An Ounce of Prevention is Cheaper Than a Pound of Cure
Talking with a foreign software developer here in Singapore last week, he told me his company’s health benefits have pretty good coverage when a problem comes up, but they do not cover expenses for preventative care. He did not just mean they do not subsidize gym memberships; he meant they do not pay for physical […]
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- Nov, 21, 2014
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Nov, 21, 2014
An Army of One
In the first half of the 2000s the US Army used a new recruiting slogan: Army of One. A lot of people, especially veterans and people who were in the Army and had been for a while, did not like it because they thought it was contrary to the concept of teamwork. I disagree. I […]
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- Nov, 19, 2014
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Fostering Creativity
One of the things that really helps drive creativity and innovation in a culture is having a strong civil society. The term civil society refers to those things that lie between the family and the government. Groups like churches, volunteer organizations, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, sports groups, and book clubs, have very positive benefits […]
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- Nov, 17, 2014
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It is Just a Job
This needs to stop. We have been hearing for some time about life in the finance industry and how the most junior employees and interns cease to have a life when they start out at an investment bank or in many other parts of the sector. No one seemed surprised that overwork may have contributed […]
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- Nov, 14, 2014
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Top-Down Communication
Business coaches talk about the importance of getting everyone together on the same sheet of music (which is a pretty bad cliche, if you think about it…how many orchestras only use one sheet of music? That would be a very crowded music stand? But I digress.). It is important to understand where you want your […]
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- Nov, 12, 2014
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