In the fast-paced global era that we live in today, worldwide companies and organizations branch from one continent to the next. Odds are, if you look at any given product in your house, it was grown or made in another country, in unknown conditions, and then shipped over to you. Because of this, a counterculture movement has emerged: the slow movement.
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Music: Can Listening To It Make You More Productive?
The question whether listening to music makes you productive, as simple as it sounds, is still hugely contested. Many are sceptical, preferring silence to beats, but here’s thing: there are many surprising benefits to listening to music that- even if you’re a silence ‘purist’- may be worth revisiting. In our busy offices and busy lives perhaps music can even help, rather than hinder, our productivity?
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Buzzwords vs. Buzzlanguage: Which Do You Use
Every day, we live in a world that feeds us a near endless run of business words at work, in the media, and online. Everyone from corporate managers to motivational speakers often use the same words to motivate, instruct, and guide their employees. These terms are words that can either help, or they can be used as filler, without real meaning or understanding. Today, we are going to discuss the difference between Buzzword and Buzzlanguage.
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The Conscious Sale by Taran Hughes Part 2
This week we are featuring Taran Hughes again, who will be hosting our upcoming The Grid Workshops, The Conscious Sale, June 7th, 7-9pm at Cloud Coworking, Calle Sardenya 229, Barcelona.
After being truly engaged with this question for quite some time, it was only the last 5 or 6 years of my career in Telecoms that I realised that difference is simply the mindset held by the individual. Breaking this down, I observed in others and myself that there are 3 key points of conscious performance that significantly influence the outcome of what we do.
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The Conscious Sale By Taran Hughes
This week we are featuring Taran Hughes, who will be hosting our upcoming The Grid Workshops, The Conscious Sale, June 7th, 7-9pm at Cloud Coworking, Calle Sardenya 229, Barcelona.
Like many writers on the web today I was going to share with you my 3 steps to mindfulness in business, that silver bullet to transform your crazy busy lifestyle into a harmonic oneness with all that is commercial. However, I realise for many that concept is just a string of meaningless words. For some it has resonance but for many, it’s still just a topic people are talking about to make people more productive in what they do.
Buzzword: What is an Influencer?
Continuing our segment on buzzwords, today we are looking at influencers, what and who they are, and what it means to be one.
Lately, more than ever, the word influencer has been tossed around a lot, but what does it really mean? An influencer is someone with an above average impact on any given niche process, meaning they can intentionally or unintentionally shape their particular area of expertise. This can exist in any field, from fashion and arts to food and service, to technology and business.
The Conscious Business: 3 Models You Need to Know
What does conscious mean? To be conscious means to be aware and responsive to one’s surrounding. Lately, this trend of awareness has made its way into the business world, where people are encouraged to be conscious of their market, their product, and their customers.
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3 Laboratories in Barcelona You Need to Know About
Laboratories have always at the forefront of innovation and discovery. Here in Barcelona, many diverse laboratories are reinventing the business scene for years now. Here are three laboratories we found worthy of mentioning.
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Food Waste and Food Markets: How the World is Evolving
This Wednesday, June 14th, we will be hosting The Grid Talks: Food Waste panel discussion at Cloud Coworking at 7 pm. Recently, food waste has become both an environmental and social problem, but what does it really mean? Here we are featuring a brief introduction into the issue, but it will be discussed in depth at our panel discussion.
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Buzzword: What is an Algorithm?
Simply put an algorithm is a set of steps that gets you from point A to point B and then to the finish line. A third addition to the Buzzword series, recently, with technology becoming more and more powerful and present in practically every aspect of life. Now, this one doesn’t bother me as much as some others do, however until I started writing this post, I never actually knew what it was, just that is was used in computer coding and people were dropping it in a lot of conversations. So, what is an algorithm and why should you care about it? Continue reading “Buzzword: What is an Algorithm?”