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Workers, Take Off Your Headphones

Harvard Business Review

A drain on innovation. In a recent study , they found "because they feel more estranged and less connected to coworkers, lonelier employees will be more likely to experience a lack of belongingness at work, thus decreasing their affective commitment to their organizations."

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Women Behaving Badly (And Resetting the Playing Field)

Harvard Business Review

The BBC production Absolutely Fabulous (aka AbFab) featured me-generation Londoners who never met a fashion they couldn't love, a pharmaceutical they couldn't abuse, or a family member they couldn't disappoint. A great wave of cultural innovation followed, giving us creatures of a different kind. This show has precedents of its own.