Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2011

Several years ago, I was talking with one of my colleagues about a project he was thinking about taking on. We were both solidly in the middle of our careers, but his evaluation of the possible project surprised me. That is, my colleague projected himself to the end of his career and looked backward over his contribution.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

While you were in meetings the action items, project demands, and emails have piled up. When the mind is focused on the present, we are typically happier than when the mind is wandering (Killingworth & Gilbert 2010). In case you thought you were alone, the average worker sends and receives 122 emails per day.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” After three years of work, the project was abandoned after missing several milestones.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The company's core control mechanisms — the means by which it decides how to allocate resources, start and stop projects, and so on — were organized to do one thing: minimize mistakes. Gilbert says he has found success from creating a "modular exchange" between the old and new business.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2014

But the project with the billionaire would soon be over, he declared. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2018

Mazin Gilbert has an ambitious goal. As vice president of advanced technologies at AT&T, Gilbert wants to make AI technologies widely available throughout the corporation, especially to those who might not have a computer science background and may not even know how to program. Bernard Van Berg/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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