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Is The 4-Day Week The Solution To Quiet Quitting?

Forbes Careers

In the last few weeks, we have been hearing and reading a lot about “quiet quitters”. With recent researches showing 78% of employees with 4-day weeks are happier and less stressed, and 88% employers saying that the trials are working well, is this the solution to quiet quitting?

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NIO unlocks its potential through standout user operations

McKinsey

McKinsey sits with NIO’s president to discuss the logic behind its approach, its input–output economics, and the implications for the industry.

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Best Leadership Books: 21 of the Most Impactful Reads

BetterUp

Jump to section. Best leadership books for personal development. Best leadership books for people managers. Best leadership books for organizational leaders.

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Mining for tech-talent gold: Seven ways to find and keep diverse talent

McKinsey

A wealth of diverse tech talent is available, if companies expand their approach to hiring them.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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New Salary Transparency Laws Will Be A Big Victory For Workers—And A Huge Headache For Employers

Forbes Careers

Pay transparency is intended to ameliorate pay disparities that largely affect women and other underserved groups. It would also normalize discussions around money. For workers, pay disclosures on job listings are long overdue and will be a huge win for employees—and a huge headache for employers.

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Empowering economic growth in the Latino community

McKinsey

Domenika Lynch, head of the Aspen Institute’s Latinos and Society Program, and McKinsey’s Bernardo Sichel discuss the economic state of Latinos in America and ways to remove barriers to participation.

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Heat waves, the war in Ukraine, and stigma: Gen Z’s perspectives on mental health

McKinsey

A new McKinsey Health Institute survey finds that Gen Z may have higher levels of perceived stigma compared with other generations, but they may be more accepting of people with mental illnesses.

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Which HBS Online Business Essentials Program Is Right for You?

Harvard Business School Online

Whether you’re a business professional who wants to deepen your knowledge, an undergraduate getting ready to enter the working world, or a lifelong learner preparing for an MBA, gaining confidence in foundational business skills can help you excel. Explore HBS Online's business essentials programs to decide which is the best fit for your goals.

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Laying the foundations for a space economy

McKinsey

Space already plays a larger role in our lives than we realize, and it’s only going to grow as new technologies and innovations open up unimagined economic opportunities.

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The Skills Young People Need To Thrive During The Next Recession

Forbes Careers

Today’s young people face an uncertain economic future as they enter the workforce—but there are skills they can learn to put their best foot forward and thrive.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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Author Talks: It’s time to make youth sports about kids again

McKinsey

Journalist and former cross-country coach Linda Flanagan pulls back the curtain on K-12 sports in America, revealing an intense, commercialized system that excludes low-income players.

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4 Sure-Fire Questions To Solicit A Career Conversation With A Mentee

Forbes Careers

Avoid creating your mentee as a mini-me of yourself. They are not you.

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The McKinsey Crossword: Cryptocurrencies | No. 95

McKinsey

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Honor Technology’s Seth Sternberg On The Need To Integrate For Success In M&A

Forbes Careers

You can’t possibly realize synergies out of separate organizations. Synergies must be created together by teams looking beyond themselves to new problems they can solve in new ways together for others.

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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How to Mind Map

Ayoa

Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. Mind mapping is a versatile technique used by over 250 million people worldwide to capture ideas in a way that’s proven to boost productivity, creativity and memory. In this blog, learn how to organise information with this innovative and much-loved visual thinking tool. Mind mapping is a method that boosts your productivity by helping you to generate ideas and better analyse them, as well as making it easier to structure and recall information.

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How Our Job Performances Might Change During Our Lifetime

Forbes Careers

Job performance is not a static concept but changes throughout our life. New research explores what this means and how employers can better support us at each stage.

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Your "Winning" Strategy

Rachel B. Garrett

There’s a challenge I see coming up with many of the women in my groups and 1:1 coaching and the related scenarios look like this. They get overlooked for promotions. They get layered under new levels of leadership. (Which feels like and often is a demotion.) They go for the big job and the less qualified candidates (often white guys) get the roles.

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Best Jobs for Libras Looking for More Career Fulfillment

She Owns Success

Whether you’re looking to make a complete career change, you want to change jobs within the same industry, or even if you’re looking for your first job out of college finding a job that’s a good fit will ensure that you not only enjoy what you do but that you’re able to thrive and excel at it. The best jobs for any of us are those that align with our natural innate styles.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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6 “Tell Me About a Time…” Interview Questions and Answers

BetterUp

Jump to section. Interview questions to reflect on the past. Interview questions to reflect on the past. What are the most common “Tell me about a time when” questions? What are the best ways to answer these questions? Moving forward.

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Elizabeth Swados on bipolar and burning rubber

The Creative Mind

Tony-nominated playwright Elizabeth Swados revealed in an O Magazine article [“Bipolar Diaries,” October 2007] that in her work she functioned at a high level, but in private she was in the frantic throes of bipolar disorder. “I was talking as fast as an auctioneer, dashing from one activity to another with such intensity that I […].

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Ways you may be encouraging presenteeism — and what to do instead

BetterUp

It would be hard to pinpoint whom to credit for the phrase, “Showing up is half the battle.” That advice has been branded into many of us since we were young. We live in a world that rewards showing up from a very early age. Children are handed perfect attendance awards for never missing a day. As adults, we often carry that expectation into the work world.

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The Pyramid Principle: Book Summary & Review (Part 2: Logic In Thinking)

StrategyU

This review is the second of a four-part series on Barabara Minto’s 2010 version of The Pyramid Principle. This book is one of the seminal texts in the consulting world and is increasingly popular in the broader business world. My goal in writing these reviews is to make the ideas and suggestions practical and to help people apply these skills. If you’d like to go to the previous section you can find the following links to each: Logic In Writing Logic In Thinking Logic in Problem-Solving Logic I

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.