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The measured employee

Feedback loops - the act of measuring something on an ongoing basis, changes your future behaviour, because you remember and anticipate the recording of what you're about to do. Well designed feedback loops have made people drive safer, and lose weight. Could the same design principles help employees work better? Read more – ‘The measured employee’.

The reversing of the Bell curve

At least once a month I find myself talking about the the ‘reverse bell curve’ idea - the traditional 'middle' distribution of 'stuff' seems to have completely reversed, and now 'everything' is distributed to the extremes; politics, wealth, employment, food, consumer goods, media... Read more – ‘The reversing of the Bell curve’.

Pinching an idea from the Financial Times

Every morning, at 11am, a handful of FT journalists get together and run a simple web-based chat session for about 30 minutes. It's a talk between smart colleagues; insidery, stuffed with early-stage ideas, company news and theories being bounced around.
What if this model was replicated inside a Company? Read more – ‘Pinching an idea from the Financial Times’.

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