Management
The office lights are on, but plenty of seats stay empty. Employees have heard the policy, nodded at talking points, and then organized their week around what helps them live well. That quiet opt-out shows up in badge data and calendar behavior, and it’s reshaping how leaders must think about…
When Odysseus went off to fight the Trojan War, as reported by Homer in The Odyssey, he didn’t take along his wet-behind-the-ears son, who was destined to be heir to his throne.
Concerned about who would give his son “kinging skills,” he chose an old family friend, Mentor, to be…
Quality Digest recently spoke with David Isaacson, the executive director of portfolio marketing at Octave. Besides his work on marketing strategies, he also helps people manage, understand, and better control their operations with software solutions that protect industry assets and people while…
Industrial robots don’t just shape pay today. Research from Pinar Yildirim, a Wharton professor of economics and marketing, shows they also make workers less likely to move into higher-paying occupations, cutting expected lifetime earnings.
“Workers aren’t necessarily losing their…
When a training matrix is built and managed correctly, it’s the backbone of compliance. It ensures that every employee knows how to perform their job and creates the traceability auditors love to see.
The problem is that it doesn’t take much for a training matrix to spiral out of…
MIT launched a new initiative—titled Science Is Curiosity on a Mission—to make the case for the long-horizon, curiosity-driven science that has powered generations of American innovation. Through stories of scientists pursuing open-ended questions, the project highlights how fundamental…