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Leadership Tip #2: Do the Right Thing, Even When it Feels Uncomfortable

Johanna Rothman

Those actions mean the people in the organization live in a zero-sum game. Use the leadership-tip tag here to find them.). If your organization ranks people , or rewards people on their deliverables, don't expect a lot of psychological safety. Consider These Questions to Reinforce Everyone's Value-Based Integrity.

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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

But while these are sensible strategies, few companies outside of the technology industry are achieving their desired returns on the eye-popping price tags of some of these deals, in part because they overvalue flashy technologies. Users in Different Ecosystems. And the company had plenty of motivated talent.

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Is Gathering Real Time "Inflation" Data With Smart Phones a "Game Changer"?

MishTalk

The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer. Software automatically tags the location of the products down to the individual store and analyzes the images—items such as meat and produce—to gauge quality differences. Gallup can easily track unemployment and this firm can better track consumer.

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4 Ways to Teach Your Kids About Work (Without Adding More to Your Plate)

Harvard Business

Therefore, as I read each book, I tag passages that I’d like to go back to later. My sons compile all the tagged sections into one document. They curate my notes because I pay them, but you can also involve your kids by creating a game or competition such as answering trivia questions from the books at the dinner table.

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Business Voyeurism

Martinka Consulting

What I got was one short game of phone tag. It’s also a fantastic place for dreamers. Five or six years ago I wasted a few thousand dollars on Google Adwords and similar from Yahoo and Bing. I never talked to a live person or exchanged emails with anybody. Business voyeurs. It’s so easy to click and look without serious intent.

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What Will Happen When Your Company’s Algorithms Go Wrong?

Harvard Business

Other examples include problems caused by poorly-designed functions that would reward AIs for only partially desirable behaviors, such as pausing a game to avoid losing, or repeatedly touching a soccer ball to get credit for possession. 2015: Image tagging software classified black people as gorillas.

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Part 3: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with Skills, Endorsements & Accomplishments

Successful Independent Consulting

The first article in this series about how to optimize LinkedIn profiles explains how to create an excellent first impression with a photo, background image, and a succinct “tag line” to summarize your brand and expertise. Although it seems a bit like gaming the system, there’s no rule against it.