Cyberloafing Unplugged: Overcoming Online Distractions in the Workplace
Amid seemingly never-ending layoffs and a laser focus on
Amid seemingly never-ending layoffs and a laser focus on
By not getting caught up by every little thing, we should have more time and energy to dedicate to more important matters. Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash.
Sometimes the key to getting a lot done is to actually do nothing at all.
CORE staff celebrates National Blue & Green Day at their headquarters in Pittsburgh. Credit: CORE.
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Management of change (MOC) is a defined process that organizations establish and follow to ensure health, safety, and reduction of risk during periods of change.
Most of us don’t even like to discuss compensation. Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash.
Pay. It’s the topic we love to avoid. We don’t discuss it with friends or family. It’s verboten at cocktail parties. Heck, we discuss cancer, religion, and abortion at dinner parties more easily than we talk about our paychecks.
Innovation isn’t just about novel ideas, but novel ideas that endure.
Investors and business leaders are always on the lookout for the next big thing, the paradigm shift that will upend industries and change the world. The hope is to get in early and ride the wave—or at least avoid getting flattened by it.
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Throughout history, leaders have been seduced by success, leading them down a path of hubris. This ancient Greek term, literally translating to “excess,” describes a state of exaggerated self-belief and arrogance.
Control charts help to understand a process’s “personality,” know which questions to ask, when to intervene, and when to leave a process alone. Photo by Erik Kroon on Unsplash.
In less than two months we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the control chart, a tool most often associated with statistical process control (SPC). Considering SPC from our modern perspective made us ask, “Is SPC still relevant?”
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This year I have committed to being a more curious gardener: to be willing to grow some things I haven’t grown before and see what happens. I decided to try growing one of my favorite fruits—papaya!
Everyone knows customer service is increasingly automated and impersonal—that’s a “dog bites man” story. It’s not news because it happens all the time. When a man bites a dog, that’s news.
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