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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

Gallen in Switzerland, and Jochen Menges, lecturer in human resources and organizations at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School. Author Adam Waytz is a psychologist and the Morris and Alice Kaplan Chair in Ethics and Decision Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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How to Give a Robot a Job Review

Harvard Business Review

. “This goes to the heart of intelligent systems design,” asserts Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply. ” Kaplan, a longtime Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and investor, flatly dismisses efforts to humanize or “managerialize” smart machines as “excessive and gratuitous anthropomorphism.”

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. Notice: That second part of the creativity definition — "appropriate to some goal" — doesn't mean that the goal is necessarily ethical. Second, that certain arenas of human activity are off-limits to creativity.

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The Power of Persistence for Leaders

LDRLB

As study author Steve Kaplan puts it, “Persistent leaders don’t give up>” Never giving up is common with successful company leaders and business entrepreneurs. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Among the variety of traits examined, persistence and execution were the most important.

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