Plus: The power of empathy

February 6, 2024

When it comes to culture, don’t pretend to be something you’re not

Everyone thinks they want to build an innovative, freewheeling culture, but employees can always spot the disconnect between aspiration and reality.

by Alice Zhou and Christopher Hannegan

s+b essential reading

Empathy: The glue we need to fix a fractured world

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible—and advantageous—to train ourselves to be more empathic.

by Amy Emmert

Stat of the week

Share of workers who are able to pay their bills every month and still have money left over

Teaming is hard because you’re probably not really on a team

Hybrid and remote work are complicating many of the collaborative challenges that were present long before the pandemic arrived.

by Benjamin Tarshis and Jonathan Roberts

Building a better you

In How to Change, Wharton professor Katy Milkman delves into the science that can help us make changes stick.

by David Lancefield

Skills-first hiring in the era of AI

In this first episode of our audio series Voices in Tech, we hear about the talent management startup Retrain.ai from its cofounder Shay David, and PwC’s Bhushan Sethi weighs in on the impact skills-first hiring and technologies like generative AI will have on the workforce.

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