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Brian Goodman

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105 posts

Prioritizing happiness to create higher performance

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Shawn Achor presents a compelling story of a condition that is systemic in most professional circles – happiness comes after success. Stay focused, work harder and eventually you will have success and then you will be happy – of course not! The challenge is th... More »

Cheap, fast and running on empty

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In high school I worked at a local quick-printer in town and among the many lessons was the relationship between cost, time and quality. My guess is if you have ever worked in a service job this is not a new concept. Wikipedia talks about it as the project man... More »

Creating happiness with career and success

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Conversations about careers and success seem to be on the rise. On the one had you have the unemployed, on the other those that are employed and on the third hand we have those that are employed and trying to do more than sit tight in uncertain times  – they ... More »

Staying sober drinking kool-aid

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I keenly remember interviewing with IBM for a job right out of college. Hampshire College is young, progressive, change-the-world, do-good kind of place, and IBM was an institution with history that conjured up visuals of white shirts, suits, computers that we... More »

Inheriting digital identities and the mess therein

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In a world that is increasingly satisfied with digital versions of analogs of past times, we create more stuff than ever before, it’s stored in evermore efficient ways removing early consternation to archive or delete. Today we just let it grow with “free” onl... More »

The diversity of doing

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When I am scouting for talent I lead with the belief in diversity, in all ways – race, gender, discipline, thought etc. – because it makes for a better, more creative, compelling and competitive organizations. Somewhere in that principle there is an assump... More »

Treading water in the shallow end of social

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It has been a few years since I was actively thinking about social software and the distance likely adds validity to some more recent observations. One of the simplest ways to integrate end-user facing technology is to aggregate information. The rise of the po... More »

Traveling the last mile with next wave generation

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Technologist types geek out on their art like few other professionals. The closest sibling is the research scientist that is pursuing truth because of the common belief that someone should. Leadership is often seen in the form of creating and communicating vis... More »

Software development is the newest blue collar trade

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Traditionally computer science is a white color discipline, a cerebral activity beyond that of the typical trades. While not all computer scientists are software programmers, most of the things people touch on their computers and on the Internet run code that ... More »

Kick out the ladder

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Honda released a series of superb video shorts that will inspire anyone while moving the brand beyond the car or the motorcycle. Everywhere around us there are things to be marveled, people to engage and new ideas to explore. Yet, we spend more time focused on... More »

Am I repeating myself?

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History informs us and refers us to a context other than our own. We look to it to provide insight into something happening in the present and future. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance and yet almost all of our predictions come from fo... More »