Resources

In the modern economy, motivation is a tricky thing. A hundred years ago, when people like Frederick Taylor were pioneering scientific management, motivation was pretty easy. The idea was that you could switch people from […]

When the great work-from-home experiment started, and organizations around the world sent their people to work from home, many team leaders started to sense that they weren’t managing a team of 12 so much as […]

One of the things we know about performance at work is that talent flows from teams. How well a team communicates, collaborates, and supports the members greatly affects how well an individual performs.  We’ve known […]

When the great work-from-home experiment began in 2020, one of the biggest fears for newly remote leaders was running virtual meetings. In fact, “Virtual meetings don’t work” is the most common response I hear when […]

Most leaders probably didn’t head into the great work-from-home experiment of 2020, assuming we didn’t know anything about hiring people remotely.  In fact, most leaders struggled with the opposite issues when the initial economic downturn […]

One of the most common questions managers and senior leaders faced in 2020—especially as the long-term reality of our work-from-home experiment set in—was “how to you do team building when everyone is working remotely?” We […]