Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

March is a time of renewal, both for the environment and your workplace. As winter melts away, employees often experience a shift in energy. This is the perfect opportunity to harness the season's vibe and breathe new life into your team’s engagement. Whether it's the excitement of spring or the various observances happening this month, March offers a rich palette of opportunities to reinvigorate your workforce.

Creativity

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To build up their experience capital, women can pick the occupations, industries, and geographies that present the best opportunities to enhance their careers.

Leadership

Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Graham Allcott has written six books, including the global bestseller How to Be a Productivity Ninja. He is the founder of Think Productive and has privately coached prominent international business leaders. Whats the big idea? Kindness , empathy, and psychological safety at work are not just fluffy, hippie ideas. They are key drivers of outstanding performance.

Coaching

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Operators could provide the backbone for todays AI economy to reignite growth. But success will hinge on effectively navigating complex market dynamics, uncertain demand, and rising competition.

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

Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Recently, I overheard a conversation at a local coffee shop: Thank God for the new administration and finally taking a stand against DEI, said one of the men to the other as they sipped their coffee. Its ridiculous and unfair, completely ruining work. We can finally get back to business.” I leaned in further, trying to listen in as I paid for my Earl Gray tea.

Software

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

New McKinsey benchmarking research shows what separates telecom tech leaders from laggards and how a strategic approach to IT can pay off for operators.

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To stay focused, productive, and motivated, leaders need to develop their own working rhythms and routines. Heres how some CEOs do it.

Government

Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Even as paid family leave has stalled at the federal level , a growing number of states have taken up the issue in recent years. Thirteen states and Washington, D.C., have now passed legislation that makes paid leave mandatory, while a handful of other states have also introduced voluntary systems that leave it to private insurance companies and employers to opt into the benefit.

Reporting

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Amid explosive demand for connectivity and digital solutions, four strategies can accelerate B2B telco growth. Knowing where and how to play will be critical.

Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Unless youre at the very top of the food chain in your organization, you report to someone. And that manager is important for your career success. They will evaluate your performance, give you feedback and mentoring, greenlight ideas, and provide support elsewhere in the organization for things youre doing. Because of all the roles that a supervisor plays for you, it can be stressful when a new person steps in, or you get promoted and start reporting to someone new.

Mentoring

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Banking is the single-largest profit-generating sector in the world. So why the skepticism about its long-term valueand what should leaders do differently?

Banking

Fellow

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

For many customer-facing teams and leaders, its hard to imagine a workday without HubSpot. This customer relationship management (CRM) platform helps customer-facing teams track vital data to optimize sales and retention. Its a go-to source of truth and keeping it accurate is a top priority. As useful as HubSpot is, its made even more useful thanks to AI tools that integrate with the platform.

Sales

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Advances in data maturity and AI practices can allow operators to simulate investment scenarios to identify those that matter most to customer experience.

Office Snapshots

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Avizva a Product Engineering Group, on a mission to build healthcare products that empower healthcare enterprises to achieve more. Their incredible journey began in 2011 with a vision to build purpose-driven products and bring transformative impact with technology. Avizva desired to create a space that speaks of their culture and core values while resonating with the of the new city.

Healthcare

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

McKensey

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Despite low unemployment and strong GDP growth, Brazilian consumers are feeling the pinch. Some more than othersMcKinseys latest consumer survey shows a generational divide in consumer confidence.

Office Snapshots

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

IPG Mediabrands, the media holding company within Interpublic Group, has significantly expanded their presence in India by opening a new Global Capability Center (GCC) in Pune. Located in International Tech Park in Kharadi, this state-of-the-art facility spans 62,000 square feet and currently houses about 1,000 employees. The design for IPG Mediabrands, Kinesso embraces the creative spirit of the company where the word Kinesso signifies movement and change reflecting the agencys ever dynamic nat

Creativity

Success

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

LinkedIn’s annual Big Ideas that will change our world forecast of workplace trends is a window into tomorrow’s office. In 2025, we can expect to see AI reshaping corporate workflows , corporate influencers emerging and millennial CEOs ushering in a new era of workplace culture. By comparison, the resurgence of office lunches in the era of in-office returns is a modest but critical proposal on the list.

Catering

Office Snapshots

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Autofleet is a trailblazing company in the mobility and logistics sector, specializing in fleet optimization and management through advanced data-driven solutions. Their innovative platform empowers organizations to reduce costs, maximize vehicle utilization, and streamline operations while supporting sustainable practices. Autofleets commitment to technological innovation and efficiency is at the core of their mission, and their new office design reflects these values through a contemporary and

Logistics

Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

New research from Pregnant Then Screwed, in partnership with Women In Data, claims there has been a sharp increase in the number of women who are pushed out of their job when pregnant, during or when returning from maternity leave. Up to 74,000 women every year now lose their job for getting pregnant or taking maternity leave an increase of 37 percent from 54,000 in 2016.

Government

Productivityist

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Over the years, I’ve had plenty of insightful conversations on this podcast, and one that still stands out is my discussion with Charlie Gilkey about his book Start Finishing. This Flashback Friday episode brings that conversation back, but with a twistwe start with an update from Charlie on what he’s been up to since then. Charlie is someone who has spent years helping people make meaningful progress, and since our last chat, he’s been busy launching Momentum , an app designed

Project Management

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

D ear Psychiatrist, As an educator of 20 years, I often reflect on the good and bad semesters Ive had. I sometimes cringe at some of the silly or stupid comments I said and also think about things I included in lessons that didnt have much to do with the unit we were studying at the time. I ask myself, What was I thinking? But what you do is far more important and far-reaching, literally involving the lives of your patients.

Insurance

Work Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Back in the day, philosophers werent just deep thinkersthey were the ones shaping society, questioning the status quo, and pushing humanity forward. They didnt just sit around pondering big ideas; they were the architects of real change. Fast forward to today, and while we celebrate speed, innovation, and getting things done, we often forget to pause and ask the bigger questions: Why?

Problem-Solving