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December 2023 - Year 5 in review
the 59th issue
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November 2023 - on psychopathic leaders, surveillance culture, buzzwords, and constant change
Issue #58
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Be human to human beings
Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, mass shootings, massive firings in some industries, the war in Ukraine, or the war in the Middle East… it is reasonable to expect that any, some, or all of these events -and others- have impacted and still impact the minds and hearts
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October 2023 - on bullshit, being human, managing less, and what zoom calls do to your brain
Issue #57
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Executive compensation: reality is different than what Americans believe
From a nationwide Stanford University survey: The typical American believes a CEO earns $1.0 million in pay (average of $9.3 million), whereas median reported compensation for the CEOs of these companies is approximately $10.3 million (average of $12.2 million).”Those who believe in capping CEO pay
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Failure and being hooked to a positive outlook
Costica Bradatan: A long evolutionary history has hardwired us to go blindly for whatever increases our chances of survival in the world, and therefore to chase immediate success. Brooding over failure, just as brooding over our finitude and mortality, doesn’t improve our chances of survival. Failure is the sudden
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September 2023 - on meetings you hate, passion at work, character in leadership, and the invisible hand
issue #56
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Orwell feared oppression. No need, said Huxley, triviality is what makes us irrelevant
From the Foreword to Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public discourse in the age of show business (20th anniversary edition, by Neil Postman, Penguin Books 2006. First edition published in 1985. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another--slightly older, slightly less well-known,
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Advice to a 13-year old
Nick Cave: Visit galleries and look at paintings, watch movies, listen to music, go to concerts – be a little vampire running around the place sucking up all the art and ideas you can. Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world. Have fun. Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed
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August 2023 - on AI, creativity, Ask v. Guess culture, and being ready for leadership
issue #55
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July 2023 - rest, relax, and return
Just a few words to say to my friends from the Northern Hemisphere that I hope you have been, are or will be resting and relaxing this summer. See you next month!
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June 2023 - on the mindsets of a leader, DEI, being a C student, and why we do what we do
issue #54