#goodreads 2019 by Johannes Dornisch (dorsch500)

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Inc.
Want to Improve Your Memory? A Decade-Long Stanford Study Suggests You Should Stop Doing This 1 Thing3 min read · From 2019 · Researchers find that spending less time multitasking may be the key to improving cognitive performance and memory.
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New York Magazine
Ten Years On, Foursquare Is Now Checking In to You7 min read · From 2019 · The company has become a data-harvesting success story – and is still trying to figure out whether that’s “cool or creepy.”
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The Guardian
Why can’t we agree on what’s true anymore?~17 min read · From 2019 · The long read: It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting…
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Guardian Environment
Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions6 min read · From 2019 · New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers
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CNBC
Stanford psychology expert: This is the No. 1 work skill of the future—but most fail to realize it5 min read · From 2019 · The skill you most need at work is one that also helps you at home, says psychology expert and best-selling author Nir Eyal.
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Inc.
16 Great Books for Anyone Who Wants to Get Ahead in Life9 min read · From 2019 · When you read non-fiction penned by smart people who've learned important lessons you can accelerate your own path to wisdom and success.
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Vox
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program20+ min read · From 2019 · An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.
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Inc.
Google Spent Years Studying Effective Bosses. Now They Teach New Managers These 6 Things3 min read · From 2017 · The transition to management requires a transformation of thought.
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Fast Company
Branding is dead, CX design is king5 min read · 2019-12-13 · The days of crafting brands without incorporating a CX design mindset are drawing to a close.
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Marty Cagan
Product vs. Feature Teams8 min read · From 2019 · This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only getting worse. Moreover, I see…
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dropbox.design
Mental models for designers7 min read · 2019-12-12 · Curious about product design at Dropbox? Here’s a look at tools we use for solving problems, making decisions, and communicating ideas.
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Fast Company
It’s time to stop designing “minimum viable products”5 min read · 2019-11-20 · John Maeda reveals how companies such as Google have heightened what users expect from products in an excerpt from his new book, “How to Speak Machine.”
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Forbes
100 Stats On Digital Transformation And Customer Experience7 min read · 2019-12-17 · Here are 100 stats on digital transformation written to help you make the business case for undergoing one at your company.
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ModusMag
Dear Designer: The Road Back~18 min read · 2019-12-11 · What we need to do to get this industry back on track
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Miro
Impact Mapping: How to focus on outcomes in product management1 min read · 2019-12-11 · Aligning work around outcomes instead of just chasing the next product feature idea.
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t3n Magazin
Killt eure Innovation-Labs!4 min read · 2019-11-30 · Fast jeder ernst zu nehmende deutsche Konzern hat eins und auch der Mittelstand zieht nach: Warum sind Innovation-Labs oftmals mehr Schein ...
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Forbes
Why Focus On Customer Experience? Here’s Why.3 min read · From 2019 · The truth is, many executives are privately skeptical about the value of customer experience differentiation. The results of one study could change that.
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Nautilus Magazine
Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know9 min read · From 2019 · Humans have a drive to eat. We have a drive to drink. We have a drive to reproduce. Curiosity is no different, says George Loewenstein,…
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A simple answer is that we never know if what we learn today might come in handy tomorrow.
But boredom alone can’t fully explain curiosity. “The very old view is that curiosity and boredom are opposite ends of the same continuum,” Loewenstein says. The new view: bored is not to curious as hungry is to full or thirsty is slaked. Rather, boredom is “a signal from your brain that you’re not making good use of a part of the brain,”
For the information gap to set its hook, though, it can’t be too big (the headline is written in Portuguese) or too small (One Fact Is That Manatees Live in Florida).
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Quartz
Turns out it doesn’t take 10,000 hours to become an expert2 min read · From 2019 · The popularity of the 10,000-hour rule says more about the hope it promises than any rigorous science.
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Strategyzer
How To Help Agile Teams Create Products Customers Actually Want3 min read · From 2019 · Large organisations are “becoming Agile” one after the other, fuelled by hopes of higher employee engagement and more efficient product development.
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Know Your Team
How to motivate employees? Don’t.9 min read · From 2019 · Wondering how to motivate your team? Here are 6 ways to motivate your employees that doesn't kill the intrinsic employee motivation that they already have.
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Harvard Business Review
181 Top CEOs Have Realized Companies Need a Purpose Beyond Profit5 min read · From 2019 · The Business Roundtable’s new letter could mark a turning point.
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Inc.
New Study: Open Offices Kill Teamwork2 min read · From 2018 · People don't like to have serious conversations in public, it turns out.
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