Our cumulative experience of what makes virtual working succeed, and what gets in its way, can offer valuable insight at this challenging time by Lynda Gratton in the MIT Sloan Review. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/three-elements-for-successful-virtual-working/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Read%20the%20article%20now%20%C2%BB&utm_campaign=Enews%20FOW%204/14/2020

“Getting fired once can be a good experience. You just don’t want to make a habit of it.” Thoughts from Quant Pioneer James Simons in MIT Sloan by Tracy Mayor https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/quant-pioneer-james-simons-math-money-and-philanthropy?utm_source=mitsloanlinkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=jimsimons

“Among women with advanced degrees who left their jobs, 69% would have stayed if their employers offered more flexible work options…by Caroline Fairchild, Managing News Editor, LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rise-flexible-work-potential-punishment-taking-caroline-fairchild/?trackingId=TndFqxGcVr2hH86uxXvOWA%3D%3D

“Candidates are too often screened out because they don’t fit a particular pattern – one survey found as many as 75% of resumes don’t make it past Applicant Tracking Systems.” Nilofer Merchant in the Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2019/03/stop-eliminating-perfectly-good-candidates-by-asking-them-the-wrong-questions

Many people over their careers work for the same organization multiple times, sometimes by choice, often by acquisition or merger. How you leave can play a major role in whether or not you get the chance. These workers quit their jobs without two-weeks notice. Here’s what they did instead. (The Washington Post)

Jeff Hesse and Scott Olsen  Jeff Hesse and Scott Olsen imagine four radically different scenarios for how companies will manage people and how people will manage their work and careers. https://www.strategy-business.com/article/What-Will-Work-Look-Like-in-2030?gko=e1d49

When talented people from diverse backgrounds fail to rise in a company, there are three powerful solutions: having more inclusive team leaders, more diversity among the top leadership, and better sponsorship practices.by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Ripa Rashid, and Laura Sherbin  https://www.strategy-business.com/article/How-to-Keep-Perceived-Bias-from-Holding-Back-High-Potential-Employees?gko=a8740  

“Studies have shown that wearing nice clothes in the office can affect the way people perceive you, how confident you’re feeling, and even how you’re able to think abstractly.”  writes Dennis Green, a reporter with Business Insider.  https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/why-dress-to-impress-is-the-career-advice-you-should-be-following/