Category: Personal Development
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What are Mental Models and why do we need them?
We can become better thinkers and decision makers if we understand what mental models are, learn the mental models from across disciplines and use them in our daily life. We are all specialists in one field or another and look at every problem from our lens, often without even realizing. * * * This world…
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The Sandra Bullock Trade – Relationship between money and happiness
The relationship between money, personal relationships and happiness is at the center of our society. The story of Sandra Bullock is a recent example. As our income starts growing the marginal gain in happiness from money tends to decrease. It is no flimsy or philosophical argument but is proved by research. There may be some…
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Personal animosity in business – good, bad and the ugly
Economist has an excellent article on the personal animosity in Silicon Valley and how it is shaping the technology industry. The article brings up the point that the people with outsized commercial acumen and success tend to have outsize personalities. The same passion that drives them to create something from nothing drives them to crush…
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Yes, Looks Do Matter
Our tendency to form instant perceptions can get us wrong sometimes. Susan Boyle will become a great case study about how we form perceptions in a flash and then try to disregard any exceptions to the mental image until they are overwhelming. In case of Susan Boyle it was her voice on “Britan’s Got Talent”…
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15 website to sharpen business skills
15 Websites to Sharpen Your Business Skills lists the top 15 websites that focus exclusively on Business and management. I will add Redherring to this list although it focuses on Technology entrepreneurship. 1. BNET2. Harvard Business Blog3. Get Rich Slowly4. TechCrunch5.VentureBeat6.Knoweldge@Wharton7.Entrepreneur Magazine8. The Motley Fool9.How to change the World10.WSJ Small Business11. Seth Godin’s Blog12. Inc.…