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BIF-6: Stunning Sights, Interesting People, Innovative Ideas

Michael Lee Stallard

Today began with a drive East from my home in Connecticut to Saul Kaplan’s wonderful Business Innovation Factory Conference (called “BIF-6″) in Providence, Rhode Island. Driving into the sunrise on this sunny, clear day with a hint of Fall in the air was simply stunning. why is everyone smiling?

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Are You Taking Care of Busyness and Working Overtime?

The Practical Leader

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. Beware a Culture of Busyness That’s the title of the lead article in this month’s issue of Harvard Business Review.

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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. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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Here's What the Internet Is Up To

Harvard Business Review

People are OK at assessing others but really bad at seeing themselves in their own unvarnished, self-centered, sometimes ethically challenged glory, as psychologist David Dunning writes (Robert Stephen Kaplan says we don''t know our own strengths either ). But then only 43% of the total actually made such a purchase.

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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. I expect people to do their best, and anyone who works for me has to have a strong work ethic. Genuinely care for your people. Help them succeed.

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