- Enhance your thinking with Socratic questions:
http://www.umich.edu/~elements/probsolv/strategy/cthinking.htm - With news of all these data breaches (ala Sony), here is an interactive report on the biggest ones over the last few years:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ - Life Lessons from the Pixar Team:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-lessons-pixar-will-set-success/ - Show expertise via stories, not with statements:
…demonstrate your expertise with stories, not words. Saying “I’m great at pitching investors” sounds pretty egotistical. But sharing a compelling tale of how you rounded up seed funding allows others to deduce your skill without having to make it explicit.
https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-promote-yourself-without-looking-like-a-jerk
- The 50 happiest companies to work for: (this one kind of stinks of BS)
http://www.careerbliss.com/facts-and-figures/careerbliss-50-happiest-companies-in-america-for-2015/ - Read this one: Open Offices are not more productive:
I 100% agree with this write up. Many of the “benefits” about open office design are examined:Meanwhile, “ease of interaction” with colleagues — the problem that open offices profess to fix — was cited as a problem by fewer than 10 percent of workers in any type of office setting. In fact, those with private offices were least likely to identify their ability to communicate with colleagues as an issue. In a previous study, researchers concluded that “the loss of productivity due to noise distraction … was doubled in open-plan offices compared to private offices.”
- Actually… there is an even better article (lots of references to even more material) about how open offices don’t work:
Regardless of age, when we’re exposed to too many inputs at once—a computer screen, music, a colleague’s conversation, the ping of an instant message—our senses become overloaded, and it requires more work to achieve a given result.
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap