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Management: Your late-night emails are hurting your team
What’s your management approach when it comes to communications? This article can’t be shared enough. Credit to HBR. Around 11 p.m., you realize there’s a key step your team needs to take on a current project. So, you dash off an email to the team members while you’re thinking about it. No time like the present, right?…
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Ideas for building a culture of originality
A must-read. You will most likely recognize the first work culture environment described. And perhaps enjoy a few suggestions for change. – pw If there’s one place on earth where originality goes to die, I’d managed to find it. I was charged with unleashing innovation and change in the ultimate bastion of bureaucracy. It was a place…
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For better creativity, protect your alone time
In my experience, the office has never been a particularly conducive place for creativity. Instead, it likes to pop out at times when I used to least expect it, such as during runs, or washing dishes (as mentioned in this article by HBR). I am a big proponent of time away from the office but…
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The Impostor Syndrome
In my experience, the folks who have no doubts about their abilities are usually the ones that absolutely should. Enjoy this article on the Imposter Syndrome from NYT. On paper, your investments in stocks, real estate or even cash may look like your greatest assets. While all those things are superimportant, you have something else…
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Richard Branson and the mission statement
I am currently reading (and loving) Richard Branson‘s The Virgin Way: Everything I know about leadership. Although I’m six chapters in, this is a book I’m recommending to peers and Branson’s take on the mission statement –of which I found an excerpt on Entrepreneur— really hit home. RICHARD BRANSON Author and Founder of Virgin Group. At some…