OutliersViews:239 | Author:Malcolm Gladwell | Posted on August 4, 2010It turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructed. In English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so..
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How will you measure your life?Views:500 | Comments:3 | Author:Clayton M Christensen | Posted on August 3, 2010Before I published The innovator’s dilemma: When new technologies cause great firms to fail, I got a call from Andrew Grove, then the chairman of Intel. He had read one of my early papers about ..
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Living a rich life without losing your soulViews:367 | Author:Steven Z Leder | Posted on August 2, 2010If a genie gave you the choice between riches or beauty, which would you choose? Most people would probably pick wealth. As we all know, beauty fades, but money earns interest with time. Many of us wh..
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Get rid of the performance review!Views:219 | Author:Samuel Culbert | Posted on August 1, 2010As far as I’m concerned, there’s one certainty about performance reviews: they are a curse upon our workplaces. They allow bosses to intimidate, rather than manage. They hurt morale and pr..
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Get rid of the performance review!Views:355 | Comments:14 | Author:Samuel Culbert | Posted on July 30, 2010As far as I’m concerned, there’s one certainty about performance reviews: they are a curse upon our workplaces. They allow bosses to intimidate, rather than manage. They hurt morale and pr..
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Deep EconomyViews:386 | Author:Bill McKibben | Posted on July 29, 2010For most of human history, the two birds More and Better roosted on the same branch… You could toss one stone and hope to hit both. But the distinguishing feature of our moment is this: Better ..
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A framework for measuring social perfromanceViews:281 | Author:Alnoor Ebrahim | Posted on July 27, 2010The social sector is in the midst of a search for metrics of impact. Leaders of organisations in the social sector are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems..
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A user's guide to the brainViews:297 | Author:John Ratey | Posted on July 26, 2010Certainly, much of the course of our brains’ development is determined while we are foetuses and young children. But as we will see, there are many other factors that can alter the process &mdas..
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Imagining IndiaViews:232 | Comments:2 | Author:Nandan Nilekani | Posted on July 25, 2010The evolution of IT worldwide has given us a whiff of its potential. Since the invention of the transistor, technology has evolved to astonish even its most optimistic champions. Computers and other f..
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Imagining IndiaViews:200 | Author:Nandan Nilekani | Posted on July 24, 2010The evolution of IT worldwide has given us a whiff of its potential. Since the invention of the transistor, technology has evolved to astonish even its most optimistic champions. Computers and other f..
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