by HappyQuotient | Oct 24, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 24, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ragnar Schmuck/Getty Images Many managers of data science teams become managers because they were great individual contributors and not necessarily because they have the skills or training to lead a team. (I include myself in that group.) But management is a skill...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 24, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas J Peterson/Getty Images There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker how to get to the storied concert venue Carnegie Hall and is told, “Practice, practice, practice.” Obviously, this is good advice if you want to become a...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 24, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas J Peterson/Getty Images There’s an old story about a tourist who asks a New Yorker how to get to the storied concert venue Carnegie Hall and is told, “Practice, practice, practice.” Obviously, this is good advice if you want to become a...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 24, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
In recent decades, researchers have been gaining insight into the benefits of practicing mindfulness meditation. By studying more secular versions of this ancient tradition, they’ve found that learning to pay attention to our current experiences and accept them...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
David Smith, associate professor of sociology at the U.S. Naval War College, and Brad Johnson, professor of psychology at the United States Naval Academy, argue that it is vital for more men to mentor women in the workplace. In the post-#MeToo world, some men have...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jetta Productions/Getty Images Many U.S. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 23, 2018 | HBR
A highly effective psychotherapy called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on how our thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes can affect our feelings and behavior. Traditional CBT treatment usually requires weekly 30- to 60-minute sessions over 12 to 20 weeks. A...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jenner Image/Getty Images Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. At Lilly, we have tackled this problem head-on. Our approaches, we think, can be helpful to other companies working to...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Marco Guidi/EyeEm/Getty Images The ability to understand and communicate about data is an increasingly important skill for the 21st-century citizen, for three reasons. First, data science and AI are affecting many industries globally, from healthcare and government to...
