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 »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Business Impact , Engagement , Human Performance Improvement , Change Management , Leadership Development , Managing Organizational Knowledge

College dropouts who have made millions as entrepreneurs – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, and others – have inspired a growing number of young people to skip college. “Why pay money when I can make money,” is the way kids ... More »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Career Development , Career Planning , Change Management , Coaching and Mentoring , Informal Learning , Innovation

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Senior Leaders & Executives

Beginner Level Content , Delivering Training , Designing Learning , Training and Development - General

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 »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Coaching and Mentoring , Business Impact , Management Development , Managing Organizational Knowledge , Trends

Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has a few things to say about the skills gap – the persistent lack of qualified people to fill some of the three million jobs open in the U.S. “We’re in the midst of a perfect storm: a Great Recessio... More »

Senior Leaders & Executives

Skills Gap , Training and Development - General , E-Learning , Global Workforce Development