Top Highlights

• There is a difference between being efficient and being effective. You can be efficient with things like computers: you don’t need to motivate a computer to work, you don’t have to convince it to turn on, it doesn’t need a cup of coffee before it starts in the morning. But you can’t be efficient with people. Because people have “emotions” and “feel...
• By 1791, Benjamin Franklin wrote one of the earliest known to-do lists. Had he been born a few hundred years earlier, it would have simply
• In today’s world, 83 percent of Americans are stressed out at work, 55 percent are unsatisfied with their jobs, and 47 percent struggle to stay happy. (Of course, it’s even worse in Disney World where, statistically, only one out of seven dwarfs is Happy...)
• work. As it turns out, people are more willing to do what they find fun, and that’s what people are missing: humor that works.
• “Finally! Someone else who appreciates the joy of Bayesian probability and predictive analytics. You know, analyzing sales data really gets a bad rap.”