I’ve seen this take shape in my professional experience. When one major U.S. bank challenged its employees, the result was happier and more confident workers, as well as the bank retaining the essential skills it needed to compete in future. The bank introduced a bootcamp to hone skills in a select group of workers, who were then directed to take on high-demand projects to immediately put into practice the skills they had learned. Almost instantly, workers could see the outcome of the learning they had invested time in. … [Read more...] about Long-term employee well-being hinges on this one employee benefit
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You need to listen to your intuition more at work. Here’s how
While the goal is not to disable our inclinations to have feelings or form opinions, we do want to disentangle ourselves from them. We want to achieve detachment, which is not the same as disconnection. Detachment is about loosening the semi-paralyzing grip of our emotions so that we can intuitively hear the essence of the matter. … [Read more...] about You need to listen to your intuition more at work. Here’s how
10 fabulous free apps for working with audio, video, and images
For very quick audio cropping—say, you just want to remove or isolate part of an audio file —take the free, online AudioTrimmer for a spin. It couldn’t be much simpler: Upload a file up to 100 megabytes in size, select a chunk of the audio, opt to keep it or remove it, then output it to an MP3 file. … [Read more...] about 10 fabulous free apps for working with audio, video, and images
Why Microsoft Word Really Sucks: It Was Invented In A Paper-Powered World
Yet, none of these updates will really solve Word’s biggest shortcomings: Most publishing that we do is now online, and Word is fundamentally built for paper. We insert our text into a blogging backend that has 80% of the functionality of Word with none of the formatting fuss. And that simple backend isn’t saddled with fonts that we haven’t licensed or bulleted lists that arise out of nowhere. Then again, why is Word on every desktop in the world and not a single blogging backend? Why doesn’t Word exist where most people are actually writing? … [Read more...] about Why Microsoft Word Really Sucks: It Was Invented In A Paper-Powered World
Unilever’s new nano-factories fit in a shipping container, so they can go anywhere in the world
“It’s not commercially viable to use a mass production line for this and it ends up creating a lot of waste,” she says in an email. “There are also times when we need to respond quickly to a change in demand in local markets, whether that’s to increase or decrease production. Again, when you have designed for mass production it isn’t easy to ramp scale up or down.” … [Read more...] about Unilever’s new nano-factories fit in a shipping container, so they can go anywhere in the world