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Impact Bias

CO2

In a TED talk, Dan Gilbert asks the audience if they would be happier winning the lottery or becoming paraplegic. We synthesize happiness, so awful events don’t have the horrific, long-term impact that we imagine. We synthesize happiness, so awful events don’t have the horrific, long-term impact that we imagine.

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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

As a trade, mechanics require a long lead time and many labor hours to gain skills and experience, especially with the technology and alternative fuels of complex and heavy equipment continuously changing. ” says Gilbert Riviera, a 15-year lead mechanic. There was no incentive or recognition of that achievement.”

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How to Develop A Success Mindset

Skip Prichard

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton. My rationale was that as long as I didn’t take risks (e.g., More and more, my focus was shifting away from avoiding problems to reaching goals. The negative mindsets are all short-term and self-focused.

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Making Setbacks Work For You

Tim Milburn

In Ambition: How We Manage Success and Failure Throughout Our Lives , Gilbert Brim observes that “sometimes we don’t know we are losing until the very end.” A media representative who was laid off decided to try out her long-term dream of selling for a living. I have nine recommendations.

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Why Can’t We Stop Working?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert has shown that children don’t increase parents’ short-term happiness ; in fact, on a day-to-day basis, parents prefer almost anything (from watching television to exercising) to spending time with their kids. The arc of family life is different.