Lolly Daskal
APRIL 3, 2024
The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. While CEOs are often admired for their leadership, vision, and decision-making abilities, they are not immune to making mistakes. In this blog post, we will explore seven powerful examples of common CEO mistakes and the valuable lessons that can be learned from them.
Leadership Freak
APRIL 3, 2024
Culture is mortar, not bricks. Culture building is laying a bed of mortar on bricks. Culture binds people together. Culture is expressed by the way people treat each other while they do the work. This post explains the foundation of culture building.
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Alison Green
APRIL 3, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My father keeps responding to my employee’s political posts on Facebook. My father is very conservative and my employee is very liberal, so you can guess that their opinions go together like oil and water. I feel that it is inappropriate for my father to be interacting with someone I supervise, and I asked him to stop.
Kellogg Insight
APRIL 3, 2024
Generative AI is like “a hammer looking for a nail.” On this episode of The Insightful Leader: we have to decide what the nail should be.
Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC
Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult
Alison Green
APRIL 3, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. Coworker says she loves shoplifting I’ve been angsting over a coworker interaction that I just let go by. I am the oldest and most domesticated person in my workplace, but I try hard not to give off “work mom” vibes.
AlignOrg
APRIL 3, 2024
What do Netflix and Whole Foods have in common? If you’re like me, they’re both key components of a great Friday night (a bowl of rocky road and binge-watching The Crown, anyone?) But beyond that, they’ve both taken unique approaches to managing talent that have allowed them to grow and succeed where many of their competitors have failed. Let’s discuss this flexible concept of hiring and staffing, often referred to as fungible talent.
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AIHR
APRIL 3, 2024
In an unpredictable labor market, recruitment has become a two-way street, and more organizations than ever before are looking to improve the candidate experience. However, a study by Morgan McKinley found that 65% of companies lost out on their best candidates because of lengthy hiring procedures, while PeopleScout’s research shows that less than 2 in 10 candidates rate their candidate experience as excellent.
Alison Green
APRIL 3, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I know it’s strange to complain that my boss praises me too much — but she does, and it’s getting on my nerves! Just for completing fairly basic tasks, she’ll say “You’re crushing it!!” or “So grateful for you!!” I feel like there’s a cheerleader waving pom-poms in my face, or maybe some amped-up Peloton instructor screaming encouragement.
Ascend
APRIL 3, 2024
At the end of the day, what are a few simple, clear key business metrics that will make you feel really good about the progress you made this year?
Alison Green
APRIL 3, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My boss keeps bringing her sick child to work because she can’t send them to school or daycare since they won’t accept sick children. While I understand that it’s hard to find someone to look after them, especially when both parents are working, I get sick every time I’m at work with the sick kid around.
Speaker: Jeremy York
Join us for a thought-provoking exploration of the rapidly evolving HR landscape as we examine how technological innovation, regulatory changes, talent strategies, and evolving diversity approaches are reshaping the profession. This webinar will provide HR professionals with practical insights on leveraging AI and emerging technologies while maintaining compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
The strength of any organization depends on its people. Research has found a strong positive relationship between employee well-being and firm performance. When people feel healthy and engaged, their work performance improves, their relationships are stronger, and they’re better motivated to impact change. This is what’s at the heart of “human sustainability”— a concept introduced in Deloitte’s “2023 Global Human Capital Trends” report.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
While gig work has offered workers benefits like flexibility, it has also come at the expense of lower pay, limited protections, surveillance, and limited privacy. Tactics such as petitions and boycotts have been used to effect change for workers in the traditional economy, but these have proven far less effective in the gig economy. To explore why, the authors use sociologist Robin Leidner’s concept of the customer service triangle to illustrate the ways that workers, companies, and customers a
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.
Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton
Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 3, 2024
Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day could reduce traffic-related deaths. This article discusses the findings and offers five ways for auto manufacturers and government policymakers can counteract consumers’ biases.
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