Issue 2
Balance in Diversity: Increasing women in the workplace
Attraction is a two-way street. Although a company may want more women, especially in the tech industry or in positions of leadership, women may not want to work at that company. Recruiters can be conscious of their biases when hiring and recruiting, but in the end, people will want to go where they feel comfortable.
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How Companies are Doing Good and Why Yours Should Too
The bread aisle has changed. The choice is no longer simply between white and wheat, but between twenty brands of white, twenty brands of wheat, and twenty brands of multigrain. What used to be an easy decision with one or two options has turned into an intense competition among dozens of companies.
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Book Review: ‘Naked Economics’ by Charles Wheelan
Charles Wheelan—professor, author, grassroots activist—harnesses the powerful concepts of economic theory to help you solve real problems. Wheelan doesn’t care about the math and the charts—he just wants you to understand the magic. Naked Economics is the book for the rest of us, helping the non-economist to rationally analyze everything from McDonalds to congestion to political systems.
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Book Review: The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
How do we end poverty? World hunger? High death rates? These are complicated issues that people have been trying to solve for centuries, but Melinda Gates proposes that the solution to many of the world’s problems is to give women a voice “because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.” In The Moment of Lift, Melinda Gates shares stories and lessons she learned while working with her husband, Bill Gates, through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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How Much Debt Do You Have?
Graduation day is here. As you walk across the stage to receive your diploma, you begin to reflect on this chapter of your life. You smile as you remember that the late-night study sessions and early morning classes are a thing of the past. You sigh in relief as you realize that every quiz, mid-term, and final exam is officially behind you. You should be stress free, right? Wrong. You look down and see your diploma in your right hand, but six figures of debt in your left. You ask yourself, “How did this happen?”, and, “What should I do from here?”
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Mind the Gap: Creating Mindfulness of Mental Health in Business
You break a bone at work. Does your employer force you to keep working? No! So, what about those ailments that can’t be seen via x-ray machines?
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Podcast Review: Fraser Bullock on Measuring Success and Managing Stress
On March 22, 2020 we had the pleasure of interviewing Fraser Bullock, co-founder of Sorenson Capital and COO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. Bullock has led an extremely successful professional career full of interesting experiences and wholesome life lessons. A former BYU MBA graduate and Bain & Company consultant, Bullock became a founding partner of one of the world’s leading private equity firms: Bain Capital. He later co-founded Sorenson Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm based in Lehi, Utah. Mitt Romney recruited Mr. Bullock to help run the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games. He transformed what began as an Olympic committee plagued by scandal and bribery accusations to one of the most positively-renowned in history. Listen to our Measuring Success Right podcast to hear fascinating stories from Mr. Bullock’s professional life in learning to have success and manage stress.
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Podcast Review: James Gaskin on Learning
“I promised my wife I wouldn’t start any new companies last year.” James Gaskin—who once walked the streets of Los Angeles as a Hollywood actor and dancer—now teaches information systems at BYU and has started businesses ranging from a company that tracks cattle to a company that facilitates dream analytics. While Gaskin kept his promise last year, he’s back at it again starting new businesses with the students he mentors. In his podcast interview with Measuring Success Right, James Gaskin shares how he has created a life that is meaningful to him and how students and other professionals can do the same.
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Girls in STEM: Change the World Like a Girl
In recent years, progressive efforts inspiring girls to study science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have led to significant changes within the business industry. Regardless of these efforts, a large gender gap in the STEM workforce remains. This gender gap will continue to increase if we fail to pursue this movement in teaching and showing girls that they can change the world through STEM. Encouraging girls to pursue STEM will boost the economy, promote fresh perspectives, maintain workforce diversity, and create a source of inspiration for future generations.
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Blockchain: The Transformation of Accounting
Failure to meet accounting standards has cost US banks $200 billion in fines since 2009.[1] Meanwhile, internal fraud—the very fraud accounting standards seek to prevent—has cost businesses globally over $4 trillion in 2018 alone.[2]
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Buzzwords
Presenteeism is the condition of physical presence but mental or functional absence at the workplace. It occurs when a clocked-in employee can’t complete their full load of tasks due to illness, depression, stress, or exhaustion. Presenteeism minimizes productivity and costs companies billions of dollars a year.[1]
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Out with the Old and in with the New: The Rise of Gen Z
Right now, one in five Americans belong to Generation Z. By 2020 there will be 84.7 million “Gen Zers” in the U.S. and 2.6 billion worldwide.[1] While many industries have targeted their marketing efforts towards millennials, the rising generation will become crucial for brand survival. Understanding the similarities and differences between millennial and Z generations will allow marketers to see why Gen Z is the most important generation for companies to focus on in the future.
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It’s Time to Retire the Five-day Workweek: Five reasons why companies should switch to the four work days
Little innovation has taken place in the work schedule of employees in the past century. This could be because many companies fear the idea of the four-day workweek. Here are five reasons why the four-day workweek can benefit both companies and employees and make the switch less terrifying.
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