I wrote a little bit about the Dunning-Kruger effect once before, and now there’s an extension of it described in The Washington Post (based on this research paper). First, let’s talk about the experiment and what it was aiming to… Continue Reading
Right Management — a subdivision of Manpower Group — did a survey about career development and managers’ roles within it. Here are the results. Here’s probably the section you should pop a couple of Ambien before you read: According to the… Continue Reading
This Patrick Pichette story (he was the CFO of Google) is going a little bit viral today. Here’s the basic rundown. He retired from a plum job way before you’d think an average American male in such a job would retire,… Continue Reading
In the course of writing this blog, I’ve come across some (admittedly designed as clickbait) headlines about management and leadership that really depress me. For example: “82 Percent Of Managerial Hires Are The Wrong One.” Ditto: “95 Percent Of Managers Don’t… Continue Reading
Per here, the four types of work productivity styles are: Prioritizer: Logical, analytical, fact-based thinking is preferred. Planner: Organized, sequential, planned, detailed thinking is preferential. Arranger: Focus is on supportive, expressive, and emotional thinking. Visualizer: Holistic, intuitive, and integrated thinking… Continue Reading
New report from WalletHub, in turn summarized on Forbes. WalletHub tends to do some interesting stuff with their data, even if it’s pretty easy to quibble with some of the findings. The methodology here involved: Average workweek hours Commute time… Continue Reading
2015 saw a 7 percent drop in those who believe HR plays an important role in their organizations. Just over half of HR professionals (55 percent) are happy with the way their HR team is perceived by the rest of… Continue Reading
If you think this has any value, feel free to share it around. Share buttons are at the bottom of the post. Lot of broad generalizations about the next generation coming up, i.e. millennials. Notably: they want to live in… Continue Reading