by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Nick Veasey/Getty Images A study of surgical patients, across 168 hospitals, showed that 23% of patients experience a major complication during their stay. We like to think of complications as atypical events. However, the unfortunate truth is that they are quite...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Westend61/Getty Images Many companies have jumped on the “big data” bandwagon. They’re hiring data scientists, mining employee and customer data for insights, and creating algorithms to optimize their recommendations. Yet, these same...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images It has been well documented that immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship. This is true both in the United States, where they represent 27.5% of all entrepreneurs but only 13% of the population, and in...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | HBR
Dividing cells face daunting challenges when replicating the billions of letters of DNA in their genomes. For instance, DNA letters in new cells can get mixed up, and then the affected genes don’t function correctly. To fix that problem, healthy cells can deploy...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images It has been well documented that immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship. This is true both in the United States, where they represent 27.5% of all entrepreneurs but only 13% of the population, and in...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | HBR
Alcohol is embedded in our society, and it is difficult to be in a public space without seeing a reference to alcohol or being offered a drink. Alcohol is broken down in the liver by an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase. People with a variant in this enzyme have...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
“I was told I was too aggressive, I was too blunt, I was too direct, and that I sounded pompous when I offered advice on recruiting, despite the fact that I had been there twice and was very successful,” Lt. Col. Kate Germano told Public Radio International in...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MEHAU KULYK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images For some of your team members, the idea of using data to inform decision-making can feel intimidating. Maybe they don’t consider themselves to have strong analytical skills. Maybe they felt overwhelmed by their...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pchyburrs/Getty Images “First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. “Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the work...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 26, 2018 | HBR
Alcohol is embedded in our society, and it is difficult to be in a public space without seeing a reference to alcohol or being offered a drink. Alcohol is broken down in the liver by an enzyme called alcohol dehydrogenase. People with a variant in this enzyme have...
