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New Yorkers Living Longest And Why Walking May Have Something To Do With It

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“If you want to live longer and healthier than the average American, then come to New York City.” - Mayor Bloomberg, December 27, 2011 True or not, I’ve always perceived that people in New York are slimmer and healthier than people elsewhere. My theory has always been that while New York is perhaps the most stressful [...]

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Why Generous People Get Things Done

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It’s the day after Christmas, but this is no tale about charitable giving. Sorry folks. This is a post about why people who are hardwired to generously serve and help others tend to get things done. I just read Jeffrey Gandz’s 2007 Ivey Business School article on Go To People (via Martin Zwilling’s more recent summary in Forbes). [...]

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Does Safety Automation Make People Stupid and You Unsafe?

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I’ve been fascinated with the long-unfolding analyses of the disaster of Air France Flight 447. It’s a riveting story about human error, leadership failure and physics. But it also underscores how technology and automation — in the spirit of safety and productivity — can have the unfortunate outcome of preventing people from gaining the experience [...]

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CMO Tenure – 4 Strategies For Success

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Spectators and players in the marketing industry love playing monday-morning quarterback when it comes to the short tenures of chief marketing officers (CMOs). An over-cited backdrop is a stat from a 2004 study by recruiting firm Spencer Stuart, which reported that CMO tenure among top-advertised brands was 23.6 months. While that number sticks in the [...]

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Women Greatly Underestimate How Fast They Become Infertile

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Laura and I were among the first of our friends to get married, at ages 23 and 24, respectively. We also were among the first to start having kids, at age 30 and 31. I never thought of ourselves as young for these life events, though we were certainly young compared to most in our [...]

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Influence, Spinfluence: Rank-and-file are far more likely to start a contagion

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Influence, Spinfluence: The rank-and-file citizen is far more likely to start a contagion. If you’re heavy into social media and digital marketing, you’re probably familiar, intrigued or even obsessed with Klout, a Silicon Valley startup attempting to become a standard measure of online influence. It’s a fascinating service, and I admire the team’s momentum in quickly [...]

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Facebook Open Graph And Your Attention

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Facebook’s Open Graph API allows websites to draw information about people, photos, events, pages and other objects — and their relationships between each other. Companies increasingly are luring users to opt into their Facebook-connected apps that offer access to valuable content or some other service. The value exchange lies in the fact that these apps [...]

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