R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

I get you to perform a thought experiment where are you think about how valuable information technology is to you and how valuable innovations within the social domain are to you. Hopefully this helps you to think about innovation in a little bit more of a healthier perspective.

I talk about what people actually truly mean when they say I’m too busy. I talk about two signs of what it means to be I’m too busy. One side is that you platelets are declining a particular activity, and the other side is communicating status in a environment that prioritizes Productivity.

I talk about the importance of just keep plugging along no matter what you’re doing. Everybody else is insecure and view themselves as a giant mess just like you do. I know that many of you don’t believe that but it’s absolutely true. We’re all messed up.

I talk about the importance of not giving up on yourself in a daily basis. I was in talk about how we need to have more of a long-term mindset and not to go too hard and too little and a daily basis.

I talk about the great resignation, which is the phenomenon where a large portion of the labor force has left the economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is some interesting phenomenon that are occurring due to the great resignation, and I think ultimately in the long run it’s going to allow for increased opportunities and improved employee benefits.

I discuss how we need to start broaching very big and difficult questions with organizational theory and strategy. We need to start looking at how we can use organizations to maximize human potential, so members feel completely self actualized by being part of that organization. This is a tall call for managers to not only do this, but also a challenge for organizational theorists to tackle.

It’s important to remember that if humility is critical to you framing your story. We often listen and hear about top performers in peoples feelings, but then we don’t recognize how people actually got to the top performance. We need to listen to the stories behind why people get to top performance.

I talk about how I deal with feeling anxious to work out the time. I talked about the balance of work with letting it go. It’s important to let go so that you can re-calibrate every week.

I talk about the game of academic publishing and research. Talk about how productivity is missing lying to what were actually talking about with academic publishing. There’s very much a game to academic publishing.

it’s important to practice reminding yourself that you’re a good person, and practice small things in your life that make you feel positive inside. Little things like smiling, laughing, and giving hugs really truly matter to how you feel and where are you actually go. Leadership is about doing unusual things, and you need to remind yourself that you’re not a bad person for doing those unusual thin...

I talk about reinforcing dynamics and learning processes that lead to inequality within organizations. We have to be very careful with the systems that we have in recognize that there’s natural biases that will evolve because of learning processes.

I talk about how to predict the next big thing that we might encounter. Talk about things like the platform economy, and how institutions are changing based on algorithms within the economy. We have to be aware that in the next 20 years things will be a lot different than where they are right now. And, it’s gonna look like something that we couldn’t possibly imagine..

Rules for riches generally do not exist, and if they were they would be competed away very rapidly. You simply just have to keep working at it and that’s the only solution.

Productivity and measuring productivity is a false metric. I am come to realize that what people want with productivity is not necessarily how much you work, but the symbolism of proving your worth to the outside world. Its more about the institutionalization of how we understand productivity, than actually about improved performance.

I talk about how business school education is focused on the extremes and focused on making sure that only the best get the best education. We need to start focusing on how do we move the average or below average, and those lessons are a lot different than the lessons that you got for making the best you well.

I discuss how problem-solving is central to building a business that will thrive over the long run. Do you have to get used to continuously problem-solving day in and day out.

I want you to get into the mindset of thinking that things are going to take several decades by the time you actually do something that’s really meaningful and cool in your life. Just get used to the slow grind day in and day out.

Talk about how my wife and I work together to pay off our mortgage on our house by the time we were 40. I talked about how you have to work together as a team, and trade off different objectives that are dueling with each other.

I talk about the idea that social media is blurring the lines between the front stage and back stage of your life. You get to see the backstage of people’s lives, but social media is really projecting the front stage. And so even if you’re seeing the backstage it becomes a front stage overtime.

I talk about the idea where people strive to have others proud of you. You have to realize that nobody is ever going to be proud of you because of their own insecurities. You have to do it just because you want to do it and you know it’s important.

I talk about my experience of building r3ciprocity.com, and providing new features and have a new product launches of those features. It always is less climactic than you ever think and it’s just a gradual slow grind overtime. You don’t get the big explosion of users and people using it when you get is just this gradual slow growth.

The R3ciprocity project is going to be a beacon for researchers and business in a decade from now, where people will understand how they can balance the desire to provide practical implications with strong research that matters in this world. I also think it’s going to contribute significantly to research and development by funding PhD students and graduate level research far beyond what I can per...

Having a reasonable understanding of your own personal identity will help you make decisions, and be OK with yourself when you do them. The challenge that most of us face is that we don’t know who we actually are.

I discuss the education versus experience debate. I think it is almost foolhardy to think that education has limited impact in your career performance. What we have to stop doing is having a debate between education versus experience, and start having a debate about what type of experience and what type of education.

I discussed that we should question things in the world that have no technical value. There’s lots of things that we do in this world that are because of legitimacy or it’s just the thing that we do. The sooner we start questioning these things that have a little value the quicker we are too accomplishing new innovations in this world.