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El futuro y la ilusión
Dice el maestro: “La vida es una serie de colisiones con el futuro; no es una suma de lo que hemos sido, sino de lo que anhelamos ser.” (José Ortega y Gasset) Responde el discípulo: via guiller.
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Being v. doing
It is all backwards. What we should be asking is who people are being. Are you being courageous? Are you being authentic? Honest? Rigorous? Unstoppable? Because that's what really makes a difference. It's who you are being that matters via Dan Pallotta.
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On the discourse of being
Of course, embodied presence may seem, by comparison to its more disembodied counterparts, both less effectual and more fraught with risk. Embodied presence enjoys none of the amplification that technologies of communication afford. It cannot, after all, reach beyond the immediate place and time. And it is vulnerable presence. Embodied
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Saying "Thank you" in the workplace
Andrew Hill at FT: ● A way of improving skills. Thanking an incompetent staff member for work only just up to standard may persuade him to work harder, but not better. That’s what training is for. ● An alternative to money or promotion. Cash is certainly a poor substitute for gratitude,
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Inevitable strategy
Roger Martin illustrates the difference between Mintzberg's emergent strategy and deliberate strategy: Every company has a strategy. Whether it 'does strategy' explicitly or not, the choices that it makes on a daily basis result in the company operating on some part of the playing field (i.
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Are ‘big data’ making strategists redundant?
Not yet, says Andrew Hill at FT.com: Unlike intelligent fridges that can buy their own groceries online, large data-driven companies can’t order their own strategic direction. Even if they could, they would need someone sitting in front of a dashboard to decide, on the basis of abundant
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"No hace faltar estudiar economía"
Se ganan cinco y se gasta uno. Eso es economía. En 2007 dos abuelos de Soria dijeron que cuando no se vive así se acaba mal. Y así fue.
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Take a picture or savor the moment?
If you are taking a picture of your children, which is to say if you are holding a camera (...) and snapping a picture, then are you, in that moment, looking at them? Or are you anticipating a moment in the future—it is sometimes ten seconds in the future but
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As glorious as working remotely may sound...
research shows that it doesn’t always meet expectations.
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Reading is re-reading
As long as we keep rereading we never have the ultimate version of a book. Whether we go back again and again to a classic (and the ability to hold up to rereading is how a book becomes a classic) or pick up an old favorite to see how it
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How far should you live from work?
or why commutes tend to average 20-30 minutes. It’s not just limited to the United States, either. In the Netherlands, the average commute time in the early 2000s was about 28 minutes. Many European nations average about 35 minutes. What makes a half-hour so universal in terms
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You believe that time is money... and it's making you miserable
A recent paper from Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford and Sanford DeVoe of the University of Toronto argues that promoting an "economic view of time" (that time is scarce and should be thought of in monetary terms) makes us less able to enjoy time off because we always think