Monthly Archives: February 2015

To Err is Human, to Forgive is Not in the Terms of Service

Office meeting

One day in late December 2013, I took the day off to finish some Christmas things around the house, which meant I was able to sit back and enjoy the Justine Sacco fiasco. I admit, I was checking Twitter every few minutes to see if she had landed yet, and kept track of different news […]

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Use Your Meeting Time Carefully

We have suggested you should use meetings to communicate more effectively. And we meant it. But folks, there is a limit to that. Meetings are very important for getting information out to your employees and clearing up any confusion so they can focus on their work instead of on whether or not the company’s about […]

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Mentoring Gone Bad

As we discussed a few months ago, mentoring is an important part of your employees’ development. It not only prepares the next generation of leaders who will follow you but also encourages the creation of new ideas and knowledge and methods in your workplace today. But it is only useful if you do it right. […]

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Social Capital

Every firm requires capital, and there are a number of different kinds. There is what we think of as financial capital, of course, consisting of the monetary and physical investment needed to get a firm going and keep it operating. Then there is human capital, which we generally think of as the skills and abilities […]

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Education in Singapore

Online learning

Yesterday, some of the Designing Leaders crew attended a one-day seminar called “From Things to Services – The Rise of Service Design and Social Innovation in Asia Pacific,” sponsored by a community of practice that is helping to shape design thinking in Asia. The first session had to do with education, and one of the […]

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