Dates covered: August 5-11, 2019 (week 32 of 52) Business The 8 Ways Companies Get Work Done, and How to Align Them (via Harvard Business Review) Eight sources of labor: employees, independent contractors, gig workers, outsources, alliances with other companies,…
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Professional Development – 2019 – Week 31
Dates covered: July 29-August 4, 2019 (week 31 of 52) Business How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist (via Harvard Business Review) Companies need to simultaneously think tactics and strategy, short- and long-term. The article closes with an example…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 30
Dates covered: July 22-28, 2019 (week 30 of 52) Business Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t (via Harvard Business Review) Lack of alignment with the business — you need some separation, but also direction for vision,…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 29
Dates covered: July 15-21, 2019 (week 29 of 52) Business The Case for Hiring More Full-Time Workers (via Harvard Business Review) Many people are taking part in the gig economy; however, this work typically lacks health insurance, unemployment protections, and…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 28
Dates covered: July 8-14, 2019 (week 28 of 52) Business Building a Startup That Will Last (via Harvard Business Review) Articulate a value framework oriented toward societal impact, not just financial achievement Demonstrate the ability to execute second and third…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 27
Dates covered: July 1-7, 2019 (week 27 of 52) Business The Upside of Losing Innovative Employees to Competitors (via Harvard Business Review) The article focuses on R&D employees, so your mileage may vary. The relationship between companies isn’t binary, and…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 26
Dates covered: June 24-30, 2019 (week 26 of 52) Business What Startup Employees Can Teach the Rest of Us About Work (via Harvard Business Review) “Where stability and long-term planning were once the mark of a sound strategy, adaptability is…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 17-23, 2019 (week 25 of 52) Business Software Below the Poverty Line (via The Software Mentor) (This post spans categories — business, software development, culture.) Open source software is an interesting area, as it seems to straddle…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 10-16, 2019 (week 24 of 52) Business When Employees Are Using Software That IT Hasn’t Approved (via Harvard Business Review) Although I haven’t experienced it to the scale of the examples mentioned in the article, there are…
Professional Development – 2019 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 3-9, 2019 (week 23 of 52) Business How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward (via Harvard Business Review) Deleverage as much debt as you can; when revenue is tight, it’s difficult to make principal and interest…