A few years ago a large Taiwanese technology designer and manufacturer decided to take work/life balance a little more seriously, and implemented a policy under which everyone, from engineers and mathematicians up to the CEO, had to leave work by 6pm. Within a couple months, the firm found itself hiring life coaches to help employees […]

Leaders rarely have just one goal for their firm. “Profit maximization,” of course, is the biggie. (defining “profit” depends on what you do, of course; if you work in the public sector, you may define it as “doing as much good in the world as we can while minimizing costs”). Focusing purely on the numbers, […]

Every country has its own way of dealing with health care. Maybe your country provides it to everyone, or maybe you as an employer provide insurance or other coverage for your employees. Whether you are paying for it or not, you have an incentive to help your employees stay healthy, trying to prevent illness rather […]

During the last 8 weeks, I’ve spent about 5 of them on the road. Whether it was for something fun, like running a marathon at the North Pole or taking a much-needed few days at the beach, or for work, like teaching a strategic planning seminar in Singapore, I’ve spent more time away than at […]

It may not be in the Oxford English Dictionary yet, but “weisure” is an increasingly important word. For many people there is an increasing blurring of the lines between work time and leisure time. Though in days of old we might have expected to work 9-6 and have the rest of the time off, that […]