Charlie HelpsStop Wasting People’s Time with Meetingsverified_publisherHarvard Business Review - David LancefieldSome organizations are trying to get a grip on wasteful meetings, introducing no-meeting days, empowering people to make their own decisions, and improving the way meetings are planned and facilitated. At their best, meetings are purposeful, inclusive (of the people who actually need to be there), …
Charlie HelpsThomas Reynaud, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, IliadForbes - Adam HartungDid you ever notice that Human Resource (HR) practices are designed to lock in the past rather than grow? A quick tour of what HR does and you quickly see they like to lock-in processes and procedures, insuring consistency but offering no hope of doing something new. And when it comes to hiring, HR …
Charlie HelpsLight-Triggered Genes Reveal the Hidden Workings of MemoryWIRED - Elizabeth SvobodaNobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa’s lab is overturning old assumptions about how memories form, how recall works and whether lost memories might be …
Charlie HelpsDoes Diversity Actually Increase Creativity?verified_publisherHarvard Business Review - Tomas Chamorro-PremuzicSetting aside social, political, and moral reasons for encouraging a more diverse workplace, there is arguably no better incentive for promoting diversity than the premise that diverse teams and organizations are more creative. But is there actually any evidence in support of this idea? And if …
Charlie HelpsStress might lead to memory loss and brain shrinkage, study saysverified_publisherCNN - Sandee LaMotteCNN — Listen up, gen-Xers and millennials, and, well, everybody who has a brain. If you live a high-stress life, you could have memory loss and brain shrinkage before you turn 50, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology. “Higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, seem to …
Charlie HelpsThe 'Woke' Investor - Britain's VCs Are Failing To Embrace DiversityForbes - Trevor ClawsonTalk to a Venture Capitalist about investment strategy and the chances are that a variation on the phrase “we are in a people business” will at some point be dropped into the conversation. Or to put it another way, VC funds are not simply looking for innovative ideas and scaleable business models. …
