Can One Personality Trait Determine Your Career Success?
What ONE trait has been shown to impact career and overall life success more than any other?
(No, not that.)
How Does The Cleanliness of Money Affect Our Spending?
New study shows when dirty money is more likely to stay in your pocket.
With the rise of credit cards, PayPal and other ways of transferring cash electronically, real cash-money is in decline. Like CDs and books before it, the folding stuff looks certain to be another victim of technological advances.
But not just yet.
Grace Hopper, b.1906.First Data Scientist?
Grace Hopper, U.S. Naval Rear Admiral and the oldest active-duty officer in the U.S., was also a computer scientist who developed the first working compiler in 1952, and led the effort in the 1960s to develop COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) a programming language still in use.
However, she was also probably the world’s first data scientist.
A Counter-Intuitive Remedy to Feeling Short of Time
Have you got enough time for everything you want to do? If this survey is correct then about half of us are ‘time-poor’, as the expression goes, or worse, are experiencing a ‘time famine’.
So, what if I said there was a solution to feeling continuously short of time, and it involved giving your free-time away to others?
No, you might say, quite rightly, that doesn’t make sense. If I give away my free-time to others then I will have less time for myself and so I will feel even more rushed. It doesn’t add up.
This is a perfectly logical response, except that it doesn’t take into account the weird way in which the mind works.
How Passive Face Time Affects Perceptions of Employees
About two years ago, Wayne Weita, a 33-year-old producer and director in the media department at Management Recruiters, began going to work at 8 a.m. instead of everyone’s usual 8:30 a.m. start time.
He takes a half-hour lunch, then leaves at 4:30. He started this schedule so he could get his 18-month-old son to and from the babysitter’s house on time. He admits that he still occasionally feels as though he needs to slither out so no one sees him leaving early: ‘Sometimes, if I’m at the elevator and someone’s going downstairs for a drink or candy bar, I do try to throw a reason [for leaving early] into the conversation subtly’ (Joyce, 2002: H06).
As this quote illustrates, employees’ display of ‘face time’ at work can affect how others perceive them.
But, how much do managers perceptions of “face time” affect their perception and evaluation of employees?
Want to Increase Your Productivity? Look at This Adorable Kitten.
When economists talk about boosting productivity, they usually talk about increasing the adoption of new technologies and optimizing workflows. Japanese researchers, however, have come up with a very offbeat approach: Showing workers lots of pictures of adorable, fuzzy, baby animals.
A team of researchers at Hiroshima University recently conducted a study where they showed university students pictures of baby animals before completing various tasks. What they found, in research published last week, was that those who saw the baby animal pictures did more productive work after seeing those photographs – even more than those who saw a picture of an adult animal or a pleasant food.
The Dark Side of Goal-Setting
How many of you are sick of discussing the importance of setting goals?
Goal-setting has become a personal, corporate and political fetish. Modern workers are frequently subjected to performance reviews in which they must set themselves goals to work towards. The fact that these targets are frequently idiotic or meaningless seems to be irrelevant.
There are, however, some good ways to set goals and align them with your personal strategy.
9 Top Economic Indicators for Hipsters
Various economic indicators have become proxies for the health of the economy.
But, how many times can you get excited following the durable goods report?
In that vein, we’ve picked out the economic indicators that are alternative, obscure and cool, and which can help you get a read on the economy in a way that most people don’t know about.
These are data that you should look to when more mainstream data has grown stale.
How Does ‘QE’ Work? Does It Even Work, at All?
The Federal Reserve announced a big new round of quantitative easing, or QE, last week, which has the markets positively thrilled.* This is the Federal Reserve using its small but mighty bag of tricks — lowering interest rates and getting cash to big banks with the hopes that they will lend it out — all for the purpose of stimulating the economy.
But does it even work?
The Dark Side of Creativity
Creative individuals are more likely to be arrogant, good liars, distrustful, dishonest and maybe just a little crazy—OK, let’s say eccentric.
We hear a lot about the benefits of being creative but less about the dark side of creativity.
Do organizations pay a price for creativity?