by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Download the discussion guide for this episode Join our online community Download this podcast Hearing your manager say you’re...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | HBR
There has been lots of attention on concussions in youth, especially from sports, over the past few years. It’s good that we are paying more attention to concussions. As the stories of prior National Football League players show us, concussions can lead to lifelong...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. This quickly became a requirement for even the most non-technical jobs,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, realized that being a good leader required being a good mind reader. “I see my task as serving the majority of people,” he said in an interview to Forbes. “The question is, how do you find out what they...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Dougal Waters/Getty Images Whether in corporate life or entrepreneurship, the recipe for success is clear: Win and execute lucrative projects. The reasons are obvious: Your business wouldn’t exist without money to run it, and the more, the better. But...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images When Goldman Sachs named David Solomon its new CEO, the media didn’t just focus on his professional background and his rise through the ranks; it also covered his moonlighting as a bona fide DJ. Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
VCG/Getty Images Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science....
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | HBR
I am now 11 years into recovery from my battle with opiate addiction, and I have always been fascinated with two related questions: is there truly such a thing as an “addictive personality,” and do people substitute addictions? The myth of the addictive personality...