Boo-Hoo at Yahoo: No More Working From Home

Pat Galagan

Bucking a popular trend as well as evidence that working from home increases employees’ productivity, Yahoo is eliminating its work-from-home option. Citing a need for more interaction and communication among employees, Director of HR, Jackie Reses, said in a stat... More »

Attention Management and the Brain: Yogis and Magicians Have Something to Teach Us

Since research in the 1970s by psychologist Ellen Langer, mindfulness, or concentration, has been credited with improving measures of cognitive function. In 2011, researchers from the University of Wisconsin demonstrated that daily meditation could shift frontal brain a... More »

The Good Company Assessment

Laurie Bassi

Research shows that several factors help make organizations better and more profitable places to work. Bassi offers tips for learning to navigate the current economic landscape as a Good Company. More »

How to Tap the Wisdom of Your Workforce

Laurie Bassi

The wisdom within your workforce can be a source of competitive advantage if you know how to tap into it. Four steps will get you there. More »

Human Capital Management Predicts Stock Prices

Laurie Bassi

For more than ten years, investment advisers Laurie Bassi and Dan McMurrer have created portfolios that outperform the S&P 500. Their secret? Their portfolios consist of organizations that have superior human capital management practices. Laurie and Dan believe - an... More »