Too Big To Think: Why Prestigious Institutions Stopped Generating Good Ideas
Why have our most generative institutions of the 20th century become \"too big to think\" and how is the internet creating new spaces for ideas?
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Don't Follow Your Passion, Work In The Corporate World First
People have more freedom in the corporate world than they imagine. A corporate job can be a great first step to an entrepreneurial journey.
Modern CareersOrganizations & Culture
Managing Millennials & Other Misinformation On Generations at Work
How do you manage a millennial? That question focuses in the wrong direction. Millennials are not as unlike other generations as one might think
Organizations & Culture
Chaos Theory & Management: Why Organizations Are Fragile, Not Broken
Most critics say organizations are broken. They're wrong — they're fragile. How chaos theory and complex adaptive systems explain organizational failure, plus a 5-part guide for the modern chaos manager.
Organizations & Culture
Matt Mullenweg's & Automattic's Five Levels Of Remote Work
Matt Mullenweg's Five Levels Of Remote Work for Distributed Companies. His Experience from running Automattic since 2014
Organizations & Culture
The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work Culture
How remote companies define their values, live them through tools, leaders and hiring, and build trust when no one shares an office. My section of The Holloway Guide to Remote Work.
Organizations & Culture
Going Remote? Here are five tips from companies who are already fully remote
Is coronavirus causing your company to have to work remotely without being prepared. Here are five tips from experienced remote companies.
Organizations & Culture
The (Real) Dark Side Of Management Consulting
The secrecy of the industry makes it a prime target for attacks, but the real problems with the industry are more subtle and perhaps harder to solve.
Organizations & Culture
Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Culture & Why Change Fails
Schein's three levels — artifacts, values, and assumptions — explain why most culture change efforts fail. Plus his anxiety model for what actually drives organizational transformation.
Organizations & Culture
Amazon, Corporate Welfare & The Illusion Of Jobs
Why do we accept billion-dollar "corporate welfare" packages as normal? Let's shift our mindset about what we really want and build an economy that works.
Organizations & Culture
The Four-Day Workweek Is Not About Working Less
Why has the four day workweek taken off in New Zealand and Europe and not the US? It could be from a lack of a relationship with a certain type of leisure.
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The Tom Brady Principle: Don't Promote Your Best People
Businesses make the same mistake over and over again: promoting their best people. The Tom Brady principle is simple: leave your creators on the field.
Organizations & Culture
Conversation With Chelsea Seid of Marlow About Passion, Purpose & Meaning At Work
A conversation with Chelsea Seid on why passion is overrated, how to pursue mastery without burning out, and why managers often block meaning at work.
Organizations & Culture
Is "management" already dead?
Research shows leadership gets no credit for meaningful work, but bad management is the top destroyer of it. Time to rethink.
Organizations & Culture
Paying back $24,000 to my previous employer and the absurdity of bonuses
I wrote a $24,000 check to my former employer to leave early. It taught me what bonuses really are: tools to keep unhappy people from walking away.
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Steve Kerr Teaches You The Secret Of Leadership — In 12 Seconds
In a 12-second clip, Steve Kerr demonstrates five leadership secrets most managers never learn. People can only be led, not managed.
Organizations & Culture
“Let’s Create a Training!” — Rethinking the $150 billion spent on learning & development
Most money on L&D is wasted. What should we do instead? Stop creating more trainings for starters.
Organizations & Culture
The Hiring Trap: How we miss out on awesome candidates as organizations become more successful
As organizations grow, they raise the hiring bar and start rejecting the very people who built them. The costliest mistake isn't a bad hire - it's the one you never made.
Organizations & Culture
Crisis at Work: Why Today’s Organizations Are Failing To Unleash Human Potential
Six reasons companies fail to unleash human potential including an obsession with shareholder value, a limited lens of human behavior and more...
Organizations & Culture
The vicious talent cycle and its link to our flawed ideas of human performance
Human performance follows a power law, not a bell curve. Companies that ignore this lose their best people and wonder why they're full of average talent.
Organizations & Culture
Book Review: A Dozen Things I Learned From Adam Grant's Originals
A book review of Adam Grant's originals on how to be a nonconformist and create change on your own and within organizations. (With cool charts!)
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Skill-Organization Fit
Like product-market fit for startups, your skills need the right organizational environment to thrive. A framework for mapping whether your job is wasting your talent.
Organizations & Culture
The Is-Ought Fallacy is Devastating to Progress in Modern Organizations
Just because something is the way it's done doesn't mean it should be. The is-ought fallacy keeps organizations stuck, and the internet has removed every excuse.
Organizations & Culture
How to hire the best
Hiring the right people is nearly impossible. The real secret is firing the wrong people fast and compassionately.
Organizations & Culture
RIP: Is The Performance Review Dead?
Companies are eliminating the performance reviews, but does that mean they \"get it?\". The answer is complicated, but companies who experiment will win
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Beyond the Feedback Sandwich: Delivering World-Class Feedback
The feedback sandwich protects people from the truth. Here are five elements of feedback that actually helps people improve.
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Blame it on a Millennial!
Millennials are the scapegoat for many issues in the workforce, but that just distracts companies from needing to change and adapt to new technology
Organizations & Culture
The Future of Work: What Winning Organizations Will Look Like in 2025
Successful firms in 2025 and in the future of work will have agile teams, adaptive technology, process excellence and purpose driven cultures.
Organizations & Culture
Four great reads on CEO performance, team effectiveness at Google and the failure of the MBTI
Four research finds worth knowing: humble leaders outperform, Google's top team factor is psychological safety, CEO impact is mostly luck, and the MBTI is broken.
Organizations & Culture