Humble leaders have often been overshadowed by their charismatic counterparts but research has shown that humble leadership can lead to greater collaboration and improved performance.
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Geniuses have it easy, right? They wake up and out pops the brilliance. Well, not really. And not if that genius is Charles Darwin, who's got lots to do and absolutely no desire to do it. Those days (like Oct 1., 1861) are days when Darwin decides he "hates everybody and everything."
Five years ago I realized that I remembered almost nothing about most books that I read. I was reading all kinds of non-fiction - pop-psychology, pop-economics, pop-sociology, you name it - and felt like quite the polymath auto-didact. But one day, after I had finished blathering at a friend about how much I had enjoyed Thinking, Fast and Slow, they asked for a quick summary of the book’s overall thesis. I thought for a while, mumbled something about System 1 and System 2 and how I had only really read...
NASA astronaut Ellison Onizuka's soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion
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Kristen Hadeed on Twitter: "Language is very important to me. I try not to refer to those at @studentmaidinc as "employees" or "workers." I avoid saying "I" or "My company." Instead I choose words like "people" and "team." I try to say "We" and "Our compa
“Language is very important to me. I try not to refer to those at @studentmaidinc as "employees" or "workers." I avoid saying "I" or "My company." Instead I choose words like "people" and "team." I try to say "We" and "Our company." Small, but I believe it makes a huge difference.”