The important ingredient, the thing that gets teams into The Zone, is not peace and harmony and sameness--it's engaging the tension between their perspectives, heuristics, ideas, and differences.
There’s a big difference, in other words, between having a mentor guide our practice and having a mentor guide our journey. OUR TYPICAL PARADIGM FOR mentorship is that of a young, enterprising worker...
They have so much money that they have nothing to prove to anyone. And many of them are totally depressed.
Too many of us place our hopes and dreams in the unreliable hands of luck, but the world’s most rapidly successful people take luck into their own hands (even though many are too humble to say so). To...
WE LIVE IN AN age of nontraditional ladder climbing. Not just in politics, but in business and personal development and education and entertainment and innovation. Traditional paths are not just slow;...
Playing, it turns out, makes us less afraid of cognitive friction.
Oscar Wilde once said, Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. The mourners at Startup Funeral are among the many people in the American technology culture who regularly celebrate sai...
All ten of the top ten presidents in C-SPAN’s survey were hackers. Only one, JFK, climbed a semblance of a traditional ladder; he served in both houses of Congress, but was a war hero and author of a...
By itself, one small win may seem unimportant, writes Dr. Karl Weick in a seminal paper for American Psychologist in 1984. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern t...
Like The Second City, Upworthy turned its work into rapid, scientific experiments. It turned tiny failures into depersonalized feedback and created an environment where total failure was nearly imposs...
Kids there have much more sense that they’re going to have to construct their own future, Wagner says. They’re taught to be entrepreneurs of their own lives. Instead of standing passively on an educat...
Crucially, experts tended to be able to turn off the part of their egos that took legitimate feedback personally when it came to their craft, and they were confident enough to parse helpful feedback f...
If you had an Internet connection and lived in North America at the time, you may have seen it. Vasquez is the man behind the Double Rainbow video, which at last check had 38 million views. In the cli...
In an age of platforms, creative problem solving is more valuable than computational skill. To
20% Time is not Google indigenous. It was borrowed from a company formerly known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, aka 3M, which allowed its employees to spend 15 percent of their work hours expe...
The Happiest Story about a Kid Dying of Cancer I’ve Ever Seen. Upworthy watched the feedback pour in, monitoring both the percentage of people who clicked each headline and the number who shared it wi...
The secret to harnessing momentum is to build up potential energy, so that unexpected opportunities can be amplified.
Good stories surprise us. They make us think and feel. They stick in our minds and help us remember ideas and concepts in a way that a PowerPoint crammed with bar graphs never can.
Traditional paths are not just slow; they’re no longer viable if we want to compete and innovate.
In the end, Castro’s revolutionary message reached a massive audience through a superconnector—a radio—but the rebels won the people’s hearts because they showed that they sincerely cared. The movemen...
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