People and Teams
People and Teams
|
How Employers Really Benefit from Those “Best Employer” RankingsSeveral entities compile data and publish annual “best employers to work for” studies. In addition to bragging rights, there are many other valuable benefits the employers on those lists stand to gain—and also some lessons for organizations hoping to get on the lists. Read on. | 
|
|
Google Acquires Word Lens Translation App Google recently acquired Quest Visual, maker of the Word Lens translation app. Word Lens uses built-in cameras on smartphones to quickly scan and identify foreign text and then translate and display the words in another language. Anuj Magazine examines the possible strategy driving the acquisition. |
|
|
Six Productivity Tips You May (or May Not) Want to FollowSome productivity tips seem at first glance to be designed to slow you down or stall your progress. But they may actually help you achieve results faster and better. The key to being more productive is finding what works for you personally. Read on for some suggestions on maximizing your time. | 
|
|
Best Selfie Ever: NASA's Global Earth Day NASA had an ambitious event this year to create a “global selfie,” a crowd-sourced mosaic image that would resemble Earth as it appeared from space on Earth Day—and more than 50,000 people responded. The result is a zoomable 3.2 gigapixel image built with more than 36,000 individual images. |
|
|
The Tug of War between Ongoing Digitization and Digital Detox An innovation is considered truly successful if we cannot imagine a life without it, and the world of digitization is a testimony to this statement. While there is excitement about what is coming in digitization, the debate about whether it is good or bad continues. Is it time for a digital detox? |
|
|
Has Your Company Culture Turned Sour?Company culture can make a job function that is normally boring and unappealing into one that is entertaining and emotionally rewarding. Bad company culture, on the other hand, can derail productivity and leave employees feeling unfulfilled. Read on to see if your company's culture has turned sour. | 
|
|
Major US Retailers Set Up Cyber Intelligence Sharing CenterIn hopes of minimizing the risk and financial fallout from another disastrous cyber attack, some of the top retailers along with the Retail Industry Leaders Association have announced they are launching a clearinghouse: the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC). |
|
|
Book Review: Management 3.0It's challenging to be a manager or a leader, much less both, and the challenges are greater on an agile team. Jurgen Appelo's book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders explores what management and leadership mean in a world of agile and self-organizing teams. | 
|