Purpose-Driven Companies Are Driving The New Economy
As 2015 came to an end, The Atlantic published an article entitled, 2015: The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being. Indeed for many of us things are better than ever — so good, in fact, that more and more of us have an opportunity to seek the highest levels of personal fulfillment — even at work.
Actually, You Should Check Email First Thing in thing
Despite the growing popularity of messaging services like Slack, email still reigns supreme as the business communications medium of choice: more than 205 billion emails were sent per day in 2015. It’s no surprise, then, that email is also a major workplace stressor, with 92% of employees showing elevated blood pressure and heart rate when using email at work.
The Pivotal Stories Every Startup Leader Should Be Able to Tell
“Whenever I meet with new leaders, I always talk about their responsibility to inspire people — to tap into that intrinsic motivation to be there and work hard,” says Faul. “We’re fortunate to work in an industry where meaningful work is getting done, and people badly want their work to be meaningful. Stories connect the two. It’s the skill every leader needs to learn.”
Where machines could replace humans--and where they can't (yet)
Our research has begun to show, the story is more nuanced. While automation will eliminate very few occupations entirely in the next decade, it will affect portions of almost all jobs to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the type of work they entail. Automation, now going beyond routine manufacturing activities, has the potential, as least with regard to its technical feasibility, to transform sectors such as healthcare and finance, which involve a substantial share of knowledge work.
61 Glimpses of the Future
In the last five weeks I’ve travelled 7,000km overland through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan’s GBAO region and China’s western provinces. After a year of working flat out the journey was part vacation, a desire to fill in few gaps of my knowledge of the region and a Studio D assignment.
The Goldilocks Effect and How to Harness Social Influence
Even after years of research, Berger is surprised at how people — his own kin included — are so quick to identify the effects of social influence on others, but fail to see those same influences at work on themselves
The cure for insomnia is to fall in love with sleep
When wakefulness is seen as the main event, no wonder so many have trouble sleeping. Can we rekindle the joy of slumber?