Derek Sivers is onto something with his post on decision taking in our current society which tends to overwhelm us. Read his entire post here.
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“When you say no to most things, you leave room in your life to really throw yourself completely into that rare thing that makes you say “HELL YEAH!””
Companies are removing people this year to capture a productivity gain that, on their own account, has not arrived. Read that twice. Both halves are documented. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ran about 490,000 earnings call transcripts from 5,198 publicly traded US firms to see how
There is a sentence in systems literature that removes your right to complain about your own organisation. David Peter Stroh states it plainly in Systems Thinking for Social Change: systems are perfectly designed to achieve the results they are currently achieving. No matter how dysfunctional a system appears to be,
1 Arthur Wren had stopped looking at himself in mirrors around the time other people stopped looking at him. He placed that somewhere in his early sixties, well before Maggie got sick. So he could not blame it on the grief. It was an arrangement that suited everyone. He shaved
Most organisations adopting OKRs today are using a tool built for engineering teams to solve problems that are not engineering problems. The framework works. It often works very well. It does not work everywhere. I spent the first part of my career as an internal auditor, and one of the
