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From planking to pizzas: the new rules for a successful meeting

2/5/2018

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Amazon employees sit in silence – while Tesla boss Elon Musk advocates walking out if you aren’t adding value. But how can you stop wasting your life in pointless meetings? Here’s an expert guide from the Guardian
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The five keys to a successful Google team

25/7/2017

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​A group of us in Google’s People Operations (what we call HR) set out to answer this question using data and rigorous analysis: What makes a Google team effective? ​ (more)
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A good one about assumptions

8/5/2017

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From the New Yorker Magazine: 'Everything I Am Afraid of If I Ask Acquaintances To Get Coffee'
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Something to think about

3/5/2017

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Why We Believe Obvious Untruths

7/3/2017

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How can so many people believe things that are demonstrably false?

This question has taken on new urgency as the Trump administration propagates falsehoods about voter fraud, climate change and crime statistics that large swaths of the population have bought into. But collective delusion is not new... (more)

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Bursting the CEO bubble

3/3/2017

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After interviews with 200 senior business executives, Hal Gregersen of MIT found that one of the virtues of good leadership is listening properly. The amount of literature devoted to teaching people how to become a successful executive is vast. And that’s no surprise: People aspire to be in the C...

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Google Finds That Successful Teams Are About Norms Not Just Smarts

9/12/2016

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Published Sept 3rd, 2016 by Hunter Walk

Which Google employees has made the biggest impact to the company over the past decade? Besides the familiar choices of Larry and Sundar, I’d nominate Google’s outgoing CPO Laszlo Bock. Under Laszlo’s direction Google’s hiring and management assumptions have been challenged by real data, resulting in transformative shifts such as *not* assuming college test scores are a predictor of success as a Googler.
Another important question was “What makes a team successful (or not)?” and Google’s research into this topic was beautifully recounted in a NYTimes Magazine article earlier this year.   (more...)
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What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team

9/12/2016

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 New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.
By CHARLES DUHIGG  (New York Times Magazine - Feb 25th 2016)

Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn’t a good match. Then she became a researcher for two professors at Harvard, which was interesting but lonely. Maybe a big corporation would be a better fit. Or perhaps a fast-growing start-up. All she knew for certain was that she wanted to find a job that was more social. ‘‘I wanted to be part of a community, part of something people were building together,’’ she told me. She thought about various opportunities — Internet companies, a Ph.D. program — but nothing seemed exactly right. So in 2009, she chose the path that allowed her to put off making a decision: She applied to business schools and was accepted by the Yale School of Management. (More)

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The Economic impact of bad meetings

26/10/2016

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So many meetings are a waste. Of time. Of money. of life... Here are some thoughts and talks from TED about the real costs of poor meetings. 
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How Napping changes your brain

12/9/2016

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Do you find that by the afternoon you are getting weary and losing focus? You may even find yourself starting to nod off. Chances are you need a good afternoon nap.  www.lifehack.org/409580/how-napping-changes-your-brain-that-makes-you-more-creative
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