Articles

A work-life revolution is discussed in this article and looks at how it affects parents, millennial and older workers in the search of work-life balance.

Executives need tools to tackle the power of social media to move their businesses forward. This article provides the understanding how social media can connect with their clients/customers along their decision journey.

The article focuses on the pitfalls of entrepreneurs and how to approach challenges through the creative process and ways to enhance your creative power.

The article discusses the advantages and requirements of the MBA programs to have proficiency in another language. “The only way to really understand a country’s culture and how it nuances the behavior of managers within an organization—how they think, communicate, interact, make decisions—is to have been part of that culture.
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This article takes one woman’s account of her cross-cultural business experience and provides insight how to be more effective in cross cultural business situations. “The power that I have seen when diverse perspectives come together in powerful combinations of ideas and teams…I saw firsthand and developed a deep appreciation for diversity and cultural differences.”

Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith explores why being intelligent may not be enough when dealing with different cultures. “Why do some of the smartest leaders fail to replicate their high performance in different cultures?”

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article speaks to the challenges of work-life balance especially for women and traces her own career experience in the process. “Having a supportive mate may well be a necessary condition if women are to have it all, but it is not sufficient. Ultimately, it is society that must change, coming to value choices to put family ahead of work just as much as those to put work ahead of family.”

“The Pew Research Center is out with a study that finds that Asian-Americans have surpassed Hispanics as the fastest growing racial group in the nation. Also, Asian immigrants have surpassed Hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants. It also finds that more than 18 million Asian-Americans living in the U.S. are the highest earning and best educated racial group in the country.” Host, Michel Martin of NPR’s Tell Me More explores the findings of this report with three experts in the field.

“The main reason why newly hired outside executives have such an abysmal failure rate (40%, according to one study) is poor acculturation: They don’t adapt well to the new company’s ways of doing things. In fact, some three-quarters of 53 senior HR managers I surveyed cited poor cultural fit as the driver for onboarding failures.”

This article by Hal Gregersen talks about dreaming big, and about the success of some who have chosen to follow their passions. “The efforts of Branson and Bezos to commercialize space travel reminds us all to dream a little bigger—and to help someone else do the same…”