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Do we use the wrong criteria when we choose investments?
November 10, 2016My ongoing exploration of Southwest Airlines, with its unusual people policies, and simultaneously sensational stock market results, has been...
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Maybe leadership and culture do matter
November 3, 2016Toward the end of our previous post, we cited a research project commissioned by Money magazine for its gala 30th anniversary...
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Finding idleness in the swimming pool
September 24, 2015In the last post, I commented that the lifestyle of Pico Iyer—a travel writer who lives unplugged from nearly...
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My own search for stillness…or why I often ski alone
September 17, 2015The last two posts—on idleness and stillness—have pushed me toward some further reading and exploring around these and other...
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Praise for the idle mind
August 28, 2015On a long overnight flight this week, I watched a TED talk by Brazilian luminary Ricardo Semler, entitled “Work...
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Why we have trouble doing nothing
August 20, 2015When I began perusing the research paper “Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection”, one of...
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Thoughts about the learning-thinking connection
August 13, 2015This week, I delve a bit more into some of the ideas of the paper I referred to last...
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Reflection and the young, busy manager
August 6, 2015Recently, I spoke to a focused and lively audience at Banco Galicia in Buenos Aires. For the past two...
