Ideas worth putting to work

It's Back to School time, and whether or not you have a personal connection to the academic calendar, it is in the air. A sense that summer is over, fall is coming, and it's time to get down to work. And as Meg Ryan emails in the 1998 classic rom-com "You've Got Mail":

Are you hoarding your performance measures? Here's how to let go.

Recent corporate issues at Boeing are more relevant to government and nonprofit organizations than we might think.

If someone asked you out of nowhere "do you have a best friend at work?", you might be hesitant to answer that question. It feels both oddly personal and maybe even a little wrong. Like, you might say to yourself, "I am not supposed to have a best friend at work!" because we have a cultural weirdness about close relationships in the workplace.

Don’t think you’re a “data person”? Here’s why you can be and should be.

— Kansas City Business Journal, Christine McDonald June 13, 2022