Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and New York Times bestselling author, suggests that work should be measured in terms of the value of output rather than the volume of output. Productivity is usually about the volume of output, which means that more is better. Grant […]
In the living memories of many, there have been a number of disruptions in the world of work. No job for life In the mid-1980s, Baby-Boomers suddenly learned that they didn’t have a job for life, which was the biggest upheaval in the workplace for more than 100 hundred years. Everyone learns to type Another […]
Talent flight refers to the sense of a sudden exodus of highly skilled people from the current organization. It’s not a term that employees would use of themselves. Employees would simply say that they were taking advantage of opportunities that, until now, weren’t available to them. Leaders and managers, on the other hand, would describe […]
It’s self-evident that managers manage people. Some of those who manage, however, are also managed. Even in the flattest of hierarchies, unless you’re “No. 1,” then you, too, have a manager. You also know what it’s like to work for good managers and bad ones. The purpose of this article is two-fold. It’s to look […]
Ask 100 managers how they define organizational culture, and you’ll probably get as many different definitions as possible. Even scholars cannot agree; and that means that your definition is as appropriate as anyone else’s. This makes the challenge, however, of creating the culture that you want particularly difficult, because it is almost impossible to hit […]
We all love a good story, whether our preference is for fiction or non-fiction. It doesn’t matter if you’re reading a book, watching a movie, or listening to the news, expanding your mind watching a TEDx talk or listening to a podcast. All these media use stories to communicate their messages. Why? One reason is […]
The 3rd Industrial Revolution gave us the rise of big data, digital automation, and faster moving markets. At the dawn of this 4th Industrial Revolution (4) what lessons can we learn from the past, so we lead our organizations to create a more valuable future? Data Requires People to Look at the Past Data came and […]
Big data, machine learning, connected vehicles, Industry 4.0, robotic process automation, blockchain …. And many other ways to describe digital transformation as an emerging opportunity to transform every industry at a scale comparable to the mechanization of agriculture. Several companies including Amazon, Alibaba, Burberry, Samsung, Disney are leading the transformation wave. Results include creation of […]
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