Saturday 27th April 2024

How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team

Cross-functional teams — those with people from different departments who have varied expertise — are becoming more common, as is the rise of project-based work arrangements.  Early in your career, you may even find that your first “real” leadership role is managing a newly formed, cross-functional team for a specific and short-term project. There are a few key actions new leaders can take to get their team off to a great start.

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Master the Art of Asynchronous Communication

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, the number of employees collaborating across time zones is growing. If you accept a position on a global team, particularly in a hybrid or fully remote environment, you should not expect to work the same hours as all of your peers. As a result, you will need to learn an increasingly important skill: asynchronous business communication. Here are a few practices that can help.

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What Does the Labor Side of Manufacturing Need Over the Next Decade?

Deloitte's vice chair of industrial products joins the show to discuss the company's new survey on the manufacturing sector.

John Coykendall, Deloitte’s vice chair of U.S. industrial products and construction, joins the show to discuss hiring in the manufacturing sector.

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2024 NFL Draft

Wharton’s Cade Massey and Eric Bradlow speak with Bill Connelly, ESPN football analyst, about the upcoming NFL draft, draft prospects, and what we can expect from the new crop of NFL rookies.

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Co-hosts of the 'Gen Z on Gen Z' Podcast

In this episode, Wharton experts speak with AJ Pulvirenti and Lilia Souri, senior strategists at Movers+Shakers and co-hosts of the "Gen Z on Gen Z" podcast.

Wharton’s Barbara Kahn and Dr. Americus Reed speak with AJ Pulvirenti and Lilia Souri, senior strategists at Movers+Shakers and co-hosts of the “Gen Z on Gen Z” podcast about Gen Z and money, how they react to marketing, branding at Coachella, brand identity, and more.

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What Is the Role of Customers in the Gig Economy?

Wharton professor talks about why the relationship between customers and gig companies is an asymmetrical power relationship.

Lindsey Cameron, Wharton assistant professor of management, joins the show to discuss the gig economy and how it pits customers against workers.

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Is Influencer Marketing Worth It?

Wharton professor discusses the difference between "mega" and "micro" influencers in ad campaigns.

Brands pay millions for mega-influencer endorsements, but new research from Wharton’s Ryan Dew and Raghuram Iyengar finds more followers don’t always yield the biggest bang for the buck.

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The secret ingredient of business success

Too often, employees are unmotivated and unhappy, with no real incentive to invest much of anything into their place of work. Investment expert Pete Stavros thinks there's a better way, and he's on a mission to rethink corporate structures to expand who benefits from a thriving company. Sharing personal stories of his own journey along with the profound impact doing this work effectively can have, this moving talk provides a blueprint for changing the narrative — and outlook — for millions of workers worldwide.Continued here

Tesla's 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny

Tesla's lousy week continues. On Tuesday, the electric car maker posted its quarterly results showing precipitous falls in sales and profitability. Today, we've learned that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is concerned that Tesla's massive recall to fix its Autopilot driver assist—which was pushed out to more than 2 million cars last December—has not actually made the system that much safer.

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Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, bugginess, and convoluted development history than its utility as a computer operating system.

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