THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
What we're reading & what we think about it
For Heaven’s sake, go home!
In the early 1990s, I lived in Japan, and was taken aback the first few times I saw people get on the subway, and go about their daily business wearing surgical-type masks whenever they were sick. Over time, I started to realize what a smart practice this was. This...
Making Dr. King’s Dream A Reality
I was four years old when Dr. King was killed, and I spent the ensuing days bombarding my poor parents with questions. Three and a half decades later, when our son was four and our daughter was seven, we were sitting around the dinner table when my husband questioned...
New Year’s Resolutions, Part II
Would you like permission to not get everything done on this year’s to do list and have the scientific evidence to back it up? Now armed with neurological, demographic, and technological reasons why planning for the year to come is not actually the best way to reach...
New Year’s Resolutions
I stumbled across this article in the Economist several months ago, but when pondering New Year’s resolutions, its content came back to me. Few will be in a position to enact the sorts of suggestions that the authors of It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work recommend,...
Is there a magic formula?
People have been trying to use compensation plans for years to alter behavior believing that just the right comp system will manage people. Compensation is a type of algorithm. In the mid to late 1990s, people were convinced that stock options were magic. While they...
Does Mr. C need a consultant?
Could Santa’s shop run more efficiently? The Economist recently ran an article, “If Consultants Ran Christmas,” offering Santa Claus some advice regarding brand name, data protection, animal welfare, and even outsourcing. It’s playful and makes some valid points about...
