When I was younger, I used to look down on people who seemed obsessed with process. I thought that rigid adherence to a set of rules stifled creativity and led to bland results. I hated being told what to do or being held to a pre-set standard. After all, I was smart, driven, and creative. … Continue reading How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Process – Chris Myers
Category: Office Strategy
Simple Desk Improvements That Make an Open Office Easier to Bear – Alan Henry
Open floor plans and “flexible” office seating are common in today’s modern, meticulously designed workplaces. While designers and managers hope that they’ll improve communication by encouraging people to talk to one another, more than a few studies have pointed out that they may actually do the opposite, and instead are simply designed to be cost-effective. … Continue reading Simple Desk Improvements That Make an Open Office Easier to Bear – Alan Henry
Three Reasons Your Company Should Make Vacation Mandatory – Jim Ludema and Amber Johnson
Are you one of the 52% of American workers who leaves vacation time unused? Yes? You’re not alone. It’s an epidemic amounting to 708 million unclaimed vacation days each year. We get it: there’s always more work to be done. The pressure to meet goals can be intense, as can the concern that our absence … Continue reading Three Reasons Your Company Should Make Vacation Mandatory – Jim Ludema and Amber Johnson
Optical Resources For The First-time Manager
Getting your first Manager role is an exciting and intimidating achievement. On the one end, your hard work and practice loyalty has finally paid off and resulted in the practice owner trusting that you can help manage the practice success. On the other end, you have to learn new skills and retrain your focus to… via … Continue reading Optical Resources For The First-time Manager
Putting biases to work can be a strategy for better investment decision-making
What if we treated them as the boon of billions of years of evolution? They allow us to detect patterns from few instances, to imagine things we’ve never seen, and to function robustly in a changing environment. Can we design decision-making processes that capture the benefits of human bias without the drawbacks? Read More via Putting … Continue reading Putting biases to work can be a strategy for better investment decision-making