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Dear SF: Unleash the developers

San Francisco housing is unaffordable for most people. This drives out diversity. It makes businesses less competitive because salary costs…

Dec 24, 2018

Dear SF: Unleash the developers

Dec 24, 2018

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A flood of new San Francisco homebuyers in 2019

San Francisco tech workers are about to get a lot more liquid in 2019.

Dec 23, 2018

A flood of new San Francisco homebuyers in 2019

Dec 23, 2018

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Investing in global progress

Investors tend to have home country bias. This means they over-index in their own country.

Dec 22, 2018

Investing in global progress

Dec 22, 2018

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Lessons from Pixar on innovation

Innovation is the lifeblood of company growth. It’s the lifeblood of overall economic growth. We all want it. It can be very hard to do…

Dec 21, 2018

Lessons from Pixar on innovation

Dec 21, 2018

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65x faster learning curves for execs

Many execs don’t get frequent, direct, accurate feedback.

Dec 20, 2018

65x faster learning curves for execs

Dec 20, 2018

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Moneyball for Managers?

Managerial effectiveness is so darn qualitative. Shouldn’t we have comprehensive manager analytics? Moneyball for managers?

Dec 20, 2018

Moneyball for Managers?

Dec 20, 2018

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Will decentralized organizations mean less reliance on leaders?

A promise of blockchain is decentralization. This could include organizations. What would this mean for organizations and leadership?

Dec 18, 2018

Will decentralized organizations mean less reliance on leaders?

Dec 18, 2018

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Want to come up with big new ideas? Be eccentric

From Isaac Asimov’s 1959 essay on creativity, where he asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”

Dec 17, 2018

Want to come up with big new ideas? Be eccentric

Dec 17, 2018

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Ray Dalio: “A great manager is an organizational engineer”

It’s easy to fall prey to the urgent, not the important. It’s hard to avoid the daily whirlwind your job and team throw at you.

Dec 16, 2018

Ray Dalio: “A great manager is an organizational engineer”

Dec 16, 2018

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What work should you do?

If you or someone close to you is searching for purpose in work, here’s a wonderful read: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of…

Nov 25, 2017

What work should you do?

Nov 25, 2017

Rob Cahill

Rob Cahill

I write about leadership and the future. Founder/CEO at Jhana, VP at FranklinCovey. Formerly McKinsey, Sunrun, Stanford.

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