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Susan Cain

Quiet: Why Introverts Have a Creative Advantage

In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain looks at how our lives are shaped by personality. The book explores how where we land on the introvert-extrovert …

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Temperament Matters: In Life and Business

I love this excerpt from Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking on Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and one of the wealthiest men in the world, …

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How You Can Make Brainstorming Better

Brainstorming – getting a group of people together to come up with as many new ideas or solutions to a problem as possible – is a common fixture in many organizations. Generally …

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Increasing The Productivity of Computer Programmers and Engineers

If you want to make your computer programmers and engineers more effective give them “privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption.” Via …

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What is Deliberate Practice?

Deliberate practice is a method for improving your performance at anything, based on constant feedback and working at the edge of your abilities. Elite people in every field use it to build up their …

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Become A Learning Machine

When successful people from different fields offer the same advice, I listen. Often they have different vocabulary around an idea, but when you break it down you realize they’re talking about …

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Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us Productive

Working alone is out. Organizations, schools, and culture are in the thrall of what Susan Cain calls “the new groupthink,” which holds that creativity derives from our gregariousness. …

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