by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Are you struggling with the complications of working in a family business? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Ted Clark, who runs the Center for Family Business at...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Buda Mendes/Getty Images Technology is disrupting every industry and area of life, and work is no exception. One of the main career implications of the digital revolution is a shift in demand for human expertise. For instance, LinkedIn’s talent research shows...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/Image Source/Getty Images Cost-plus pricing is a lot like the romance novel genre, in that it’s widely ridiculed yet tremendously popular. Almost every manager I know will claim they hate pricing based only on costs. Yet cost-plus pricing remains the...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | HBR
When we were kids, art time was often the best part of grammar school. Who didn’t enjoy coloring, drawing, painting, and cutting-and-pasting? It was fun, relaxing, and you got a wonderful euphoric feeling from creating something you made. We need to get back to that...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/Phatharapol Nopharat/EyeEm/Getty Images As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Panayiotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images There’s a fundamental contradiction when organizations ask employees to maintain a fast pace of work and be creative. What often happens in hectic workplaces is that employees resort to autopilot or habitual...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pm images/Getty Images Late last month, California passed a sweeping consumer privacy law that might force significant changes on companies that deal in personal data — and especially those operating in the digital space. The law’s passage comes on...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | HBR
A new study has raised the possibility that stress may cause autoimmune disease, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, because it found a higher incidence of autoimmune diseases among people who were previously diagnosed with stress-related disorders. I have patients...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tara Moore/Getty Images In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone, “Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.”...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Patricia de Melo Moreira/bloomberg/Getty Images It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies. Do...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Ever wonder why we get a warm feeling when we come home? Or why laughter makes us feel so good? Or why, even though exercise is good for us, so many of us tend to avoid it? If so, you may want to pick up Dean Burnett’s book Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Howard Yu, Lego Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School in Switzerland, discusses how the industrial cluster in the Swiss city of Basel is a unique example of enduring competitive advantage. He explains how early dye makers were able to...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/Richard Newstead/Getty Images “Tell me about your career goals.” How often have you said this to a person you’re managing or mentoring, only to get a blank stare in return? Perhaps the person confides that they...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | HBR
We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic in the United States. Currently 40% of adults and almost 20% of children are obese. The childhood obesity numbers particularly worry us, because the effects of obesity accumulate over time. A child who is obese is more likely...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tim Robberts/Getty Images There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. According to our research, over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S. firms in 2017 were...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alexander Spatari/Getty Images Sometimes the wrong people get promoted. They might be deceitful and unscrupulously manipulative (what psychologists call “Machiavellian”); or impulsive and thrill-seeking without any sense of guilt (psychopathic); or...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
hbr staff/matthew henry/unsplash The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements continue to create a tidal wave of media activity and increased awareness of sexual harassment and misconduct. But have they created positive changes in workplaces? Are people seeing healthy and...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
How often have you had the following conversation at work?How are you? Good. You? Fine. It is a script we stick to even if we are dying inside. It’s hard to build real connections with your colleagues if you never get beyond superficial chit-chat. And yet people who...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | HBR
Public parks look a lot different than they did just a decade ago. Sure, you’ll find swings and seesaws, but today they’re bigger, sturdier, and more ergonomically designed. And they’re often paired with colorful outdoor exercise equipment, making play at...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | HBR
Public parks look a lot different than they did just a decade ago. Sure, you’ll find swings and seesaws, but today they’re bigger, sturdier, and more ergonomically designed. And they’re often paired with colorful outdoor exercise equipment, making play at...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/Image Source/Getty Images The stigma of asking for or being assigned an executive coach is vanishing quickly. The growth of the industry tells us so. In the U.S. alone, $1 billion was spent on business, personal and relationship coaches last year, according...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Dell Technologies surveyed 3,800 business leaders from around the world to uncover their forecasts for the next decade. The research revealed a divided vision of the future but common ground on the need to transform and how. Live from Dell Technologies World...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
There is nothing like a great book to help you lounge in a beach chair in some exotic locale, or simply sit on your porch on a Sunday afternoon. Great fiction isn’t just entertainment. Novels can make us more empathic and help us navigate our complex social world,...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
hbr staff/Yury Vinokurov/EyeEm/Getty Images Finding digital talent is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today. But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms, especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
baranozdemir/Getty Images There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S. spent a staggering $3.2 trillion, or almost 18% of its...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 8, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 7, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Karyna Aslanova/EyeEm/Getty Images Being laid off is one of the most difficult experiences that you can face in your career. As an executive coach, I’ve seen firsthand the shock, grief, and anxiety that generally accompanies this type of job loss....
by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Maskot/Getty Images Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the “black box” — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes this is because people want to understand why some...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Maskot/Getty Images Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the “black box” — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes this is because people want to understand why some...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
White Americans are very good at avoiding the subject of race. “I don’t see color—I treat everyone equally” is a common way to dismiss complaints about white privilege and systematic bias. New research reveals a large and growing group of fellow...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 6, 2018 | HBR
I’m not a regular drinker, nor a teetotaler. But like many people, I enjoy the occasional glass of wine with dinner, and nothing tastes better than an ice-cold beer on a sweaty summer day. Besides, some alcohol is a toast to my long-term heart health. At least that’s...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
afp/stringer/Getty Images Who killed GE? Of course, GE is not dead, and it may well revive and flourish as a company. After all, IBM came back from the dead in the 1990s. But the GE model is dead — and there’s a long list of possible suspects. The GE...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
hbr staff/shannon miller/Getty Images There is a small, disheveled baby robin making her very first steps in my garden today. She looks a bit dazed and exhausted, her lovely yellow down all awry. I know exactly what she feels like. She looks like a lot of people I...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
mattjeacock/Getty Images We all have life events that distract us from work from time to time — an ailing family member, a divorce, the death of a friend. You can’t expect someone to be at their best at such times. But as a manager what can you expect? How...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | HBR
How is it that the United States spends the most money on healthcare, and yet still has the one of the lowest life expectancies of all developed nations? (To be specific: $9,400 per capita, 79 years, and 31st.) Maybe those of us in healthcare have been looking at it...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Did you know what you wanted when you were in high school? Our teen guinea pig takes on the challenge of figuring out her purpose in life. source https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/want_to_do_with_your_life
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
mattjeacock/Getty Images We all have life events that distract us from work from time to time — an ailing family member, a divorce, the death of a friend. You can’t expect someone to be at their best at such times. But as a manager what can you expect? How...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 5, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Did you know what you wanted when you were in high school? Our teen guinea pig takes on the challenge of figuring out her purpose in life. source https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/want_to_do_with_your_life
by HappyQuotient | Jul 4, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 4, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
yagi studio/Getty Images Chun Hin is a senior manager at a Hong Kong investment bank. Every morning, he listens to Bloomberg radio on his way to work and used to read each issue of the Economist from cover to cover in an effort to continuously improve his English. As...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 4, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
hbr staff/Benne Ochs/Getty Images Online reviews can play a big role in influencing people’s purchase decisions, but what makes a review most persuasive one way or the other? Certainly bad reviews can dissuade customers, but it turns out that some good reviews...
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