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June 2019 - On salaries, timing is everything, job expectations, and how good enough can lead to world-class

Welcome to a new issue! I’m happy that you are here. This month’s delivery of links to research-based articles is the usual hodge-podge of topics. It’s a selection of the material that crossed my desk/RSS feed over the last month. I’ll see you

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Here's a 10-point audit to help you assess your stress level

Manfred Kets de Vries at KnowledgeINSEAD: Consider your life today and answer the following questions:Do you feel that your life is out of control and that you have too many things on your plate?Do you often feel confused, anxious, irritable, fatigued or physically debilitated?Are you having increased

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We are verbs, not nouns

In conversations with managers, I often hear people say something like "Well, I can't help myself, that's who I am, I'm an engineer / a finance person / a lawyer," etc. I share Stephen Fry's consideration in The Guardian : I am not

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A first-person account of switching from engineer to manager

David Chua on Medium: "Don’t do it if you consider it a promotion. (...) Also don’t do it if you want to micromanage or control your team members, or want the authority to correct bad behaviour. There are other ways to solve that problem that don’t involve

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May 2019 - On open-plan offices, mentoring, Agile, the Maslow pyramid, and bullshit jobs

Welcome to a new issue ! I’m happy that you are here. This month’s delivery of links to research-based articles is again a hodge-podge of topics. It’s a selection of the material that crossed my desk/RSS feed over the last month. Enjoy the read and

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CEO unable to explain how one of his low-paid employees should budget her salary

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Cultivate extreme indifference to both praise and blame

John Berryman's advice to writers: I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. Vanity and self-pity are bad for any professional.

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10 things you don't know about yourself

You probably do not understand yourself as well as you think you do. 1. Your perspective on yourself is distorted, 2. Your motives are often a complete mystery to you, 3. Outward appearances tell people a lot about you, 4. Gaining some distance can help you know yourself better, 5.

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April 2019 - On Like-minded people, your Career, being a Rebel, and not Trusting your gut

Welcome to the third edition! I’m happy that you are here. Enjoy the read and I’ll see you again down below. In about three minutes. == PEOPLE Survey and experimental research with nearly 100,000 working adults from around the world find that the happiest people prioritize time over

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Indra Nooyi on how to get more women in the C-suite

Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo, in the New York Times: The issue is not women in the C-suite, it’s a leaky pipeline. The pipeline is leaking at the early stages. Because we get enough women coming into the work force in various stages. But by the time

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On the latest iteration of FB's "vision"

John Naughton in The Guardian has a few choice words on Mark Zuckerberg's recent "Memo to All": Dearly beloved, our reading this morning is taken from the latest Epistle of St Mark to the schmucks – as members of his 2.3 billion-strong Church of Facebook

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March 2019 - on Listening

Welcome to the second edition! I’m happy that you are here. I had links on a variety of topics this month but many of them were on the theme of listening. And since listening is often addressed in the programs that I design and deliver, I figured I would