In a study done by Leadership IQ, CEO, Mark Murphy and his team followed 20,000 new hires during their first three years of employment.
The results were startling: 46% of the participants failed in their job during the first 18 months due to ATTITUDE. Read on to learn more about why and what your organization can do to have better results.
I love this post from world-renowned entrepreneur, best-selling author, and innovator Josh Linkner. What a great idea! (Wish I had known about that many years ago!)
What can you reimagine today?
Source: Reimagine – Josh Linkner
What do you think of this research?
It certainly makes for a compelling title, yet when I read on, what I hear is that people responded poorly to a woman making a “joke” that essentially reiterated that same old thinking that women are not as smart or capable as men and that married women have to “ask their husbands” about everything they do.
To me, that’s not at all surprising. I’d have to see the rest of the questions and more detail about the research design to believe that this headline is really accurate.
What are your thoughts?
Source: Making Jokes During a Presentation Helps Men But Hurts Women
This is tomorrow. Watch it if you can.
Source: Why Is the US Death Rate Rising? Dr. Sanjay Gupta Looks at the Deadly Effects of Despair
We all have times when we wonder, “Am I working for the right organization? Am I in the right job? And is this all there is?” This Harvard Business Review article discusses how helpful tips on how to handle these kinds of thoughts and offers possible paths to take in understanding the answers, whether they are simply that you need a new outlook on your job, or more drastically, that you need to make a career change.
The importance of women in management positions can hardly be ignored. When studies began to show that women “tend to drop off the leadership track about 7-10 years into their careers,” several companies began to find a way to change that. Working with their current female employees to create meaningful and productive opportunities to grow within the companies, they focused on both growth during the programs, but also retainment after the programs had been completed.
Source: These companies are making sure more women get promoted to management
Pablo Picasso didn’t begin crafting timeless masterpieces with his first paint set. He probably scrabbled out an uneven stick figure, as many of us did when we first attempted art.
Stumbling is part of the process.
Lady Gaga’s First Song; Picasso’s First Painting – Josh Linkner
Sometimes, people move on. It’s a fact of life, but when an integral and well-liked member of the team moves on, it can create a lot of conflicting emotions. In this Harvard Business Review article, Liane Davey discusses how to handle this situation in a way that helps both you and your team members, as well as making the transition process easier for your departing employee.
Source: How to Manage Morale When a Well-Liked Employee Leaves
In our shifting economy, startups and gig work are getting more and more common, but so are the misconceptions. David Jolley tackles some of these common misconceptions and myths about gig economy and how it relates to our culture of business and work, today.
“Just as bad behavior tends to spread, so too does good behavior. Kindness, it turns out, is contagious.” This Harvard Business Review article by Bill Taylor discusses how important a culture of kindness is in creating a successful business and work environment. This doesn’t mean enforcing it, it means giving kindness the means to spread, by encouraging it in encounters with others.