|
§ How to turn employees into true believers
Leaders must focus on changing their workers' actions, thoughts or belief systems, Red Hat President Jim Whitehurst says. It's almost always better to focus on turning your workers into true believers, Whitehurst explains, since they'll automatically also start thinking and acting correctly. "If people really fundamentally believe what you want them to believe, they will walk through walls. They will do anything," he says. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (3/10)  ? ? ? ?
§ Spanx boss puts her behind on the line
Spanx tycoon Sara Blakely has made her fortune thanks to her line of form-flattering lingerie, which is championed by celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Gwyneth Paltrow. It wasn't always so easy to get endorsements: after starting Spanx, Blakely says she wore the same pair of tight cream pants every day for three years to show off her product. "I had no money to advertise, so I was the promotion," she explains. The Guardian (London) (3/10) ????
|
|
|
|
Earn 2X rewards points on shipping costs with The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN. Designed to earn Membership Rewards® points faster:
• 3X points on airfare
• 2X points on advertising, gas, and shipping
• 1X points on everything else
LEARN MORE AND APPLY |
|
|
§ Should you randomly send workers on vacation?
Every month, bosses at the Motley Fool put the names of all 250 employees into a hat, pick one, then send the lucky winner on a mandatory vacation for the next two weeks. The policy makes the company as a whole more resilient, explains spokeswoman Alison Southwick. "[I]t helps us fight against single points of failure ... you need to make sure that other people around you understand what you do so that the company doesn't come to a screeching halt if you're gone," she said. FastCompany.com (3/9) ????
§ Apple's plan for staying ahead of its rivals
Apple's iPad 3 may be only an incremental improvement on previous models -- but that's all that was needed to maintain the tech giant's dominance of the tablet business, writes Farhad Manjoo. The company is successfully repeating the product-development strategy that made iPods unbeatable in the music-player industry, Manjoo writes, and that's terrible news for Apple's rivals. Slate (3/8) ????
|
|
|
|
Business Owners: Get 24/7 Monitoring W/ ADT®
ADT® Business Security provides effective, affordable security, with video surveillance solutions to help protect your business - even when you're not on the premises. Sign up for a free review today! |
|
|
|
Innovation and Creativity |
| |
|
|
§ Pfizer shuts Viagra lab amid R&D overhaul
Pfizer CEO Ian Read is selling off his company's largest European laboratory, the British research base that created Viagra, as part of a push to narrow the pharmaceutical giant's research and development to five core therapeutic focuses. The less-is-more innovation strategy is a high-risk move, but it might help Pfizer wring more profits from its pharmaceutical research pipeline.. Bloomberg Businessweek (3/8) ????
|
|
|
|
Organizational Privacy Architecture and Assessment
This checklist for Ecommerce, Web Development and Design, and Direct Marketing professionals enables you to gauge your organization's privacy compliance and best practice levels. Thousands of companies leave the intricacies of privacy management to TRUSTe, the 13-year-old leader in online privacy. Gain an overview of the program today. |
|
|
Top five news stories selected by SmartBrief on Leadership readers in the past week.
§ Stuck in a cubicle? It's time to get creative (HigherSalary.com)
§ Are you an extreme narcissist? (The New York Times (tiered subscription model))
§ Management guru: The revolution is coming (Financial Times)
§ 3 reasons your workers aren't innovating (Innovation Coach)
§ What to do when young guns misfire (CBS MoneyWatch)
· Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.
|
The Global Perspective |
| |
|
|
§ Why negotiators should play Mr. Nice Guy
Bosses should charm opponents rather than browbeating them, says British negotiator Clive Rich. It pays to be assertive, but not to excess. "[Y]ou can't stomp on people's toes," Rich explains. Financial Times (tiered subscription model) (3/8) ????
§ How iPhones and Big Macs make China a better place
Chinese businessmen revere Apple and McDonald's for their technical and business-model innovations, and the two companies also are helping to modernize and democratize the Middle Kingdom, writes Panos Mourdoukoutas. Apple's efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers' factories and McDonald's introduction of the franchise system are having significant effects in Chinese workplaces, Mourdoukoutas argues. Forbes (3/11) ????
|
Daily Diversion |
| |
|
|
§ Daylight saving time is a real killer, scientists say
Americans will be at a significantly greater risk of heart failure on Monday and Tuesday this week thanks to the biorhythmic stress caused by the start of daylight saving time, scientists say. Researchers say the risk of having a heart attack increases by about 10% following the clock change, thanks to the adverse effects of sleep deprivation and circadian-rhythm disruption. Gizmodo (3/9) ????
|
|
|
|
|
Position Title |
Company Name |
Location |
|
Senior Director of Development |
GLSEN |
New York, NY |
|
Vice President of Scientific Affairs |
Creative Testing Solutions (CTS) |
US - AZ - Tempe |
|
Director, Fleet Engineering |
Alaska Airlines |
Seattle, WA |
|
Senior Vice President, General Merchandise Manager |
Total Wine & More |
Potomac, MD |
|
Marketing Director, Western U.S. |
The Nature Conservancy |
Nationwide, United States |
|
Director of Operations |
Spencer Gifts |
Egg Harbor Township, NJ | |
|
Click here to view more job listings. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Most Popular Headlines from Last Week
Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers. |
|
?
