Weekly Hotlist: Like It or Not, "Smart Drugs" Are Coming to the Office

 

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May 23, 2016 Like It or Not, "Smart Drugs" Are Coming to the Office By Carl Cederström The hard questions about performance enhancement.

Work-life balance How to Break Your Addiction to Work by Rebecca Knight It's not healthy, even if you love your job. Strategy execution A Simple Way to Test Your Company's Strategic Alignment by Jonathan Trevor, Barry Varcoe Are you winning, or boldly going nowhere? Assessing performance People Favor Naturals Over Strivers — Even Though They Say Otherwise by Scott Barry Kaufman, Chia-Jung Tsay Research quantifies the costs. Analytics Visualizations That Really Work by Scott Berinato Know what message you're trying to communicate before you get down in the weeds. Sales Great Salespeople Are Born, but Great Sales Forces Are Made by Andris A. Zoltners, PK Sinha, Sally E. Lorimer Even natural sellers need training, support, and a strategy. Design How IDEO Designers Persuade Companies to Accept Change by Ashlea Powell They engage decision makers' emotions. Compensation Overcome Your Reluctance and Start Negotiating Your Salary by Judith White The three most common excuses. Meetings Polite Ways to Decline a Meeting Invitation by Liane Davey Protect your time without looking like a grump.

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