9 Laws Every Manager Should Know (And Most Break Daily)

The unwritten rules of management... finally written down.

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The Rise and Fall of the ‘IBM Way’

What the tech pioneer can, and can’t, teach us

Intellectual Laziness

Book Review: Power Failure

The Culture Map: How to Navigate Foreign Cultures in Business

High Variance Management

How should you manage a team that is trying to achieve results out of the ordinary?

Anna Shipman

Strategic technology leader

Startup Best Practices 1 - Situational Management by @ttunguz

In response to yesterday’s post on management design patterns, many readers asked for examples of best practices. So I’m going to write about the management best practices I have been taught and I have observed in startups. This is the first post of that series. The first…

Report templates for fewer status meetings | Folding Burritos

Report templates, and guided steps to create them, so Product Managers spend less time in status meetings and more time out of the building

The Difference Between Good And Bad Organizations

"In a poor organization ... people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting, and broken processes."

3 Practices That Set Resilient Teams Apart

New research reveals that how we perform work as a team contributes more to resilience than external stressors. On resilient teams, individuals feel responsible for energizing each other. This is in stark contrast to teams who are challenged by frustrating ways of working and…

Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

Employee well-being and happiness are surprisingly powerful predictors of performance.

8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture | The Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog

Leadership Now is a leading source for leadership development and analysis. We believe that anyone can make a difference by leading from where they are.

The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.

The traditional corporate approach to motivating people has been a combination of carrots and sticks: a system of financial incentives designed to mobilize everyone around a plan designed by a few smart people at the top. Multiple studies have confirmed that, for any work…

Things your manager might not know

A week by week plan for starting to manage a new team – Mike Crittenden

Because I’m not good enough to wing it.

Psychological Safety and the Only Pyramid Scheme That Works

It's a strange phenomenon that I've seen time and time again where if you lay out processes and tools that make things like software deployments safer, the effects continue to compound long after the change has happened. As people feel more and more secure in doing deployments…

The Best Employees Are Not the Agreeable Ones, According to Adam Grant

Grant said he separates workers along two axes: givers and takers, and agreeable and disagreeable.

How to Create a Great Team Culture (and Why It Matters) - ACM Queue

As leader of the team, you have significant influence over your team

Why I Encourage My Best Employees to Consider Outside Job Offers

Most bosses live in fear that their best employees will leave, so it might seem to be a bad idea to encourage your stars to consider outside offers. But in fact, it sends employees a clear signal that you really care about their learning and development. Openness allows for an…

Level up with the Awesome Leadership and Management List

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

One question that has long plagued organizations is how to create high-performing front lines — without unexpected consequences. The solution may be simple: Focus on motivating frontline workers. An experiment with a national retail organization found that transforming the…

Publicly credit your employees

Designing High Performing Teams

This is Part 2 of a three part series on high performing teams. Part one is of Design the Team You Need to Succeed Now you’ve decided you want more than a workgroup, what should you do? What does i…