Kellogg Insight
JULY 15, 2024
What will we pay for the next groundbreaking drug? In episode 4 of our 5-episode series, “Insight Unpacked: American Healthcare and Its Web of Misaligned Incentives,” we explore the trade-off at the heart of pharmaceutical innovation.
Lolly Daskal
JULY 15, 2024
Transferable skills are the core competencies that individuals carry with them between jobs, industries, and various life roles, forming the backbone of adaptable career paths. As an executive leadership coach, I emphasize the critical role these skills play in not only securing employment but also excelling in any professional environment. With continuous industry changes and technological advancements, the capacity to transition skill sets is more crucial than ever.
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Alison Green
JULY 15, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. Last week, we talked about strange customer complaints. Here are 25 funny stories you shared. 1. The Bigfoot artifacts I worked in a small history museum and got a complaint that we didn’t have any Bigfoot artifacts, like bones or fossils … from Bigfoot. 2. The bewitchment I used to work in sales for a pretty well-known IT company.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2024
Working with researchers, four companies used a data-driven approach to balance who was doing the office housework and who was getting promotion-making assignments.
Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight
Learn how leading companies leverage AI to transform the employee experience, at scale. We'll debunk myths and showcase practical tools to help you confidently integrate AI into your EX strategy. Learn to personalize experiences, automate tasks, and streamline processes for a holistic approach. Leave energized and ready to champion AI as the key to a thriving workforce.
BetterUp
JULY 15, 2024
You've likely heard the saying, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” And while Aristotle was not referring to teamwork, the statement expresses the main goal of building a great team. The importance of teamwork lies in its ability to achieve far more than individuals working alone. Why is teamwork important in the workplace? It combines diverse skills and perspectives, enhancing creativity and problem-solving, while boosting employee engagement and morale.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2024
Synthetic sponsorship programs are built for action, designed to catalyze moments of advocacy and advancement. But the most effective sponsor-sponsoree pairs start out slow to go fast. In this article, the author shares four strategies that sponsorees can use to maintain momentum in synthetic sponsorship pairings. Especially for pairings where the bond is built mainly through virtual interactions, such as in companies that have adopted hybrid work models or those with dispersed global workforces
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Nir Eyal
JULY 15, 2024
Richard Branson will be the first to tell you that he’s generally a lucky person in business and life. An adrenaline junkie, he’s lived through several near-death experiences, including in the early ’70s, when he and his then-wife survived a shipwreck that no other passengers did by jumping off the boat in a storm and swimming to shore. Branson isn’t the only uber-successful person to say that luck was on their side.
Alison Green
JULY 15, 2024
This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: My manager is a hoarder, and our office space is odious. There is no trash can, because my manager treats the office as one giant trash can. She leaves leftover lunch and discarded wrappers all over, sometimes even on my desk. She uses the office as an extension of her own home: old furniture, broken devices, and moving boxes full of her belongings clutter the space.
AIHR
JULY 15, 2024
As the job market increasingly becomes candidate-centric, how job seekers view an organization can make or break its ability to attract and recruit top talent. Candidate experience metrics can help inform your HR hiring process. Collecting and analyzing these numbers matters. Several surveys, including one from CareerArc of over 800 candidates, have found that over half of all job seekers have had a poor candidate experience.
Alison Green
JULY 15, 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. My coworker took a video call from the bathroom I was on a call with a vendor recently with about three people from each organization. Most people had their cameras off, and after the meeting topics were covered, I began to ask some follow-up questions of the other account manager, who hadn’t been needed on the call until then.
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Adri Glover
The world of work has fundamentally changed. The series of waves that the pandemic began have rippled through the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, the Great Regret, and other eloquent phrases that boil down to the same thing: people aren’t engaged at work or enabled to perform at their best. The truth is that engagement and enablement is more important than ever, but how we do it is the critical differentiator for many organizations.
Vantage Circle
JULY 15, 2024
Workplace gossip is part and parcel of any organization. It is an unavoidable aspect of the workplace naturally arising from colleague interactions and regular meetings. While often stigmatized as purely negative, gossip can also have positive elements when viewed from a different perspective. Elena Martinescu, a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam who has extensively studied the psychology of gossiping, says, “Gossip is a good thing.
Thought Leaders LLC
JULY 15, 2024
James Harold Webb shares his top three tips for becoming a successful business owner. Today’s guest post is b y James Harold Webb, author of Redneck Resilience: A Country Boy’s Journey To Prosperity. Growing up poor in a rural community in the South, I learned early in life that if I wanted more than just food on the table and clothes on my back, I had to earn it myself.
Help Scout Leadership
JULY 15, 2024
If you sell online, you need an ecommerce knowledge base. Learn what they are, how to build one, and see some examples to get inspired.
BetterUp
JULY 15, 2024
Jump to section What is drive reduction theory? Wants vs. needs: what's the difference?
Speaker: Brian Richardson
With a staggering 92% of CEOs prioritizing skill development, and 84% struggling with transformation, understanding SBO is critical. Drawing on extensive research and collaboration with hundreds of leading organizations, discover key hurdles and innovative best practices in upskilling. You'll leave with a comprehensive understanding of Skills-Based Organization (SBO), tailored insights into your organization's current capabilities, and a toolkit of effective strategies.
LSA Global
JULY 15, 2024
How to Deliver Better Sales Training We know from sales assessment data that far too many sales teams lack the proper business sales training , sales coaching, and sales support to consistently meet or exceed their sales targets. Research from RepVue agrees; they found that less than 50% of sales reps. achieved quota last year. Most organizations need higher sales rep. performance to survive and thrive.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 15, 2024
The training process for a single AI model, such as an LLM, can consume thousands of megawatt hours of electricity and emit hundreds of tons of carbon. AI model training can also lead to the evaporation of an astonishing amount of freshwater into the atmosphere for data center heat rejection, potentially exacerbating stress on our already limited freshwater resources.
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