Why Good Employees Quit
Turnover is inevitable. Every company in every industry will have to deal with turnover. And turnover isn’t necessarily a negative for the company. But too much turnover among top performers is always a negative. The […]
Author: David Burkus
David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
Five Ways To Build Trust On Teams
One of the easiest ways to predict how successful or not a given team will be is to first measure how much trust exists on the team as a whole. When members of the team […]
The Five Worst Ideas In Management
Businesses are full of bad ideas. (And that’s not including the Segway scooter or Pets.com). No two organizations are exactly alike, and each organization is an experiment in organizational design. Lots of policies and procedures […]
Signs Of A Toxic Company Culture
Work is central to our lives. If you work a full-time job, then your work consumes over a third of your waking hours every week—even more if you’ve got a long commute or if working […]
Why Performance Reviews Don’t Work
Like a lot of measures that are well-intentioned but ultimately dysfunctional, performance reviews started in government. Feedback as a tool to improve performance is much older. However, in the United States, it was the Performance […]
How To Fix A Broken Team Culture [3 Easy Steps]
It happens way too often. Maybe it’s even happened to you. You interview for a new role in a new organization (or a new role in a different part of a large organization). You seem […]