Wharton Business School Professor, Adam Grant, is passionate about relaying the message of how the next era of talent management means hiring non-conformists. Why are they essential to a company’s… Read More »The New Competitive Advantage in Talent Management: How to Find the Originals
If there was a superpower that could be life-changing, most people would think the power of invisibility, flight, or eternal good hair days. True, it would be reality-shattering to wake… Read More »This is the Truest Super Human Power: How Managers Can Optimize Decision Making
There’s a darker side to the sunnies time of year. No, it’s not viewing your lack of muscle definition in searing sunlight. It’s a little-known phenomenon termed reverse SAD (Seasonal… Read More »Do Your Employees Have Summer Depression? Help Them Beat the Heat
How can a personality test be useful when hiring? Finding the right person for the job is the number one hiring priority. A bad hire costs companies productivity, time, and… Read More »Understand the Employee Subconscious: Smart Hiring Using the Enneagram Test
The art of delegation is essential if you own your business, manage a team, or run a household. In short, delegation is part of every aspect in life (except working… Read More »Decide to Delegate, Plan to Succeed: the Principles Behind the Art of Delegation
Forget the suit. Dump the tie. Burn the neural colors. The world of work is changing. 40% of more companies offer flexible work options. Robots are replacing lawyers. Employees prioritize a… Read More »Dress Like a (Casual) Billionaire: The 5 New Workplace Power Dressing Rules
Tracking time is as ancient as…well, time. The moment man realized the sun, the moon, and the stars kept reappearing at constant intervals, tracking their movement became a species-wide obsession.… Read More »Time Tracking is Mostly Bullsh*t (Unless You’re Conscious of This)
Millennials in the workplace. This sentence alone may induce spastic hallucinations in Gen Xers and Baby Boomers. The younger crowd works a bit differently–and it’s causing major friction for employers,… Read More »Is Hell Millennials in the Workplace? Millennial Whisperer Lee Caraher Gives Managers 5 Strategies to Survive
Okay, Google has afford paying for employees’ daycare; Facebook’s deep pockets and Mark Zuckerberg’s personal experience has put paternal leave as a company priority. But what those employees that have… Read More »Does Your Company Support the “Sandwich Generation”: Redefining Care-Giving
VitalSmarts, a company studying and applying principles of human behavior to shape organizational behavior and change, wanted to know what makes working in tech differ from other companies—if there is… Read More »What Makes Working in Tech Different? These 4 Spheres of Angst
Hire a non-conformist. Why? Adam Grant, Wharton’s prolific professor, explains it’s imperative to have off-beat thinkers and doers on a company’s team. In an interview with First Round Capital, Grant outlines… Read More »This May Be the Biggest Pay Off in a Competitive Advantage: Hire a Non-Conformist
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already liberating us from the most tedious of tasks, like legal document analysis and streamlining farming processes. With more nut-and-bolt jobs being taken over, what are… Read More »In the Age of AI, Is Business More Suited to Female Leaders?
Companies are overhauling their entire product and marketing strategies to foster innovation and motivate their employees to embrace “digitalization”, as if it were some benevolent, corporate deity. The volume of… Read More »Employees Like the Tech, But Why Aren’t They Convinced? It’s Called the Adoption Problem
At absence.io, we’re always working toward offering the planet’s smoothest absence management (read a few external reviews here). Companies like MyTheresa and Check24 trust us to build a (nearly) misunderstanding-proof system.… Read More »What Other People Think You Do: #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob
You’re rolling out a new department structure. The in-coming system keeps facing resistance. Employees are frustrated. Besides daydreaming about the on-coming robot workforce, what do you do to solve employee… Read More »When Apple Needs to Solve Employee Conflict, This is Their Go-To Method