Org Bite: Return To Office Mandates Are Not All Bad! I swear!
Check out the video for a quick take on why RTO mandates may be a worthwhile. My two cents: The problem happened years ago before the pandemic, not today.
Friday Roundup
How To Catch A Baseball (Instagram)
I absolutely love this video. One of the Baltimore Oriole’s coaches provides supportive guidance and phenomenal feedback. It’s not “coaching” in the corporate sense but it is masterful teaching.Performance Power Law (LinkedIn)
This post from The Talent Strategy Group’s COO, Zac Upchurch, challenges the common belief that performance should align with a normal distribution curve. Instead, a small number of top performers contribute disproportionately. The takeaway? Effective performance management should embrace this reality by focusing on nurturing and rewarding exceptional talent, rather than aiming for a normalized curve.Who is Demanding a Return to Office? (Axios)
This article lists out some of the large companies enforcing some sort of Return To Office policy. If one of these companies is your competitor, you may be following suit.How Well Can an AI Chatbot Infer Personality? (Journal)
This study looks at whether an AI chatbot can accurately assess personality by analyzing text from conversations. The results show the chatbot's personality scores are fairly reliable and sometimes offer new insights compared to traditional surveys, but they struggle to clearly separate different personality traits and predict real-world outcomes.Sam Altman’s Reflections (Blog)
The OpenAI CEO expects AI agents to “join the workforce” this year and says that his team knows what it takes to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Yes, the Terminator 2 kind of AI (but ideally not evil). He’s not the only AI CEO who sees AGI as coming soon.
Richard Easterlin Dies at 98 (NYTimes)
Richard A. Easterlin, a pioneering economist renowned for the "Easterlin Paradox," passed away on December 16, 2024, at the age of 98. His groundbreaking work revealed that increases in a country's economic growth don't necessarily lead to greater happiness among its citizens, challenging traditional economic assumptions. “Because of social comparison, people fail to enjoy improvement in income as a source of happiness.”The Plague of Mediocre Leadership (Time)
Managers and leaders don’t have the skills they need. “Why, then, do so many mediocre managers and leaders get promoted to the highest positions where they fail in large numbers? Let’s frame our answer by making one thing clear: Exceptional leadership is rare. Mediocre and poor leadership is the norm.”
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