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Flexible work arrangements may be one of the pandemic-driven changes that will endure for businesses for years to come. Many companies have realized their employees can be just as productive working remotely. And many employees have their sights set on working from...

The trend to implement lean manufacturing has been in motion for decades. Lean manufacturing seeks to optimize material flow through factories by reducing wastes associated with non-value-added tasks, variability, and overburden. However, lean manufacturing principles...

We live in a world of too many meetings. Since the pandemic started, every day, millions of workers log on to their computers and sit through hour after hour of back-to-back meetings and do not get any work done.  A recent survey cited that 67% of respondents...

Two decades ago, companies began adding degree requirements to job descriptions, even though the jobs themselves hadn’t changed. After the Great Recession, many organizations began trying to back away from those requirements. To learn how the effort is going, the...

While most of us would agree that we would rather have employees be happy than unhappy, so complex is the nature of happiness that it often seems something that is beyond the duty of an employer to provide. After all, as Richard Easterlin famously describes in his...

Many standard interview processes rely on outdated behavioral questions like “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” to evaluate prospective hires. But more often than not, these types of questions fail to reveal useful information about a candidate’s...

Although organizations have been obsessing over the “war for talent" for two decades, it is surprising how often they will end up losing valuable employees for avoidable reasons, such as not knowing they are disengaged and open to other opportunities. A familiar...

Recently my friend Nancy, who I haven’t seen in years, sent me an email with some photos attached. “You’ll love these,” she wrote. The photos circulating through the Internet were of a polar bear and a dog playing together. I first saw them in a National...

“New year, new me” is a common trope around this time of year. A new year is a fresh start; an opportunity for reinvention. And for leaders, there’s no shortage of advice on what to “be” to drive results and effectively lead people. But an emerging leadership theory...