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One good question and one good answer are services to all. A sure sign of a troubled company is one where employees don’t care enough to ask and, if that’s the case, they’ll never care enough to fully deploy their talent. Just as curiosity is an antidote to boredom and indifference, the informed are more likely to remain interested, engaged, and alive with purpose. Even though it’s not about money, that’s a highly profitable outcome, no matter what day of the seven-day weekend it is.
The Seven-Day Weekend
Ricardo Semler
(1) Triage. Focus on questions where your hard work is likely to pay off. Don’t waste time either on easy “clocklike” questions (where simple rules of thumb can get you close to the right answer) or on impenetrable “cloud-like” questions (where even fancy statistical models can’t beat the dart-throwing chimp). Concentrate on questions in the Goldilocks zone of difficulty, where effort pays off the most. For instance, “Who will win the presidential election, twelve years out, in 2028?” is impossible to forecast now. Don’t even try. Could you have predicted in 1940 the winner of the election, twelve years out, in 1952?
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Start with small blocks of focused time and then gradually work yourself up to longer durations.
Manage Your Day-to-Day
Jocelyn K. Glei, 99U
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