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rubix cube See Also Here’s What Happened When A Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing By 1% Here’s How Smart You Have To Be To Succeed 4 Simple Ways To Achieve Rapid Success Richard Feynman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all-time. (He was a pretty solid bongo player as well). [1] Feynman received his undergraduate degree from MIT and his Ph.D. […]
Identifying where influence exists and the direction of that influence Website Correlation or Causation? – Jon Muller, North Central College. Provides several useful activities to teach the difference between correlation and causation, a link to a description of correlation and causation, and popular press articles that provide the opportunity to assess data presented in mainstream media. Books Browne, N.M. & Keeley, S.M. (2010). Are there rival causes? In Asking the right questions: A guide […]
Failed IT projects cost the world’s largest 500 companies more than $14 billion a year. (National Association of Corporate Directors) To gain competitive advantage and keep pace with regulatory requirements, organizations are undertaking an unprecedented amount of transformational change. The benefits of such big, IT-heavy projects can be great – but they’re not without risks. Failure to manage these risks successfully can have many adverse consequences, both operational and reputational. What’s more, these initiatives […]
View more from the Leadership is the global obsession. Thousands of recent books—many of them best sellers—have dissected the leadership styles of great leaders from Jesus to Jefferson. Business writers, too, have joined the frenzy. The trouble is, much of the business literature on leadership—unlike the broader literature on the subject—starts with the assumption that leaders are rational beings. In part, that’s because readers come to these business books for advice, so they get […]
Leroy Williams works in lockstep with the rest of the executive committee at Ball to continually invest in technology that enhances economic value add—the beacon metric for the manufacturer and its shareholders. With his 10-year anniversary as CIO at Ball fast approaching, he must be doing something right. Over a 20-year career, Leroy Williams has worked in industries as varied as telecom, banking, state government, and manufacturing. While he acknowledges that deep industry knowledge […]
by DeAnne Aguirre, Rutger von Post, and Micah Alpern Culture is critically important to business success, according to 84 percent of the more than 2,200 global participants in the 2013 culture and change management survey. Findings also suggest strong correlations between the success of change programs and whether culture was leveraged in the change process — pointing to the need for a more culture-oriented approach to change. However, there is a clear disparity between […]
When you’re learning a new skill—whether developing dance moves or websites —quantity is way more important than quality. Why? Over at Medium , entrepreneur-essayist Herbert Lui expounds on expansion: Quantity should be a higher priority than quality, because it leads to higher quality. The shorter path to maximized quality is in maximized quantity, and executing on the feedback after each finished product. To put it into startup terms , you’re making yourself maximally iterative. […]
View more from the Why don’t customers do what they say they’ll do? Consider the experience of the home appliance manufacturer Electrolux. On the basis of its customer feedback, it once contemplated offering free washing machines and using smart technology inside them to charge customers by the wash. In prelaunch research, consumers had welcomed the idea for several reasons: The washers involved no up-front purchase costs, used less energy, would be upgraded at no […]
Loading… All organizations are political – and to some degree, they always will be. The underlying reasons are psychological. First, work involves dealing with people. That means finding a compromise between what they want and what we want; and it’s often a zero-sum game. Second, humans are emotional creatures, biased by unconscious needs and riddled with insecurities. As the great Dale Carnegie, who probably knew more about the art of politics than anyone else, […]
Defining Critical Thinking Sample Weekly Essays from Psychology 101 Classes How To Be A Critical Thinker (based on Critical and Creative Thinking by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris) “The philosopher Richard Paul has described three kinds of people: vulgar believers, who use slogans and platitudes to bully those holding different points of view into agreeing with them; sophisticated believers, who are skilled at using intellectual arguments, but only to defend what they already believe; […]