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Best way to quit a job
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Managers who claim to know the future are more often dangerous fools than great visionaries
As complex systems go, the interaction between the ball in flight and the moving fieldsman is still relatively simple. In principle, most of the knowledge needed to compute trajectories and devise an optimal strategy is available: we just don’t have the instruments or the time for analysis and computation.
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Business buzzwords generator at the WSJ
Our modest contribution to horizontally push the envelope for thought leaders: Business Buzzwords Generator
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A preoccupation is a hell of a useful thing for a mind
When I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a thematic gravity well, a magnet for what would otherwise be a mess of iron filings. I’ll read books differently and
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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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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