More and more companies are offering their employees the option to “work from anywhere,” whether in their home office, in another state, or even halfway around the globe. A growing group of remote professionals are taking the “anywhere” in work-from-anywhere to new lengths. These “digital nomads” leverage their remote jobs to allow them to live […]
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What Leaders Need to Know Before Trying a 4-Day Work Week
While there is no easy way to address concerns about how (and how much) we work, research tells us that no matter what we do, taking a holistic, long-term focus on the well-being of the workforce is the best path to both happiness and prosperity. Maybe the answer is a four-day workweek. Or maybe it’s […]
How to Spot — and Develop — High-Potential Talent in Your Organization
Organizations struggle to identify their next-gen leaders, and for good reasons. When you don’t know what the future will bring, how do you figure out who has — or can acquire — the right strengths to meet those challenges? Which high potentials will give you the best return on your development efforts? Faced with these […]
Resisting the Pressure to Overwork
We all face internal and external pressures to overwork. But to be fulfilled in your life and career, you need to push back against those forces. First, understand that overwork is not necessary for professional success; if you find yourself triggered by others who believe it is, remind yourself of the truth with positive self-talk. […]
Can Collective Intelligence Beat the Market? (with Numerai’s Richard Craib)
AZEEM AZHAR: Hi there, I’m Azeem Azhar, and this is the Exponential View podcast. Now I want to start with a little story, and just please bear with me, it is connected to our discussion today. So back in the 1980s, a mathematician and a computer scientist teamed up to found an investment fund, which […]
What To Do When the Devil Wears (Your Brand)
Consumers select brands they regard as matches to their self-image, and a positive public role model associated with your brand helps facilitate this comparison. Once consumers form adverse associations with your brand, this may result in decreased revenue and other financial harm. The more this happens, or the longer it continues unaddressed, the greater the […]
How Digital Currencies Can Help Small Businesses
Over the last few years, the development of blockchain technology brought us new types of digital assets such as stablecoins and cryptocurrencies. These innovations offer the foundations for building new payment rails that can move value across the globe not only in real-time but also at a much lower cost. Unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin […]
It’s Time to Give Companies Standalone Climate Ratings
Investors are increasingly using ESG ratings for their investment decisions. But we need to assign companies a stand-alone rating focused on climate risk that’s distinct from the ESG rating system. Such a climate-specific rating can distill complex information regarding a company’s carbon footprint and climate risk into an intuitive, user-friendly format, while avoiding the flaws […]