Leadership and Organizational Design
Where does a sense of obligation come from? Why does it drive me so furiously? How can others live without one?
To commit your life to teaching and mentorship is to give yourself the gift of always having a purpose. There will never be a shortage of need in making information more enjoyable and accessible. But you do have to be flexible in the knowledge that you are teaching. It should be about serving the student. And being a better learner in order to be
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Even at the introductory level, to learn economics is to learn to solve problems, cranking through enough math that you develop an intuition for what is fundamental and what is contingent in an economic model.
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The idea that Holacracy only works with highly self-driven workers misunderstands both the framework and the people inside it. The framework is not a test of individual capacity. It’s a tool that helps people see where they can contribute—and gives them permission to do so.
Holacracy Works for Regular Teams—Not Just Rockstars | Holacracy
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When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic.
We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of... See more
Katherine Boylex.comThat’s a lot of room for leadership, creativity, and initiative—but it’s exactly that: room. The framework grants authority, but doesn’t force anyone to use it in a particular way or at a particular intensity.
Holacracy Works for Regular Teams—Not Just Rockstars | Holacracy
an argument for Holacracy, it doesn’t require everyone to be instrinsicly motivated, it enables any motivation to shine through without constraints. link
Learning by doing economics is the approach that one of us (SB) adopted as a new assistant professor in the late 1960s when assigned to co-teach the advanced micro-economic theory course in the PhD program at Harvard. We did not give a single lecture; we just asked questions to be discussed based on the readings and set problems to be solved [31]... See more
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An amazing outcome of cross-department collaboration like SFI routinely does
