“Tough CEOs don’t recognize the value of human-centered leaders who … improve workers’ performance“

“… [they need to learn some hard truths about accountability and empathy … Strong leaders focus on what’s best for teams”

#teamsfirst #strategy

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“Everything old is new again” —some ideas about how to reform corporate governance with #clarity of purpose and #strategy have longer roots in the past than you’d expect

A better #socialcontract usually means doing more #business

#firstprinciples

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If “past is prologue,” we’re in for a lot more pain down the road as #affluenza becomes more widespread among those in charge of spending. The fraying #socialcontract is nonexistent when work matters less than inheritance

www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

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The out-of-control wealth of Boomers—and out-of-control Boomers—coming into sharper focus in recent #media coverage of the #inequalitycrisis, including from a surprising source: one of Rupert Murdoch’s own news outlets

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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“It airs out,” most people think. But as plastic (also in car tires) degrades, it does not biodegrade, filling our closed atmosphere—it’s been found in Antarctica. We have to stop treating it like a sewer

#environment #sustainability

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It’s possible #tech is a factor—I think it’s how you use it, though

I noticed a huge difference in the #clarity of my thinking after filtering my indoor air with Airdog air filters, which use plasma technology to zap particles and microplastics that HEPA filters alone can miss

Some might blame recreational marijuana for the recent accelerated decline, but that’s not the case. A more likely culprit is air pollution—especially PM 2.5, which crosses the blood-brain barrier & wreaks havoc on our cognitive abilities

www.vice.com/en/article/w...

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IQ has been falling across the western world, but I did notice a change in the rate of decline in 2012 during the rise of car-based convenience apps on our phones: Uber, Doordash and the like

#health #culture

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www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

www.ft.com/content/a801...

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Add in America’s broken corporate #culture, and you had a toxic mix of performative #productivity that lacked substance: “all hat and no cattle” 🤠 —or empty suits in shorts and flip flops 🩴

www.fastcompany.com/91142957/why...

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The problem with the Silicon Valley #tech industry? Tech bros and dumb jocks came here to bring a finance mentality, all about the money

They have no idea what they’re actually working on: #firstprinciples (actual wisdom, not Elon’s hare-brained invention)

www.fastcompany.com/91426058/why...

… you can also give something “the old college try,” a dated expression, but maybe it needs newfound relevance in #tech as rudderless teams are burning out from poor #leadership

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#strategy #orgdesign

@hbr.org calls it “rituals,” but another way of putting it is #atomichabits

Setting up the right #structure in #orgdesign allows #leadership to make performance a way of life, instead of leaving it to chance 🎲 (good luck!)

“Decoding” happens faster if you put your team’s heads together on a project sooner using #designthinking, which still has value in the #AI age

More pieces of the puzzle 🧩 can come into view for more of the team

#collaboration #teamsfirst

Regular #ux still has value too. Latin America may be overlooked by most #business stakeholders because of the U.S. exceptionalism that tells us America is a country instead of a continent

#nationalism, provincial thinking, isn’t just toxic in #politics: money is being left on the table

It’s the one renewable Trump supports: “drill, baby, drill”

Timely guide from @financialtimes.com 😂 … I was quietest working in healthcare: when lives are on the line you let the most experienced people speak, and I was actually on a deadline-free project once

In college we had people say nonsense for the participation grade

This is for those folks:

MIT Sloan writes about “a new corporate architecture” in its latest in “embedding purpose” as a #strategy in #orgdesign

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A new approach to corporate governance can be more responsive and adaptive:

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