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The siku
🎶 The Siku is a traditional Andean pan flute (panpipe). It is played across the Andes, but is especially associated with Aymara-speaking populations living around Lake Titicaca ⛰ A standardized siku have TWO ROWS OF PIPES 🤓; the IRA row and the ARKA row. 👨🏼🏫 According to local folklore, the ira row corresponds to the male principle and the arka to the female. In the olden days, it was common for TWO PEOPLE TO PLAY TOGETHER, with one playing the ira notes and the other one arka notes to achieve a complete scale🙏🏻 🤔 This is, instead of joining both rows of tubes they give each half to two different musicians to play as…
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Changing
What a company need from their leaders is changing. Their top people must be able to reimagine the company’s place in the world and transform the organization to live up TO A MORE AMBITIOUS PURPOSE ☘️ That will mean fundamental change not only in the executives themselves but also in HOW THEY COLLECTIVELY MANAGE AND LEAD THE FIRM. In a 2021 survey 🧐 of 515 businesspeople from around the world, respondents placed high importance on leaders’ ability to balance the paradoxical demands inherent in SIX KEY ROLES: • STRATEGIC EXECUTOR 🔭 Has bold, ambitious ideas as well as the practical capabilities needed to realize visions. • TECH-SAVVY HUMANIST 🎨 Drives…
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Components of lying
In a study of the COMPONENTS OF LYING 🤥, HBS professor DEEPAK MALHOTRA found that, on average, liars use MORE WORDS than truth tellers and use FAR MORE THIRD-PERSON PRONOUNS. They start talking about him, her, it, one, they, and their RATHER THAN I, in order to put SOME DISTANCE between THEMSELVES and THE LIE 😓 And they discovered that liars tend to speak in MORE COMPLEX SENTENCES in an attempt to win over their suspicious counterparts 😵💫 The researchers dubbed this the PINOCCHIO EFFECT 🤥 because, just like Pinocchio’s nose, THE NUMBER OF WORDS GREW ALONG WITH THE LIE ✖️ People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about…
