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Perception is Truth . .

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At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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Short Talk on Humble Inquiry for leaders

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.

A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.

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Twenty years ago, a few colleagues and I launched a consulting practice to help leaders build more effective organizations through practical, non-touchy-feely work around leadership, teamwork, clarity, communication and human systems. We believed then—and still do today—that far too many organizatio

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What’s happening in the world of work: The Saturday edition of the Daily Rundown highlights the business trends, perspectives, and hot topics you need to know to work smarter. Read on and join the conversation.

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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...