NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Major benefits for students who attend live theater, study finds

ScienceDaily: Field trips to live theater enhance literary knowledge, tolerance, and empathy among students, according to a study. The research team found that reading and watching movies of Hamlet and A Christmas Carol could not account for the increase in knowledge experienced by students who attended live performances of the plays. Students who attended live performances of the play also scored higher on the study's tolerance measure than the control group by a moderately large margin and were better able to recognize and appreciate what other people think and feel.

Posted by David at 10/30/2015 01:21:00 PM

This Is How Millennials Will Change Management

www.fastcompany.com: Baby boomer managers can be credited with creating employee support programs. Generation X managers can be credited with making the workplace more informal, making the term "business casual" commonplace. What will the next breed of managers bring to the workplace?

Chip Espinoza has studied millennials in the workplace. The author of the recent book Millennials Who Manage and the 2010 book Managing the Millennials says this new generation of managers will take a step further in creating a people-first workplace.

Posted by David at 10/30/2015 01:18:00 PM

Can BroadwayHD Be The Netflix For Theater?

ThinkProgress: BroadwayHD, a site that could become the Netflix of theater, launched on Monday. The site is the brainchild of Tony award-winning producers Stewart F. Lane and Bonnie Comley; they’ve been working on this project for four years and have, at present, the rights to stream over 100 productions. Lane and Comley spoke with ThinkProgress by phone about how BroadwayHD was conceived, what musicals and plays you can expect to find on the site (and which shows you probably shouldn’t hold your breath for), and why they believe making Broadway shows available to stream won’t cannibalize ticket sales but will instead spark an interest in live performance among audiences who have extremely limited access to the theater.

Posted by David at 10/28/2015 01:17:00 PM

Why we’re working all wrong

MarketWatch: The way we work is not one size fits all. The eight-hour workday, the 9-to-5 time frame, the one-hour lunch, the 15-minute break — these are merely social constructs, not “natural” operational modes that work for every office, industry, and employee.

And while many offices have begun to look more custom than mass-produced, not all workplace trends improve your performance. From co-working spaces to collaboration, the “best” environment is hotly contested.

Posted by David at 10/29/2015 01:02:00 PM

Scary Movies Are The Best Investment In Hollywood

FiveThirtyEight: It’s spooky movie season again! Halloween is days away, and “Goosebumps,” “Crimson Peak” and the sixth film in the indefatigable “Paranormal Activity” franchise are in theaters now. Horror movies get nowhere near as much draw at the box office as the big-time summer blockbusters or action/adventure movies — the horror genre accounts for only 3.7 percent of the total box-office haul this year — but there’s a huge incentive for studios to continue pushing them out.

Posted by David at 10/30/2015 12:58:00 PM