Learning, Knowledge, Skills Flashcards
verbal fluency
the ability to quickly access your mental vocabulary, selecting appropriate words when talking or writing.
If you’ve ever struggled with a word on the tip of your tongue, searched for a witty comeback, or tried persuade someone, then you understand the importance of verbal fluency.
Unlike many other cognitive abilities, research (ac. Luminosity) has shown that verbal fluency performance remains relatively stable throughout much of adulthood.
phonemic fluency
or fluency with words that begin with a certain letter or sound.
semantic fluency
fluency with words of a certain semantic type, such as animals or foods.
How detailed should your startup’s product road map be?
(1) If your plans are too detailed for your team’s size, then you’re wasting everyone’s time, since plans will undoubtedly change by the time you’re actually ready to implement them. If they’re not detailed enough, then your team will lack a cohesive vision, and you will appear weak as their leader.
(2) https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/pxP6TNXQkSAp0PlhQ-Q1CoPinfACoUG9nnSc3CoNr5vIv_9xfkVgeiPajDMn94XMUlZqdGvZ5m2szqnfYaPUinwtplhoevMUoX0XXssqcIbhyGJY2L0
If you’re Facebook, Microsoft, or NASA, you’ve gotta plan your next mega-feature . . .
. . .years in advance, and your feature backlog horizons may be on the magnitude of half-decades. If you’re two guys in a garage, you’ve gotta keep your detailed plans limited to flexible weekly milestones, or else some other competitor is gonna do more faster.
Why You Should Become Bilingual
(1) You can speak in two languages
(2) Form link with people of different culture, increasing tolerance
(3) You can connect with people better
(4) You can expand your thoughts/personality (Some cultures have more words focusing on community, as opposed to US individualism).
(5) Companies like it
(6) Can think more flexibly and solve problems better
(7) Can switch from one task to another more easily
(8) the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset of dementia (and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease)
How many emregncies is one likely to see in their lifetime?
6
-SAT correlates ____ with general intelligence scores
+.82 (82% correlation essentially)
Giving others control is good
allowing prisonrs to move chairs and control room lights and the TV, having workers participate in decision-making - boosts morale , work engagement, and health, + alertness, activeneess, happiness
The infant brain will increase in size by a factor of up to ___by adulthood.
5
Two factors contribute to this growth: the growth of synaptic connections between neurons, and the myelination of nerve fibers; the number of neurons stays the same though.[3]
How successful executives run meetings
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer grills her employees like an expert chef, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos can’t stand it when people agree, and
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg wields a mighty notebook. In that notebook is a list of discussion points and action items.
“She crosses them off one by one, and once every item on a page is checked, she rips the page off and moves to the next,” Fortune reports. “If every item is done 10 minutes into an hour-long meeting, the meeting is over.”
Steve Jobs
the people who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do
How Elon Musk runs meetings
Tesla CEO Elon Musk demands that people be super prepared.
Screenshot from Netflix
Elon Musk
Musk has incredibly high standards. He has a reputation for firing people if they miss a deadline. So if you’re meeting with him at Tesla or SpaceX, you have to be ready.
As one anonymous Musk employee shares on Quora:
“When we met with Elon, we were prepared,” the commenter shared. “Because if you weren’t, he’d let you know it. If he asked a reasonable follow up question and you weren’t prepared with an answer, well, good luck.”
What else would you expect from the most badass CEO in America?
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-run-meetings-2014-4?op=1#ixzz2zYmkOXsS
Google Head Hirer Resume Tip
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Laszlo Bock knows a little something about how to ace an interview. As Google’s senior vice president of people operations, he’s in charge of all of the company’s hiring — about 100 new people a week.
In a hefty interview with The New York Times, Bock reveals his best advice for job interviews.
Essentially, you want to promote yourself in terms of what specific attributes you will bring to the company and how those attributes will create value. Use stories from past experiences to highlight those attributes.
Maybe at your past job you designed a well-recieved new user interface for your company’s app; you should explain why you made the choices with the redesign that you did, how those decisions reveal something about you as an employee, and then how you can use those personal qualities to make a difference in the position that you’re interviewing for.
“Most people in an interview don’t make explicit their thought process behind how or why they did something,” Bock told The Times’ Thomas Friedman. “And, even if they are able to come up with a compelling story, they are unable to explain their thought process.”
Bock also shared an important tip for writing an attention-getting resume. You should put yourself as an employee in the context of others in your industry to make it apparent why you are a particularly strong candidate.
He says:
The key is to frame your strengths as: ‘I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z.’ Most people would write a resume like this: ‘Wrote editorials for The New York Times.’ Better would be to say: ‘Had 50 op-eds published compared to average of 6 by most op-ed [writers] as a result of providing deep insight into the following area for three years.’ Most people don’t put the right content on their resumes.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-advice-for-job-interviews-2014-4#ixzz2zYn0nAfs
How Steve Jobs Ran Meetings
The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs kept meetings as small as possible.
Jobs led Apple to become one of the world’s most valuable companies, creating consumer-friendly products with sleek designs.
He ran meetings with a similar minimalism. He hated when they were too big, since too many minds in a room got in the way of simplicity.
In one tale, Jobs was in a weekly meeting with Apple’s ad agency and spied someone who didn’t regularly attend. He asked who she was, listened to her reply, and politely told her to get out: “I don’t think we need you in this meeting,” he said. “Thanks.”
Jobs carried the same standard with himself: When President Obama asked him to a meeting of tech darlings, he declined. The guest list was too long.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-run-meetings-2014-4?op=1#ixzz2zYo1UMSY
So his meeting style reflected his product style. Congruity.
