Capital - What cubicle dwellers want even more than money Shafiq began his speech with a common Malaysian greeting. He followed it up with a couple of sentences thanking his hosts. Nothing special, he thought. Respect is just such a basic, essential part of human nature, yet it’s often ignored in the workplace. — Pete Foley “The people in the crowd, they sat up and they listened,” Shafiq recalls. That was nearly 20 years ago. The simplicity of such an act, showing respect to someone of a different background, is one that is regularly lost in the workplace. You might be thinking that your workplace is polite enough and that managers generally don’t walk around insulting underlings. Pete Foley, an Atlanta-based principal with consulting firm Mercer’s talent development business, says employees have listed fairness and respect first every year in the 25 years his company has been conducting surveys in the workplace. Employees around the globe want that same level of esteem from their superiors. Basic, but not always taught
Beth's work life balance Tips for work-life balance Explicitly acknowledge priorities Start by listing your priorities in life. If factors like "health", "happiness", or "family" rank below professional goals, your long-term priorities are not stable. It is too easy to implicitly prioritize work ahead of everything else. If those inverted priorities persist, a crisis--injury/sickness, depression or divorce--is inevitable. The first step in avoiding (or resolving) a crisis is to explicitly acknowledge your priorities. Special tips for academics As a pre-tenure professor, it's important to list the things for which you would sacrifice tenure. As a grad student, it's important to list the things for which you would give up on your Ph.D. Avoid workaholism The "work more; sleep less" mentality is misguided. To be clear, I'm not advocating getting any less work done. I'm not necessarily arguing for working fewer hours either. Rather, I advocate efficiency. I've observed the "work more; sleep less" types in many professions. The equation for work is:
Expertise and Impact - BCG Fellows - Yves Morieux Yves Morieux is a senior partner and managing director. He is an expert in corporate transformation and leads the firm’s development of approaches to help corporations create the structural and behavioral groundwork for competitive advantage. He is a BCG Fellow and director of the BCG Institute for Organization in the global practice area. Yves has been a BCG Fellow since 2008. His research topic is new business complexities and their organizational implications, and he has given a TED talk on the "Smart Rules" for simplifying organizations as part of a series of talks curated by TED and BCG. This research is based on an analysis of productivity and engagement trends and their drivers, and it leverages state-of-the-art thinking in social sciences, notably organizational sociology and behavioral economics. Yves lectures in the advanced sociology program and is a professor in the master of public affairs program at Sciences Po.