Liat Ben-Zur, who’se understanding and instincts for what’s coming next I trust, linked yesterday to an article about the rising number of pieces of content shared on Facebook. The article says: – 5 Billion pieces of content were shared on Facebook per week during February, according to data released by the company. This is up big from [...]
There is such good advice in the world — such amazingly good advice. There are the answers that talented, gifted, passionate human beings have developed over decades of hard work. We can’t take their advice whole cloth — our lives are our own. But to even take a snippet here, a portion there, would enrich [...]
Want to live to be 90? Watch this great video from TED. Interestingly enough, many of the factors that contribute to longevity are social — degrees of social connectedness, friendship and, my favorite ”ikigai” 生き甲斐 — being firmly in touch with the reason you get out of bed in the morning. The talk is long (19 minutes) but [...]
A thought-provoking post over at Robin Hanson’s Overcoming Bias in which he reviews an interesting study about country- by-country management practices. The money chart is: – - Hanson’s post has a good summary and the full report is available here. I was particularly interested in the country-by-breakdown of prevalent management practices. The one concern I’d have about the report is the degree [...]
While Reading about Leading is about leadership development, my posts range in their topics. Other blogs like Leading Blog and the Leadership Hub deal with the topic a bit more directly, and I have an RSS feed to Leading Blog (called Leadership Now) in the sidebar. The reason I like a broader focus is twofold: First, because I’m interested in just about everything. [...]
So the thesis of yesterday’s post was that some portion of the current unemployment rate probably represents a structural change — that is, rather than seeing 10% unemployment as “high” and 5% as “normal”, it probably makes sense to ask, “what if 7 or 8% unemployment is the new normal?” In particular, what would the [...]
I find that developing a big-picture “guess” about the future is useful. It helps me to understand some of the broadest trends my client organizations face and helps me to understand otherwise unrelated data and fit it into an overall pattern. I may be wrong, but I find its better to have a point of view [...]
