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Attention Leaders: Five Attitudes to Take to work in 2014

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post last year in contemplation of the beginning of 2013. I’m posting it again because well, I think it continues to be relevant in 2014. However, if you have something that would make the workplace of 2014 much better, attitude-wise, I encourage you to share it. Thank you. ==.

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Kicking Leadership Clichés

Great Leadership By Dan

the environmental crisis, increased individualism and value pluralism, digitization, demographic change and technological convergence. In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, As technologies converge, entire disciplines will have to work together in new ways.

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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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What Happens to Mental Health at Work When Our Devices Know How We Feel?

Harvard Business Review

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. But as wearable and mobile technology becomes more attuned to our moods, will that still be true?

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. So in early 2014, Jonathan Glick coined the ungainly word “ platisher ” to describe hybrids of digital media platforms and publishers. For an example, look at Medium , a platisher that raised $25 million in 2014.

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The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015

Harvard Business Review

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Where/how are people having difficulty with technology? Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Where/how are people stuck?

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