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December 2020 - Year two in review
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
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Scientific American's Top 10 emerging technologies of 2020
To make the cut technologies had to have the potential to spur progress in societies and economies by outperforming established ways of doing things. They also needed to be novel (that is, not currently in wide use) yet likely to have a major impact within the next three to five
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On the difference between management and leadership
Leadership is about doing something new or better, whether a simple process improvement or a transformation. It is more about reframing for improvement. It likely calls upon people to learn new skills and shift beliefs. Our tendency to ascribe leadership to individuals that hold a formal entitlement as head of
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November 2020 - MIT on the work of the future, management v. leadership, real-time performance review, and work on-demand
You're leading when you're reframing for improvement
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Sentence of the week
With dimwitted politicians across the political spectrum, our celebrity-crazed culture, the destructive power of unrestrained capitalism, the groaning of the despoiled earth, the cries of the back row that go unheard, the disillusionment and disorientation of a society that desperately needs to be rehumanized—all of this requires broken
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Here's why you are skeptical about empowerment
The principle: Humans crave independence and control so giving it to them at work should be a good thing. The caveat: As people feel increasingly autonomous, they can also become unmoored from others' needs, expectations and social norms. Research results: Managers who value being respected will respond to empowerment
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October 2020 - on job candidates, stock & flow, confidence, and lessons from jazz
don't forget to vote!
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Dear guru
I hope the irony is not lost on you that after years of living in a foreign land under the tutelage of a stranger whose language you’ve had to learn, your words of wisdom for us are: “you can find everything you need inside of you.”
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Paid vacation days per year per country
Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Financial autonomy
It's not about having so much money that you can buy anything you want. It's about having enough money to buy everything you need.
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The hybrid stategy: Stock and Flow
But I actually think stock and flow is a useful metaphor for media in the 21st century. Here’s what I mean: I’m not saying you should ignore flow! This is no time to hole up and work in isolation, emerging after years with your work in hand. Everybody
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The most powerful animating force of art and creativity
The most significant animating force of great art, Annie Dillard argues, is the artist’s willingness to hold nothing back and to create, always, with an unflappable generosity of spirit: The very impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something