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17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams Managers sometimes turn to team-building activities to build connections between colleagues. But which activities and practices would work best for your team? And how can you put them into action most effectively? In this article, the author offers advice and recommendations from three experts. Thei...

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'You Need to Become the Human in the Loop' Is the New 'the Guy Who Knows AI Will Replace You' Once again, the usual suspects are selling you AI FOMO, so who are they?

'Your AI slop bores me': The viral website that lets humans answer your questions like ChatGPT Part parody game, part social commentary, this new people-powered chatbot is out to prove that human slop beats AI slop every time.

Why Companies Do “Innovation Theater” Instead of Actual Innovation As organizations grow, they begin to prioritize process over product. That impedes real innovation. When organizations realize this, they typically respond in three ways: By hiring consultants to do a reorg (that’s “organizational theater”), adopt new processes such as hackathons to spur innov...

The Key to Preventing Generational Tension Is Remembering That Everyone Wants to Feel Valued Generational differences are real, but we tend to make too much of them. If the way you are managing the older or younger members of your team is overtly or subliminally signaling that you don’t value them, you will surely see the symptoms of hurt feelings: resistance, disengagement, anger, or ins...

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Would You Live at Costco? Wholesaler Lays Out Plans for a New Kind of Warehouse It's the largest grocer yet to take on this kind of model.

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Why You Should Stop Trying to Be Happy at Work What are we really searching for when we say we want more “meaning” at work, and how does it differ from happiness? Philosophers, scholars, artists, and social psychologists have struggled to come up with an answer to that question for years. According to research by psychologist Roy Baumeister ...