Below is a very interesting TED talk by Daniel Pink. In December Dan has a new book coming out called Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In this TED talk from the summer in Oxford, Dan overviews some of the key ideas in the new book. This talk will make you (re-)think about work, management, and what motivates you — and those you work with — to excel. Watch it below. We don’t need sweeter carrots and sharper sticks, Dan says. We need a whole new approach, an approach that puts more stock in intrinsic motivation. Dan identifies three elements that comprise a new way of...

Google Wave is an online tool that lets people communicate via video, instant messaging and wiki style editing, or as Google describes it “how e-mail would look if it were invented today”. Google Wave is designed to transform the way we communicate online, and the developer behind it has described it as a ‘communication and collaboration tool’ Check out the video below to see what it is all...