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Future of Work Briefs
2015
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What Marissa Mayer Got Wrong (and Right) About Stack Ranking Employees
March 12 | Chris Yeh, VP of Marketing, PBworks | Comments (0)Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been criticized for implementing the practice of stack ranking. Most of the criticisms of stack ranking center on the seeming arbitrary nature of the practice. Yet stack ranking suffers even more fundamental problems.
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Why Citi Got Rid of Assigned Desks
March 10 | Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute | Eve Tahmincioglu, Senior Director of Communications, Families and Work Institute | Comments (0)It may seem odd to use a dystopian world as a model for an office workspace, but that’s just what Citi did. The physical environment can foster elements of an effective workplace like collaboration and autonomy, work-life fit and opportunities for learning. However, this is easier said than done.
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Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad
March 05 | Rachael Chong, Founder and CEO, Catchafire | Melissa Fleming, Former Content Lead, Catchafire | Comments (0)Recognizing that corporate responsibility can offer a company a competitive advantage today, we became interested in IBM as a pioneer in establishing a skills-based volunteerism initiative that also influences its talent and professional development strategies.
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The 7 Attributes of CEOs Who Get Social Media
March 02 | Ted Coiné, Author, A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive | Mark Babbitt, Co-Author, A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive | Comments (0)Peter Aceto, the CEO of Tangerine, recently said in The Globe and Mail, “I would rather engage in a Twitter conversation with a single customer than see our company attempt to attract the attention of millions in a coveted Superbowl commercial.” This is the preference of a truly social CEO.
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A Refresher on Storytelling 101
February 27 | JD Schramm, Professor, Communication, Stanford’s Graduate School of Business | Comments (0)And as we grow up, we do not lose our thirst for stories. I work with future leaders at Stanford to help them develop compelling stories that achieve their management goals — and I’ve developed a seven-part formula for storytelling success in presentations and business meetings.
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Working Smoothly with a Virtual Boss
February 26 | Keith Ferrazzi, Founder and CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight | Comments (0)The realities of doing business today often require that employees and their managers work from different locations. When you’re not co-located with your boss — often separated by large distances and time zones — a different set of considerations comes into play.
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Board Members Should Have to Take a Personality Test
February 20 | Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT School’s Center for Digital Business | Comments (0)The concatenated rise of social media, Big Data, and the predictive analytics championed by human capital gurus such as Google’s Laszlo Bock virtually assures that testing will play an ever greater role in the selection and management of employees and their managers.