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It’s time for your annual review. Here’s what the Five Fifty did to support your success.
Year-end 2018
In this edition:
We snipped your tie
or, at least, Zappos did—right when you walked in the door.
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Try a little weird
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Rudeness on the rise
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We felt your pain
from the hidden toll of workplace incivility.
% of employees
We reined you in
by helping temper your own uncivil impulses.
If your company is filled with jerks, consider moving to one with a strict no-jerks policy
Beware contagion
Practice humility, give credit, defer to the less prestigious and powerful
Watch your influence
A well-crafted apology reduces the pain, repairs relationships, and helps you learn when you’ve acted like a jerk
Apologize
Decide what to do today based on how you want to feel about yourself when you look back from the future
Time travel
Limit meetings, and avoid using smart-phones during meetings, where they undermine communication and civility
Avoid overload
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Jerk factors
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We called BS
on the conventional wisdom about leadership.
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Decoding leadership
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This consuming interest in leadership has spawned a plethora of books, blogs, TED talks, and commentary [that] are often wonderfully disconnected from organizational reality
and, as a consequence, useless for sparking improvement.”
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Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Success with a capital Zzzz
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We put you to sleep
by helping create more sleep-friendly cultures.
A US software company gives a $7,500 bonus to employees disconnecting
on vacation.
Encourage the earlier
flight, not the red-eye.
Create tag teams to hand over the reins to other teams, in different time zones, at the end of shifts.
One firm’s productivity
rose when it tested planned nights off, without email,
work, or smartphones.
Technology companies
and telcos have successfully adopted sleep pods
and nap rooms.
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Use the force
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We got analytic
by revealing AI’s “force multiplier” effect on existing data analytics.
AI augments value captured
by other analytics techniques
AI alone enables value capture
69%
16%
Full value can be captured using
non-AI techniques
15%
% of use cases by applicable techniques
We busted myths
with counterintuitive insights about employee performance.
Frequency/duration of interactions
Physical in-location movement
Quality of interactions
Compensation
structure
Management
behaviors
Shift size
Cognitive ability
Commute distance
Previous retail experience
How to
motivate
What they do
Who to hire
Factors correlating with desired outcomes, restaurant chain
*Thought to affect desired outcomes but did not.
Affected
outcomes
Myth
busting*
Did not affect
outcomes
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The data-talent link
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Shake it up
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We fed your black sheep
by following the lead of a “born rebel” who never plays it safe.
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Fear/fear not
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Leaders should:
We set the agenda
by helping make sense of our robot friends.
Scan today’s business system for automation opportunities
Ask what a disruptive player could do to your business by leveraging automation
Redesign processes to exploit the potential of future task automation
Recruit automation-savvy talent, and redeploy people to new roles and activities
Participate in the broader dialogue on the future
of work
Redesign
Recruit
Participate
Ask
Scan
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Digital lipstick
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We sent you forth
with the bold, at-scale strategies you need for success in today’s world.
Bold reaction
to digital
2.5x
2.2x
1.9x
Telecom
Manufacturing
Retail and media
Medium reaction
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