Maria Popova wrote a post on The Marginalian titled How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently.
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Marcel Schwantes wrote an article for Inc. titled Science Discovered That Banning Small Talk from Your Conversations Makes You Happier.
Continue reading “Better questions to start more substantive discussions”Good leaders tell their people “I’ve got your back”—and mean it.
Gregg Vanourek and Bob Vanourek wrote an article titled Leaders, Do You Have Your People’s Backs? (18 September 2023).
Continue reading “Good leaders tell their people “I’ve got your back”—and mean it.”Knightian uncertainty
I recently posted a review of the book Why Can’t You Just Give Me The Number? An Executive’s Guide to Using Probabilistic Thinking to Manage Risk and Make Better Decisions by Patrick Leach. In response, Rick Nason commented about the “Knightian distinction of risk & probability.”
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Lucinda Holdforth wrote a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald titled ‘A lot of nonsense’: It’s time to call out LinkedIn (29 July 2023).
Continue reading “LinkedIn Nonsense”Ludwig Erhard, Germany’s first Minister of Economics
Lawrence W. Reed wrote an article titled Ludwig Erhard: Architect of a Miracle. Erhard was the first Minister of Economic Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, a position he held from 1949 to 1963.
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Jocelyn Moveck and Matt O’Brien wrote an article for the Associated Press titled Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work (31 August 2023).
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Greg Sarafin wrote an article for EY titled Seven business models for creating ecosystem value (1 Dec 2021).
Continue reading “EY: 7 business models for creating ecosystem value”Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini on The End of Bureaucracy at Haier
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The End of Bureaucracy: How a Chinese appliance maker is reinventing management for the digital age (November–December 2018). The article is about the extreme decentralization and accountability at Haier, which bought GE’s appliance business in 2016.
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