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Flatten the curve: it's about capacity
It’s about capacity. The healthcare system’s capacity to treat people with the disease.
Richard Brisebois
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Coronavirus: Social distancing required. Now
* The coronavirus is coming to you. * It’s coming at an exponential speed: gradually, and then suddenly. * It’s a matter of days. Maybe a week or two. * When it does, your healthcare system will be overwhelmed. * Your fellow citizens will be treated in the hallways. * Exhausted healthcare workers will
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February 2020 - How to prepare for the coronavirus, resumes are useless, and the best companies to work for
Welcome to a new issue! I’m happy that you are here. This month’s delivery is a selection of the material that crossed my desk/RSS feed over the last month… and a few suggestions from readers. I’ll see you again down below. In about three minutes. The
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What is a BIG question?
It’s not easy to say precisely what makes a question big; but we can at least give a few examples from the history of philosophy so that we have some idea what we’re talking about: * What is the meaning of life? * What is the nature of ultimate reality?
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How can management theories guide life decisions?
On the last day of class, Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, asks his students to turn those theoretical lenses on themselves to find cogent answers to three questions: Second, how can I be sure that my relationships with my spouse and my family become an enduring source of
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Life lost on the curated projections of other people’s lives?
Worth pondering from James Shelley: Or, to put it another way: time spent on timelines amounts to time spent not living your life. Spending your time on a timeline is valuable only to the extent you define value in your life by the amount of your life spent reading about
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the January issue of my People & Management newsletter
It's here! I mean, it is now available... and it is here.
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Brilliant marketing spots: not a word about the product nor its features
The Hockey Night in Canada theme song - Pepsi The social media guard - Coca Cola
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January 2020 - On disruption, inflection points, what separates winners from losers, and employee emotions
Welcome to a new issue! I’m happy that you are here. This month’s delivery is a selection of the material that crossed my desk/RSS feed over the last month… and a few suggestions from readers. I’ll see you again down below. In about three minutes. == Clayton
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's reading list
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, October 1842: Thou shalt read Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Proclus, Jamblichus, Porphyry, Aristotle, Virgil, Plutarch, Apuleius, Chaucer, Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Bacon, Marvell, More, Milton, Molière, Swedenborg, Goethe. via Laudator Temporis Acti.
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9 Simple Money Rules On 1 Index Card
"[The best personal finance advice] can fit on a 3-by-5 index card, and is available for free in the library." "So, if you're paying someone for advice, almost by definition, you're probably getting the wrong advice because the correct advice is
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Clayton Christensen 1952-2020
Clayton Christensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, is best known for his theory of disruptive innovation, in which he warns large, established companies of the danger of becoming too good at what they do best. People who knew him personally speak of a fine human being. RIP You