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Scaffolds and talent

Seth Godin Blog

Kindergarten teachers matter more than you think. Chess isn’t a talent, it’s a learned practice. We’re sorting for head starts, not growth. And that’s just the first chapter. I think Hidden Potential is the most important book in Adam Grant’s career.

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How to Manage an Employee Who Always Makes Excuses

Harvard Business

Your job as a manager is to create a process that acts as a performance scaffold to strengthen an employee’s alignment, capability, and motivation. But of course, exactly which planks you need in that scaffold depends on the person’s specific shortcomings. It should also negate their standard excuses.

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High Rise – High Risk – High Reward

Martinka Consulting

Gazing out the window of a high-rise I saw workers on scaffolding on a building across the street. Within a business the scaffolding reminds me of what too many businesses have, and that’s a dependency. My first reaction was, “That looks like fun. It must be exciting to work above the city.”.

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Scaffolding

CaseInterview.com

In the process of learning teaching methods for math, I came across the term "scaffolding.". In construction, scaffold refers to the temporary metal frame with large wood planks that surrounds a construction site. The scaffold gives construction workers a place to stand while working on the exterior of a building. another 1, 2.

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Right Now, You Need to Lead 

Brimstone Consulting

The work of Edgar Schein is in the scaffolding of our organization. ?We What is important now is to act. . Focus on your process : g ood process gives good results. Use change as a strategy and technology as an enabler. . We build relationships with our clients. We always ask how we can help. ?We

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Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

Harvard Business

In a study of teaming in a busy urban hospital’s emergency department, we found that implementing minimal role-based structures – which we call team scaffolds – helped people in different clinical roles collaborate effectively despite working together only temporarily.

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The Pentagon’s “Force of the Future” Reinvents Hiring

BCG

But, in the past few months, the intellectual groundwork has been laid, and the scaffolding of the future system is clearly visible. This once-in-a-generation overhaul of the personnel system in the DoD will take years, and it will extend over the terms of several defense secretaries.