Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
School taught us to answer a simple question, “ will this be on the test? ” If the answer is no, we’ve got no time for it. Work taught us to fear the boss and the review and our performance ranking. And we are motivated to do the work if we get paid for it, because, after all, that’s why we call it work. Do the least, because you're always going to get asked to do more.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
HBR staff/Bettmann Collection/Getty Images. Advice on how to improve one’s self is everywhere. It accounts for about 2.5% of all book sales in the United States. Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. However, research shows that much of the advice extolled may be misleading or even wrong.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Ralf Hiemisch/Getty Images. The subject of sexual misconduct at work is dominating mainstream conversation and board room agendas. This doesn’t just mean men and women who run large global enterprises, Fortune 500 behemoths, film studios, and media platforms. The conversation is happening in small businesses as well. In the U.S. 43% of employees work in organizations with 50 or fewer people.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
During my conversations with CEOs, it always comes to a point where they say: “I want to leave a legacy.” Any CEO would be satisfied with the business legacy left by Ingvar Kamprad, the IKEA founder who died last weekend. The store he founded, with its iconic blue and yellow logo and functional, minimalist furniture, is the largest furniture retailer in the world.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Alfred Eisenstaedt/Hayon Thapaliya/Getty Images. Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?
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