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The happy secret to better work
A fantastic talk by Shawn Achor about how happiness and positivity make you make you more effective and successful. Seemingly obvious in retrospect but often ignored some great insight in to how we th...
Why You Should Create a “Shadow Board” of Younger Employees
I recently read a great article from the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on why you should create a “shadow board” to help tackle some of the increasing challenges around adapting to changes...
3 Ways to Spot a Bad Statistic
In this delightful, hilarious talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi shares handy tips to help question, interpret and truly understand what the numbers are saying in a straight forward way.
John Szilagyi’s Multi-Billion $ Idea
So something I often think about within the analyst community is what the role of creativity and ideas play. As analysts it can be uncommon to think creatively and often think more more logically. The...
Create custom shapes in PowerPoint
PowerPoint 2010 has a new feature that’s very hard to find, but that people are praising over and over. It’s called Custom Shapes, and it’s a set of four tools that you can use to create your ve...
Psychological Safety
At the Adobe Summit I saw a great talk around the importance of psychological safety in the workplace and how critical it is to high performing teams. So important in fact that Google launched a 2 ye...
Justice Index and LGBT Rights Worldwide
During the Adobe Summit Amal Clooney, who was truly inspirational, talked about how they’re trying to use data to build a ‘justice index’ showing the quality of the justice system an...
What’s the difference between a good rebel and a bad one?
During the Adobe Summit a speaker referenced an article from “Rebels at Work” citing their definition of what makes up a ‘bad rebel’ and a ‘good rebel’ which I foun...
24 cognitive biases that are warping your perception of reality
We are each entitled to our own personal world view. Unfortunately, when it comes to interpreting information and making objective sense of reality, human brains are hard-wired to make all kinds of me...