Taylor Swift: Change Agent; Joy at Work; Performance vs. Potential for Female Leaders and How Dick's Sporting Goods Has Its Employees' Backs

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As Taylor Swift Rerecorded Her ‘Red’ Album, Universal Reworked Contracts

#Resilient people refuse to be shut down. They find a way to make things happen. Often, in the process, they reinvent an industry. See how phenom Taylor Swift is doing just that, leading the way for other artists to take back control of their recordings and livelihoods. (Wall Street Journal)

Making Joy a Priority at Work

In an A.T. Kearney survey of more than 500 workers, 90% expect to feel #joy at their jobs but only 37% do. What gives? Author @Alex Liu says that joy at work is a product of harmony, impact and acknowledgement. See how you can create all three for yourself and your teams. (Harvard Business Review)

Women Aren’t Promoted Because Managers Underestimate Their Potential

Women are consistently judged as having lower #leadership potential than men, even when they’re high performers. In a study of a large retail chain authored by @Kelly Shue @Alan Benson and Daniel Li, women were 14% less likely to be promoted at the company each year. Find out why the “nine box grid” used at many large companies is biased and outdated. (Yale Insights)

How the Best Workplaces in Retail are Retaining Employees Amid the Great Resignation

It’s hard working in #retail businesses these days. The pandemic has brought out the very worst in customer behavior. Workers are taking the brunt of the abuse, and many have chosen to #quit. See how Dick’s Sporting Goods has its frontline staffers’ backs. (Fortune)

BUZZ

"In fact, research shows that the single biggest cause of work burnout is not work overload, but working too long without experiencing your own personal development."

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

RECHARGE: WHAT TO READ, WATCH & LISTEN TO

??The Accidental Wine Educator

Kevin Zraly started his career as a waiter and sometimes bartender at a little restaurant in the Hudson Valley. Years later, he was running the wine program at Windows on the World and educating people with his entertaining and accessible style. (The New York Times)

?? Did Covid Change How We Dream?

Deirdre Barrett dedicated her career to studying the dream life of collective catastrophe.?Then, the Covid-19 pandemic hit and provided a laboratory for finding patterns and meaning in the visions our brains conjure when we sleep. (The New York Times)

?? Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Disney +)

The next movie installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) stars Simu Liu as an unlikely everyday hero who’s really a secret kung fu master with a warlord father. Stunning choreography and a hysterical performance from Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians) make this one of the more pleasurable movies in the MCU collection.

?? Dexter: New Blood (Showtime)

Dexter Morgan is back. The story picks up ten years after the title character fled Miami. Different setting, lots of despicable bad guys, same campy tone and incredible writing. Bingeworthy