So much of every day is spent putting out fires (hopefully mostly of the metaphorical variety), that it can be hard to realize the patterns and causes of what we do. Add to this that we often use the wrong metrics to measure the effectivity of our work, and it is not surprising that we…
Cultivating awe in our lives is more important the more stress tries to give us tunnel- vision, and the book Awestruck does a great job of suggesting ways both large and small to experience it. Grounded in research, Paquette describes “awe” as an experience that “transcends our understanding of the world, which forces us to…
Roger Martin looks at the roots of our current understanding of business structure in When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession with Economic Efficiency. He posits that the drive towards efficiency to maximize productivity and profit has caused us to think of business as a machine in which each department is the equivalent of…