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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity
The quote in the title is from Simone Weil. When I pay attention I am giving my time. It prompts the question: Who, or what, receives my attention? Therein lies my treasure.
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Business Basics
Discovered in translation
discovers points of real difficultyarrives at fresh solutions Not only in formal translation but also when living in multiple languages. It sometimes helps to think of a situation in a different language. See also: Discovery is not finding new lands, it’s something else
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The best advice
often comes in the form of a relevant, timely, open-ended question.
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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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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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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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What many bosses will not admit in public
They want machines to replace you as soon as possible. Workers aren’t being replaced by machines, they’re being “released” from onerous, repetitive tasks. Companies aren’t laying off workers, they’re “undergoing digital transformation.” A 2017 survey by Deloitte found that 53 percent of companies had already started
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Your job might be killing you
There are 120,000 excess deaths per year attributed to ten workplace conditions and they cause approximately $190 billion in incremental health care costs. That makes the workplace the fifth leading cause of death in the U.S. — higher than Alzheimer’s, higher than kidney disease. 1. Being unemployed sometimes
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What does work flexibility look like?
A meta-analysis of the existing research on flexibility identified the fundamental components: * Where we work, * When we work, and * How predetermined our schedule is. These component parts lead to six distinct types of flexibility: 1. Remote: “Work from anywhere” - Remote employees keep standard office hours but are location independent.
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A list of best practices will not make you a great company
... any more than finding a recipe will make you a great cook. Bill Bennett reflects on the writings of Alfred North Whitehead on learning. He ends up dismissing the pursuit of "best practices" as secrets to success in favor of a culture of discovery: * Design your organization so