There are consequences of living big. As middle-class houses have grown larger, two things have happened. First, large houses take time to maintain, so cleaners and other low-wage service workers are required to keep thes...
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When you know what motivates you, you will be able to motivate yourself to do the things necessary to succeed. And if you are a leader, knowing what motivates your team will enable you to help them do the same....
A combination of optimism and pragmatism can help you build the skills necessary. And in doing so, you’ll see results in your team: increased innovation, performance, resiliency, and agility. Adopting a future-minded mindset is critical to increasing job security. If you can think ahead far...
Shopify is a closed-source, proprietary ecommerce platform with only paid plans available. Those plans include functionality necessary to run an online store, along with website management, hosting, and more. While this bundled approach can be beneficial for some store owners, it ultimately provides...
By not doing enough to fight global warming, we’re trashing the planet. Innovation may save us, but it will not be pretty.
In a world where companies compete on their rate of learning and where their capacity to learn collectively is a driving force of innovation and growth, it is necessary to create what we call an integrated corporatelearnscape. Such a learnscape puts learning at the heart of the company’s mi...
organizations can lose sight of the broader goal of transforming business models by focusing excessively on short-term outcomes such as cost savings and efficiency gains. Just like in a marathon, where it is necessary to balance the effort at each stage of the race with the vision of the comp...
Mark Twain had some excellent advice: “An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one’s self-respect. . . . When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.” Twain’s words encourage us once again to treat ourselves as we treat people we care about. You should...
Keeping track of how you’re doing is much easier when you’re consistent. This is true whether you’re losing weight, saving money, or working on a project. You can see patterns and measure progress when you have a steady stream of data to look at. ...