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How corporate America can create better jobs
By Thomas A. Kochan – It’s possible if you look at companies such as Southwest Airlines and Costco that provide great returns to shareholders and great jobs for employees. It starts with values. CEOs...
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8 Reasons Small Teams Work Better
By Rich Karlgaard – The more brains, the better, reason the powers that be. So they include as many high performers and thought leaders as possible. Soon, more volunteers trickle in because they want...
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This Concrete-Eating Robot Can Recycle An Entire Building On The Spot
By Adele Peters – Knocking down a concrete building usually takes brute force: Wrecking balls, huge excavators, or explosives rip apart walls while fire hoses spray water to keep the clouds of dust...
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Why You Should Build Change Into The Fabric Of Your Business
By Mark Lukens – Creating that culture can be hard, but it’s worth it for the results. From endlessly examining the systems in place for waste to engaging everyone in a cycle of diagnosis and...
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Is The Creative Economy Also In Trouble?
By Steve Denning – The first Industrial Revolution was that of steam and railroads from 1750 to 1830. The second Industrial Revolution was that of electricity, internal combustion engine, running...
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You Really Can ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’
By Nanette Fondas – Learning is more effective if a lesson or experience is deliberately coupled with time spent thinking about what was just presented. For younger students, teaching someone else is a...
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Do We Need A Revolution In Management?
By Steve Denning – “Over and over, the higher value placed on ROA, IRR and earnings per share over other metrics has led to innovations that squeeze costs and noncash assets. “As a result, investing to...
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Why Two CEOs Are Better Than One
By Thomas C. Lawton – Most companies approach nonmarket strategies from two distinct, separate perspectives: a legal and regulatory stance and a community relations and public affairs one, which were...
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The 9 Best Languages For Crunching Data
By Anna Nicolaou – The big data frenzy continues. It’s permeating nearly every industry, flooding companies with more and more information, and making software dinosaurs such as Excel look more and...
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How did we get so busy?
By Elizabeth Kolbert – In the winter of 1928, John Maynard Keynes composed a short essay that took the long view. It was titled “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” and in it Keynes imagined...
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What Happens To Our Brains When We Exercise
By Leo Widrich – If you start exercising, your brain recognizes this as a moment of stress. As your heart pressure increases, the brain thinks you are either fighting the enemy or fleeing from it. To...
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Are You a Segmenter or an Integrator?
BOOK REVIEW Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative, Author: Scott Eblin. By Scott Eblin – What’s the difference? Segmenters set clear boundaries for themselves. When they’re at work,...
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Sensor in eye could track pressure changes, monitor glaucoma
By Michelle Ma – Your eye could someday house its own high-tech information center, tracking important changes and letting you know when it’s time to see an eye doctor. “No one has ever put electronics...
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The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life-Cycle of Happiness
BOOK REVIEW The Science of Optimism: Why We’re Hard-Wired for Hope, Author: Tali Sharot. By Maria Popova – “Although the belief in a better future is often an illusion, optimism has clear benefits in...
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4 Ways Companies Can Fix The Employment Skills Gap
By Gwen Moran – Rod Hewlett, dean of Bellevue’s College of Business works directly with its advisory group and businesses to research and assess the skills that new graduates need to be attractive to...
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The Executive’s Guide To Mergers And Acquisitions
By Michael Glessner & Alexander Tang – Each merger is different, but most companies can expect to experience many of the following pains: Dispersed technical solutions across business sites and...
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How Our Minds Actually Affect Our Bodies
BOOK REVIEW Nothing: Surprising Insights Everywhere from Zero to Oblivion, Author: Jeremy Webb. By Maria Popova – What the researchers found was startling in its implications for medicine, philosophy,...
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The Talent Your Organization Needs May Already Be on the Payroll
[ SMARTER WORKPLACE ] By Jeremy Eden and Terri Long – Unfortunately, many executives and HR professionals have spent the last few decades solving the wrong problem. They are correctly convinced that...
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Shaping the Workforce You Need
By Allison Schrager – Once upon a time, manufacturing jobs entailed more routine tasks. An auto assembly plan, traditionally a big employer in Detroit, could take someone with a high school diploma,...
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Creating an Environment for Change
By Susan Foley – Culture is a powerful force that shapes our individual and collective behavior. It influences everything we do and puts limits on our thinking and behavior. It sets the tone for how we...
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3 Executive Productivity Hacks That Any Leader Can Use
By Scott Eblin – Recognizing that her time and attention are limited resources that she must deploy as effectively as possible, she’s come up with three productivity hacks that help her determine...
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How Much Time Does a Good Social Media Strategy Really Take?
By Kevan Lee – What do you want to use social for: Sales? Loyalty? Awareness? These are the three main areas that Jay Baer identifies as potential focus points of a social media strategy. As Baer puts...
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Why Your Willpower Can’t Stop You From Putting Things Off
By Drake Baer – Willpower is a muscle. You know that grumpy feeling you get after a long day? That happens because we’re making hundreds of micro-decisions every day, and every decision we make takes...
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5 Things You’re Doing That Seem Productive, But Aren’t
BOOK REVIEW [ SMARTER WORK ] Getting Things Done, Author: David Allen. By Vivian Giang – Your brain is “dumbed down” when you multitask because you’re using a different part of it that “adversely...
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The Intricate Puzzle Known as Chip Design
By Bob Smith – These days, chip design may seem like an intricately connected jigsaw puzzle, including small, oddly shaped interlocking pieces. Instead of static parts of a puzzle – typically, 300,...
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Why An Anti To-Do List Might Be The Secret To Productivity
By Joel Gascoigne – My approach with the Anti-To-Do List is to have not just a single list each day, as many of us do now (our to-do list), but to have two. The idea of the Anti-To-Do List is that it...
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How To Silence Your Inner Critic Once And For All
BOOK REVIEW Better Than Perfect: 7 Strategies to Crush Your Inner Critic and Create a Life You Love, Author: Elizabeth R. Lombardo. Inner Critic, Inner Success: Claiming Your Critic While Taming Your...
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Why You Should Hire For Potential, Not Experience
By Dinah Wisenberg Brin – “The question is not whether your company’s employees and leaders have the right skills; it’s whether they have the potential to learn new ones.” The ability to choose such...
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Why Dreaming About The Future Makes You Less Likely To Achieve Your Goals
BOOK REVIEW Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation, Author: Gabriele Oettingen. By Lindsay LaVine – “Dreaming is important.” “Dreaming is a way we can mentally explore...
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Debunking Myths About Worker Passion
[ SMARTER WORKPLACE ] By Steve Denning – “The key message from our work is that workers of all types and in all locations have the potential to be passionate – it’s not limited to a privileged few,”...
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