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Struggling at the (Computer) Games of Life

Harvard Business Review

In an article in the December Atlantic , Don Peck described Knack’s success in identifying successful idea generators at Royal Dutch Shell, and depicted such game-based assessments as part of a revolution in people analytics that would transform hiring over the next decade. and America’s oldest and the world’s richest university.

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Office Jargon

Great Leadership By Dan

Ego surfing: scanning the Net, databases, print media, and so on, looking for references to one's own name. A popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. Idea hamsters: people who always seem to have their idea generators running. EMG: Acronym for Empty Magnanimous Gesture.

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