by Maria Popova- from the Book “Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children” : In 1915, aged 36, Einstein was living in wartorn Berlin, while his estranged wife, Mileva, and their two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein, lived in comparatively safe Vienna. On November 4 that year, having just completed the

One of Seth’s great, short & sweet blog posts-September 14,2014: “Without a Keyboard” When the masses only connect to the net without a keyboard, who will be left to change the world? It is possible but unlikely that someone will write a great novel on a tablet. You can’t create the spreadsheet that changes an

by David Rock, Josh Davis and Beth Jones-for Strategy + Business Magazine: Neuroscience shows why numbers-based HR management is obsolete. Evidence is mounting that conventional approaches to strategic human capital management are broken. This is particularly true for performance management (PM) systems—the appraisal approaches in which employees (working with their managers) set goals for the

by August Turak-author and Forbes contributor: Columbia Business School published August’s popular book Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. This led to a number of interviews-with a recurring question: “What do you do for Personal Development?” Turak: The reason I find this question so difficult is that it

by Dave Gray: Dave Gray helps large organizations solve complex problems related to culture, innovation and change. His approach involves getting the right people together and facilitating the group, to help them collaboratively develop new strategies, launch products and services, and design as well as deliver organizational change initiatives. He uses structured approaches that help

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