Stop spending time with people like yourself
It’s better for you, long-run. Continue Reading
Human Behavior
Angry tweets are how you can get noticed
I don’t really actively go on Twitter that much — I send tweets from it and use it periodically, sure, and most mornings I realize I have about three less followers than I had the morning before and I think to myself Man,… Continue Reading
Social Media: Focus on ‘retention,’ not ‘going viral’
Here’s an interesting little story. There’s a paper by Microsoft and Stanford University called “The Structural Virality Of Online Diffusion.” It’s well summarized at Convince and Convert, and here’s the essential rub: the researchers looked at one billion events (one Billion!) as they… Continue Reading
Future of Work: Maximizers vs. satisficers
I just discovered the blog associated with ‘I Done This’ — task management software, better (less) meetings, etc. — and it’s pretty good. Here’s an entry on “maximizers” and “satisficers.” There’s a visual comparison I’ll post below, but essentially you can… Continue Reading
IQ, EQ? Valid. How about CQ? (Curiosity quotient.)
Why don’t we think about hiring models more in line with people that are curious and WANT to learn, as opposed to evaluating what knowledge people already have? Continue Reading
No one really understands the unemployment rate
There are actually six different “unemployment rates,” although predominantly when people use that term in cocktail party banter, they mean “the number of people looking for work who can’t actively find it.” But by no means is that the entire picture (I wrote… Continue Reading
Exploring white attitudes on African-Americans in prisons
The whole topic of racial attitudes around incarnation is very fraught — and also very complicated, as entire bodies of research are penned on it across people’s careers. I can’t begin to scratch the surface. I do know this, as… Continue Reading
55 percent of employees are eating during conference calls (and more fun stats)
One of my least-favorite expressions in the cubicle world is “hop on a call.” Anyone that’s been on a series of conference calls knows that they’re pretty off-task affairs, in general: it’s highly probable that over 60 percent of the people… Continue Reading