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October 2024 - on managers fostering innovation, preventing emergencies, telling stories, and dealing with RTO
Issue 69
Richard Brisebois
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The Problem with “Leading by Example”: Rethinking Exemplarity as Being an Original
When we stop trying to be a perfect example and start being genuinely ourselves, leadership becomes less about demonstration and more about inspiration.
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Precise Critiques, Vague Praise: Fixing the Feedback Imbalance
"It's not about coddling people or boosting their egos. It's about reflecting to them the reality of their actions with the same sharpness we use to point out where they fell short."
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Want to get better? Show your work
PwC is one of the few companies to publicly release its diversity data. What was behind that choice? One of my aspirations early in my tenure was that I wanted to be transparent. I think we’re going through a golden age of transparency, and you need to lead by
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Dunning-Kruger pre-empted by... a 400 BC Athenian
Critias (l. c. 460-403 BCE) was an Athenian politician, poet, and playwright, and one of Socrates' followers: "It's terrible when someone who's stupid thinks he's intelligent. δεινὸν δ’ ὅταν τις μὴ φρονῶν δοκῇ φρονεῖν." (h/t) "those with limited
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September 2024 - think better, challenge assumptions, pay yourself first, and don't be a bureaucrat
this is issue #68
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August 2024 - on checking references, 1-on-1 meetings, your brain, and Steve Kerr
Issue 67
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July 2024 - on the virtue of dumb plans, the leadership blindside, strategy choices, and what your team can and should do
this is issue #66
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Technology is doing more with less
Simon Sarris on careful technology: If people hate technology and think it clashes with nature, I find it hard to blame technology. We have careless technology because we are careless in evaluating it. We demand too little of it, or we are willing to sacrifice too much for too little
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June 2024 - on the impact of hybrid WFH on performance and quitting, overlooked skills, profanity, and getting people to drive the process
Issue 65
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Large Language Models -- LLMs: it's technology, not intelligent agents
Alison Gopnik [bolds are mine]: A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions. We have been doing this for as long as we’ve been human. Language itself you
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Unemployment benefits in OECD countries (2024)
Note that five of these top six countries have some of the highest personal income taxes in the world. Source: Lu, Marcus. “Where Unemployment Benefits Are the Highest, in OECD Countries.” Visual Capitalist, 17 June 2024, www.visualcapitalist.com/unemployment-benefits-in-oecd-countries/. Accessed 18 June 2024.