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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

Complex interplay The results illustrate the complex interplay of factors that influence perceptions of aging and retirement within various industries. This type of decline has been part and parcel of the public and political conversation for a good 100 years—and has led to a plethora of new pension schemes and policies.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I believe that with a loss of your temper you can lose your credibility, your influence, and your ultimately your ability to lead. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Emotional outbursts, rants, and rages will rarely do anything but cause you to make poor decisions and to lose credibility.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Principle 7 — Generate High-Velocity Decisions) in the section titled Invention Machine he explains the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 decisions and why understanding the difference is crucial to business growth through invention and innovation.

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Psychology of Time – The Impact on Your Orientation

CO2

Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Pink Demos Dr. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

The severances team aimed to increase the number of land parcels processed per day by 50% in one field office in 100 days. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. The condo team set the goal of completing valuations within 30 days of occupancy for 10 high-rise condo projects in Toronto.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

It's still very difficult to assess the positive influence of an aging leader whose physical skills have demonstrably diminished but whose acuity and character gets everyone on the team to step up their game. Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach, was famous for saying , "You are what your record says you are."