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Patrick George/Ikon Images Since early 2025, organizations seeking to curry favor with the current U.S. administration have disavowed earlier commitments to workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and proclaimed that their hiring practices are therefore meritocratic. But framing DEI and merit as antithetical dichotomies, as various executive orders have done, does not mean that abandoning
People lie. They lie in focus groups, they lie on surveys and they lie to themselves. Culture can be seen as an organized lying function. Be aware of what other people are thinking and make choices about your preferences so you can fit in. Without this effect, we wouldn’t have trends, fads or hits. Part […]
AS an executive coach, I’ve noticed something interesting. People almost never hire me because they’re questioning their definition of success. Business owners call because they want to grow their business or prepare for an exit. Executives call because they want to become a better leader, figure out why their team isn’t performing, or be more influential. But coaching never stays in one place, an
Recent Wharton research explains a long-standing puzzle in bond pricing to provide a more reliable foundation for evaluating corporate credit risk. … Read More
A decade-long Wharton study in Zambia found that a short course helped girls stay in school, delay marriage, and deliver strong returns on public funding at low cost. … Read More
New Wharton research suggests decades of conflicting evidence can be explained by one overlooked factor: the task itself. … Read More
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Alice Mollon/Ikon Images Marketing capabilities — the complex bundles of skills, processes, and organizational know-how that enable companies to implement customer-related activities and adapt to marketplace changes — are rated by marketing professionals as important to business success. At the same time, artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of content creation, customer targeting, and p
It doesn’t have to be well-crafted, historically important or aesthetically unique. It simply needs to be famous. Celebrity art is famous, with a story and thus emotional resonance. It’s a souvenir for our eyes, a chance to have proximity without ownership. It conflates familiarity with scarcity, the power of in-person experience with the context of […]
Listen now | Tom Verrilli explains why fewer, more senior PMs doing real IC work outperform any ratio-driven org structure
“Working in the studio is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing live is like being on a rowboat in the ocean.” Jerry Garcia You probably need some studio time, but you definitely need to play live.
A curated collection of practical advice on multiple professional topics, including guidance on getting started with open source machine learning models, strategies for maximizing the value of U.S. business travel, steps to prepare for potential job loss, and insights on the challenges that arise when product development outpaces marketing capabilities.
HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2026 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Practice Makes Culture: How Welcoming Elephants, Creating Ownership, and Facilitating Daily Practice Transform Organizations by Christine Hudson and Ronica Roth After decades of organizational transformation efforts, the failur
What if they meant it? What if your return felt special to the people behind the counter? What if they knew, without looking it up, or being told–what if they knew that you were here, again, a vote of trust and confidence. Returning home is one of the oldest human desires. It’s a feeling that […]
Jeremy Siegel, Wharton emeritus professor of finance, examines interest rates, energy markets, AI spending, tariffs, and the economic forces shaping investor outlook. … Read More
Here is a selection of Posts from July 2026 that you will want to check out: Organizational Complacency Statistics: USA 2026 by @Mark_Sanborn It turns out, resistance to your change initiative is (mostly) a good sign by @artpetty Has AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? Sales Trends, My Personal Data, and What It Might Mean for the Future by @tferriss The market for transformation—for sitting with
We transferred an idea from engineering to culture, but it’s incomplete. If you build a watch that doesn’t tell time, it’s fair to say it doesn’t work. But when a critic says, “that joke didn’t work,” after seeing a comic perform to a raucous audience, what they probably mean is, “that didn’t work for me.” […]
Krista Weaver, vice president and head of marketing at Owlet Baby Care, discusses how data, design, and parent feedback can make baby monitoring more reassuring and useful. … Read More
IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Chris Hodges on growth: “Growth is rarely impressive in the moment. Most days it looks ordinary. Quiet. Unnoticed. It’s choosing to learn when it would be easier to coast. Choosing to reflect when reacting feels faster. Choosing to stretch when settling fe
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