How appreciating yourself can help you praise others Giving positive feedback can be especially difficult if you don't receive it yourself. In those cases, study your past work and popular methods of feedback, then practice them on trusted colleagues until you build confidence, writes executive coach Anne Sugar. Full Story: Fast Company (tiered subscription model) (9/30)
What do you mean by "flexibility"? Companies need to define what "flexible" work means while creating clear roles for the organization, teams and employees in determining the specifics, write organizational researchers Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patricia Gettings and Kaumudi Misra. Some form of flexibility should be offered to every employee rather than what many companies do, which is use flexibility as a way to penalize some workers and reward others. Full Story: Harvard Business Review (tiered subscription model) (9/28)
Just 16 of the 30 MLB teams still have a general manager role, as the industry moves toward a more corporate leadership model with two leaders who have titles such as chief baseball officer and president of baseball operations. This article examines what's happened within the industry to lead to teams being managed by "a cadre of executives, akin to a politician's cabinet." Full Story: The New York Times (9/28)
5 ideas for creating strategy with the future in mind Think of strategy as a process, not an event, by regularly revisiting in the context of current conditions and capacity, writes Dave Coffaro of Strategic Advisory Consulting Group and Atticus. "As a strategic leader, the question is: How will I influence selection of the right activities, performed effectively, each day this month to move our business as far as possible in the direction of our long-term vision?" he writes. Full Story: SmartBrief/Leadership (9/30)
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Initial unemployment claims rise by 11K Initial jobless claims climbed to a seasonally adjusted 362,000 last week, an increase of 11,000. The four-week moving average is now 340,000, which is slightly above the lowest level since start of the pandemic. Full Story: CNBC (9/30),The Wall Street Journal (9/30)
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The first CT scan was performed 50 years ago tomorrow. It was a primitive affair that involved 30 minutes for the scanning part, followed by two and a half hours processing data from magnetic tapes and using a Polaroid picture to capture the image. CT scans are much more sophisticated now. Their inventor, Godfrey Hounsfield, was working at Electric and Music Industries, which became better known as EMI, record label to the Beatles (among many others), when he created the first scanner. Full Story: The Conversation (9/30)
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