What if your paycheck for this December could be worth more than ten times its face amount next December? That’s the scenario that many employees of Japan’s GMO Internet Group who opt to be paid in Bitcoin will no doubt be hoping for when taking payment in the cryptocurrency becomes an option starting in March […]
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When you’re the CEO of the world’s most valuable – and probably most turbulent – private company, something great or downright terrible could happen at any moment. For example, when the news of Uber’s attempt to cover up a data breach of 57 million user accounts in 2016 came out, new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi found himself
When we think about creating new products and services, it can seem relatively easy on the surface. Almost anyone can come up with fantastic ideas. It’s not difficult to come up with ideas about almost any challenge in any setting. The challenges occur after the ideas are generated, once they must be converted into new
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Creative and collaborative teamwork will only take place if there is a high level of trust among team members. Trust allows members of the team to do three things that produce true collaboration. The first is to be vulnerable with each other, ask stupid questions, and propose stupid ideas. Without this vulnerability, team members are
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I love the word metacognition. It means to think about thinking, and it’s a favorite topic of mine because it can really help motivate us, find success, or advance a cause. It’s not navel-gazing, and it’s not just being analytical. It’s a process of understanding why we think, how we think, and what drives us.
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Happy collaborations are all alike; every unhappy collaboration is unhappy in its own way. It is the nature of any working relationship that we sometimes butt heads, disagree about a creative direction, flat out seethe with anger when the other can’t see what’s right in front of them. Like the relationships of our own lives, these
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In Simon Sinek’s popular TED Talk, which remains one of the most viewed ever, he explains how great leaders, like Steve Jobs, the Wright Brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. succeed where many others failed because they put purpose first. “Start with why,” he says and then move on to the “what” and the “how.”
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For millions of people around the world, posting to Facebook is a routine affair that happens daily, if not multiple times a day. But it’s not uncommon for someone to dramatically slow how much they post, or to stop posting altogether and “go dark”. What does it mean when this happens? Should you worry? Here
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Entrepreneurs love to live in the clouds. It’s so much easier to talk about the big vision, the grand achievement, the cliche mantras that those who have already achieved “success” claim inevitably ladder up to a massively successful business. But the moment you become an entrepreneur and step into the world of entrepreneurship, you start to realize that what
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While some may feel that office design is going a little too over the top with unnecessary bells and whistles, the fact is we exist during a time of remarkable technological and manufacturing advancements for office furniture and accessories. These innovations help us rethink and disrupt traditional concepts around work and replace our images of
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