~ Jack Welch
Reflections from the founder of Australia's national nudge unit
Taking two years off from his professorial post at Harvard to start up the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government has been a major career highlight for Michael Hiscox.
On Craigslist, I wasn’t alone. I found a community craving the same thing I did: a connection. Something real. Before it shut down, Craigslist personals gave us an intimate look “at humanity in extremis.”
“A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.”
– Arsène Wenger
“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are”
Every time some spoiled Senior Public Servant complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
– On Innovation and Nudgiation twitter
Reflections from the founder of Australia's national nudge unit
Taking two years off from his professorial post at Harvard to start up the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government has been a major career highlight for Michael Hiscox.
“…the effective marginal tax rate when a person moves from the bottom to the middle quintile is 1 – (15.4-12.9)/(12.6-2.2), or 76 percent.” [with qualifications]
On Craigslist, I wasn’t alone. I found a community craving the same thing I did: a connection. Something real. Before it shut down, Craigslist personals gave us an intimate look “at humanity in extremis.”
↩︎ Quartz
“A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful.”
– Arsène Wenger
The Black Latitude Day
to the memory of Lawrence Duggan
God help that country where informers thrive
Where slander flounshes and lies contrive
To kill by whispers
Where men lie to live!
Where slander flounshes and lies contrive
To kill by whispers
Where men lie to live!
God help that country by informers fed
Where fear corrupts and where suspicion’s spread
By look and gesture, even to the dead
Where fear corrupts and where suspicion’s spread
By look and gesture, even to the dead
God help that country where the liar’s shame
Outshouts the decent silence to defame
The dead man’s honor and defile his name
Outshouts the decent silence to defame
The dead man’s honor and defile his name
God help that country, cankered deep by doubt,
Where honest men, by scandals turned about,
See honor murdered and will not speak out
Where honest men, by scandals turned about,
See honor murdered and will not speak out
God help that country
But for you– for you–
Pure heart, sweet spirit, humble, loyal, true,
Pretend, pretend, we know not what we do
But for you– for you–
Pure heart, sweet spirit, humble, loyal, true,
Pretend, pretend, we know not what we do
“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are”
– Robyn Benincasa Football of Latitudes
IMELDA
Be in Spirit
Successfully
transitioning to new leadership roles
↩︎ Siri has a sold soul via BBC News
IMELDA
How to Be Serious in a Time of Absurdity
… the law of trespass governing literary territory has become noticeably less liberal, but Shriver remains resolute in the conviction that she is as entitled to describe the speech, look, and attitudes of fellow creatures of whatever race or class as anybody else is to describe her. “All boundaries between cultures are fluid,” she told me recently. “We are living in a big hash. It’s fun . . . and interesting . . . and it’s complicated.” In her pacing, and not least in her impressive articulacy, Shriver sometimes talks as if addressing a lecture room. As it happens, she has done so on this topic, “cultural appropriation,” more than once. Her thoughts emerge in clear outlines. “But the solution is not to place a fence around everybody. We are putting together a version of the world that is false: Not only do you not own your culture, whose boundaries you are therefore not allowed to police, but you don’t even own your self. Which is to say, you are unavoidably a part of other people’s lives.”
Be in Spirit
To be inspired means to be ‘in spirit’. To be an Inspirational Player, a radical optimist, wherever you stand or fall. Remember the return of Steve Jobs and Apple’s ‘Think Different’ campaign? Said Jobs: “That ad was to remind us of who our heroes are and who we are”. Want to be in spirit? By the end of this month pass on the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given to 10 people under 20.
Surprise with the Obvious
The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad. No piece of paper can be folded more than seven times. The stall closest to the door in a bathroom is the cleanest, because it is the least used. Obvious. Overlooked. For cut through innovation, communication, surprise with the obvious.
Viva La Difference!
Viva La Difference
Successfully
transitioning to new leadership roles
"Yet in spite of the high stakes, leaders are typically underprepared for
— and undersupported during — the transition to new roles." (McKinsey)
Who
funds Federal Parliamentarians’ overseas travel?
"Over the period 2010-2018 Federal parliamentarians received 102 sponsored
trips to Israel, 63 to China and 49 to the United States of America." (ASPI)
Why Oprah Winfrey Has Mattered For 35 Years
Wesley Morris: "The more she empowered us to speak, the better she got at knowing how her emotional algorithm could supply us with books and feelings and tools for betterment. And she took real risks to better understand this country, too. ... Oprah didn't do this work alone. She helped us do it. She was a platform. She was Facebook. Forget the presidency. She was the facilitator in chief." … Read More