How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team

How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team: Do four things at the same time.

Failure and Rescue | The New Yorker

Failure and Rescue | The New Yorker

Scientists have given a new name to the deaths that occur in surgery
after something goes wrong—whether it is an infection or some bizarre
twist of the stomach. They call them a “failure to rescue.” More than
anything, this is what distinguished the great from the mediocre. They
didn’t fail less. They rescued more.

. . . you will take risks, and you will
have failures. But it’s what happens afterward that is defining. A
failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to
be ready for it—will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take
steps to set them right?—because the difference between triumph and
defeat, you’ll find, isn’t about willingness to take risks. It’s about
mastery of rescue.

Can Zimbabwe Rise From Mugabe’s Ruins? - WSJ

Can Zimbabwe Rise From Mugabe’s Ruins? - WSJ: After nearly four decades of corruption and brutality, the new president seems serious about reform.

How to Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets of Navy SEAL and Olympians

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'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read | Books | The Guardian

'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read | Books | The Guardian: When the logic of capitalism means universities are run as businesses, much is lost. Reclaiming literature is crucial to understanding the times we live in

3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making

3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making: First, be less certain — about everything.

The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers

The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers: They personalize instruction to help their employees soar.

How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent

How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent: Help them see their impact on others.

How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning

How Automation Will Change Work, Purpose, and Meaning: We’ll have to find new ways to define ourselves.

Resolving Who Owns What Land Lies at Heart of Zimbabwe’s Future - The New York Times

Resolving Who Owns What Land Lies at Heart of Zimbabwe’s Future - The New York Times: Even as villagers in land coveted by Grace Mugabe celebrated the end of an era, determining who has title to farms is a critical step in Zimbabwe’s development and democratization.

How to Succeed in Business? Do Less - WSJ

How to Succeed in Business? Do Less - WSJ: Most top performers in business have one thing in common: They accept fewer tasks and then obsess over getting them right

Pope on Epiphany: Don't make money, career your whole life

Pope on Epiphany: Don't make money, career your whole life: Many Christians observe Epiphany to recall the three wise men who followed a star to find the baby Jesus. Francis suggested asking "what star we have chosen to follow in our lives?"

"Some stars may be bright, but do not point the way. So it is with success, money, career, honors and pleasures, when these become our lives," the pope said, adding that path won't ensure peace and joy.

How to Decide Which Tasks to Delegate

How to Decide Which Tasks to Delegate: This time, you’re really going to do it.

Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays - The youth of today

Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic nowadays - The youth of today

What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe