Can we teach empathy, especially to adults?
An important question of the modern age. Continue Reading
Management
Homophily and business
Loosely translated, homophily is your desire and ability to gravitate towards like-minded individuals. A lot of people would think this is a very good/strong element of business and work and organizations and workplaces, because — like-minded people tend to be… Continue Reading
How to present better: Do your slides last
Personally hate PowerPoint and think it’s mostly totally worthless for presentations — and also think we get a lot of things wrong about presentations in general, including but not limited to: How we teach them How we focus them so… Continue Reading
The lack of feedback at most offices is stunning
I got this from here, which is in turn from here. (HubSpot is the first one; OfficeVibe is the second one.) The whole infographic is featured below, but take a look at the one above. Basically all your employees (98… Continue Reading
If someone wants to work remotely, let them
There’s been a ton of misconceptions about millennials in the past 2-3 years, spurned on by the ol’ “Let’s generalize about generations” concept that we’ve been doing for years. (I think I’m Gen-X, and my parents are “Silents/Matures,” and I… Continue Reading
On business innovation vs. tenure
Here’s a concept I don’t think a lot of people think about: we all know it can be bad to work at a place where there’s consistent turnover (people always leaving), because then priorities get skewed and it’s hard to… Continue Reading
Understanding social capital at work
I’ve written a little about these types of ideas before, like the power of friends at work or how to use social capital for better networking or even how leadership can be drastically improved if people just walk around and talk to… Continue Reading
Treat your best-performing employees like your best-performing customers
The SHRM (Society for Human Resources Management) conference is going on/potentially ending right now in Las Vegas, and I’m insanely bitter because I’ve been writing about human resources and organizational development topics for about 18 months now and I was… Continue Reading