‘Superjobs’: Why You Work More, Enjoy It Less – WSJ.com
Management
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Flight Risk
Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall
No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s. We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends. I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study. There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.
Rethinking Multitasking
Productivity, Multitasking, and the Death of the Phone – HBR IdeaCast – Harvard Business Review
Great podcast. I may be biased so here are my disclaimers:
- I have a dumb phone, not a smart phone
- My cell phone is for texting and talking, I use old-fashioned computers for everything else
- I don’t multitask, I uni-task
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