Managers: Hired To Be Fired

Managers: Hired To Be Fired: "We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see. We in effect define degree of talent by degree of success and then reinforce our feelings of causality by noting the correlation. That’s why although there is sometimes little difference in ability between a wildly successful person and one who is not successful, there is usually a big difference in how they are viewed."

This column will change your life: Are you an Asker or a Guesser? | Life and style | The Guardian

Are you an Asker or a Guesser?: "We are raised, the theory runs, in one of two cultures. In Ask culture, people grow up believing they can ask for anything – a favour, a pay rise– fully realising the answer may be no. In Guess culture, by contrast, you avoid "putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes… A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should accept.""

BBC News - Brain 'splits to multi-task'

BBC News - Brain 'splits to multi-task': "An inability to deal with more than two things at a time may be 'hard-wired' into our brain, research suggests."