Go Have a Drink
When you work in a growing organization it is easy to get really wrapped up in your work, so involved, in fact, that you might not have much of a life beyond the office. You start by working hard when you’re at the office, then you cannot help but think about things while you are […]
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Dr William Thomas - Posted in Health and Balance
- Apr, 06, 2017
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Apr, 06, 2017
Everyone Thinks They Are First
A few years ago on a trip to Vietnam, a friend took me to a concert by the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra, accompanying a Japanese pianist in a program of American jazz at the Hanoi Opera House. That’s creative globalization at its finest. One of the fun things about that was that the pianist was […]
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- Posted in Diversity & Inclusion
- Mar, 30, 2017
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Bring the Talent
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 still in the Army and had been for a while, did not like the new recruiting campaign because they thought it was contrary to the concept of […]
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- Posted in Recruiting and Retention
- Mar, 27, 2017
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Rhythmic Workplaces
Hmmm… Jocelyn Glei writes at 99U about the rhythms of work vs the rhythms of creative labor. She highlights what she sees as the differentiation between the two, and discusses how your ability to pursue work effectively is under your control more so than pursuing creative labor effectively. Creativity, it seems, may be subject to […]
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- Posted in Creativity & Innovation
- Mar, 20, 2017
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Stepping Back Can Help You Step Forward
I was in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend and a friend who is a graphic designer there told me about another designer who recently went to New York for an 8-month internship. The odd thing about it was that, rather than being a student, this particular designer had been working for an advertising firm for […]
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- Posted in Employee Development
- Mar, 13, 2017
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