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Mark Cuban: 'Follow your passion' is bad advice
The things I ended up being really good at were the things I found myself putting effort into. A lot of people talk about passion, but that's really not what you need to focus on. You really need to evaluate and say, 'Okay, where am I putting in my time?
I’m A CEO--Here’s How I Decide Whether To Give You A Raise Or Lay You Off | Fast Company | Business Innovation
Value isn’t a function of time. There are 24 hours in a day whether a company pays for them or not—it’s what you do with those hours that counts. Even for hourly employees, businesses aren’t paying for time—they’re paying for value. To put it simply, an employee is a company asset, and compensation is an investment in that asset.
Why You Should Pick Exactly 6 Things to Accomplish Today | Inc.com
"The bottom line?" James Clear writes, "Do the most important thing first each day. It's the only productivity trick you need."
How Establishing Trust Can Lead To A Job Offer | Craft Beverage Jobs
When you send your application to an employer, you’re asking much more than “will you hire me?”. You’re asking for that employer to allow you to contribute to a team of people within the structure of the business.
Stay on the Bus: The Proven Path to Doing Unique and Meaningful Work | James Clear
By staying on the bus, you give yourself time to re-work and revise until you produce something unique, inspiring, and great. It’s only by staying on board that mastery reveals itself. Show up enough times to get the average ideas out of the way and every now and then genius will reveal itself.
This Is How You Identify A-Players (In About 10 Minutes) During An Interview — Medium
A-players love to hire other A-players and build teams of super smart people that love to win. They genuinely want to be the “dumbest” person in the room and love learning from those around them
William Gibson: how I wrote Neuromancer | Books | The Guardian
But in low expectations lay a sort of freedom, and in fear (fear simply of never completing the thing, most of all) a brutish but workable self-goad.
What Happens If We Start Hiring for Purpose, Not Skills | Aaron Hurst | LinkedIn
Leading employers that are proactively addressing this challenge articulate four needs — not skills — that they seek in their new hires. They want people who:
Actively work on self-improvement
Successfully advocate for their own needs
Comfortably embrace change
Can engage senior management
Why extreme focus is our greatest economic assett
The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.
Worst Way to Deliver Bad News to Employees - Fortune
I adopt the belief that bad news is best delivered quickly and honestly. I collect the facts first, then gather the team for a frank, transparent discussion. I believe in holding yourself accountable. I make sure to sit with people, look them in the eye and own the situation. And, I believe when
Google explains top traits of its best teams - Business Insider
The main finding: A team's dynamics are more important than the talents of the individuals who make it up.
Time management is only making our busy lives worse - Quartz
Effectiveness comes from two core abilities: prioritization and achievement. When we prioritize well, we choose to do the right things, not just the obvious things. Yet when we have a strong time awareness, our attention narrows and our ability to make good choices declines.
Can't Vacation? Here's the Science of How to Recharge Fast | Psychology Today
Research by Sabine Sonnentag suggests that detaching from work is essential to enhanced productivity. Her work has shown that, while people who do not detach from work suffering from greater levels of exhaustion, those who do recover from job stress and are more likely to have higher engagement levels at work.
The Bigger Picture on Amazon: Humans as “Amabots"
The role of human labor is to do the work machines haven’t yet learned, so systems that make machines learn faster speed up the pace through which machines take human jobs. This is why machine learning is so critical to understanding the future ‘de-humanization’ of work. Until now, the communications and decision making aspects of most knowledge work has simply proven too demanding for machines. But that is rapidly changing.
