People have aspirations, goals, things they want to do and make happen, but most of it ends up being talk and never gets followed through into something real. Many just don't put in that extra effort to take action, but there are those few who do, which often leads to a tricky situation, in particular when working in a group

This weeks top links review the year in ideas, introduce Google Demo Slam, explore the affects of relationships on your feelings, understand the reason why we have few women leaders, and finally some inspiration to stop thinking and make decisions

Often what is probably good for us in the long term, never appears to be good for us in the moment. A recent TED Talk by Dan Ariely explores these situations and the trade-offs we often make, favoring short term goals over long term goals. Watch the TED Talk below. Some great insights for this holiday season! Read the entire post from Dan’s blog here

A quote from the Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, "If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, its too large." A very interesting quote from Jeff telling us the value of having small dynamic teams, especially when you're in a start up or project based setting

In this week's Top Links we look at the Top 10 Lists from Time, a new way to look at the news, a fresh version of a classic game, a TED Talk on education, and a look at innovation trends for 2011.

The essence of collaborative consumption is the sharing of anything and everything with our peers within the communities we are part of. All of this started in the 21st century and the age of hyper consumption has been a direct instigator of the collaborative consumption movement. Examples of this are shared work spaces, marketplaces, car sharing, P2P networks, recycling goods, and much more. Check out the video below to learn more. If you’re interested, check out the new book What’s Mine Is Yours by Rachel Botsman or visit the website at www.collaborativeconsumption.com and start

In this week's top links, find out more about what Wikileaks has accomplished, try and cure cancer, learn about Kanye West's creative process, watch some of the best ads from 2010, and find a company that will get you excited about your career.

We all think we have brilliant ideas, whether that’s true or not is hard to say, but therein lies the problem. Why don’t we share our best ideas with other people, with the world, with everyone, to get feedback, to truly assess the ideas, improve them, and adapt them? I feel the major reason behind this type of behavior is… We believe that if we share our best ideas with others, they will steal them. Now this is an interesting point and it can happen, but I’d think it’s not as likely as we may believe. First of all, these ideas we cherish are the ones we have a passion for, we believe in, and that we would put in the time and effort for to realize them. Most of the people you share your idea with, will not share the same commitment and belief as you do. Furthermore, an idea is a complex thing that can’t be fully communicated in words. Most of us have a vision of how this idea can become reality, what are the small details that will lead to its success, and its always these little things that are needed to understand the full value of the idea. Without this you only give a glimpse into the concepts and general feedback, so why not share your idea and find out what others think. There’s also the

In the first of 11 episodes on procrastination by Lernert & Sander, we see a monologue about a writer and his struggles with focusing on his work. Watch it below and unless you read Dutch you’ll have to read the subtitles, so I suggest you put it in fullscreen as its hard to read the white on white text… Enjoy! I don’t know about you, but I definitely am able to connect with a number of the themes in this video. How do we overcome this difficulty in focusing on the tasks we need to get done?? That’s a question we’d all love to know the answer to and a topic that I’ll explore further in a later post. Anyways, if you enjoyed the first episode, check out the rest of them here

In this week's top links we see some great examples of HTML 5, view a guide to everything social media, create our very own kaleidoscopes, gain some insight on reading business books, and test our reaction speed