Scott L. Leek

Continuous Improvement Leader, Coach, and CEO of RealKnowledge, Inc. Helping leaders and coaching practitioners in the improvement arts and sciences.

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r-star. This is what you call pablum. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns. People actually get paid for this bull shit analysis? Pathetic!

“A third fac­tor, pro­duc­tiv­ity, is a wild card, be­cause pro­duc­tiv­ity mea­sures, suc…https://t.co/t5Mvb8rMjs https://t.co/S933lYJDKb

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#continuousimprovement #lifelonglearning #lifelonglearner https://t.co/Vk0M5Mi9FO

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““I can’t think of any job where it’s like AI by it­self,” said Rod­ney Mc­Mullen, chief ex­ec­u­tive of gro­cery chain Kroger, which has about 430,000 em­ploy­ees. “I can think of a lot of jobs that are be­ing af­fected by AI.”

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“Mr. Langlois recognizes that the deregulating spirit of the 1970s was part of a change in the Zeitgeist. He describes, for example, how the Bay Area’s hippie ethos intersected with the rise of the personal computer. The resulting…https://t.co/qDRquZWZQL https://t.co/lgRbB0j9mC

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“The cause of suffering is desire.” The Buddha

But upon further study in the 1990s, scientists realized that dopamine is more closely related to the anticipation of a reward than to its receipt. Dopamine causes the wanting of some…https://t.co/YwKpmyZsbw https://t.co/EZpTcs6stM

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Wow. Is it really a mystery? Pay people a living wage that doesn’t get eaten up by inflation; treat people like human beings; provide a work environment that is considerent of basic human needs.

Not rocket science. Sad that some c…https://t.co/IKNCSXMyL0 https://t.co/zq8qw9x03M

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A survey of 4,500 companies’ return-to-office policies conducted by hybrid-workplace software company Scoop found that nearly 300 require employees to come in on specific days. Of those, just under a quarter ask employees to come i…https://t.co/sleFsxfDWW https://t.co/YwdrmDQtUa

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“The ‘last mile’ may pose the big­gest chal­lenge,” the BIS said.

#inflation #monetarypolicy #economy https://t.co/wE5mYlrTRM

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#quantumcomputing #microsoft #physics https://t.co/dz3rV0v6AJ

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““We’ve seen lots of pitches from com­pa­nies who may well be pur­su­ing a bril­liant ap­pli­ca­tion of AI, but they don’t have ac­cess to data that will give them the abil­ity to build a pow­er­ful ap­pli­ca-tion, let alone pro­pr…https://t.co/IPnjbMonov https://t.co/vkmjGdKDHR

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“There has to be a bet­ter way of do­ing this. It’s a sim­ple idea that ex­plains the most rad­i­cal and suc­cess­ful in­no­va­tions—Apple’s orig­i­nal iPhone, Tes­la’s Model S and, now, this U-shaped win­dow AC. It may seem triv­i…https://t.co/K6gTuxVRuy https://t.co/YuphLc0KH8

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“The problem is that capitalists typically don’t know how to divide the pie well and socialists typically don’t know how to grow it well. While one might hope that when such economic polarity and poor conditions exist, leaders woul…https://t.co/Nu7xkZOXU6 https://t.co/tmfnLCzA5e

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So instead of some degree of distributed power, though power has greatly concentrated, the prescription offered here is to further centralize it in a well armed monopoly called the government.

“The deeper problem in the science of…https://t.co/gqrN5QIbJq https://t.co/AE6WrvHTJm

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“The first prin­ci­ples process in­volves en­vi­sion­ing what ul­ti­mate suc­cess looks like and then be­ing open to any path that leads there. Even some­thing so in­grained in tra­di­tional school­ing, such as ac­cred­i­ta­tion, s…https://t.co/aO68rYIy2k https://t.co/Z744BSJElt

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Be careful out there. This is riskier than you might think.

#safety #whitewaterrafting #safe https://t.co/H2KbPkL2B6

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“Half of work­ers aren’t en­gaged on the job, putting in min­i­mal ef­fort to get by, ac­cord­ing to re­search by Gallup re­leased Tues­day. Em­ployee en­gage­ment in the U.S. de­clined for the sec­ond year in a row. There is also…https://t.co/UW1hx0M1nF https://t.co/1a3d06Rdxh

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“Another one bites the dust.”

Westfield said the 'unprecedented' poor performance in San Francisco was a sharp contrast to the rest of its properties.

San Francisco Centre generated $455 million in sales in 2019, before the pande…https://t.co/lBpCxBm1VD https://t.co/DWNLQpZByF

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One of the best in the world and they want to tamper with it.

“TOKYO—Toy­ota’s an­nual meet­ing this year has turned into a show­down over the mer­its of long­time leader Akio Toy­o­da’s elec­tric-ve­hi­cle strat­egy, which has…https://t.co/NcVP1VZlAE https://t.co/Hc57nn6WwL

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“This week, Park Hotels & Resorts, one of the largest publicly-traded hospitality investment companies with more than 29,000 rooms, chose to default on a $725 million loan secured by two flagship San Francisco hotels, the Hilton Sa…https://t.co/xbCUCu8Luo https://t.co/InhdyiOY6k

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Another opportunity to not address the financial elephant in the room.

“Given the Fed of­fers 5.05% at its re­verse repo rate fa­cil­ity—which would in­crease if it upped the fed-funds tar­get range—the U.S. gov­ern­ment could be…https://t.co/ib0ZbnMQHB https://t.co/DBhR14dpmH