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Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees

Harvard Business Review

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. We often find it when we experience nature, art, or entertainment, and, of course, when we fall in love. Have a challenging mission.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). Could there be value in diversity of opinion and background as well as opposed to just economic expertise? Diversity brings all sorts of positive side-effects ; monocultures are fragile and unhealthy.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? Dynamism: A dynamic set of extended ties that evolves as you evolve.

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