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Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions

Think I need to talk to my wife about this one...

Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions They’re disproportionately saddled with work that has little visibility or impact.

Tatyana Mamut on How Technology Has Changed the Way We Conduct Design Research - Core77

Tatyana Mamut on How Technology Has Changed the Way We Conduct Design Research - Core77 For this year's Core77 Design Awards, we're conducting in-depth interviews with each of our jury captains to get in a glimpse into their creative minds and hear more about what they'll be looking for in this year's awards submissions. 2018 Strategy & Research Jury Captain Tatyana Mamut is currently....

What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together

Makes me miss the time I spent working with IDEO on a couple design thinking projects. Great methodology and even better people!

What Happens When Data Scientists and Designers Work Together How a sleep app became something users really wanted.

The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

This would mean more to me if I had ever been in a cross fit gym!

The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym At the gym, effort usually translates into results. Can the same be said for work?

So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class ...

I highly recommend this Great Course on big history. It is amazing!

So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class ... Should one of the world’s richest men get to dictate the future of how we learn about our past?

12 Effectiveness Lessons from The Effective Executive

I recently read The Effective Executive by Drucker. It's amazing how relevant a 50 year old book still is today...

12 Effectiveness Lessons from The Effective Executive The Effective Executive by Peter F Druckers is a must read for any manager. Here are 12 of the top takeaways from the book.

The Truth About Blockchain

It is easy to see the future, but getting the timing right is the hard part...

The Truth About Blockchain It will take years to transform business, but the journey begins now.

How Digital Tools and Behavioral Economics Will Save Retirement

The example of saving $5 a day being more palatable than $150 per month seems very inline with what we are seeing in financial planning pricing...

How Digital Tools and Behavioral Economics Will Save Retirement Nudging at scale.

Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right

Radical Transparency Can Reduce Bias — but Only If It’s Done Right What research shows about the principles in Ray Dalio’s new book.

How to build a company where the best ideas win | Ray Dalio

"You have to bet against the consensus and be right..."

How to build a company where the best ideas win | Ray Dalio What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparenc...

What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force?

Human motivation is just complicated... https://buff.ly/2jo0V0c

What’s the Right Kind of Bonus to Motivate Your Sales Force? Evidence from an experiment at a large Indian company.

Economists assert there is no need to regulate bitcoin

What are the implications of not being able to print money for a country's ability to manage business cycles?

Economists assert there is no need to regulate bitcoin Crypto systems regulate themselves.

Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk—they're rich kids with safety nets

“This whole bulk of the population is being seduced into thinking that they can just go out and pursue their dream anytime, but it’s not true.” -Sometimes it is hard to differentiate between who is telling the truth and who is selling something...

Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk—they're rich kids with safety nets The cult of the entrepreneur teaches us the wrong lesson.

Opinion | Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

My wife and I were just talking about this...

Opinion | Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers.

To Train an Athlete, Add 12 Minutes of Meditation to the Daily Mix

It's hard to maintain the discipline to keep up with meditation, but the benefits are clear...

To Train an Athlete, Add 12 Minutes of Meditation to the Daily Mix Division I football players who learned mindfulness meditation or relaxation techniques showed improvements in mood and attention.

The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life

This article reminds me of a student I met at Harvard while I was a teaching fellow. She was tremendously driven and asked me whether I thought she should apply directly to Harvard Business School, where I had just graduated. Her plan was to go from there into private equity. I told her to take some time off, see the world and do something interesting to gain some perspective on the world... She didn't take my advice, but she did get into HBS as a 23 year old (quite a feat!) and I'm guessing went on into the PE world afterwards. -I wonder if she was ever able to gain some perspective on life beyond the Ivy League definition of success...

The Ivy League, Mental Illness, and the Meaning of Life How an elite education can lead to a cycle of grandiosity and depression

Platform strategy, explained

I agree with the article: getting enough users to support a platform is hugely challenging. I think that is why you see the Facebooks, Ubers, etc of the world having done this one small market at a time...

Platform strategy, explained Got a bad case of platform envy? Find out why “seeding” and “coring” matter, and be open to a better way.

If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

An older article, and yet just as relevant a reminder as ever...

If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided? How us-versus-them thinking costs our companies and our country.

Blockchain — What You Need to Know

Found this article on blockchain and watched a Ted Talk on it, but don't really feel like I really understand how it works. Have any suggestions for an article/video that goes a bit deeper but isn't too technical?

Blockchain — What You Need to Know Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School professor and co-founder of the HBS Digital Initiative, discusses blockchain, an online record-keeping technology that many believe will revolutionize commerce.…

Strategy in the Age of Superabundant Capital

Really interesting article, and great graphic on the changing cost of capital...

Strategy in the Age of Superabundant Capital Money is no longer a scarce resource. That changes everything.

Growth strategy: How to scale your small business

"Do it, delegate it, automate it..."

Growth strategy: How to scale your small business As an SMB owner, do you feel overwhelmed at the difficult feat of juggling tasks and going it alone? Explore how to use a growth strategy to your advantage.

Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded

So simple and yet so accurate. -And you can find that root cause influencing behavior in all aspects of life.

Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded There has never been a better time to be alive, and yet in the richest countries, there is a growing sense of unease and helplessness because people no longer feel useful.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule

I really like this article. It also makes me think of a recent conversation with a fellow Harvard Business School alum about books. He tends to read certain books repeatedly to really drive the message home. Personally, I tend to read more variety, which makes me sometimes think that if I just sat down and focused on implementing one of those books I would get better results. In any event, knowledge is power!

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Oprah Winfrey All Use the 5-Hour Rule Top business leaders often spend five hours per week doing deliberate learning.

Want to Raise a Trail-Blazing Daughter? 'The Notorious RBG' Says Do These 7 Things

Really nice article as I raise a little girl, and as the husband of a high achiever, I appreciate this quote, "I have had more than a little bit of luck in life, but nothing equals in magnitude my marriage to Martin D. Ginsburg. I do not have words adequate to describe my supersmart, exuberant, ever-loving spouse. ... And I betray no secret in reporting that, without him, I would not have gained a seat on the Supreme Court."

Want to Raise a Trail-Blazing Daughter? 'The Notorious RBG' Says Do These 7 Things U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a few words of advice for you.

LinkedIn Pulse

If I could take one of these lessons and teach it to my younger self, it would be the value of networks...

LinkedIn Pulse Keep your head down and your nose to the grindstone. That’s what a lot of us were taught to believe about work. But is it really the best strategy? I

9 Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women

Sad that this article even had to be written...

9 Non-Threatening Leadership Strategies for Women Female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive or competent. Here are 9 non-threatening leadership strategies for women.

7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job

Agreed...

7 Reasons the Best Employees Quit, Even When They Like Their Job To win at being the best company, you must first win over your best employees.

Forbes.com

If you can tolerate the obnoxiously awful Forbes.com experience of having to click multiple pages to read an article while being fed autoplaying ads, this article provides some good points, which can be summarized as: Buy experiences not things because people adapt to things and they therefore don't make you happier...

Forbes.com Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.

You've Had the Annual Strategy Development Meeting. Now What?

I'm reminded of a good piece of advice I once received: strategic planning is simply taking your strategy and splitting it into 3 parts, then taking those 3 parts and splitting them into 3 more parts, etc...

You've Had the Annual Strategy Development Meeting. Now What? A strategic plan demands strategic ex*****on across the whole of your business. Plans are just paper until leaders getting people to implement them. Here's how.

I Built A Bot To Apply To Thousands Of Jobs At Once–Here’s What I Learned | Fast Company

An interesting validation of what is fairly common knowledge: applying for positions online doesn't work:

I Built A Bot To Apply To Thousands Of Jobs At Once–Here’s What I Learned | Fast Company As this job seeker’s “faith in the front-facing application process eroded into near oblivion,” a lower-tech strategy took its place.

Hockey stick dreams, hairy back reality | Strategy & Corporate Finance

Great article, and the "hairy back graph" is both funny and accurate...

Hockey stick dreams, hairy back reality | Strategy & Corporate Finance The ambitious hopes of strategy forecasts tend to fail over and over again--producing an unfortunate pattern you'll likely recognize. Here’s why it happens, and what to do about it.

Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Makes me think I need to read the McKinsey study he cites...

Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out A response to new data from McKinsey.

3 signs your leadership is failing

Some interesting thoughts on leadership...

3 signs your leadership is failing It's all too easy for leaders to have an overly confident opinion of their effectiveness. Here are the signs that your leadership is faltering.