Human Capital Briefs

GE is an icon of management best practices. That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes.

PYXERA Global helps companies send employees on skills-based assignments with nonprofit and government partners. PYXERA Global’s VP of Global Pro Bono and Engagement, Amanda MacArthur, answered my questions regarding the benefits such programs bring, and trends the industry is seeing.

Similarity of political views between CEOs and their boards strengthens directors’ empathy for chief executives and thus weakens their monitoring of CEO performance and compensation.

The renowned author and former editor of Gourmet talks about the magazine’s closure and her recent transition to fiction writing. She is featured in the Life’s Work section of the forthcoming June issue.

I recently spoke with The Post’s Jim Tankersley about what he sees as the benefits of pairing narrative and data to get your point across. An edited version of our conversation follows.

Who is responsible for the continuing escalation of US executive compensation? It is easy to identify the “guilty parties.” It is the corporate boards of corporations. They continue to create executive compensation pay programs that increase executive compensation.

Today, users have unprecedented access to data at their fingertips and powerful applications to process them in real time. This new need is driving the development of communication and presentation tools, posing a fundamental challenge to the hegemony of PowerPoint.

A great infographic is an instant revelation. It can compress time and space. These intriguing revelations come from a short trip around The Best American Infographics, 2013.

Businesspeople are often advised to turn their data into stories to make them more persuasive. But they are given precious few tools to help them do that. It turns out though that graphs can be remarkably useful in demonstrating the mechanics underpinning an effective story.

Some people have a way of making the complex clear. They know who they are, why they do what they do, and where they want to go. Because they have internalized all this, they are able to sharply crystallize ideas and vision.