Dates covered: September 3-9, 2018 (week 36 of 52)
Business
- United Way’s CEO on Shifting a Century-Old Business Model (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why U.S. Grocery Chains Need More (and Better) Store-Brand Products (via Harvard Business Review)
Career
- College is Dying, Design Your Own Education. (via Software Lead Weekly)
- What to Do When You Have a Bad Boss (via Harvard Business Review)
Communication
- How to Talk to a Grieving Customer (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why Every Software Engineer Should Write Articles (via The Software Mentor)
- When Is It OK to Tell a Well-Meaning Lie? (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Get High-Potential Employees Interested in Leadership Development Programs (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why Bcc-ing the Boss Is a Bad Practice (via Harvard Business Review)
Culture
- Don’t Underestimate the Power of Women Supporting Each Other at Work (via Harvard Business Review)
- Research: People Share More Information with Colleagues of Similar Cultural Backgrounds (via Harvard Business Review)
- Why Companies Should Add Class to Their Diversity Discussions (via Harvard Business Review)
- Understanding Why We Overreact at Work (via Harvard Business Review)
Process
- How to Be a Person Who Can Make a Damn Decision (via The Software Mentor)
- Stop Trying To Memorize — A Good Book Will Change You (via The Software Mentor)
- Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo (via Harvard Business Review)
- How We Reduced Our Injury Rate by 90% at Campbell Soup Company (via Harvard Business Review)
- Don’t Get Weighed Down By Idea Debt (via Lifehacker)
- Communities of Learning (via Software Lead Weekly)
- You have to choose between Software Delivered on Time and Good Software (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How “systems thinking” can level up your work — and your life (via Software Lead Weekly)
Productivity
- The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light (via Harvard Business Review)
- To Cope with Stress, Try Learning Something New (via Harvard Business Review)
- Sleep Well, Lead Better (via Harvard Business Review)
- How to Escape from Our Meeting Addiction (via The Software Mentor)
- Why Anxiety Is the Number One Productivity Killer (via The Software Mentor)
- How to Minimize Stress Before, During, and After Your Vacation (via Harvard Business Review)