Success
JUNE 13, 2025
I once believed my body was my prison. For four years, I lived practically immobile while awaiting surgery for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Walking through life—when I could walk at all—made travel seem like a fantasy, especially solo travel. But once my health improved and the pandemic restrictions lifted, I booked a flight to Italy for five weeks, where I found myself again.
McKensey
JUNE 13, 2025
Leaders of multinational companies are grappling with fundamental questions about how to operate globally in a fragmenting world. The answer lies in reimagining their organizations for an evolving business environment.
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Work Life
JUNE 13, 2025
Ask any employer about their current workforce tribulations, and unabashedly, “entitlement” raises its hand as probable cause. But if your mind has gone straight to Gen Z and younger millennial employees, pause for a moment. Entitlement now pervades every generation, job function, title, and demographic. It’s a behavioral contagion, akin to yawning or laughing, but with workplace effects that are anything but benign.
Attendance Bot
JUNE 13, 2025
For workforce operations managers, balancing business needs with employee satisfaction is a constant challenge. When absenteeism rises, overtime becomes unpredictable, and shift complaints pile up, poor scheduling is often the silent culprit. What may appear as small employee scheduling errors can quickly snowball into serious issues—burnout, disengagement, and a measurable productivity loss due to bad scheduling.
Speaker: Chester Santos
Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform
Work Life
JUNE 13, 2025
Take a quick look around the office or scan the names of your colleagues on Slack. Two-thirds of your coworkers are feeling burned out. Maybe you are, too. In a survey conducted for Moodle , an e-learning tool, 66% of workers are struggling, citing too much work, not enough resources, and a poor economy. While all these circumstances have a role in burnout, there may be an internal problem also in play, according to Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore, coauthors of The Science of Leadership: Nine Wa
Office Snapshots
JUNE 13, 2025
The offices of On Net Fibra, the company behind Chile’s first wholesale fiber-optic infrastructure network, are much more than a workplace—they are a clear reflection of the company’s commitment to innovation, adaptability, and collaboration. This space is a statement of purpose: to remain at the forefront of technology while opening up new opportunities for connection across the country.
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McKensey
JUNE 13, 2025
Carrier Global Corporation Chair and CEO David Gitlin talks about how going through a spin-off, a pandemic, and a major repositioning in his first years at the helm have shaped him and his company.
Work Life
JUNE 13, 2025
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.
Office Snapshots
JUNE 13, 2025
Designed to inspire confidence and clarity, this office interiors balance precision with warmth. Carefully orchestrated details shape an environment that feels both composed and welcoming. With a focus on spatial flow, material richness, and understated innovation, the design supports a culture of professionalism while offering moments of quiet surprise and comfort throughout.
Success
JUNE 13, 2025
Artificial intelligence chatbots are transforming how people access information online, offering quick, direct and click-free answers without the need to browse multiple websites. While traditional search engines like Google still dominate daily use, online news outlets are beginning to feel the early impact, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Ask a Manager
JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Hyaline. “the quibbling and fussing over time off would just *go away* if employers would trust employees not to abuse flexibility and additional PTO.” I worked at a company where the office manager announced that employees could take as much time off as they needed, no questions asked. I didn’t think that was a good idea (because I knew what kind of people my co-workers were), but I didn’t say a word.
McKensey
JUNE 13, 2025
Clinical supply costs make up a large share of a health system’s total cost base. As healthcare leaders look to optimize clinical supply spend, physician perspectives can unlock potential value.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Yes And. Hi. Interesting situation. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as soon as an employee states, “I can’t do x (part of my job) because of y medical reason,” you are officially on notice as an employer and the ADA now applies to everything that comes after that. Making a formal accommodation request actually isn’t necessary under the law.
All Work
JUNE 13, 2025
Offices should offer a mix of open work areas, private nooks, team pods, and meeting spaces — a design that accounts for both “Let’s brainstorm!” and “Caffeine first, conversation later.” NIH research supports the integration of nature into workspaces is a tool for stress reduction and improved productivity. Whether through intentional social spaces, wellness rooms, or a layout that encourages interaction, the best offices bring people together in meaningful ways.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to New University Employee. Twenty-six years in higher ed speaking here, nine at a huge state university, eleven at a private university: If you are in administration, there will always be at least some faculty — not all — who believe that as people with doctorate, they can do what you do, with little to no training, because Doctorate.
Work Life
JUNE 13, 2025
I’ve been feeling grossly inadequate, career-wise. Some of this has been driven by my perception that the economy is failing and I’m going down with it, and my addiction to reading industry trends on LinkedIn. Don’t get me wrong, I love LinkedIn. The anticipation of logging on and, fingers crossed, earning my long-awaited prize of a new client, job invite or contract is what drives me.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Maria R. I second the book Crucial Conversations. it was a life-changer for me. Another key thing is to think about things with curiosity instead of judgement. We rarely respond to events themselves, but instead respond to the stories we tell ourselves about the events (often without even realizing it). Curiosity can back us down off our stories.
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2025
I have a night life. It started when I was thirteen—I would lie awake, buzzing, my eyes wide open while the world slept. Sometimes it’s accompanied by books. Sometimes by a relationship with a man who works different hours than me. Sometimes by the news that my father isn’t doing well. Sometimes by dreams. Dreams that the story I’ve been writing about the father and daughter now starts with the sentence: He is losing his mind.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to shhh, I’m anonymous. This is a brilliant post. If you only do one thing, review the wording on your signs. I’ve seen SO MANY badly written signs in medical establishments.
McKensey
JUNE 13, 2025
Skip to main content Seizing the agentic AI advantage June 13, 2025 | Report A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents. (28 pages) At a glance Nearly eight in ten companies report using gen AIâyet just as many report no significant bottom-line impact. 1 â The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value ,â McKinsey, March 12, 2025.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Bast. I once worked for a company that gave us 3 personal days. It was great, except that I had to use them for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The Christians did not have to use a personal day for Christmas.
Mad in America
JUNE 13, 2025
From The Wall Street Journal : “Sens. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Angus King (I., Maine) introduced a bill Thursday that would ban pharmaceutical manufacturers from using direct-to-consumer advertising, including social media, to promote their products. The bill would prohibit any promotional communications targeting consumers, including through television, radio, print, digital platforms and social media.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Phantom Cat Hair. So the same lab I worked with the walking disaster with had once lost permission to have a microwave in the breakroom for exactly this reason. It was before my time, but apparently someone did buy a microwave and they hid it in a cupboard when it wasn’t being used until they had permission to have it out again.
Success
JUNE 13, 2025
For professional athletes, it takes precision, resilience and excellence to compete on a national—or even international—level. Some athletes have taken that drive and focused it on building legacies that extend beyond their sport. Whether launching a successful brand or sharing insights into their everyday lives, these 15 athletes have triumphantly transitioned from sports icons to savvy entrepreneurs.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to metadata minion. I’ve definitely “biked over” things myself (not an intern by any stretch of the imagination, although my helmet hides what little grey hair I’ve left). I cycle to work im any weather and to client meetings if the weather is reasonable enough.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Poopsie. I’ve been in the workforce for 40 years and I also would have assumed you meant for the intern to go personally deliver it as well.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Grasshopper Relocation LLC. Three graduates not being qualified does not indicate that their graduates in general aren’t qualified, especially since the way in which they are unqualified is not related to the way colleges qualify people for the workforce. If I noticed that numerous…since I’m a teacher, we’ll say graduates from a teaching college lacked understanding of…let’s say differentiation since I am a learning support teacher, then yes, I wou
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Elephant.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to But Of Course.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to You-tah. We do get to “discriminate” based on them acting in a bigoted manner though. Thank goodness for that. Keep your “religious” beliefs out of the workplace – especially if they require you to be a sexist piece of crap.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to TGIF. But that’s what everybody who stereotypes thinks. I can assure you, the people who discriminate against the Travelling Community (just one I come across a lot as I have a number of students from that group) would say the exact same thing. It’s called confirmation bias. I recently had a colleague insist our school should refuse to take any students who are members of the Travelling Community and confidently ask if we had any well-behaved students from that ethnicity.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Sloanicota. Yeah, I don’t understand why OP would want to work for said client again, given the way she was stepped on and muscled out. I think they’re much better off now.
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JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Reforming Complainer. I find DBT (dialectical behaviour therapy) skills helpful. There are lots and it’s worth researching but some that come to mind: * can you improve work? If you make it overall a more positive place to be that should reduce the frustrations * can you use the STOP skill (Stop! Take a breath, Observe what is happening for you internally, Proceed mindfully).
Ask a Manager
JUNE 13, 2025
In reply to Truly anon. In terms of mentally detaching to save yourself from stress – Think of it like you’re watching a TV program. You’re now an extra in The Office or something. Imagine yourself making “are you serious” faces at the camera for funsies. Try and remember and act like their decisions are just boring busywork – because they are, nothing you will do will change anything, so if you redo the work 3 times, whatever.
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