Track Planet | products: one wipe charlies | random: brown cardigan | reenactment: Conventional Wisdom, Reenacters Fest | restaurants: Chucky Cheese | robotics: robo-roach | russian playgrounds | Salvador Dali | sculpture: aquascaping, beer can house, homo sapien chalkboard skull, gator-in-the-bay | ships: ghost ships | songs: Best Disrespectful Car Songs | sports: bubble football | superheros: Aging 188

Superhero | tattoo maps | Triumph the Insult Dog | TV: Clutch Cargo, Duck Dynasty, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Shark Week, Thunderbirds | zombies: The Last of Us clowns: there’s a shortage | fear of clowns: npr | organizations: Clowns of America Wes Anderson: master of quirky | The Grand Budapest Hotel | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou books/movies: Sharknado sci-fi | The 5th Dimension Benzel | Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals Crew | Meet Mr. Bomb Hendra War | Particular Arts | TV | Running | more Health & Disease

Wellness

keep moving Nutrition and diet Food: functions | classes | feeding behavior diets high-vegetable: diseaseproof, Food Porn Index | hunter-gatherer: The Paleo Diet | therapeutic healthy foods: Just Mayo Cooking: grilling: winter pm grille sp | pizza: uuni.in Beverages protein and antioxidant: www.mix1life.com wine: lot18, www.openthatbottlenight.com Weight loss calorie counter: myfitnesspal guidance & feedback: retrofitme Exercise and physical conditioning Fitness Sleep circadian rhythm | obstructive sleep apnea: ventusmedical | sleep tracking: myzeo | worldsleepsurvey Regularity: elimination: Squatty Potty Relaxation: massage: Dream Wave Chair Belonging and Shared Identity: we rather than I in general: alternative: zeel | dehyrdration/rehydration: dripdropors | diet: shopwell | education & information: everydayhealth, healthguru, healthtap personalization & sharing, healthteacher, medicinenet, medify, organizedwisdom | foods: attunefoods | games for health: healthgamesresearch | genetic testing: navigenics, 23andme | health network: www.medikeeper.com, priviahealth, everydayhealth | infection control: cleankeysinc keyboard | interactive whiteboard: getwellnetwork | mind over matter | personalized programs www.realage.com | monitoring: instantheartrate, tinke | music is medecine: youngatheartchorus | patient waiting room: digitalassent self check189

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http://phreesia.com | pharmacy: www.pharmaca.com, The People’s Pharmacy, www.wellpartner.com home delivery | Q&A: sharecare | quote: Physician, heal thyself. | skin: skinstore | smoking: www.chantix.com, e-cigarette | sunlight: Rjukan | symptoms | wireless devices/data: qualcommlife aging: Exceptional longevity is all in the genes. | drugs: resveratrol | independence, dignity, choice: thescanfoundation.org | life expectancy: caluculator | longevity: game, life@100+, 100 over 100 | oxygen concentrators | research: Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Institute for Aging Research, Longevity Genes Project, Newcastle Initiative on Changing Age, Palo Alto Longevity Prize | Seventh Day Adventists: no meat, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine | sports: Huntsman World Senior Games brain fitness: assessment www.neurotrax.com | brain exercise for seniors www.dakim.com | fitness centers: http://mind-spas.com, www.niftyafterfifty.com, www.sparksofgenius.com, www.vibrantbrains.com | neuroplasticity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSu9HGnlMV0 | on-demand: lumosity, memorando | research: www.cognitivecenter.org, www.dakim.com, www.sharpbrains.com | software: about, www.cognifit.com, www.happy-neuron.com, www.positscience.com | stores: www.marblesthebrainstore.com eldercare: directory: www.eldercarelink.com | home care network: independa, seniorlink | information: caring | longtermcare | monitoring: sensors | transportation for seniors: www.itnamerica.org articles, books: Alone and Invisible No More Teel | Healthy at Home Low Dog | My Dog Skip | Never Say Die Scudellari | Sparks of Genius Root-Bernstein | Brain Age 2 Nintendo | The Big Book of Brain Games Moscovich | The Epic of Gilgamesh | The Nature Principle Louv Food | Optimized | Medicine | Home | Family | more Problems and Solutions

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? Five Ws What if? about me: What if I get fired? What if I fail? What if I die? What if I become terminally ill? How do I spend my remaining time? What if I win the lottery? about us: Instead of going up, what if we start building the world’s deepest building? What if the euro collapses? What if particles can go faster than light? What if Shakespeare was a fraud? What if the deficit does grind our country to a halt? What will happen? What if bio-hackers in their basements can develop their own artificial life forms? What if we can’t cap the well? What if cyber attacking escalates exponentially uncontrolled by the rules of war? The arms race favors offense over defense: it is far cheaper and easier to develop cyberoffense than to defend against it. What if the instrumentation and interconnection and data collection in every corner of our world grows beyond our ability to understand and cope with it? What if the deficit is too big to solve? What if global warming continues? How will it affect the company and how do we hedge 190

against that risk? What if we lose our CEO tomorrow? What's our plan? What if there is a run on the bank? Can we survive? What if the two owners divorce? Are buy-sell agreements in place? What if you die? What happens then? What if the university goes bankrupt? What if the State goes bankrupt? What if the country goes bankrupt? What if there are UFOs? What does that mean? counterfactual history: about in general: about: Five Ws | comics | innovation: whatifinnovation | questions | Q&A: formspring, wayin | whacky ideas History | Crisis | Cyber | Green Elements of Technology

Wind Energy

Could ocean wind farms diffuse hurricanes before landfall? big idea Does proximity to wind power (turbines) have an impact on residential property values? in general: airborne: makanipower, windlift | blades: modwind | Department of Energy | direct drive: boulderwindpower | gearless turbines |growth: map | offshore | pickensplan | power plant: vestas | renewable enrgy: Wind Power Gipe | sound effects: infrasound | wind assessment: 3tiergroup | windspire: mariahpower Randomness | Energy | Engineering | Facilities | Green Popular Culture

Women girls Men boys If more women were on corporate boards a few years ago would we have seen the kind of catastrophic financial and economic meltdown that occurred in 2008? Would the presence of female corporate directors have mitigated the damage? How can the changing status of women help improve the human condition? Is it difficult to recruit women to the board? Why? What does the company need to do to make it more attractive to women to serve on the company's board? Will the dynamics of the board change with more women? How? in general: lean in | www.divinecaroline.com | www.glam.com | artists: whodoesshethinksheis | computing: www.girlgeeks.org | conferences & events: inspiringwomensummit, International Women’s Day | confidence: imposter syndrome | directorship: director development, womencorporatedirectors | equity: Catalyst, gender gap, Made in Dagenham pay| entrepreneurship: 10,000 women big ideas, womenentrepreneur | execudiva | fashion: popsugar | financial literacy: dailyworth, learnvest | gender equity: Women, Work, and the Economy IMF | green products: ecomom | IT: www.ncwit.org | mobile startups: womeninnovatemobile | technology professionals: 20 orgs, Girls in Tech in Paris, womenwhotech | tools: www.countmein.org | venture capital: femanomics | women on women: wowowow fashion: apps: poshmark | beauty: www.totalbeauty.com | blog: sartorialist | buzz: polyvore, www.stylesight.com | coolhunting: rodarte, styleowner, videdressing | 191

cosmetics: beautylish | designer clothes: bluefly, wondermode | girls-only: sweetyhigh | luxury brands: www.gilt.com, modaoperandi | personalized: myshape, styleforhire | private shopping: www.privateoutlet.com | real-time advice: fashism | removable tattoo: www.freedom2ink.com, tatt.ly, tattootattaa | search: bergfashionlibrary, glimpse | self-design: fashionplaytes girls | shapewear | shoes: Quoddy | urban: karmaloop | used: threadflip | versatility: revolutionapparel | wholesale buying: jooraccess girls: art: School of Doodle | freedom: Skate Girls of Kabul articles, books, films, magazines, social: education: I Am Malala Yousafzai | Fashionable Technology Seymour | Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Quindlen | Machisma Gorney | magazines: Cosmopolitan | memorist: Mary Karr | Not That Kind of Girl Dunham | The Changing Lives of Women NPR | The Golden Notebook: A Novel Lessing | The Sartorialist Schuman | Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Guevara-Flanagan | Vfiles | Wadja Al Mansour CEO | Eclectic | News | Human Rights | Popular Culture | more Issues

World Cafe How can genuine democracy emerge from authoritarian regimes? What is your formula? Your equation? Your algorithm? What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it? What is your dangerous idea? What are you optimistic about? What have you changed your mind about? Why? How do emotions shape our worldview? How do we face our own mortality? Can science explain why we believe? in general: theworldcafecommunity | aggregate replys: www.circleup.com | charrette | community forum | free online community: www.askville.com | chaordic design | global fellowship: niagarafoundation | National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation | volunteerism: www.nationalservice.org books: From Dictatorship to Democracy Sharp | The World Café Brown Art | Change | Cities | Design | Equations History of Mankind

World Since 1920 International Movements, Diplomacy, War Since 1920 World War II, 1939-1945 Pearl Harbor: Warning & Decision Wohlstetter Racism Survival of the Human Spirit International Relations Postwar 1945-57 1957+ 192

NATO: think bar scene in Star Wars Economic developments from 1940 Globalization Production Unequivocals Europe Since 1920 Nations of western Europe since 1920 Great Britain foreign policy news: www.fco.gov.uk | guide: www.i-uk.com | residential property database | trade & investment: www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk | what’s happening: www.qype.co.uk Scotland Ah yes, nothing screams Scottish freedom quite like a millionaire Australian anti-semite on horseback. Oliver Ireland: art: children’s: Children’s Art Competition Italy Sicily: Fighting The Mafia Through Food NPR Eastern and central Europe The states of eastern Europe Russia, Ukraine, Belarus since 1991; Commonwealth Indep. States Russia: Putin: profanity | Ukraine: Crimea Arts and intellectual life in Europe since 1920 Research and Development United States & Canada Since 1920 United States since 1920 U.S. after WW II 2001: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Foer 2011: The Post-American World Zakaria 2012: 911memorial.org Latin-American & Caribbean Nations East Asia in the 20th century China since 1912 Korea since 1910 North Korea crazy like a fox: Ferocious, Weak and Crazy Friedman | secret state: Frontline South and Southeast Asia since 1920 Burma (Myanmar) activism: Aung San Suu Kyi | documentary: Crossing Midnight Indonesia & Phillipines Singapore 193

book: From Third World to First Yew | Economic Development Board: www.edb.gov.sg Phillipines: Earth’s Surface Features volcanoes Southwest Asia and Africa since 1920 in general: leaders: 100 remarkable people books: Age of Extremes Hobsbawm | Bring Me My Machine Gun Russell | Tablet & Pen Aslan | The Great War for Civilisation Fisk Humor | Globalization | Photography | China | War | more Particular Arts / literature

Writing

a writer writes in general: automation: Babel Generator | buy/sell: storiad | collaboration: mixedink, The Writing Squad | contests: write a novel in a month |editing: scribendi | freelance: contently | outsourced writing | query letters | software tools: scrivener | teaching kids to write: boomwriter, 826valencia | whitepapers: template | word/character count: Text Mechanic, Word Count Tools grammar & references: citing sources: endnote, www.noodletools.com/quickcite | Common English Errors: www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html | Guide to Grammar & Writing: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar | Presentation Tips: http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_public_speaking_2 | Press Release Guide: www.press-release-writing.com quotes: The hardest part of writing is the first word. sp |Bartlett's Quotations: www.bartleby.com/100 | Brainy Quote: www.brainyquote.com style guides: Citation Styles: www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html | Economist Style Guide: www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide | Elements of Style: www.bartleby.com/141/index.html vocabulary : Can improving your vocabulary improve your life? voice recognition: iPhone: siri | nuance blogs, books, movies, portals: A Moveable Feast Hemingway | On the Boulevard sp | screen writing: Barton Fink Coen | The Elements of Style Strunk | Writer’s Digest | Writing a Winning Book Proposal Hyatt Collaboration | Visuospatial | Ideas | Anarchy | Content | more Popular Culture

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in general: google: google zeitgeist | quantified self: fitbit, quantifiedself, getsaga | top web sites: alexa | twitter: mood maps | word of the year: selfie books: Going Solo Klinenberg | Zeitguide Grossman Humor | Products | Sports | Popular Culture | TV | more

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -think about such things. Saint Paul the Apostle in Philippians 4:8

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What is think2ool? think2ool is a browse engine for wandering and connecting, one topic to another, at the speed of a click, along the edges of new ideas. think2ool is a dynamic book of content that is created and destroyed on a daily basis to maintain a zero-sum fixed size of 200 pages. One new idea is posted each day (www.think2ool.com) to make you think, to surprise you, and to give you a random starting place for browsing. The best way to search is to use “Ctrl+F”, but a search box is available on think2ool’s companion wordpress site. An annual snapshot of think2ool is published in paperback form because people still enjoy the ability to annotate, highlight, and doodle on the pages of a book. think2ool is also accessible on any mobile device with an internet connection. think2ool uses these questions to filter content: Will this item still be relevant a year from now? Will it make you think about things? Will it challenge you? Is it excellent or praiseworthy? Does it address permanent and universal human concerns? Is it a big idea, game changer, disruptor, breakthrough? Will it influence other great works? Is it respected by experts? Is it cool and on the edge? Does it reflect the spirit of the times? think2ool’s topic format has been carefully designed for the wandering mind to enable easy browsing and it is packed with valuable content components: hierarchical position within a big picture context; in-a-nutshell quotes; good questions and (links to) good answers; big ideas; good books/authors; cross-references to the most relevant topics; links to think2ool’s companion wordpress site; grayed-out placeholders for future content; yellow-highlighted last post. The library of world knowledge is like an accelerating train speeding at a pace beyond our grasp, so think2ool captures a curated sampling as the train flashes by. It is a dynamic, never-ending book that aims to sift and curate the best and most enduring of our shared global society. Scott Pickard November, 2014

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