Want To Collaborate Better? Work In A Circle
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Hear ye, hear ye, kings and queens: Research suggests that if you want your knights to work together, you need to sit them at a round table. Why? It's a matter of environment, a new study from two Canadian business schools suggests: If people are sitting in a circle, they're more apt to cooperate, while if they're arranged into rows, they'll become more independent and cutthroat--more of a free-Lancelot, if you would. "The round table approach may work to foster collaboration for corporate boards, at workplace meetings or at restaurants," Quartz reports. "By contrast, those who sit in an angular arrangement--think Donald Trump’s The Apprentice--display more maverick, self-centered attitudes."
Amazing Demo of a Water-Repellent Spray You Can Actually Buy
Design for Good | Big Think: "This is a game changer!" says Jim Stinner, the vice president of marketing for Rust-Oleum, the company which manufactures and distributes NeverWet - a spray-on coating that repels water, mud, ice and other liquids. And judging by the demo-video, it really is.
Iowa high school cancels performance of The Laramie Project
Gay Star News: A school district in the Midwestern US state of Iowa has canceled a performance of The Laramie Project, a play about the impact of the murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. Ottumwa High School drama students were prepared to stage Moisés Kaufman's work in the upcoming school year, but district officials denied permission
Gaze Inside the Enormous Space Toolbox that Lives on the ISS
gizmodo.com: You never want to be stranded without your tools, especially if you are in the middle of nowhere. And what's middle-of-nowhere-er than the vacuum of space?
20th Century Fox Commits to Turning Its Films into Musicals
Stage Directions: 20th Century Fox is planning a major musical move. The film studio has partnered with Broadway producer Kevin McCollum (Motown, Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights), film producer John Davis (Predator, The Firm, Grumpy Old Men, I Robot, Chronicle) and industry executive Tom McGrath to turn movies from the 20th Century Fox library into musicals for Broadway and touring—and then back into films in their new form. They aim to produce nine musicals based on films in the next “several” years, with McCollumn overseeing day to day operations. Fox has also brought on Isaac Robert Hurwitz, executive director and producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, as a consultant to help guide their theatre activities.
Friday, July 26, 2013
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