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I've always cringed at that word competencies. Rivals the word "tools" as my most loathed bits of HR speak. Billings offers a thoughtful argument against the failure to see people as part of a wider system not separate units. via David Gurteen(tags: leadership competency)
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Nice mix of geekery and propaganda. Find out how powerful (or more likely feeble) you vote is, in the ludicrous postcode lottery that passes for a voting system in my home country.

Grit before pearls
Ben Schott has a go at the paradoxical blandness of supposedly disruptive startups: Welcome to your bland new world. It’s easy to get stuck in