Expending energy trying to motivate people is largely a waste of time.
~ Jim Collins, Good to Great
Author Archives: James Patrick Tedrow
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I see no limit to the capabilities of machines. As microchips get smaller and faster, I can see them getting better than we are. I can visualize a time in the future when we will be to robots as dogs are to humans.
~ Claude Shannon
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Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years.
~ Adam Grant
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Google Maps was launched
on this day in 2005
Google Maps was launched on this day – February 8 – in 2005.
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Some scholars had tried to raise alarms before. In 2019, Dennis Tourish, a professor at the University of Sussex Business School, published a book titled Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research. He cites a study finding that more than a third of surveyed editors at management journals say they’ve encountered fabricated or falsified data.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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Campus Life at the
University of Saskatchewan
Campus Life at the
University of Guelph
Facebook was launched
on this day in 2004
Facebook was launched on this day – February 4 – in 2004. During its first days of operation, Facebook was only available to Harvard students.
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Campus Life at the
Lakehead University
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
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