Business Your Employees Have All the Creativity You Need. Let Them Prove It. (via Harvard Business Review) This post could be filed under the growth vs. fixed mindset. “Creativity is inherent because each of us has a perspective only one…
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Professional Development – 2019 – Week 44
Culture In Praise of Being Unproductive (via Harvard Business Review) Technology has created two expectations: 1) that we’re available at all times, and 2) if you could be working, you should be working. On top of that, capitalism’s tendency is…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 43
Business Where Net Promoter Score Goes Wrong (via Harvard Business Review) This reminds me of the body mass index (BMI) issue — it’s not accurate, but it’s simple to compute and reason about. Humans are weird and can do things…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 42
Business The Problem with Accounting for Employees as Costs Instead of Assets (via Harvard Business Review) Current accounting practices worked when things were manufacturing-based: big piece of equipment needs a person to turn raw material into goods. In today’s world…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 41
Business A New Approach to Contracts (via Harvard Business Review) Most contracts are used as protections against the possibility that one party will abuse its power against the other, which starts the relationship in an adversarial or at best, defensive,…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 40
Business What California’s New Gig Work Law Gets Wrong About Gig Work (via Harvard Business Review) It’s simpler to thing of employment as binary — gig worker vs. employee — but it oversimplifies the costs and benefits of different types…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 39
Career How the Value of Educational Credentials Is and Isn’t Changing (via Harvard Business Review) Depending on the stats you review, the value of a college degree is still strong even though some companies are relaxing that requirement. The core…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 38
Career Living Apart for Work (via Harvard Business Review) This lifestyle is something I hadn’t given much thought to. Technology has helped make this easier, but a key measure of success is the quality of your relationship before living apart….
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 37
Business The CEO of Canada Goose on Creating a Homegrown Luxury Brand (via Harvard Business Review) An interesting highlight piece of a company choosing quality, a well-trained workforce in their own country, and sticking to their principles even when it’s…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 36
Dates covered: September 2-8, 2019 (week 36 of 52) Business 6 Ways CEOs Can Prove They Care About More Than Shareholder Value (via Harvard Business Review) Address CEO pay and incentives relative to their company’s employees Make employees owners (i.e.,…