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(in Jeopardy fashion) Why do we work so damn much? As we approach 2030, how did Keynes do? Keynes’ predictions about capital growth, technology advancement and productivity were clearly wrong. “He massively underestimated the speed of advances in those areas,” said Suzman. We passed the thresholds of capital growth and
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By far the most substantial piece of content I read recently is from Jay Rosen. He is a press critic who writes about the media and politics. He is a professor at the School of Journalism at New York University. Here is how it starts: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/
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I'm a jazz fan, always have been. And I'm a Monk fan. Monk created this list when a musician joined his band for a multiple-week gig. I encourage the managers I work with to have a readme document for themselves and to have a structured,
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The principle: Humans crave independence and control so giving it to them at work should be a good thing. The caveat: As people feel increasingly autonomous, they can also become unmoored from others' needs, expectations and social norms. Research results: Managers who value being respected will respond to empowerment
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Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research
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The most significant animating force of great art, Annie Dillard argues, is the artist’s willingness to hold nothing back and to create, always, with an unflappable generosity of spirit: The very impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something
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I’m allergic to clichés and buzzwords. And this might be one of them. A research project reports this: The employees described inclusive leaders … as leaders who act in ways that demonstrate their values and communicate openly and honestly. They treat each employee as a unique individual, recognize each person’
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Perhaps you do this already with your team: you take the first few minutes of a meeting to check in, sometimes as a group and sometimes in random pairs or trios in breakout rooms. Just a few minutes to chitchat - about anything but work, like what would happen randomly at
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The job candidate selection process does not work. Even Google has taken back their famed clever interview questions. There is just no data to support that the job candidate selection process is effective at screening for success or at predicting that candidates will remain with the company. A few years
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According to a recent study ((https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA516-1.html)), unlike the growth patterns in the 1950s and 1960s, the majority of full-time workers did not share in the economic growth of the last forty years. Had the income distributions of the three decades
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Even if a man's whole day be spent as a servant of an industrial concern, in his spare time he will make something, if only a window box flower garden. ((Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography, 2nd paragraph, via laudator temporis acti, accessed 200915)) A job is not