How to best Manage Your Team and Workload After Layoffs
Protect your employees from burnout, prioritize retention, and visualize long-term success.
Protect your employees from burnout, prioritize retention, and visualize long-term success.
Flexible work arrangements, such as hybrid and remote models, have become important for talent acquisition and retention in the post-pandemic world. As organizations refine their virtual work practices, it is important to ensure that they are inclusive of neurodiverse employees. Because remote work often lacks concrete time cues and is…
While ChatGPT falls short in this area, alternative approaches have come of age, mostly without people noticing. One of the earliest forms to hit the business scene was co-authored by John D.C. Little at MIT. Little developed algorithms that mimicked PhD econometricians in the way that they detect trends, variations…
Real estate is the ultimate Asset and nobody knows real estate better than Pavlos Loizou, the CEO of Ask Wire. We asked everything from real estate to AI, food and the Royal Family. He delivered perfectly. Where would you invest 1 million euros in real estate right now (any country),…
Digitalisation has boosted some European firms’ productivity, but many are still on the digital sidelines. That is a pity as faster digital adoption could make our economies much more productive. This ECB Blog post looks at where and how digitalisation can be a game-changer. By Robert Anderton, Vasco Botelho and…
Investing in innovation — not cutting costs — will position companies to thrive in the long run.
Economic activity indicators in May suggest that China is having a tough time shaking off the multitude of crises it's facing – consumer spending, real estate, a shrinking population – and now growing concerns over the prospect of a debt crisis for local governments. The story according to May figures…
A while back, my strength and conditioning coach asked me to work on jumping. while back, my strength and conditioning coach asked me to work on jumping. Jumping onto boxes and off of them, hopping on one leg, then the other, then both. I was confused. I was training to…
Understanding and improving the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) can play a pivotal role in your organization's success. This critical measure can contribute to successful recruitment, retention, and cost management, and even help tackle labour shortages. Understanding eNPS Unlike traditional five-point scales, the eNPS uses an 11-point measure, making it…
Pricing a new product or service can be confusing, and founders—be they first-timers who’ve just shipped their MVP or veterans whose products have been in market for years—are often unsure how much time they should be spending on pricing strategy. Pricing can be particularly tricky for B2B fintech companies, which…
Pervasive societal inequity in the United States is strikingly evident in the start-up world. In 2022, Black and Latino founders received only 1 percent and 1.5 percent respectively of total US venture capital (VC) funding. Women-founded teams received 1.9 percent of VC funds, and only 0.1 percent of VC funds…
“The great thing about AI is that it is constantly evolving. One day it will be better than a real [girlfriend]. One day, the real one will be the inferior choice.” This quote is from one of more than 20,000 users who joined the early community of CarynAI, a voice…
House-owners the world over consider ‘knocking through’ walls to achieve more open-plan living or changing layouts to accommodate new arrivals or circumstances. The results may be impressive, but they come at a sizeable financial and environmental cost. But what if it wasn’t necessary to demolish internal brick and/or plaster walls…
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Anxiety disorder will affect almost one-third of U.S. adults during their lifetime. Problems of mental health are burdensome and ubiquitous. And while it’s true that AI holds tremendous potential for improving the science and practice of psychotherapy, it remains a definitively high-stakes…
In an era defined by advancements in technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise nearly any industry. The financial services industry is no different, and a plethora of financial services, including banks and asset managers, have already recognised the benefits of incorporating AI into their operations. AI is reshaping the…
With many in the computer science industry naming the metaverse as the next iteration of the internet it should come as no surprise that this concept is projected to grow from USD 22.79 billion in 2021 to USD 996.42 billion in 2030 according to GlobalData. This prediction denotes that the…
What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Taxpayers in the 90th to 99th percentile of the income distribution are responsible for the majority of the $500 billion in taxes that go unpaid every year. Using…
It’s never too early to start thinking about your legacy.
It’s easy to go along to get along: give lots of managers an equal say and allot each division its “fair share” of capital. Usually, however, a laissez-faire approach underserves a corporation’s most promising opportunities for growth. Companies typically provide lump sums to division heads, often in proportion to current…
Corporate Rebels are dedicated to exploring and sharing the most innovative and forward-thinking approaches to work, to help organisations on their way to becoming progressive. In this episode of Never Mind the Pain Points, our in-house performance psychologist Suzie chats to Corporate Rebels Co-founder Pim de Morree about what high-performing…
Ever since the United Nations started publishing population figures, about 75 years ago, the top of the tables has been boringly the same: China at #1, India at #2. But last week, the UN declared that a historic change was imminent: that India’s population was expected to reach 1,425,775,850 in…
The experience of today’s workforce is complex, and the future promises to be just as challenging. Communities, companies, leaders, teams, and individuals struggle to align to purpose, ensure their time and talents are used wisely, and contribute to something meaningful. Lack of resources — everything from technology to trucks to…
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Google’s Yossi Matias and WMO Director of Infrastructure Anthony Rea discuss the Early Warnings For All Initiative.
Greek philosopher Heraclitus once wrote, “There is nothing permanent except change.” Recent world events will testify to that with seismic shifts in the way we live and work. In times of uncertainty, we cling to routine as a safe harbour in a storm. For some, that can be the day-to-day…
Currently the youngest demographic, Generation Alpha is becoming an increasingly more important customer base for the beauty industry to target. Gen Alpha consists of those born between 2010 and 2024 and is projected to consist of at least 2 billion individuals. This generation’s ties to digital media and technology are…
Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving cars, have the potential to truly revolutionize the transportation industry, with their impact anticipated across many industries. Several stubborn obstacles, however, stand in the way of mass adoption. In the over 150 years since the automotive industry was founded, it has never experienced such…
If skulls were transparent, you still wouldn't see much going on in someone else's brain. But Josef Parvizi (Stanford) has ways of peeking into people's heads and finding out what makes us tick. His experiments have pinpointed specific brain regions crucial to capabilities ranging from perceiving faces to recognizing numerals. Ever wonder…
The headlines are full of grand and sometimes terrifying speculation about the potential of artificial intelligence. At Yale SOM’s CEO Summit recently, Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld asked business leaders for some real talk about how their companies are using the technology. Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies &…
One of the most common questions I get asked as a coach is: What are the account management skills I need to keep my customers for as long as possible? The answer is simpler than most people expect: Learn how to hunt and farm. Traditionally, sales and account management has…
As an investor, one of the most rewarding aspects of my job is believing in and standing alongside great founders. Lucky for me, Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill were the first cofounders I invested in after joining a16z in 2020. Since then, they’ve confirmed for me that a combination of…
Emphasizing skills in your talent strategy can have an outsize positive impact on hiring, upskilling, and retaining employees. By Aneesh Raman and Elyse Rosenblum As the threat of an economic downturn looms, we are entering the fourth consecutive year of uncertainty and rapid change. Three years ago, a global pandemic…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his long-awaited trip to Beijing earlier this week after months of speculation on whether his visit would be rescheduled after its postponement following the Chinese spy balloon crisis this past February. Despite harsh rhetoric from Beijing leading up to the visit, it seems…
Working with the folks at the Capgemini Research Institute is always fun, when we set up the surveys the intent is always to find things out rather than prove them. With the latest report on Consumer adoption of Generative AI that mindset has led to me losing a friendly wager. By Steve Jones Because…
In this article, we take a brief look at several recent announcements that set out the direction of travel in terms of reforming the distribution and transmission connection processes.
There’s a long-held belief that people drink alcohol in excess to drown their sorrows. But recent research into mood and drinking has found the opposite is also true. Using data from 69 studies (12,394 people in total) in the US, Canada, France and Australia, all of which employed surveys to…
Five lessons from companies leaning into the creator economy.
Acknowledging despair and rebounding for the battle ahead The critical step occurs, or does not occur, precisely because we need to acknowledge that the solution is not to change nature, but to change ourselves. We need to adapt to the very problems that we have generated by believing that we…
At Microsoft Build this year our CEO Satya Nadella grounded the excitement surrounding AI back to one simple goal: to better serve unmet user needs. He asked “Why do we build software?” and, in doing so, he reminded us it’s not the technological capabilities of AI tools that make them…
If you shopped at a FairPrice supermarket in Singapore in early 2022, there’s a small chance that the person who was working the till was none other than FairPrice’s freshly minted group CEO, Vipul Chawla. “Unless I invest at least 100 hours doing something, I don’t have the license to…