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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

That’s why the accuracy of economists and experts’ confident and logical-sounding projections and predictions is so abysmal. They’re projecting today into tomorrow. It’s amazing how the same people who laugh at fortune tellers often take these flawed forecasts and projections seriously.

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Why More Executives Should Consider Becoming a CHRO

Harvard Business Review

Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. Phil Johnston, an executive search leader at Spencer Stuart, confirms that Quinn’s initial reaction wasn’t unusual: “When a CEO asks a business leader to run HR, the most frequent response is ‘What did I do wrong?’ I push leaders.

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Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected

Harvard Business Review

But here are the facts: the best estimates according to the Gig Economy Data Hub, a joint project of Cornell University’s Institute of Labor Relations and the Aspen Institute, put the percentage at around 30%. Quinn Mills, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, in an interview.

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Planning Maternity or Paternity Leave: A Professional’s Guide

Harvard Business Review

This memo “defines everything you do” for the organization, describes where each of your projects stands and identifies the specific colleagues or temporary workers who will “fill in for you during your leave,” she says. Without a plan like this, warns Williams, “your work will be abruptly dumped on others.”

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Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews

Harvard Business Review

Shoot the Moon Medicine's Manhattan Project: Can The World's Richest Doctor Fix Health Care? A Golden Age Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest The New Yorker Zoe Quinn suffers from depression, but fortunately she found her passion: inventing video games. Forbes I have truly had my fill of let’s-use-technology-to-fix-U.S.-health-care