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You polished your résumé, dazzled them in interviews, and landed the job you’ve been chasing. You’ve finally received that coveted offer letter. But don’t get too excited yet. “It’s sad to say that…
Conformity vs. authenticity in the office Chicago Tribune “There's real tension between authenticity and conformity,” said Sylvia Ann Hewlett, an economist and founder of the Center for Talent Innovation, a Manhattan-based think tank.
A number of friends and colleagues have linked to Adam Grant’s piece, “There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing.” In psychology, Grant says, “we think about mental health on a spectrum from depression to flourishing,” but a “term was coined by a sociologist named Corey Keyes” that describes the “void” in between them: “languishing.” It’s a state in which, Grant says, you’re not totally burned out, but you’re not full steam, either.
“Psychologists,” says Grant, “find that one of the best strategies for managing emotions is to name them.” But one has to remember that naming doesn’t just describe the world, it creates the world, too. As Brian Eno says, “Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it.”
We tend to see what we’re looking for, so if you hear the name for something, you start seeing it everywhere, and your eyes get trained to see that particular thing, while you miss everything else. (That’s why Paul Valery said that real seeing “is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.”)
"Embry-Riddle researchers have created a search engine to help professors identify whether course content has been “compromised” on Course Hero, creating ripe conditions for student cheating ..."
Semantic Scholar is a good academic search engine that allows you to search millions of scholarly articles for academic content relevant to your research topic. Unlike other search engines, Semantic Scholar combines the power of artificial Intelligence, machine learning, language processing with semantic analytic search enabling users to get more accurate search results.
Last week TED-Ed released a new video lesson titled This Tool Will Help You Improve Your Critical Thinking. As I wrote last week, I almost immediately used the lesson in one of my computer science classes. Writing that blog post and using that lesson inspired me to take a look back through my archives for other lessons and resources for teaching and learning about critical thinking. Here's my updated list of resources about critical thinking and logical fallacies.
Scenarios represent snapshots of a range of possible futures. They paint a picture of ‘what could be’ with enough depth to be plausible, but not too precise.
Each scenario represents the different ways in which key drivers might develop and interact, and so they are not meant to be compared to each other. However, there are common aspects, implied in all scenarios, which help to explain underlying thinking that supported their construct.
Scenario Characteristics:
Plausibility: Scenarios fall within the limits of what might conceivably happen. Differentiation: Scenarios are structurally different, rather than variations of a base case. Consistency: Scenarios are internally consistent. Decision-making utility: Each scenario, and all scenarios as a set, will contribute specific insights for future decision-making. Challenge: Scenarios include ones that challenge conventional wisdom about the future.
Learn about the best research-backed time management tips for leaders. In this article, we go through some of the best techniques to stay focused and achieve goals efficiently.
Any phenomenon that becomes “fashionable” instantly acquires its own mythology. This mythology forms a system of concepts that are accepted and not questioned. At the same time, the vast majority o…
Memory is inextricable from learning; there's little sense in teaching students something new if they can't recall it later. Ensuring that the knowledge teachers impart is appropriately stored in the brain and easily retrieved when necessary is a vital component of instruction. In How to Teach So Students Remember, author Marilee Sprenger provides you with a proven, research-based, easy-to-follow framework for doing just that.
Distributed Leadership is the ONLY way for organizations to handle the complexities and speed of the modern world. As I have noted before, we can no longer just rely on “heroic” leadership, where one individual leads ...
Change is inevitable. To cope with the everyday office fires that arise out of the depths of nothingness and to sustain progress, there’s one trait that allows you to bridge the gap between the all-assuming and the all-knowing.
After a year of practicing resiliency, building technology and self-management skills, and navigating emotional turmoil, students are preparing to return to a rigorous school experience without some of the skills they would have built in a normal year. A recent study from Stanford illustrated th
Listening increases the value and impact of your words. “The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” Stephen R. Covey Not listening: Waiting-listening: Most people think that listening is the price we pay for our turn to talk. We have to listen so we can talk. In other…
Like many of my students, I'm often guilty of writing in a rush. Doing that leads to three bad habits that appear in my writing. The first is omitting words that should be in a sentence. The second is repeating words in a sentence when I try to revise a sentence midstream. And the third bad habit is using the same phrases and sentence structures too frequently. To change my habits I'm trying to slow down. I've also enlisted the help of a neat Chrome extension called Wordtune.
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