I talk a lot about the lack of training new managers receive on how to be managers, and why it’s disappointing. Maybe this research will help people get it:
While growth opportunities, work-life balance, and meaningful work remain essential for both engagement and retention, a solid and supportive relationship with their direct manager increases team
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This is something I think people often forget when they join a team and get promoted. It’s also something that the leader who promoted them takes for granted:
The danger of being promoted from within is that it feels like you already know what’s going on. You’ve sat in the meetings, watched decisions get made,
The number of times we all assume that our team members know that they’re appreciated versus the reality of how often they wonder about it:
Team members must be continually told in various ways that they count, or they begin to feel less important. Surprisingly, it is often the most talented and successful team members
This is interesting to think about as we all start noticing the sameness of online content in the Gen AI age.
In addition, writing is also becoming more repetitive and homogenised. It repeats syntactic structures, and tends towards a neutral tone, formulaic expressions, and predictable paragraph structures. This is especially important in journalism because
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A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of leading a conversation about stress and anxiety at work, specifically in the legal industry.
I was asked about AI, technological change, the uncertainty surrounding us at work these days, and how to deal with it.
Part of my answer concerned being a leader and how
In the link below, Andrew is writing about ISO/IEC/IEEE AWI 42030, which isn’t about RIM, but he thinks it has significant implications for records professionals:
AWI 42030 reflects a broader industry transition: away from records as static, discrete objects and toward records as emergent properties of complex digital architectures. That transition has real implications for
This is all going to wind up being a giant scam, isn’t it?
Analysis by the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, a non-profit research and advocacy group, found that long-shot bets—defined as wagers of $2,500 or more at odds of 35 percent or less—on the platform had an average win rate of around 52 percent in markets
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