The Challenge of Leading New Managers
We’ve all seen it. Top performers get the big promotion into management, which unexpectedly leads to struggles and frustration. Even failu..
Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products
The fact is, going it alone, we believe, is simply not the way to go at all. Collaboration is the essential new secret sauce for startups ..
How to handle conflict in your team
The most innovative, productive teams we study have regular, intense debates. The ability to disagree, without causing offense, is essenti..
Deloitte is replacing diversity groups for minority employees
Deloitte has decided diversity groups for minority employees are a relic of the past.
How This Hiring Manager Maintains A Millennial Team With A 93% Retention Rate
Millennials, the generation now dominating the U.S. workforce, have already become a prized and somewhat “complicated” generation for trad..
How to Become a More Well-Rounded Leader
How can leaders balance complex and often competing demands? The core challenge for modern leaders, I believe, is to become more wholly hu..
Stop Using the Excuse “Organizational Change Is Hard”
The problem with this attitude, which permeates all levels of our organizations, is that it equates “hard” with “failure,” and, by doing s..
The innovation strategy used by Google and Facebook
Google and Facebook still use the 3-word question that saved a $225 billion company in the 1970s.
A question that most managers are afraid to ask their team – but need to?
The question that I have asked many clients over the years is – “Do you know the career aspirations of each of your key team members and d..
A 3-Step Process to Break a Cycle of Frustration, Stress, and Fighting at Work
If you want less fighting and a more enjoyable, productive workplace, you have to understand your own role in it and what you can do to br..