By Jen Sweeney
While digital transformation is affecting workers in every industry, it’s causing especially acute pain in health care. According to recent surveys, physicians are 15 times more likely to experience burnout…
By Jen Sweeney
When British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, he suspected he came across something big, but probably didn’t believe his discovery would change medicine forever. After all, the benefits…
By Jen Sweeney
When taking a road trip with children, it’s a given that at some point one of them will ask “Are we there yet?”—regardless of whether the destination is a few…
By Rich Natoli
In a recent post, we examined the idea of a “21st-century career”—what it is and steps organizations will need to take to enable this new model of work. In the…
By Jen Sweeney
For many workers, summertime is not vacation time. Rather, it’s another holiday forfeited or another trip spent responding to emails, attending meetings, and enduring the scorn of family members. According…
By Jen Sweeney
During the last century, a career meant getting a foot in the door, and slowly, methodically advancing within an organization. People tended to stay with one company, maybe two—job-hopping was…
Over the past few years, the way people work has changed quite a bit. For the first time, we now have members of five different generations together in the workplace.…
By Jen Sweeney
In recent years, the issue of worker productivity has been a central focus for business leaders, economists, employees, and organizations, and others. In particular, they have been puzzled by what…
By Jen Sweeney
In 2017, the top workplace trend was collaboration—flat team structures, huddle rooms, open floor plans, chat-based collaboration technology—and it’s expected to intensify this year. The most notable manifestation of this…
By Jen Sweeney
For organizations that haven’t begun to seriously consider using chat-based collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams or Slack, it’s time to start paying attention. Collaboration is the top trend for this…