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This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like | Inc.com

This Email From Elon Musk to Tesla Employees Describes What Great Communication Looks Like | Inc.com : There are two schools of thought about how information should flow within companies. By far the most common way is chain of command, which means that you always flow communication through your manager. The problem with this approach is that, while it serves to enhance the power of the manager, it fails to serve the company. Instead of a problem getting solved quickly, where a person in one dept talks to a person in another dept and makes the right thing happen, people are forced to talk to their manager who talks to their manager who talks to the manager in the other dept who talks to someone on his team. Then the info has to flow back the other way again. This is incredibly dumb. Any manager who allows this to happen, let alone encourages it, will soon find themselves working at another company. No kidding. Anyone at Tesla can and should email/talk to anyone else according to wha...
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Understanding Baby Boomers ... and How to Cater to Them By taking stock of boomers’ unique aspirations and behaviors, consumer-facing companies can better serve this flourishing and wealthy generation with more timely and relevant offers that address its changing lifestyle needs.

Understanding Baby Boomers ... and How to Cater to Them By taking stock of boomers’ unique aspirations and behaviors, consumer-facing companies can better serve this flourishing and wealthy generation with more timely and relevant offers that address its changing lifestyle needs. 
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JAY-Z Forgoes Up To $1 Million Weekly As He Keeps '4:44' Off Spotify | Billboard

JAY-Z Forgoes Up To $1 Million Weekly As He Keeps '4:44' Off Spotify | Billboard : Drake’s 2016 album Views was streamed 250 million times in its first week of exclusive release on Apple Music. Once Drake’s chart-topping album made it to Spotify, the numbers skyrocketed — doubling the number times the Canadian rapper’s songs were played on the streaming service last year (to 4.7 billion global listens, up from a record 1.8 billion in 2015) and generating an estimated $20.7 million in royalties.
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from Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One � GitHub

from Peter Thiel's book, Zero to One � GitHub : Seven Questions All Businesses Must Answer The Engineering Question: Can you create breakthrough technology (vs. incremental improvement)? The Timing Question: Is now the right time to start this particular business? The Monopoly Question: Are you starting with a big share of a small market? The People Question: Do you have the right team? The Distribution Question: Do you have a way to not just create but deliver your product? The Durability Question: Will your market position be defensible 10 and 20 years into the future? The Secret Question: Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don't see?
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ImageNet: the data that spawned the current AI boom — Quartz

ImageNet: the data that spawned the current AI boom — Quartz : We decided we wanted to do something that was completely historically unprecedented,” Li said, referring to a small team who would initially work with her. “We’re going to map out the entire world of objects.” The resulting dataset was called ImageNet. Originally published in 2009 as a research poster stuck in the corner of a Miami Beach conference center, the dataset quickly evolved into an annual competition to see which algorithms could identify objects in the dataset’s images with the lowest error rate. Many see it as the catalyst for the AI boom the world is experiencing today.
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Steve Bannon shares post-White House plans in exit interview

Steve Bannon shares post-White House plans in exit interview : “The Trump presidency that we fought for, and won, is over. We still have a huge movement, and we will make something of this Trump presidency. But that presidency is over,” Bannon said. “It’ll be something else. And there’ll be all kinds of fights, and there’ll be good days and bad days, but that presidency is over.” It’s worth noting that Bannon’s about as good at taking an L as the president’s been when commission after forum after council disbanded this week. Bannon blames Republicans for ruining his racist vision and turning their backs on Trump. “I think they’re going to try to moderate him,” Bannon lamented. That’s why he claims he resigned from his post on August 7, even though media reports contradict that timeline.
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The 4 Strangest Things Nobody Tells You About Life in China

The 4 Strangest Things Nobody Tells You About Life in China : economy. Maybe it was also their way of slowly culling the number of old folks in China so they wouldn't have to force so many people to visit their elderly parents? Because that's another real law China has on the books: Official legislation forces you to visit your elderly relatives. We're basically talking government-mandated family game night here.
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Global pay TV subscribers reach 969 million

digitaltvresearch.com Based on 138 countries, Digital TV Research estimated 254 million additional pay TV subscribers (up by 35%) between 2010 and 2016 to take the global total to 969 million.  According to the Global Pay TV Subscriber Databook, digital cable TV created the most additions by platform – at 256 million between 2010 and 2016. However, analog cable TV lost 218 million subscribers; dampening overall cable gains. There were 76 million extra subs for IPTV to nearly quintuple its total. Satellite TV added 77 million and pay DTT 5 million.  Excluding analog cable TV, digital pay TV rocketed from 380 million subscribers in 2010 onto 852 million at end-2016. Published in June 2017, the Global Pay TV Subscriber Databook report covers 250 pages in two parts: •    A PDF giving a global Ex...
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Conway's law - Wikipedia

Conway's law - Wikipedia : "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." — M. Conway[3]
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The Hidden Cost of Workplace Trauma | Human Nature At Work

The Hidden Cost of Workplace Trauma | Human Nature At Work : Control – The less control a person feels they have over a stressful situation, the more traumatic it will be (Seligman,1972; Sauter et al,1989).Years of research has shown that when a person perceives they don’t have control over a stressful situation, the deleterious effects are much more extreme than those experienced by people who are subjected to the same stressor, but perceive they have control (Pennebaker, 1990; Dientsbier,1989). Thus, it isn’t the direct effect of the stressor which is so psychological damaging, but the sense of having
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How To Convincingly Fake An Outgoing Personality At Work

How To Convincingly Fake An Outgoing Personality At Work : Clinical psychologist Perpetua Neo, PhD, and Kali Rogers, CEO and founder of Blush Online Life Coaching, both suggested that before anything else, introverts need to rethink these small workplace social interactions. “While some people see getting together as a way to unwind, introverts see it as work, but often feel guilty for doing so,” Rogers says. Instead, introverts should embrace the fact that yes, workplace social gatherings are a facet of work—and an important one at that. “Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to do in order to push forward,” Neo says, “and attending social events is great for new opportunities at work.” If you believe that these social niceties are painful, unnecessary, and unpleasant, then they will be nerve-wracking, tiring, and difficult. Dr. Neo describes these types of gatherings as “necessary rituals.” “Chances are, if you believe that these social niceties are painful, unnecessary, ...
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Being Yourself: How Much is Too Much? | INSEAD Knowledge

Being Yourself: How Much is Too Much? | INSEAD Knowledge : Reasons why being yourself is flawed Let’s look at the research.� For instance, take people who are high on self-monitoring, a personality preference defined as ‘active construction of public selves to achieve social ends’.� A highly cited study by Ajay Mehra, Martin Kilduff and Daniel Brass, found that “chameleon-like high self-monitors” were more likely than true-to-themselves “low self-monitors” to occupy central positions in social networks, which affords them greater levels of social capital and influence.� Together these characteristics predict individual workplace performance.� There is also considerable evidence to suggest that people who present themselves as warm and competent are more likely to be liked and conferred higher levels of social status.� Furthermore, those who act with higher levels of confidence are given greater credence in the eyes of others.� Thus, it appears that just being yourself has some di...
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4 Ways to Regain Control of Your Identity in the Workplace

4 Ways to Regain Control of Your Identity in the Workplace : Recently, I met with an executive from a Fortune 50 company who shared his workplace frustration and his own identity crisis. “My company brand defines me.� My job title is my credential.� My quarterly evaluation binds me.�� I am told that I am next to being promoted only to find my boss is leaving the organization.� My boss controls my future.��� I am forced to start over by proving that I am still worthy of the "next in line status." Does this sound familiar?� Do you ever feel that your identity has become marginalized because your self-worth as an employee has become defined by an employer that only views you as head-count liability rather than a valuable asset?�
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The High Cost of Hiding Your Personality at Work | Inc.com

The High Cost of Hiding Your Personality at Work | Inc.com : You might guess that forcing yourself to act in ways that are unnatural for your personality isn't great for engagement, but Dahl digs up preliminary research out of the�University of Cambridge that suggests it's lousy for your physical well�being too.
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How to Convincingly Fake Confidence, Happiness and Other Necessary Feelings in the Workplace

How to Convincingly Fake Confidence, Happiness and Other Necessary Feelings in the Workplace : Research shows that the key to faking is to do it early, when impressions are being made. To that end, let’s have a remedial course in body language. You might not feel like you should smile, but you should smile. (More on that later.) You might not want to maintain eye contact, but you should lock in. What researchers call the “gaze” is key. You want a lot of gaze. You know the eye contact is working if you feel slightly uncomfortable. (Slight discomfort is underrated in business.) You might not want to sit up straight, but sit up straight. You’ll seem assertive, social, in control. Basically, you want to act like a news anchor. National news --�not local. Also: Raise your eyebrows every now and then. The eyebrows don’t get enough credit when it comes to body language. Draw some circles with a couple of dots for eyes. Draw some lines above the eyes and see how the expression changes.
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How to Let Your Soul Die and Be Fake at Work — The Fun Way!

How to Let Your Soul Die and Be Fake at Work — The Fun Way! : Just kidding. It was letting my soul die. Wait, wait, hear me out. "Letting my soul die" sounds so negative, but it really doesn't have to be. Sure I'm saying "soul dying." You may call it "apologizing when you don't mean it" or "letting it go." Tomatoh, tomatah. So anyway, at the time all this went down, I was dating a smart guy who advised me as follows: "Listen, Mandy, you've had your Come-to-Jesus moment, and now you need to man up and apologize." It was what he didn't say verbally that I REALLY heard, though. The subtext I inferred sounded a little like this: "Oh you silly little, special snowflake having your silly little, special snowflake office tantrum. As if you think that will help anything. Really? REALLY? You thought this was a good idea? When is it ever a good idea to back talk your boss? That's like, Being An Adult 101, dumb...
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Conway's law - Wikipedia

Conway's law - Wikipedia : "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." — M. Conway[3]
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(/1) What are the Chinese culture, values and beliefs? - Quora

(/1) What are the Chinese culture, values and beliefs? - Quora : Zhixi Wang, Automation Software Engineer Answered Dec 25, 2014 As a nogod country, all the three things for most of Chinese could be summarized to one: families. Work hard to lead a good live for families, let children have better education and parents enjoy their old age. 1.5k Views � 11 Upvotes Upvote11Downvote Share RecommendedAll Helen Xu, studied at Shanghai Second Polytechnic University Updated Dec 30, 2014 Well. I want to answer this question for being Chinese. There may be 5 items that most Chinese will think. 1. There is justice in this world: Good and Evil must at last have their reward 2. Do not wash your dirty linen in public.Families that quarrel in the privacy of the home do well do dissemble when they to out to dinner. 3. We treat customers or friends with the utmost cordiality it always caused the food wastage in the end. 4. The Chinese believe in "self-cultivating, family-regulatin...
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An amateur’s guide to turning impostor syndrome into an asset

An amateur’s guide to turning impostor syndrome into an asset : Interviewing our first HR manager at Atlassian— having never worked anywhere with an HR department — was terrifying. More recently, I attended board meetings where I didn’t know all the acronyms being thrown around, and had to write them down surreptitiously so I could Wikipedia them later. Turns out this feeling is called impostor syndrome. And it strikes more successful people than you realize. It’s not all bad, though. There’s a lot of good to be harvested from it.
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Visual Design with Data

Visual Design with Data : POWERFUL LOVE SPELL TO GET YOUR EX BACK FAST,STOP DIVORCE GET BACK YOUR LOST ONE BACK WITH THE HELP OF DR. TRUST SPELL EMAIL HIM AT: ULTIMATESPELLCAST@YAHOO.COM My Wife divorce me for no reason, Thanks to Dr. Trust for bringing back my wife,and brought great joy to my family once again, My name is Bobby Foret
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The Future Of Marketing Requires A New Business Model, Not New Tactics

The Future Of Marketing Requires A New Business Model, Not New Tactics : Dominique Hanssens, Professor of Marketing at UCLA Anderson and former CEO of the Marketing Science Institute, shows in his book�Empirical Generalization About Marketing Impact�(2015) that marketing and sales promotion have no significant effect on business growth. His research found that a 10% increase in advertising spending only returned a 1% effect on short-term business performance while having an insignificant effect on long-term growth. Hanssens and Tesla both illustrate that business models where marketing is viewed as a promoter of products are fundamentally flawed. Let’s dig a little deeper to find out why.
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Agile Transformation and Cultural Change

Agile Transformation and Cultural Change : ThesisScientist.com <iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/eZFjqIlKtW29wL" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/JohnnyDark/agile-transformation-and-cultural-change" title=" Agile Transformation and Cultural Change" target="_blank"> Agile Transformation and Cultural Change</a> </strong> from <strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.slideshare.net/JohnnyDark">Johnny Ordóñez</a></strong> </div>
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Scrum

Scrum <iframe src="//www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/3GT3QffJi59UXE" width="595" height="485" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="//www.slideshare.net/sathrambalaji/scrum-46817404" title="Scrum" target="_blank">Scrum</a> </strong> from <strong><a target="_blank" href="https://www.slideshare.net/sathrambalaji">Balaji Sathram, ICP, ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF, PMI-ACP®,CSP®</a></strong> </div>
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Why Are Sales Reps Leaving Sports Sales? | Kathy Burrows | Pulse | LinkedIn

Why Are Sales Reps Leaving Sports Sales? | Kathy Burrows | Pulse | LinkedIn : CEO (Chief Energy Officer) at Stop Selling Tickets! Next Level Sports Sales Training Working in sports definitely has it's perks...working for something you are passionate about, experience of being part of the team, helping our venues get to a sold out status... If that's the case, then why are quality people leaving? Some sports teams are still clinging to a philosophy from the early to mid 80's and their resulting turnover shows it.  Having worked with hundreds and hundreds of sports sales reps over the years, I take great pride in helping them grow their craft and progress in their career. Over the past few years though, I have seen many excellent sales/service reps leave sports to go to other sales/service positions. I started tracking reasons why, and find that it may be an eye opener to leadership as to how we view our sales staff.  I've categorized the reason I've collected reps ...
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HOW TO BUILD AN ECONOMIC MODEL IN YOUR SPARE TIME

HOW TO BUILD AN ECONOMIC MODEL IN YOUR SPARE TIME This is a little article that I wrote to describe how I work. It contains the advice that I wish I had received when I was just starting out, and it is meant to be entertaining as well as instructive. Most of my work in economics involves constructing theoretical models. Over the years, I have developed some ways of doing this that may be worth describing to those who aspire to practice this art. In reality the process is much more haphazard than my description would suggest—the model of research that I describe is an idealization of reality, much like the economic models that I create. But there is probably enough connection with reality to make the description useful—which I hope is also true for my economic models. 
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The Xerox PARC Visit

The Xerox PARC Visit : The closest thing in the history of computing to a Prometheus myth is the late 1979 visit to Xerox PARC by a group of Apple engineers and executives led by Steve Jobs. According to early reports, it was on this visit that Jobs discovered the mouse, windows, icons, and other technologies that had been developed at PARC. These wonders had been locked away at PARC by a staff that didn't understand the revolutionary potential of what they had created. Jobs, in contrast, was immediately converted to the religion of the graphical user interface, and ordered them copied by Apple, starting down the track that would eventually yield the Lisa and "insanely great" Macintosh. The Apple engineers-- that band of brothers, that bunch of pirates-- stole the fire of the gods, and gave it to the people.
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5 Antiquities Dealers Arrested in Hobby Lobby Scandal—and the 9 Other Biggest News Stories This Week

5 Antiquities Dealers Arrested in Hobby Lobby Scandal—and the 9 Other Biggest News Stories This Week : Authorities in Israel picked up the five dealers in Jerusalem on Sunday, also finding ancient papyrus fragments, frescos, and other objects, as well as $200,000 in cash. Police say the dealers were linked to the unfolding scandal surrounding the purchase of artifacts looted from Iraq by the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby. Last month, the company reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department that will require it to forfeit the objects and pay a $3 million fine. Israeli police say the five dealers arrested are suspected of tax evasion, tax fraud, and money laundering in connection with the sale of some $20 million in artifacts to Hobby Lobby president Steve Green, a major backer of a planned Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. Court documents filed in the U.S. in connection with the Hobby Lobby settlement described a scheme to avoid scrutiny from American customs officials...
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The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) | Twitter

The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) | Twitter The Nobel Prize ‏ Verified account   @NobelPrize     Jul 26 26 July 1895, Wedding photo of a famous Nobel Prize-awarded couple: Marie and Pierre Curie #NobelPrize Pic: © Association Curie Joliot-Curie
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