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Understanding social capital at work

I’ve written a little about these types of ideas before, like the power of friends at work or how to use social capital for better networking or even how leadership can be drastically improved if people just walk around and talk to… Continue Reading

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Treat your best-performing employees like your best-performing customers

The SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) conference is going on/potentially ending right now in Las Vegas, and I’m insanely bitter because I’ve been writing about human resources and organizational development topics for about 18 months now and I was… Continue Reading

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The basic life path is changing, and we should address that

I got this idea from here. Let’s look at the “standard first-world life path:” Pretty simple, yes? You start in a “safety net” — meaning your parents are economically responsible for you, then you learn (K-12, college), and then you leave… Continue Reading

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When will people get annoyed by everyone discussing Big Data?

Probably pretty soon, right? Here’s the thing with Big Data, IMHO: most businesses, especially the publicly-traded ones, are quarterly in nature. They need results now now now. Big Data is a bit of a longer-term play. First off, you need… Continue Reading

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Link short-term decision-making to long-term goals

In the grand scheme of writing this blog, one of the most interesting things that I think I’ve ever written is this whole idea of “micro” vs. “macro.” Basically, you can get consensus among one group (say, a senior leadership… Continue Reading

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Why your job has so many “experts”

Got this quote from here, which is an overall interesting article about why the advent of the Internet has made us all feel smarter: This happens in politics a lot. You end up thinking you know arguments better than you… Continue Reading

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Worry less about how relevant you are

Relevant Elephant

I think there’s sometimes a big concern with the very “work is virtue” people — and you all probably know a lot of them — that if they stop working, they’ll just shrivel up and die. That happens a lot… Continue Reading

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Stop withholding information down the business chain

Got that chart from here. It’s an article written by Lou Solomon, who is the CEO of Interact, and is on the ol’ Twitter machine here. Here’s another thing I got from the article (overall it makes a lot of great points,… Continue Reading