Over the weekend, a new friend and I went hiking, and a casual conversation about fitness and weight loss turned into an inspiring chat about productivity, goals and commitment. In short, she lost 100 pounds in about a year and now participates in Tough Mudder and Spartan Race events. Naturally,...
Business blogs and managers frequently discuss leadership in the context of others, but today's must-reads center on personal leadership. Highly productive individuals can manage and motivate themselves far better than any boss, and these articles will help you channel your inner leader. * A quote from Eli Manning after...
Harley Finkelstein, the chief platform officer at Shopify, has a new article in Fast Company that shares insights into the benefits of a workplace that functions as a meritocracy. Such a workplace doesn't place any sort of premium on employees with tenure, rank or an impressive resume --...
Many managers think that fostering internal competition incentivizes employees to continually do their best, but for some workers, this practice can actually hamper productivity. Researchers at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania studied internal competition with several experiments using Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk platform and came...
Workplace loneliness can drastically reduce employee productivity, according to new research out of my alma mater. Management professor Sigal G. Barsade of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and associate business professor Hakan Ozcelik of California State University, Sacramento studied over 650 workers and found that loneliness hampered...
Nearly 1 in 5 workers telecommute regularly, and about 10 percent work from home on a daily basis, according to an Ipsos/Reuters poll of 11,383 employed individuals in 24 countries. The exact figures vary from region to region: over half of respondents in India have a home-based job,...
