MEMO - Issue #162
A People Leader's Guide to Active Listening
Communication is the most important tool we have when it comes to team work – especially in remote work. This is one of the best guides I have seen so far.
How I practice at what I do
Following up on my post a few days ago, about the value of deliberate practice for knowledge workers, a number of you asked me what form my practice takes. A few of you were skeptical, but it is long since established that practice improves both your writing and your memory, so surely it can do much more than that for your thinking. Here is a partial list of some of my intellectual practice strategies:
Paradigm Shifts
One of my investment principles is: Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. Over my roughly 50 years of being a global macro investor, I have observed there to be relatively l
Beyond empathy
I am a French service designer, working in Finland on a popular Finnish dating service. My team and I are developing a mobile app for our dating service while maintaining our old web app with a…
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