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The 2 Factors That Drive Powerful and Productive Team Conversations
How do you get your team to stay in the sweet spot? You balance candor and curiosity.
Productive Innovation
What does it take to develop the capacity to do large-scale testing and use it to lift firm performance?
Getting Your Team to Do More Than Meet Deadlines
More research is needed to understand pro-time best practices. But in the meantime, try blocking time for important non-urgent tasks for yourself and let us know how it goes.
Strategy by Mission, Not Metrics, Will Make You More Money
Today the military enables troops to both think and do. They call it Commander’s Intent.
Want To Motivate Employees? Study Of Sports Coaches Offers A Clue
What words, however, can produce the maximal effect? How unpleasant should a leader be in order to get results?
What Exactly Is a Growth Mindset, Anyway?
Where growth mindset does the most good is in daily conversations and check-ins. Managers who listen carefully when talking to their direc..
Creating a culture of learning
Jim Keane, CEO of Steelcase, the world’s largest office furniture company, explains how giving people a choice about the spaces they work ..
The Regenerative Approach to Performance Management
Dean Carter thinks about agriculture a lot these days. Not to grow crops, necessarily, but as a metaphor for cultivating a happy, producti..
How to Manage Remote Employees
Remote workers are too valuable for managers to overlook their unique needs. Individualization, clear expectations, trust and talent help ..
How ‘Radical Self-Inquiry’ Can Create a Thriving Workplace
Executive coach Jerry Colonna wants managers to stop focusing on output and achievement alone, and work on building the maturity required ..