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Study: participants had to learn to identify the letters of a language they did not know. The learning was prompted in one of three ways: writing by hand, typing, or watching videos. "At the end, after as many as six sessions, everyone could recognize the letters and made few
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Members of the House of Beautiful Business community shared ideas on how to improve meetings. Before you join your next meeting, have a read-through of what they came up with. See what the repetition is saying (or not saying). Even better: before you schedule your next, ask yourself: does
leadership
In response to an article in The Economist about the need for middle managers, Michele Zanini writes: Just because the ladder has fewer rungs doesn't mean leadership opportunities are scarce-quite the opposite. By giving people the ability to gain influence (and compensation) based on accomplishment as opposed
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When you read what everyone else is reading, you’re likely to think what everyone else is thinking. And you might only be reading what the algorithms are putting before you. It’s time to rewild your attention. Big-tech recommendation systems (…) pose a (…) challenge for our imaginative lives: Their
Business Communication
It’s called Cooperative overlapping. It seems self-evident. Starting to speak before another has finished violates their right to the floor. In formal contexts such as political debates, it breaches the rules. In casual conversation, it is simply rude.But it’s not so simple. As a linguist who
Business Basics
Food for thought about privacy policies from Doc Searls: There is no reason why websites and services can’t agree to your privacy policy, and your terms of engagement. In legal terms, you should be able to operate as the first party, and to proffer your own terms, to which
Business Basics
Cliff Hazell: Building a successful organization is a mix of doing new/novel things, old things, and very old things. I think we usually spend too much time talking about the new and novel as if it’s a silver bullet. Doing the old and very old things consistently and
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From The Atlantic: In some [groups], you grow up with the expectation that it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you&
Ling- English
Ben Grosser thinks that platforms embed within us the idea that our own sociality is best evaluated and understood through quantity. They reconfigure our sense of time in ways that can make minutes or hours ago seem old. And their personalized feeds teach our brains that the only content worth
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From the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, here is an 8-point plan for disrupting meetings and conferences. You will probably recognize some of these from your own circumstances: (2) Make ‘speeches’. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts
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1. Do you know? 2. Have you ever said (or thought), “I’m too old to ____”? 3. Were you right about that? 4. Who has taught you the most in the last two years? 5. Last ten? 6. Do they know you regard them in this way? 7. Would it
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This was the first of a series of experiments for a VW brand campaign.