Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but this debate is front and center within numerous European economies, not only because of […]
Will the 4-Day Workweek Take Hold in Europe?
January 14, 2020: Baroness Hilde Kieboom: Guiding the youth toward mercifulness and the Christian organizations towards modernity
Partner organisation IMPACT26 organizes a seminar and diner with Baroness Hilde Kieboom. As a university student, Hilde Kieboom founded the Belgian branch of the Italian Sant’Egidio in Antwerp in 1985. She studied […]
Happy workers are 13% more productive
Research by Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, in collaboration with British multinational telecoms firm BT, has found a conclusive link between happiness and productivity. An extensive study into happiness and productivity has […]
More Than a Paycheck: Research Shows Businesses Need to Create Meaningful Jobs to Motivate Employees
Columbia Business School Article Adds “Work Meaning” as Critical Component to Equation for Calculating Work Productivity In the current “always on” work culture where employees are tethered to their jobs through their […]
Sunday Strategist: Your Company Should Let You Work From Anywhere
Today there are about 44 million unpaid caregivers in the U.S., about the same number of people who watched the final Game of Thrones season. But over the next two decades that number is expected […]
Myth Busting And Exploring Ecosystem Definitions.
Business Ecosystems. A new way to think about business, or a vacuous phrase, used so inconsistently and broadly that it is rendered as nothing more than a piece of decorative idiom? London […]
Curiosity, A Core Ingredient Of Leadership
Curiosity means having an interest in situations from which you can potentially learn, or a desire for new experiences. And a curious mindset has many advantages for organisations, managers and staff. We […]
Employers Should Report On Disability Pay Gap: New LSE Report
The Government should require larger employers (over 250 staff) to collect and publish core information on their employment and pay of disabled people, argues a new report from the London School of […]
Women: Why Some Bosses Find Your Success Threatening
Ena Inesi explains the perverse effects of exceptional past performance on women’s careers. A 2018 book on how women can achieve greater career success encourages them to claim recognition for their accomplishments. […]
Four Ways To Stop Knowledge Leaking In R&D Partnerships
In industries where it is a race to the next innovation, partnerships in one form or another are highly attractive. But in these industries, such as biotechnology, pharmaceutical or technology, forming collaborations […]
It’s Good To Talk! Openness About Depression In Workplace Increases Productivity
Employees who feel able to speak openly about their depression with their managers are more productive at work than employees whose managers avoid talking to them about their condition, says new research […]
Most Millennials Will Only Work For Purpose-driven Firms
Today’s talent is attracted to companies whose values match their own. The most attractive companies to today’s talent are driven by purpose, according to London Business School (LBS) experts. “Maybe we will […]
Firms Need To Support Workers Threatened By Automation
Employees have to be retrained for a business world driven by artificial intelligence. Businesses, governments and educators are not ready for an automated working world where people who fail to retrain throughout […]
Why Is Change So Hard? 8 Tips For Managing Change
Initiating, managing and implementing change is one of the hardest challenges for any leader. How do you get people to accept a new idea as valuable and worthy of their attention? What […]
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