One thing we’ve learned from Covid is that big companies are still run by flesh-and-blood human beings, not artificially intelligent data-crunchers. Despite frequent warnings about potential pandemics, most companies and […]
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Back to news homeWhy AI Will Never Replace Managers
Given that artificial intelligence is increasingly overtaking people on a range of expert tasks, will it someday make human managers obsolete? Luckily, there’s one cognitive ability where people still have […]
Why Intelligent Minds Like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk Embrace the WTP Rule to Develop Better Focus, Clarity, and Decision-Making Skills
In 1997, Steve Jobs famously walked back into Apple and discontinued 70 percent of its current and future product line. Newton PDA? Gone. Pippin? Gone. Twelve different Mac desktop versions? […]
Getting The Most Out Of Your (Too Big) Executive Team
Executive teams face unique challenges. The organization’s business strategy and architecture (structure, processes, and culture) are both shaped by them and shape them. Team members have large individual jobs, with […]
M&A: How To Make For Your Exit
Felix Yiu built Apricot Designs into a multibillion-dollar company over 32 years and then sold the maker of pharmaceutical liquid-handling equipment to SPT Labtech in January. It was a strategic […]
What ‘Shooting For The Stars’ Actually Means for Business Growth And Sustainability
It might sound elementary, but our anecdotal evidence shows that companies actively setting big goals typically leads to business growth and sustainability. Of course, ‘shooting for the stars’ often entails experiencing […]
Helping Workers Deal With ‘Covid Stockholm Syndrome’
Workers across the country and around the world have spent much of the past year working from home, at a distance to one another, adapting to Zoom screens rather than […]
Too Much Politics Talk At Work? Focus On Culture, Not Edicts
When Basecamp’s CEO Jason Friedman commanded his employees to stop talking about “politics, advocacy or society at large” at work anymore, I thought: If it only it were that easy. […]
Jeff Immelt: What I Learned From Failure
In the three years since I left GE, I have chosen not to speak publicly about the company. I didn’t want to have my words sliced into sound bites. I […]
Steve Jobs Said This Is the Ultimate Sign of High Intelligence. But There Is One Catch
How can you tell if you’re intelligent? More importantly, how can you get smarter? Jeff Bezos says the best indicator high intelligence is a willingness to change your mind.Science says the most intelligent people […]