Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies - HBR
One of the key functions of a board of directors is to oversee the CEO to ensure that shareholders are getting the most out of their investment. This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. Such rules rest on the premise that if we can just structure the board properly, management misconduct can largely be prevented. But is this a realistic expectation for directors? Maybe not.
Here's Why Blockchains Will Change the World - Fortune
As early as 1981, inventors were attempting to solve the Internet’s problems of privacy, security, and inclusion with cryptography. No matter how they reengineered the process, there were always leaks because third parties were involved. Paying with credit cards over the Internet was insecure because users had to divulge too much personal data, and the transaction fees were too high for small payments.
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The Organizational Spectroscope — Medium
Using digital data to shed light on team satisfaction and other questions about large organizations ...
Answers To Your Tough Questions About Growth — Learned While Scaling Eventbrite’s $5B+ Growth Engine
Several years ago, Eventbrite knew it needed to get serious about growth. Fast forward and last year alone, it powered 2 million events in 180 countries. But it didn’t all just happen. As the numbers and expectations grew larger through the years, so did the importance of more deeply understanding its key business levers, better relating to its customers’ needs, and pushing its underlying growth drivers. Signing on in 2012, Brian Rothenberg, now VP Growth and Acquisition Marketing, joined the effort to lean into scalable and repeatable growth channels and processes.
Where the Five-Day Workweek Came From
“Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around the sun. Months, supposedly, mark the time between full moons. The seven-day week, however, is completely man-made.
Don't Work Your Employees to the Bone: Minimize Their Stress to Boost Productivity
Too much work is killing us -- literally. According to a study by the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the more hours a person works in a week, the more likely he or she is to be diagnosed with heart disease.