Employees get 1% of their working week to focus on training and development. Yet, we live in a culture where companies look to hire “learning animals”. The perfect employee has the smarts to handle massive change and the character to love it. IBM found that when deprived of advancement opportunities, learning animals were 12 times more likely to […]
When you let your mind wander, you engage a brain circuit called the “default mode network” (DMN) . Dipping into our deep storehouse of memories, ideas, and emotions plugs us into our DMN. Which was thought of as our “Mostly Do Nothing” circuit. Until recently. Turns out, the “resting” DMN uses 20% of the body’s […]
Billboard advertising and New Jersey just got a little weirder. New Jersey radio station, WFMU-FM, just put up a billboard featuring Justin Bieber, Rihanna and, uh, Charles Manson on busy Route 280 in Newark. The station is in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to choose and fund its “first (and last)” billboard advertising. As they […]
What price your data soul Verizon is betting that price of your data soul is a shot at free concert tickets, Uber rides or Apple Music tune. A new loyalty program will apparently shower you with “experiences you won’t stop talking about” and “rewards you really, really want”. All you have to do is spend […]
Like we needed it. People are turning to the internet for some fairly basic grown up tasks. Google has launched a new site that visualizes which”how to…” questions people are asking. The most popular searches worldwide: how to tie a tie how to kiss how to get pregnant how to lose weight how to draw […]
Want to appear smart in meetings with minimal effort? Without further delay, let’s put a horn on that donkey and call it a unicorn. The Dominator Ask open ended questions that require no knowledge whatsoever on your part but will certainly eat up at least 20 minutes of meeting time. Try: Have you considered the […]
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