Values Archives - Page 7 of 16

Career Technology

Inside the Mirrortocracy

There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Fixing it will be painful, but it should be fixed before it gets any worse.

Carlos BuenoJune 30, 2014

Balance Career Failure Productivity

Work Like a Dog—And Plan to Fail

Fifty percent of people who start an exercise program drop out by six weeks. Yet six weeks is just about the time we start seeing positive results of new behaviors. Stick with it, and those behaviors become part of who you are. So how do you get over that hump? Plan to fail.

Ann GarvinJune 30, 2014

Career

CSR—Where Do You Draw the Line?

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard has famously limited his company’s growth to avoid having too large an environmental impact. (The brand has even run ad campaigns asking people not to buy stuff from Patagonia unless they really need it.) Would you make a similar decision if your company scaled up? When would you know the time for such a decision had come?

John BradleyJune 27, 2014

Career Management Productivity Relationships Team

How to Leverage Your Employees’ Shifting Loyalties

Today’s workers see personal and professional development as part of their compensation from the company, regardless of how quickly they decide to leave. You might not like that, but you can’t change it. So your best approach is to plan for it.

Wendy LeaJune 27, 2014

Career Technology

Come On, Silicon Valley, You Can Do Better Than This

Forget building silly apps such as Yo. Silicon Valley needs to take on a grand challenge, such as serving the millions who go without clean water.

Vivek WadhwaJune 25, 2014

Career Failure

Pascal’s Wager: Bet On Yourself

You have this one lifetime of potential happiness, and you'd be a fool to bet on anything less than going for it! Are you willing to wager on your happiness?

Pascal FinetteJune 25, 2014

Institute Institute 2014 Mentorship Metrics & Evaluation Scaling

Inside Unreasonable Institute: Weeks Two and Three

Weeks two and three of the Unreasonable Institute included entrepreneurs pitching to 800 people and a learning of how to prototype like the co-creator of Google Glass.

Teju RavilochanJune 23, 2014

Career

Why You Should See Uncertainty As Opportunity

Compartmentalization might speed things up on an assembly line, but it forces us into silos. And silos destroy creativity, context, and perspective—all things we need to thrive in an increasingly complex and interconnected world. Design for social innovation is the answer to that dilemma.

Cheryl HellerJune 20, 2014

Debunking Metrics & Evaluation

Shooting Down the Theory of Disruptive Innovation

If you haven’t already, go read Jill Lepore’s surgical evisceration of “disruptive innovation” theory and of the theory’s leading proponent, Clayton Christensen. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone even remotely interested in startups, innovation, and business theory.

John BradleyJune 19, 2014

Career Failure Mentorship

What’s the Worst that Can Happen?

Fear of failure is why some of the best companies are never built, why some of the most important discoveries are never made and why people spend forty years in jobs they hate. So, ask yourself: what's the worst that can happen?

Pascal FinetteJune 19, 2014

Balance Career Productivity Wellness

Protecting Your Good Idea From Yourself

Burnout can destroy the best of ideas and intentions. While an idea can, in theory, be limitless, the brain is a physical organ with limitations. If these limitations aren’t acknowledged the consequences can be grave. Don't let burnout destroy your idea.

Ann GarvinJune 18, 2014

Career

Four Strategies for Listening to Your Gut

Giving your "gut" reactions credit for being your "faster intelligence" is the first step toward making morally astute and accurate decisions. Read this post and learn mechanisms to make this "faster intelligence" louder, more lucid, and more pronounced.

Daniel EpsteinJune 18, 2014

Institute Institute 2014 Management Team

Remember to Dance

Changing the world should not be all work and no play. The second week of the 2014 Institute has come to a close, and that calls for celebration.

Jane MillerJune 13, 2014

Career Failure Wellness

Fake It ’til You Make It

Success takes time, fortitude and a certain measure of self-esteem. If you're in short supply of any of these things, sometimes it's worth "faking it to make it."

Ann GarvinJune 11, 2014

Institute Institute 2014 Team

Unreasonable Institute Recap: Week 1

Get the inside scoop of what happened during the first week of the 2014 Unreasonable Institute from CEO, Teju Ravilochan.

Teju RavilochanJune 10, 2014

Balance Career Productivity Wellness

You Gotta Get Out More

Spending hours on phone calls, emails, and meetings is a great start to solving the world's big problems, but it is equally important to be humbled by nature because it will make you a better social innovator (and a better human).

Cheryl HellerJune 9, 2014

Career

Listening to Your Gut – Let’s Give it the Credit it Deserves

When was the last time you regretted a decision you made based on "going with your gut?" Probably never. That's why it's time to think of “listening to your gut” as “listening to your faster intelligence.”

Daniel EpsteinJune 6, 2014

Career Management Scaling

You Don’t Need a Plan

In the VUCA-filled world most entrepreneurs live in every day, being agile trumps sticking to a plan. Sticking to a plan is not the same as having a strategy, and having a strategy can keep you alive and moving forward.

Rajesh AnandanJune 4, 2014

Values Archives - Page 7 of 16 - Unreasonable

Inside the Mirrortocracy

Work Like a Dog—And Plan to Fail

CSR—Where Do You Draw the Line?

How to Leverage Your Employees’ Shifting Loyalties

Come On, Silicon Valley, You Can Do Better Than This

Pascal’s Wager: Bet On Yourself

Inside Unreasonable Institute: Weeks Two and Three

Why You Should See Uncertainty As Opportunity

Shooting Down the Theory of Disruptive Innovation

What’s the Worst that Can Happen?

Protecting Your Good Idea From Yourself

Four Strategies for Listening to Your Gut

Remember to Dance

Fake It ’til You Make It

Unreasonable Institute Recap: Week 1

You Gotta Get Out More

Listening to Your Gut – Let’s Give it the Credit it Deserves

You Don’t Need a Plan

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