Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us Productive
Working alone is out. Organizations, schools, and culture are in the thrall of what Susan Cain calls “the new groupthink,” which holds that creativity derives from our gregariousness. “Most of us,” she...
View ArticleBecome A Learning Machine
I always find it interesting and revealing when different people offer the same advice. Especially when those pople are not connected and come from different fundamental disciplines. Charlie Munger,...
View ArticleWhat is Deliberate Practice?
You’ve probably been doing your job for a while. If you’re like most people, your performance has plateaued. Simply put, you’ve stopped getting better at what you do. This is because you don’t use...
View ArticleIncreasing The Productivity of Computer Programmers and Engineers
If you want to make your computer programmers and engineers more effective give them “privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption.” Via Susain...
View ArticleHow You Can Make Brainstorming Better
Generally brainstorming is inefficient and ineffective. The benefits, if any, tend to fall into the social category and not the creative one. New research suggests that with some tweaking we can...
View ArticleTemperament Matters: In Life and Business
I love this excerpt from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking on Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and one of the wealthiest men in the world, has used...
View ArticleQuiet: Why Introverts Have a Creative Advantage
In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain looks at how our lives are shaped by personality. The book explores how where we land on the introvert-extrovert...
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