I want to write a bunch on this blog in 2015 about the notion of setting priorities, because I think it’s one of the most interesting aspects of human existence (sorry to oversell that), especially as it gets ramped up… Continue Reading
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There’s this book called Absolute Value, co-authored by Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen. They’re both professors at Stanford; there’s an article up now at the Stanford GSB website on how “the digital age rewrote consumer behavior,” which is something I think everyone inherently knows/understands,… Continue Reading
As year-end reviews go, anything LinkedIn does has the potential to be fairly interesting: after all, they have 350 million profiles with information about people’s professional backgrounds, skill sets, experiences, and connections. (And despite that, they probably haven’t made recruiting that much… Continue Reading
Back in February, I wrote a post about how men were actually working from home and taking care of kids more than women in some contexts. I’m always dubious of these studies because, while I want to believe them, I also… Continue Reading
We already know that 89 billion business e-mails are sent in a given day (that figure is probably higher for 2014), no one even remotely contextualizes their e-mail (so that everyone assumes everything has to be responded to immediately), e-mail… Continue Reading
The general attitude you encounter in most U.S. workplaces is that people dislike their job, aren’t that engaged, don’t love their managers, don’t feel respected, think their manager doesn’t understand motivation — and yet are always busy and don’t have time… Continue Reading