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Inbox: friend or foe
If your job doesn’t fundamentally depend on your email*, then ask yourself if you control your email or if email controls you. Our Email Is A Monster (Oatmeal). Some ideas to consider: No matter how focused you are, when that little window flashes up in the corner of your screen or your phone beeps, you…
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Marginal Revolution: Is the generalist returning?
This Marginal Revolution article, based off the article “At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor” from The Atlantic, brings up a good point about specialization and generalizing: our current economy may be diverging from the standard theory that bigger and more complex economies and industries require more specialists. Or in other words, you may…
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Who controls Bagels & Bikes and why do we think that anyone should?
https://shift.newco.co/an-introduction-to-emergent-order-a20a9aa025f To appreciate why this is impressive, you might start by considering who decides how many retail outlets a city will have for bread and bagels. When your bakery opened in the place where it is now, it just as easily could have been a florist or a shoe store or a bike shop or…
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“from a C-Corp to a Public Benefit corporation”
https://www.fastcompany.com/3068547/why-kickstarter-decided-to-radically-transform-its-business-model This is a good development. I don’t disagree* with the charter of C-Corp (increase shareholder value), after all, most of us benefit from that every day (phones, cars, healthcare, most things in our homes). However, having a mechanism for a different model is a very good thing. This is an article about how KickStarter…
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Amazon’s No Outlier: The Science Behind Broken work Cultures
Article. We surveyed tens of thousands of people across different companies, industries, and sectors and consistently discovered that when their reasons for working are closely aligned with the work itself, their performance spikes. Otherwise, it suffers. While all of us could list hundreds of unique reasons why we do virtually anything, our research shows most…
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The best business process…
The best business process is one that the employees want to follow. The best business process is one that is easier than all the alternatives.
