Mordy Golding

It's March Madness season — do you have your brackets filled out yet? It's been documented over and over that productivity in the corporate world suffers in March due to the renowned NCAA Basketball Tournament. But it doesn't have to be that way—you can commit to learning new skills so that you can be more productive. The largest challenge in acquiring new skills however, is figuring out where to start. What skills should you learn? What is most important?

Published on March 9, 2018March 9, 2018 • 3 Likes • 0 Comments Mordy GoldingFollow Building and delivering best-in-class online learning content at scale In their book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, authors Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg offer this insightful definition of a friend: In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.

In their book Machine, Platform, Cloud: Harnessing Our Digital Future, authors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (both from MIT Sloan), talk about various biases that impact the decisions we make at work every day—especially when those decisions are based on intuition instead of data. For example, there's this quote from a game player on how they execute their strategy while playing: “I’ll see a move and be sure it’s the right one, but won’t be able to tell you exactly how I know.