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Work Both Expands (And Shrinks) To Fit The Time Allotted
One of the most interesting things I find about project management is that many of the supposed “myths” regarding time and work are true. Work indeed expands to fill the time allotted…
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Party For Results, Not Rank
Looking to make your business more innovative? Stop celebrating promotions. The corporate world is an interesting place. For the longest time, it was mired in a hierarchical structure, with workers reporting to…
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7 Tips For Dealing With The Coronavirus And Future Black Swans
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation out there on this pandemic. Much of it is designed, in my view, to throw people into a panic. In our practice, we have a…
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Humans Are Awesome
“Oh, what a piece of work is man.” Have you ever just stopped and looked around you and marveled at everything around you? Unless you are a member of a remote tribe…
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how to stop toxic employees
Have you ever come out of a meeting thinking, wow, there are some terrible people are working here! Some only care about making themselves look good, so they pull down everyone around…
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Eliminating Human Bias By Eliminating Humans.
In a previous post, I talked about how Amazon shut down their AI-guided recruiting experiment because they could not successfully drive out bias, for both the learning data and the programmers. Since…
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Don’t Panic! We Will Be Working With AI, Not For AI.
Many futurists have made dire predictions of the future of work, based on the emerging capabilities of AI. I’ve heard numbers of jobs lost in the millions, and one futurist says that…
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Day Jobs Are So 20th Century.
Lately, I’ve been having an increasing number of conversations with individuals who are currently in a non-traditional career. Of the people I’ve spoken to, both those with typical corporate gigs, startup founders…
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How To Staff Your Innovation Group
Fill It Full Of Doits, And You’ll Never Be Short Of Ideas A while back, I wrote a blog post about the two kinds of people in the world, the ShouldWes and…
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Help! I’m Just a Puny Human
Have We Created Too Much To Handle? Pity the poor human – we start off with an amazing memory, a sponge-like ability to observe and learn, with sharp senses of vision, hearing,…
