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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Government Marketing 134

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.

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Diversity Inclusion Employee Engagement Leadership Development 102

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.

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Manager 139

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.

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Manager 111

Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

Benefits

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

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Benefits 127

Thought Leaders LLC

APRIL 3, 2024

Learn how to identify distractions and focus your team on the most strategically important initiatives for your organization. In a fast paced world, there is no shortage of distractions. Side projects, interesting new ideas, and the crisis of the day can divert resources from key strategic initiatives. In isolation, pursuing these small ideas make sense, but when you put them in the broader context of your strategic initiatives, you get to see exactly how nonstrategic these distractions are.

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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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Staffing Marketing Implementation Compensation 90

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.

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Benefits Manager 98

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?

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Metrics 96

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.

Education 95

Education Manager 95

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

Diversity

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.

Organizational Development 88

Organizational Development Leadership Development 88

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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Why you shouldn’t typecast your business units as “cash cows” or “growth engines.

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Engineering Operations Manager 81

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.

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Recruitment Onboarding Revenue Marketing 102

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

Retention

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

To solve tough problems at work, first ask these questions.

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Manager 106