This is crap but you should read it anyway. Groupthink alert.
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‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams: How to Fail Your Way to Success – US News and World Report
Your best bet is to have a system for acquiring new and complementary skills over your lifetime while always looking for better opportunities. It’s analogous to diversifying your investments.
via ‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams: How to Fail Your Way to Success – US News and World Report.
Companies Take Steps to Curb Worker Burnout – News OK
One strategy Goldman Sachs has been trying is to make people feel less at risk in their jobs. That\’s not easy in most companies, much less so in investment banking.
To keep junior analysts from burning out, the bank has decided to start hiring first-year analysts as permanent employees, instead of taking them on as contract workers. It is also encouraging them to not work weekends.
via Companies take steps to curb worker burnout | News OK.
Life/work balance is a choice, not another corporate initiative. You have one life. Make the right choice.
US Hospitals Look to Provide Insurance for Poor Patients – FT.com
US hospitals are exploring ways to buy “Obamacare” insurance plans for their sickest and poorest patients as they strain under the weight of tens of billions of dollars in uncompensated costs from the uninsured.
via US hospitals look to provide insurance for poor patients – FT.com.
Scott Adams – Harvard Business Review
My most basic belief about management is that it’s people flailing around and hoping that something lucky happens that makes them look as if they did a great job. And most of my experiences affirm that view.
via Scott Adams – Harvard Business Review.
The interview. Yeah, it’s good.
Worldwide, 13% of Employees Are Engaged at Work
Only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work, according to Gallup\’s new 142-country study on the State of the Global Workplace. In other words, about one in eight workers — roughly 180 million employees in the countries studied — are psychologically committed to their jobs and likely to be making positive contributions to their organizations.
via Worldwide, 13% of Employees Are Engaged at Work.
No surprises here.
Work? Not Meaningful
Only 36 percent of paid work activities bring American parents meaning, compared to 62 percent of child care duties; paid work is “very tiring” 5 percent of the time, while child care is exhausting 12 percent of the time.
via Pew study on modern American family: Moms still do more child care..
Guess it’s been that kind of day for finding these kinds of articles.
Passion Doesn’t Always Mean Profession. | The Cynical Girl
Passion doesn’t always mean profession. | The Cynical Girl.
Nice to see others who think like I do. Don’t confuse passion with profession. You can be very, very good at what you do. You can make tons of money (or not). But you don’t have to be passionate about your profession. You just have to like it a lot.
One of the definitions of passion is ” strong and barely controllable emotion”. If you feel that way about your profession, that’s wonderful.
If not, then welcome to reality for the majority.
18% of the Workforce Could Retire Within 5 Years
I hesitated before posting this link. The headline grabs your attention, no? It got my attention for sure. Maybe, just maybe there’s hope for our economy and jobs crisis from the demographics. Then I read the following sentence:
For the purpose of the study, ADP assumed that the average retirement age was 61. Researchers concluded that in many industries, individuals will retire at 61 despite theories suggesting otherwise.
Not gonna happen. Period.
via 18% of the workforce could retire within five years | LifeHealthPro.
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