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... 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
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Millennials want the same things from their employers that Generation X and Baby Boomers do: * Challenging, meaningful work; * Opportunities for learning, development and advancement; * Support to successfully integrate work and personal life; * Fair treatment and * Competitive compensation. And all three generations agree on the characteristics of an ideal leader: a
Business Communication
When my friend Xavier took an interest in my master's thesis --that was a few years ago ;)-- he started suggesting books and journal articles that he thought might be useful to my research. Soon thereafter I started doing the same whenever I bumped into something I thought might
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Friday 4 January 2019 is “Fat Cat” Friday. In just three working days, the UK’s top bosses make more than a typical full-time worker will earn in the entire year, according to calculations from independent think tank the High Pay Centre and the CIPD, the professional body for
Business Communication
Carmine Gallo in HBR: According to molecular biologist John Medina of the University of Washington School of Medicine, the human brain craves meaning before details. When a listener doesn’t understand the overarching idea being presented in a pitch, they have a hard time digesting the information. A logline will
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* Attended a Ray Lamontagne concert - acoustic, excellent songwriting, material is bluesy and a little dark, great show. * Attended a talk by Louise Penny, author of the Inspecteur Gamache novels set in the province of Québec on the border with the state of Vermont - unassuming, funny, great stories, interesting way of
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Frank Bruni in the NYT: Every year around this time, I read about the fraught partnership of politics and turkey. How can a family survive the Thanksgiving meal with a mix of Democrats and Republicans at the table? What if some of the people voted for Trump and others didn’
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Bertrand Russell on a fulfilling life: An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any
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Manfred Kets de Vries in HBR: 1. The strategist: leadership as a game of chess. These people are good at dealing with developments in the organization’s environment. They provide vision, strategic direction and outside-the-box thinking to create new organizational forms and generate future growth. 2. The change-
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd2rsXoQSI] Once a year on August 1st, the people of Warsaw pay homage to the fallen heroes that fought for freedom in 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising. The biggest rebellion against German Nazi occupation during WWII cost over 200,000 lives and destruction
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The concept is simple. Employees no longer have personalized email addresses. Instead, each individual posts a schedule of two or three stretches of time during the day when he or she will be available for communication. During these office hours, the individual guarantees to be reachable in person, by phone,
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“That one can hire only a whole man [or woman] rather than any part thereof explains why the improvement of human effectiveness in work is the greatest opportunity for the improvement of performance and results”. - Peter Drucker