It’s that time again. Welcome to another edition of the Communitech Grow Factor Links We Love blog. This week we’re covering: the French movement of banning responding to work emails after work hours, why Adobe isn’t a fan of performance reviews, why Material Minds founder Charles Plant wants you to be better at strategy execution, and more.
This week we love:
Bruce Roberts writes about how corporate responsibility and sustainability is a competitive advantage for Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology, outsourcing and professional services. What is your company’s competitive advantage?
The Financial Post’s Dan Ovsey chats with Salman Mufti, associate dean and executive director of the Executive Education program at that Queen’s School of Business. With help from Canada’s favourite pastime, he explains the importance of skating where the puck’s going to be: Balancing intuition and analysis for optimal business decision-making.
The latest “lifehack” trend is to move to France, where they’re supposedly making new agreements to enforce a halt on any business emails after business hour, as described in this FastCompany article. True or not, could this foreshadow things to come for businesses in Canada? Time will tell. (For a counter-argument on the agreement, check out this BuzzFeed article.)
Would you go against corporate orthodoxy and abandon performance reviews? Donna Morris, Senior VP of People and Places at Adobe, tells Business Insider why she abolished the annual performance review and why you should, too.
We learned a lot at Thursday’s Communitech Titan Learning event with Charles Plant. As an entrepreneur and founder of Material Minds, he knows a thing or two about strategy execution, and why it’ll be the most important project your company ever has. He also knows that strategic planning isn’t sexy, but success is.
