Expand Your Mind: Grab Bag
by Miki Saxon
It’s raining where I live. It’s been raining for weeks (months?); not all day but on and off most days. In case your weather is similarly unappealing you can enjoy the day reading some very interesting stuff. And if the sun is shining you can still enjoy this week’s offerings with your morning coffee.
A couple of weeks ago I gave you a link to a story explaining how GE and other corporate titans not only pay little-to-no tax, but actually get money back. But even more fascinating is learning how the wealthy, the ones whose taxes Congress keeps cutting, avoid paying taxes, too.
Ten years, not much in the life of a person, but it’s forever in the online world. 2011 is Wikipedia’s 10th birthday Business Week offers up a great in depth article on where it’s been, where it’s going and the woman leading it.
Creativity is on every manager’s mind and McKinsey offers up some good ideas on how to ignite it. Being McKinsey they aim the info at executives, but with minor tweaking any manager can use the ideas.
Creativity is not a trait reserved for the lucky few. By immersing your people in unexpected environments, confronting ingrained orthodoxies, using analogies, and challenging your organization to overcome difficult constraints, you can dramatically boost their creative output—and your own.
Speaking of creativity… Have you ever wondered how the dinosaurs had sex? Considering their size it must have taken a lot of ingenuity to go all the way; Slate offers up some answers.
That’s it for this Saturday; rain or shine have a wonderful weekend.
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