US Today has an interesting piece that challenges a lot of traditional concepts about money and smarts. Apparently you don’t have to be a genius to be rich. “Being more intelligent does not confer any advantage along two of the three key dimensions of financial success (income, net worth and financial distress),” Zagorsky finds, looking ...
From the monthly archives:
August 2007
Marc Andreessen’s blog has an interesting little snippet from the book The Medici Effect boldly stating: Brainstorming Sucks. (I paraphrased for emphasis.) In a [1987 study, researchers] concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual groups. Of the 25 reported experiments by psychologists all over the world, real groups have never once been shown to ...
That little blog network I co-started last week has another collaborative post on the topic of “How to Work Like the Masters“. In short, there are 24 tips that help you work more efficiently. My favorite aspect about this post is that there are tips from many different aspects of life that affect work, like: ...
The Theory of Constraints blog has an interesting article on the damaging effects of multi-tasking. In a project setting, it’s easy to get distracted and try and complete multiple tasks instead of just working on one. This article argues that multi-tasking is not only a bad mindset to have, but it can actually make projects ...
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