7.6 tons of cocaine was seized in Peru recently. That’s somewhat important.
It’s not important in the context of “stopping the drug trade” — that’s not actually going to happen — but it is important in terms of this:
Business
IQ, EQ? Valid. How about CQ? (Curiosity quotient.)
Why don’t we think about hiring models more in line with people that are curious and WANT to learn, as opposed to evaluating what knowledge people already have? Continue Reading
Where can you get the cheapest flight from?
We have some science behind when you should book travel to get the best discounts, and now we have a little bit of science around where you should fly from. Of course, the latter is a little bit restrictive, as people tend to fly… Continue Reading
Save two hours a day with this e-mail hack
E-Mail is maybe the biggest time suck in the working world. What if you could save 10 hours a week with one simple hack? Well, here it is. Continue Reading
Should Human Resources optimize the talent or the organization?
There is possibly no more discussed topic in the Human Resources world than “getting a seat at the table” or “becoming a strategic business partner,” (can be said in other ways as well) which essentially means “being thought to add… Continue Reading
Organizations like to describe women as “abrasive”
The gender bias in performance reviews can be pretty ridiculous. Continue Reading
Facebook eliminating clickbait headlines is a purely business move
You may have heard about Facebook’s attempts to eliminate / remove ‘click bait,’ or, essentially, articles that kind of tease you into clicking on them — bait you, in other words — with a controversial or attention-seeking headline or photo, then fail to… Continue Reading
No one really understands the unemployment rate
There are actually six different “unemployment rates,” although predominantly when people use that term in cocktail party banter, they mean “the number of people looking for work who can’t actively find it.” But by no means is that the entire picture (I wrote… Continue Reading