Office Snapshots

MARCH 3, 2025

Holman Hodge approached DesignInc with a clear vision to create a co-working facility that fosters a community of like-minded professionals, enabling interaction within an exclusive, knowledge-sharing network; Next. The newly designed space reimagines the workplace at Holman Hodge, prioritising flexibility and collaboration. Featuring open, interconnected zones that foster interaction, the design strategically places shared areas to encourage spontaneous communication and teamwork.

Teamwork

Productivityist

MARCH 3, 2025

On March 1st 2025, I sent out the first issue of The Lantern. Or at least, I thought I did. I had spent time refining the content, ensuring it aligned with the vision I had for this new iteration of my newsletter. But as I scanned the email after sending, I noticed something: it read Vol. 1, Issue 5. A minor mistake. One that, in the grand scheme of things, didnt change the value of the email.

Flexibility

Office Snapshots

MARCH 3, 2025

The Atlanta office is located on the 8th Floor of a high-rise in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. The exterior windows boast lush views of green treetops below. As such, the local team wanted to highlight their office with the convergence of these beautiful urban forests with the industrial cityscape. As you first enter the space, the conceptualized design idea of the trees of Georgia is visible through the painted ductwork branches above, accented with oversized acoustical pendant light fixtures i

Construction

Eat Your Career

MARCH 3, 2025

Not long ago, I wrote about the importance of diversifying your learning activities. In this article, I want to expand on that topic by helping you explore your own unique learning preferences. Every brain is different. So, its only natural that some learning activities will be more suited to your cognitive style than others. Some programs and resources will be better at holding your attention, just as some experiences will feel more enriching and satisfying.

Learning

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

Creativity

Workplace Insight

MARCH 3, 2025

Young women are now consistently out-earning their male counterparts for the first time, according to a new report that warns of a growing crisis among young men. The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) think tank has published findings showing that women aged 16 to 24 in both white-collar and blue-collar jobs are earning nearly 10 percent more than men of the same age.

Manufacturing

Success

MARCH 3, 2025

Its a typical Wednesday night for Katie Gatti Tassin. Her blonde hair is pulled back; light reflects off her oversized glasses. Shes spent all day working on her latest project: edits for her forthcoming book, Rich Girl Nation , which examines womens relationship with money. But she has just one more thing to get off her chest before she finishes her day.

Finance

Success

MARCH 3, 2025

For decades, I have been exploring an essential question: Why do we have so much and yet feel so poor? This question took on a life of its own during my two-year stint working in Indigenous villages in Oaxaca, Mexico. It struck me that the people I was working with seemed a lot happier than many of the people I knew back in the United States. I asked the men and women of the village what wealth meant to them.

Banking

Vantage Circle

MARCH 3, 2025

Recalling my tenure at a tech startup, there came a time when we encountered a challenging phase, with enthusiasm dropping and targets going haywire. Recognizing the need to regain the spark, our organization introduced an incentive program tailored to our team’s interests and aspirations. The transformation that followed was immediate and remarkable, with a surge in productivity and enthusiasm levels.

Influencing

McKensey

MARCH 3, 2025

Angela F. Williams, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, discusses how to serve communities through collaboration and partnerships with the private and public sectors.

Leadership

I/O at Work

MARCH 3, 2025

New research highlights the dangers that occur when employees feel stuck in career plateaus. What can organizations do to help employees in this situation?

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.

Decision Making

McKensey

MARCH 3, 2025

The total cost of ownership for zero-emission trucks remains significantly higher than for internal combustion engine ones. Closing this gap could boost the transition to zero-emission truck fleets.

Logistics

Maptician

MARCH 3, 2025

Hot desking or assigned seating? Discover the best office layout for financial firms balancing hybrid work, compliance, and costs. Learn more with Maptician.

Office Layout

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! Im 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.

Banking

Total Wellness

MARCH 3, 2025

Lets talk about food. Not just any food the kind that keeps your brain sharp, your mood steady, and your energy up all day. Because what you eat? It matters. A lot. Ever notice how skipping meals, loading up on sugar, or surviving on caffeine leaves you feeling exhausted, cranky, or totally unfocused? Thats because your brain needs the right fuel to function at its best.

Food

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.

Technology

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

Theres more to winning than just winning. The way someone handles their tremendous success, after all, can transform a winner back into a losersomething Adrien Brody proved last night with a rambling, rule-defiant acceptance speech that managed to snatch reputational defeat from the jaws of career victory. With many of his peers gathered under one roof, and the whole world watching, he put on a masterclass in how not to behave at work.

Attendance Bot

MARCH 3, 2025

As businesses increasingly rely on automation to streamline HR processes, questions around human resource management ethical issues have become more pressing than ever. From AI-driven recruitment tools to automated performance evaluations, technology is transforming the way HR functionsbut at what cost? While automation enhances efficiency, it also raises concerns about ethical issues in human resource management, such as bias in hiring, data privacy, and the fairness of AI-driven decisions.

Decision Making

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

There are a few workplace topics that consistently bring out strong feelings, and performance reviews is at the top of that list. While most people would agree that its a good thing to have a tool to measure how employees are doing at their jobs, and a time for managers to discuss career advancement, very few seem to think that the way performance reviews are currently set up is working.

Problem-Solving

Mad in America

MARCH 3, 2025

From The Guardian. “Ihave been a doctor for more than 30 years and a neurologist for 25 of those. I have recently grown particularly worried about the large number of young people referred to me with four or five pre-existing diagnoses of chronic conditions, only some of which can be cured. Autism , Tourette syndrome, ADHD, migraines, fibromyalgia, polycystic ovary syndrome, depression, eating disorders, anxiety and many more.

Learning

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

Gallup recently released new data on employee engagement, and the results are dismal. Just 3 out of every 10 employees are actively engagedwhich is the lowest percentage in a decade. But despite decades of effort and investment in tackling disengagement, this persistent issue endures. If you conduct an Amazon search for books on employee engagement, youll get thousands of results.

Construction

Office Snapshots

MARCH 3, 2025

Relativity, a global legal technology company recently completed the interior construction of its new 100,000-square-foot headquarters, merging modern design with the historic Central Standard Building in Chicago. As a leader in AI-driven solutions for the legal technology industry for over a decade, Relativitys new office will serve as a dynamic environment designed to catalyze the next wave of industry transformation.

Legal

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

In today’s high-stakes business environment, stress isn’t just an individual challengeit’s a force that shapes careers and organizations. The U.S. Department of Labor finds that 83% of workers suffer from work-related stress, and 54% say that work stress affects their home lives. In my coaching work with hundreds of professionals annually, I’ve witnessed firsthand how impossible it is to separate stress from career trajectories; they are intertwined, each influencing and

Decision Making

Mad in America

MARCH 3, 2025

From The BMJ. “Data submitted to the UK drugs regulator show a total of 82 deaths related to glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, the class of drugs used for weight loss and type 2 diabetes. Data from the yellow card scheme for reporting adverse events to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) show that up to 31 January 2025 there were 22 deaths from adverse reactions associated with use of GLP-1 agonists for weight loss and 60 linked to use for treating type

Healthcare

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

Sharing personal hardships like divorce , health issues, and family emergencies can make workplace conversations emotionally difficult and professionally complex. But given that our working lives are not getting shorter anytime soon, its not a question of if individuals will need to have these conversations, but when. And navigating these conversations professionally while managing emotions and privacy requires careful thought and preparation.

Delegation

Work Life

MARCH 3, 2025

The CIA is headed to the South By Southwest festival to share tips on finding innovative solutions to complex challenges. America’s preeminent spy agency will deliver a presentation Sunday on creative problem solving at the annual SXSW music festival and tech conference held in Austin, Texas, the CIA announced Monday. The typically tight-lipped agency said a CIA historian and one of the agency’s public affairs officers will deliver the talk, entitled Mission Possible: The Spies’

Problem-Solving