Every Worker Should Be C.E.O. of Something
Q. What are the most important leadership lessons you’ve learned? A. If I was going all the way back, it would be playing on my school’s soccer team, because we were on the same team together, most of us for eight or nine years, and we were at a really little school in Chicago that had no chance of really fielding any great athletes. And the one thing I learned from that was that I actually could tell what someone would be like in business, based on how they played on the soccer field. So even today when I play in Sunday-morning soccer games, I can literally spot the people who’d probably be good managers and good people to hire. Q. A. So I’d rather be on a team that has no bad people than a team with stars. And are you a playmaker? Q. A. And that, to me, is a huge amount of what it means to manage. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. This is another thing I really, really value: being a true meritocracy. My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with. Q. A. Q. A. Q.
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Two Legs, thing using and talking
Two Legs, Thing Using and Talking: The Origins of the Creative Engineering Mind Professor F.T. Evans School of Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Abstract: Instead of seeing technology as outside ourselves, it is argued that it is an innate human function and the main driving force in human evolution. Keywords: Bipedalism; Creativity; Language origins; Palaeontology; Technology; Tool using; 1. The important thing is not what you know, but what you know about what you know.'' This paper explores our ideas about the nature of technology. These questions will be approached under three sections. In the second section of the paper, the question of creativity leads into a consideration of ideas about human origins. 2. As an academic subject, the history of technology has been a slow developer. Take the familiar example of the fight between David and Goliath. Questions of perspective and interpretation are not just academic. fig. 1. the meaning we attribute to them. Fig. 2.
Lucid Dreaming
“It’s the only way to fly.” Lucid dreaming is the experience of being completely aware within a dream that you are, in fact, in a dream. This realization leads to complete power for the dreamer, allowing him/her to go anywhere and do anything in their dream. 1) Master Dream Re-Call Before you can lucid dream, you have to be able to remember that dreams that you have so that you can improve your technique. Second, figure out your method for recording your dreams when you do remember them. If you are having trouble remembering dreams even with these methods, you can set alarms to wake you up during your REM sleep cycle so that you will always wake up during your dream. 2) Carry Over Some Consciousness Pick a night when you are so tired that you will fall asleep as soon as you hit the bed…but don’t. 3) Reality Checks If step 2 isn’t allowing you to go lucid, try reality checks. 4) Final Tips Stuff To Do In Your Dreams - Fly through the sky, to another planet, to another dimension
How do CEOs spend their time?
Corporate leadership attracts enormous attention, both from scholars and from the public. Yet, despite this strong interest, very little is known on what activities leaders engage in. Most texts that purport to define and explain the role of corporate leaders are based on a small amount of evidence, often just a single case. What is widely considered the authority in this area, John P Kotter’s (1999) classic, “What Leaders Really Do?,” is based on recording the activities of 15 general managers of non-randomly selected companies for 35 hours each. Obviously, no general conculsions can be drawn such small samples. To fill the gap, we have developed a methodology to collect and analyse information on how CEOs of top companies use their work time. To collect the time use data, we ask the CEO's personal assistant (PA) to keep a diary of the activities performed by the CEO during a pre-specified week (from Monday to Friday). Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3.
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Hoarding
Hoarding is usually considered a subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Like other compulsive behaviors, hoarding is an effort to manage the anxiety raised by obsessive doubts. There are varying levels of hoarding behavior. A diagnosis of OCD of the hoarding type is made when there is significant distress or disruption to feelings of self-worth, interpersonal relationships, education, occupation, housing, finances, legal issues, or health as a result of hoarding behavior. Symptoms vary from person to person, but may include: Saving items seen by most people as unneeded or worthless, (i.e., not true collectibles). Compulsively buying or saving excessive quantities of items of any kind. Treating all saved items as equally valuable--whether or not the object has sentimental, financial or functional value. Experiencing intense anxiety or distress when attempting to discard-or even think about discarding-what most others view as useless objects. Avoid repetitive questioning (e.g., "Why?
McKinsey’s corrupted culture | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion
John Gapper makes a good point: management consultants in general, and McKinsey consultants in particular, have made their entire business out of exploiting the moral grey zone surrounding confidential information. The reason you hire McKinsey is that its consultants have seen strategic business issues like yours before, and therefore might have developed good insights into how to approach them. But the reason they’re familiar with those issues is that they’ve been given highly confidential information about your competitors. So when you hire McKinsey you’re essentially trying to acquire, for a very high hourly fee, the kind of corporate intelligence that can only be built up through long exposure to highly-sensitive commercial information. Here’s Gapper on McKinsey: In this sense, a management consultant is a bit like an art dealer, or anybody else who traffics in valuable information asymmetries. None of this remotely explains or excuses what Gupta is accused of doing, of course.
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