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➻ Let's start with a quote, brought to our attention by a Vox Communications post entitled Read this male CEO's feminist explanation of why he's quitting: Friends and colleagues often ask my wife how she balances her job and motherhood. Somehow, the same people don't ask me. The above pull-quote is from Max Schireson, CEO of database company MongoDB, extracted from a blog post he published revealing why he was stepping down from his CEO position.
August 08, 2014
Blog / Jack Covert Selects
As part of the generation to know life both with and without the internet, Michael Harris sets out to discover what the it stole from everyday living—absence.
August 15, 2014
By Sally Haldorson
No matter how smart we are, if we don’t train ourselves to notice what is not immediately in front of us, then we cannot make the best decisions.
Creating a Coaching Culture: A Playbook to Build Winning Business Teams by Nathan Jamail “In business, most of our employees are not as good as they could be—not because of our love for them or our desire to make their lives better than ours, but . . .
August 21, 2014
Blog / Interviews
"[M]ost organizations and managers today focus on the amount of time that employees appear to spend doing something and not on what they actually produce. This has to change. Just because employees are “putting in hours” doesn’t mean anything.
September 03, 2014
"Everyone always talks about the customer but in my opinion change must start from the inside first. . .
September 04, 2014
Chris Guillebeau didn’t know he had set out on a quest to travel to every country in the world until he had traveled to the first 50.
September 12, 2014
The vast majority of articles about startups and innovation focus on Silicon Valley. Today we look at two innovators far removed from the typical incubators.
October 27, 2014
Refuting the concept of work/life balance, Leading the Life You Want instead explains that whatever balance we wish to achieve will always ebb and flow.
Throughout The Innovators, Isaacson maintains a delicate balance between the drama of human relationships and the crucial technical details.
October 29, 2014
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