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M-Theory: Why complaints are often a gift
18 May 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Plenty of workplaces have a chronic complainer. But when large numbers of people are complaining, it's an opportunity for leaders to find out what's wrong and fix it, columnist Melanie Baker argues, because… Read more
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M-Theory: How turnover can sink the company ship
04 May 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Employee turnover is a normal part of business, but too many people leaving in a short time is a sign of trouble – or possibly imminent death – for a company in turmoil, columnist Melanie Baker writes. Read more
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M-Theory: In uncertain times, who's got your back?
20 April 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the role trust and reliability play in the workplace, and how tech layoffs and the COVID pandemic have prompted some of us to wonder who has our backs at work. Read more
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M-Theory: The inconvenient truth about convenience
06 April 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the impacts on people's careers when their managers make decisions that place their own convenience over the needs of the employee or the organization. Read more
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M-Theory: The risk of getting lost in translation
23 March 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Columnist Melanie Baker looks at the importance of careful translation and localization when doing business internationally. Read more
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M-Theory: Privacy and the price we pay
09 March 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
In her latest column, Melanie Baker takes a critical look at how personal data privacy has become a paid feature, rather than a default entitlement, on many tech platforms. Read more
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M-Theory: How not to execute layoffs
23 February 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Layoffs are traumatic at the best of times, but executives easily can, and do, make things worse. In her latest column, Melanie Baker touches on some of the more egregious recent examples of poorly handled… Read more
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M-Theory: What's love got to do with work?
09 February 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Mounting tech layoffs are damaging trust in the workplace, especially at companies that sold a narrative of "family" to attract talent. Columnist Melanie Baker looks at how trust will become the new currency… Read more
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M-Theory: What are you running toward?
26 January 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
With layoffs mounting in the tech sector, columnist Melanie Baker takes a look at how upheaval in the labour market is prompting people to take stock of their working lives and, in some cases, quit their… Read more
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M-Theory: In praise of thinking small
12 January 2023 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion
Thinking big is often the cultural default of the business world, but is bigger always better? Columnist Melanie Baker explores the merits of thinking small in a world where big gets all the glory. Read more