How Leaders Build Trust In Teams
Trust is one of the most important elements of a team culture—and also an entire company’s culture. If people feel that they can trust you as a leader, and if they feel they can trust […]
Author: David Burkus
David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.
What Great Teams Have In Common
The world runs on teams. The invention of the organization—getting different humans together to collaborate on a project—is probably the greatest invention in the history of mankind. Through organizations, we’ve been able to build […]
Difference Between Vision, Mission, and Purpose [With Infographic]
Purpose statements, mission statements, vision statements. It can get really cluttered really fast. It seems like every organization has a different method when it comes to declaring their purpose. Some just have a mission statement. […]
How Paul O’Neill Fought For Safety At Alcoa
By most accounts, Paul O’Neill’s first speech as the new CEO of Alcoa was a complete failure. The speech was given in a hotel ballroom not far from Wall Street, and it was meant for […]
What Makes A Purpose-Driven Organization? 4 Misconceptions About Purpose-Driven Companies
The idea of purpose in organizations has been around for a while now. But the number of folks who believe they truly work for a purpose-driven organization hasn’t increased all that much. One of the […]
Why Underdogs Win (More Often Than They Should)
I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the city known throughout the world for two things: Throwing snowballs at Santa Claus, and Its embrace of underdogs. The Ultimate Underdog Story When you think about Philadelphians, you […]