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Social media under scrutiny
November 3, 2017This week, we seem to be completely awash in information about social media and polarization, which is of course...
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Some life lessons from artistic pursuits
June 27, 2014Last week, I wrote of an example of deliberate practice from my past: studying theatre and performing with Bernard Uzan...
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Steve Jobs and the “holy wars”
April 10, 2014When I read a recent headline in the Financial Times that proclaimed “Steve Jobs promised a ‘holy war’ on Google” it made...
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Reflecting a bit more on managers and leaders
June 14, 2013Last week, I wrote of my intention to share some of the images I particularly like, metaphors that...
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A quick visit to California
October 4, 2012Today, I am temporarily putting aside my discussion of mastery, greatness, and deliberate practice, and choosing instead to give...
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Designing better bosses for a new generation, continued
May 29, 2012Last time, we looked at two of the lessons from Google’s Project Oxygen, their effort to build better managers....
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Designing better bosses for a new generation
May 21, 2012For the past few weeks, we have been discussing Google’s Project Oxygen, their plan to define the attributes of...
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Google’s plan to engineer better bosses (continued)
May 9, 2012As we saw previously, in early 2009, Google launched a vast internal study designed to determine and share the...
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Google’s interesting approach to HR research
May 4, 2012In March 2011, I read a New York Times article about management research at Google. Last week, I got...
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Management for the Information Age
April 17, 2012As discussed in the previous post, the managerial capitalism of the Industrial Age succeeded because it produced growth through...