Burnout arises when we don't follow our own passions and instead pursue others' idea success, writes Kardia Financial Group co-founder and CEO Christian Hiscock. However, finding alignment between personal values and the business brings fulfillment and excitement for the future, while also improving the business, writes Hiscock, who poses five questions to help entrepreneurs uncover their passion.
"Story-doing" is a practice where leaders look to provide autonomy and opportunity to everyone, thus diffusing leadership roles and responsibility throughout, writes Larry Robertson. "The simple act of letting others do in place of you telling positively erodes the idea of there being one and only one gifted leader, even as that concept is so deeply embedded in our storytelling around leadership," Robertson writes.
Deadlines for a given task that are a week away are far more effective than deadlines that are a month away -- because if you give people a month to do something, they are more likely to completely forget about the task. Another finding from this study is also interesting: Sometimes the most effective deadline is no deadline at all.
Companies need long-term sustainability plans that also take into account commercial real estate, employees' home offices and how much your workforce travels, writes David Morel, founder of Tiger Recruitment. "This is not about quick fixes and short-term gains but a long-term commitment to being a better business and a better employer that is making a better contribution to society and the planet,"
Amazon hopes to attract more parents to its workforce with its new FamilyFlex program, which offers flexible shifts to accommodate family schedules and last-minute changes, as well as its Anytime Shifts program, in which certain employees can select the optimal time and shift type that meets their needs. "The purpose of FamilyFlex is to really make it easier for women -- and for parents or anyone with caregiving responsibilities -- to schedule in a way that makes sense for them," said Ardine Williams, Amazon's vice president of workforce development.
Some of humanity's first space-grown chili peppers have been consumed in orbit, taco-style. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, one of the seven crewmembers currently living and working at the International Space Station, created what she called "my best space tacos yet," using some of the newly harvested peppers, some fajita beef and rehydrated tomatoes.
