David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed as a manager, you’ve probably already diagnosed yourself, and the diagnosis isn’t kind. The one-on-ones keep getting moved. Someone on your team has been struggling for three weeks, you’ve known the […]
You probably know what a bad team looks like. People snapping at each other in meetings. Deadlines sliding past without comment. Half the team updating their LinkedIn profiles in the same week. But a team […]
AI can do a lot of your job now. Which raises an interesting question if you’re thinking seriously about AI for managers: if AI can handle so much of the work, what’s actually left for […]
So you’ve got a new team. Maybe it came out of a reorg. Maybe you inherited it. Maybe you hand-picked every person on it yourself. Either way, on paper, this team is stacked—smart people, real […]
Nobody puts “professional apologizer” on a résumé. But if you lead people long enough, that’s a real part of the job—and learning how to apologize as a leader turns out to be one of the […]
Your company just went through a layoff. Or a restructure. Or a downsizing, a rightsizing, a “strategic realignment.” The label doesn’t matter much. What matters is that you’re now leading a team that’s smaller, quieter, […]
