For companies in many areas, travel is essential to their success. In virtually every industry, you’ll need to take trips to meet possible partners, suppliers, shareholders, or other parties who are crucial to your business strategy. According to this JP Morgan analysis, you should continually look for methods to save money and time because business travel may consume a significant amount of your time and budget—up to 31% of the …
How do world-renowned leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists and creatives achieve success? For some 20 years, Nathan Furr, an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, has been interviewing such individuals, culminating in a book with 42 practical tools to overcome uncertainty. In this INSEAD Knowledge podcast, we speak to Nathan Furr and Susannah Furr, his co-author of the book The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide to Finding Possibility in the Unknown. …
Data brokers are already in your workplace, surveilling your employees and selling what they gather, whether you know it or not. And we’re not the only one who thinks there’s a creep factor here. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently published a request for information regarding data brokers. The Federal Trade Commission recently dinged a digital healthcare platform for sharing consumers’ sensitive health information for advertising purposes. With that in …
“There’s only one type of remote work philosophy that fails 100% of the time: unintentionally remote. When you just kinda start letting people work from wherever, or sometimes the office, or, you know, haphazardly, without process or infrastructure. Be intentionally remote.” —Hunter Walk We couldn’t agree more with this quote from Hunter. There are many ways to operate a business successfully with employees working from home (WFH), but the root …
The worker, who had a stroke last summer, was fired in February for “excessive absences,” which they claim violates the Family and Medical Leave Act.
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management director expressed a desire to make the government a “national leader in pay equity.”