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APRIL 09, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War – just a month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln. Needless to say, Lincoln became one of America’s most revered presidents and his best-known speech is, of course, the Gettysburg Address. This speech is often studied for means of rhetorically claiming its…
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In life – regardless of whether you are looking to hire someone or decide to trust someone – the better you are at judging people, the better. Unfortunately, effective communication is a challenge of most people, and it’s even harder to read others. Several decades of research has focused on the mental processes we use to interpret…
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“Virtual work” is increasingly just “work” for most of us – whether we’re dialing into a conference call with our branch offices in London and New York, or VPN-ing in from home to catch up with work after-hours, remote work is the new normal. But Peter Hirst is helping to lead MIT into a new…
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The proposed question is ever- relevant: What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? This is a question Pixar head Ed Catmull has asked, and he says they tend to be pretty much split on it 50/50. A trip through HBR’s archives shows that he’s hardly alone…