Use Sunday evenings to review your upcoming week and identify ways to keep your top priorities from being overcome by too many meetings or other distractions, writes loanDepot executive Brian Covey. "You can proactively plan for things that are continually important to you by blocking them out on your calendar now," Covey writes.
Dealing with the pandemic and health problems helped Kristin Hendrix find tools to put stressful times in perspective by focusing on what was good in her life, remembering many worries never come to pass and moving forward positively, even if it's in small steps. "One step will become two and increase confidence in the ability to navigate the struggle," Hendrix writes.
A multi-measure assessment process for hiring, which can include resumes, interviews and psychometric assessments, is becoming necessary as executive roles broaden across disciplines, writes Karen Greenbaum, AESC president and CEO. Streamlining interview questions and using data can also help reduce bias in hiring and quicken the onboarding process, Greenbaum writes.
Regulation, tax policy and equitable access to education could play a role in the next phase of capitalism around the world, say INSEAD professor Philippe Aghion and Kellogg professor Ben Jones, and "creative destruction" is key to keeping markets innovative. "[I]f you manage to revamp competition policy, you will make the economy more innovative and more inclusive," Aghion says.
Scientists are discovering that how people spend their days off can be key to how much they recover from the stress of the past work week, and avoid or even move past burnout. Researchers say people who achieve a sense of detachment from their work during their days off were less worn out than workers who kept thinking work-related thoughts at home, as was discovered in a 2017 study.
With increased incidences of extreme heat conditions, scientists reevaluated just how hot is too hot for normal human activity -- the previous wet-bulb temperature thought to represent the upper limit for safe human activity was 35 degrees Celsius, but new research suggests the limit is actually 31 degrees Celsius.
