Think about your top talent in the way that professional basketball coaches do by giving staffers the freedom they need to present bold new ideas and innovate, write Ted Bililies and Curtis Rising with AlixPartners. "You've got to give the cream of your talent crop such truly attractive new options, helping them focus on their most significant strengths and gifts in ways that will benefit your company in the short and long term," they write.
The best leaders are those who are impatient to succeed, measure their progress against their own personal best and are pushed to excel by the setbacks they have faced, writes leadership coach Bill Treasurer. "You know you're going to have to prove yourself to many others in the future -- and you're up to that challenge," Treasurer writes.
Working with a remote team requires strong video skills, but ineffective body language is amplified during video chats or presentations, writes Rachel Cossar of Virtual Sapiens, a former Boston Ballet dancer, who has prepared four videos as examples. Facial expressions and eye gaze are particularly important, Cossar says.
People likely will pursue multiple careers in the future, writes organizational behavior practitioner Chris DeSantis, who also predicts companies will embrace employees' side hustles and make greater use of virtual reality technologies. "Because we will be living longer and our social safety nets continue to erode, we will all be working longer and, as a consequence, more and more young people will be managing more and more people significantly senior to them," DeSantis writes.
Indecision, often seen as a negative, protects judgments from cognitive bias, provided people can discern when to act, studies show. Researcher Jana-Maria Hohnsbehn suggests using ambivalence to make careful decisions and balancing it with deadlines.
With the world's population now standing at at 8 billion, experts in a wide range of fields have concerns regarding disproportionate energy consumption by a relatively small fraction of people. What's also concerning to some is the persistent (and arguably racist) notion that overpopulation is a main driver of climate change.
But the landscape for this conversation isn't 100% contentious. The UN says half of the increase in population up to 2050 will take place in Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania, which is "a testament to achievements in public health and medicine."
