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If you want happy workers, stop treating them like children
This article was brought to my attention by the fine folks at HBR – thought I’d share: Recently, there’s been something of a happiness backlash against America’s obsession with feeling happy at work. That’s because some companies have been going about it in the wrong way, working on short-term solutions that tend to treat employees…
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The Necessity of Failure
I would hope by now, that everyone understands that failure is nothing to fear. Also understand that getting to that point is a real trick sometimes. “There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them or…
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The Google way of attacking problems
Liked this HBR post. What do you think of the Google approach? One Friday afternoon in 2002, long before his company became a household verb, Larry Page walked into the office kitchen and posted some printouts of results from Google’s AdWords engine. On top, in big bold letters, he wrote, “THESE ADS SUCK.” In most companies, this…