Free Agent, Professor, and Superforecaster
I have a confession to make right off the bat — I wrote the headline for this post specifically to counter Betteridge’s law of headlines. If you’re familiar with it, then you’ve already realized that the answer to the question posed is yes. From the research: The models showed that government employees volunteered more in general, and participated in a …
Continue reading “Do Public Sector Employees Volunteer More Than Private Sector Employees?”
Do you recognize those words? Scholars (and/or) American history buffs just might. They were spoken by one Abraham Lincoln on December 3rd, 1861, as part of his first State of the Union address. The quote comes from very near to the end of the speech; the beginning of the third last paragraph. The sentence on its own is …
Continue reading “Labor is the Superior of Capital, and Deserves Much the Higher Consideration”
Several months ago in one of those posts where I write about a bunch of ideas, but don’t flesh any of them out, I wrote the following: Focus on Labor — I’ve never been the CEO or a highly placed Vice President of a company, but from an outsider’s perspective, I always have a hard time …
Continue reading “If You Want a Successful and Sustainable Company, Focus on the Workforce”
By now, you’ve no doubt heard that Marissa Mayer is ending telecommuting at Yahoo. There’s been lots of opinion written about why what she’s doing is wrong and lots written about why what she’s doing is right. In general, I think that the research supports the plethora of pros to working from home, but of course, a …
Continue reading “I’d Love to Get Inside Marissa Mayer’s Head: The End of Telecommuting at Yahoo”
Vocation is a very important part of our lives in today’s society. Vocation, usually, gives our lives a sense of purpose. At times, however, our vocation can get in the way of our lives. How? Overwork. This past summer, I linked to a couple of articles at The Atlantic that illustrate this point quite perfectly. The first: …
Continue reading “How Does a 25-Hour Workweek Sound to You?”
This past summer, I posted a couple of articles from The Atlantic to Facebook. They both had to do with vacation — more specifically — the lack of vacation in the US when compared to other countries. As America’s health declines, I can’t help but think that there’s something to the idea of a shorter …
Continue reading “Replacing the 40-hour Workweek with a 30- or 21-hour Workweek”
There were a few articles (here, here, and here) in The Economist over the last few issues that got me thinking about religion. And not any one particular religion — all of them — and how they might be very much interrelated. At the same time, I often think about the growing pandemic of overworking. …
Continue reading “What if Every Major Religious Holiday Were a National Holiday?”
Jeremiah Stanghini 