How Zero-Sum Beliefs Get in the Way of Fairness
The more we are stuck in the fixed-pie mentality, the harder it is to spot the opportunities to expand the pie.
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What’s the Goal of the Goal?
When we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. We can avoid this trap by asking ourselves one simple question.
The Quest to Imagine a Workplace that (Actually) Values Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is about making trade-offs. How might we design workplaces that encourage employees to choose the right ones?
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Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
There are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask the question about what those things are, we might get things terribly, terribly wrong.
Is Everything BS?
BS (behavioral science) without creativity—indeed BS without a tiny little whiff of BS (meaning bullshit)—is actually suboptimal.
A Better Way to Ask for Advice
Don’t ask to pick someone’s brain. You’ll get better results from inviting them to retrace their route instead.
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