Are you a fan of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock? In several episodes, he mentions in passing his Memory Palace. In each episode, we see him scrolling through a virtual screen of memories, reorganizing them, putting them together in different ways until the solution finally comes to him, seemingly out of nowhere. I thought the “Memory Palace” …
There have been a lot of articles in the news lately about the increase in artificial intelligence and how robots will continue to replace humans in the job market (see 5 things everyone gets wrong about artificial intelligence and what it means for our future. This pushes my buttons in the same way that discussions …
A friend gave me some great feedback the other day. I was confiding about a work conversation that hadn’t gone at all the way that I wanted it to. “He asked this question and my mind blanked, I didn’t know what to say.” “So what did you do?” He asked. “I babbled,” I confessed. He …
I’ve been asked this question several times over the last few months. It’s a valid question – there are number of different shades of change management and the answers you'll hear depend on who you're speaking to: Human Resources: An HR Manager will talk about managing change by aligning organizational structure, job descriptions, performance evaluations, …
One of my favorite stories is about a battle-surgeon who comes to doubt his work. He’s deep in the fighting on the edge of a war that seems like it will never end. They bring men to him, he patches them up; as soon as they’re well enough, they return to battle, only to come …
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