Careers
fromSlate Magazine
9 hours agoThis Is an Essential Part of Modern Work. Our CEO Refuses to Do It.
A CEO's lack of industry knowledge and poor communication skills create significant challenges for her organization.
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Productivity
fromSilicon Canals
7 hours agoThe workers most likely to burn out aren't always the ones doing the most - they're the ones who can't tell the difference between urgent and important - Silicon Canals
Workers overwhelmed by urgency rather than importance are more likely to experience burnout.
Intellectual property law
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
4 hours agoHigh Performance, Hidden Struggles: Law Firm Culture and the Human Side of IP Law / IPWatchdog Unleashed
Intellectual property strategy is shifting from accumulation to optimization, focusing on business value and addressing mental health challenges in the legal profession.
Non-profit organizations
fromNonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
1 day agoThe Meaningful Reset: Designing Nonprofits to Survive Board-Staff Conflict | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Nonprofit organizations face unique challenges due to emotional investment, leading to conflicts that require careful analysis and intentional resolution.
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Productivity
fromMountaingoatsoftware
12 hours agoWhy Smart Teams Overcommit And How Leaders Make It Worse
Leaders should avoid pressuring teams into overcommitting, as teams often do this themselves due to their inherent optimism.
Psychology
fromEntrepreneur
1 day agoHow Calling Out Problems Makes You the Most Trusted Leader
Effective leadership is defined by how problems are framed and handled, not by the intensity of the issues faced.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoThe person who always offers to drive, always picks the restaurant, always plans the trip is rarely the controlling one in the group. They're the one who learned early that if they didn't organize the connection, the connection simply wouldn't happen. - Silicon Canals
The organizer in a friend group often acts out of learned necessity to maintain connections, not from a desire for control or leadership.
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Growth hacking
fromEntrepreneur
4 weeks ago4 Ways CEOs Break Employee Trust (and How to Rebuild It)
Trust erodes when leaders spin stories, make exceptions to values, use excessive control, and exploit talent market changes; trusted leaders prioritize transparency, avoid micromanagement, own mistakes, and consistently deliver on promises.
Careers
fromEntrepreneur
1 month agoHalf of Your Employees Don't Trust You. Here's How to Change That
Leaders build trust by showing up physically, remaining present, inviting difficult questions, maintaining transparency, communicating consistently, living their values, and empowering teams with genuine ownership and decision-making authority.
Remote teams
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days agoA startup founder's viral post about messaging a colleague on their wedding day has sparked a workplace boundary debate
Flexible communication tools and job market uncertainty are blurring work-life boundaries, intensifying hustle culture expectations.
Remote teams
fromEntrepreneur
5 days agoThis Startup's Return-to-Office Mandate Failed - Now It's Paying Employees to Show Up: 'We Were Pulling Teeth'
Superhuman increased office attendance by offering wellness stipends for in-office work, replacing a failed return-to-office mandate with a voluntary program.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks agoOffice hookworms: how to deal with colleagues who steal all the credit
Office hookworms are colleagues who take credit for others' work and use passive-aggressive commentary to undermine peers; managing them requires changing your own behavior rather than theirs.
fromInfoQ
2 months agoAchieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Imagine a world where everyone in your team feels valued, heard, and empowered to contribute. Imagine that world where people aren't afraid to challenge the status quo and great ideas emerge from unexpected places. Now imagine that world where toxic behaviors don't just go unchecked, they don't even have room to rise. Wouldn't that be a great world? What happens when leadership tolerates the wrong behaviors? What happens when decision-making is shaped by exclusion, fear, and insecurity?
Social justice
fromeLearning Industry
2 months agoThings To Know About CSR And Employee Engagement
However, instead of getting busy with your regular Monday work rituals, you learn about the team's volunteering at the local community center to help the homeless. Your day suddenly changes. It's no longer about the deadlines and meetings. Now you will be a part of something more meaningful and do your bit for society. This is what Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about. It creates connections with the community and makes work personally meaningful.
Business
fromFast Company
2 months agoThe upsides to not fitting in with your company culture
Most organizations still hire for culture fit-even those that loudly champion diversity and inclusion. The phrase sounds benign, even wise: who wouldn't want colleagues who "fit in"? But behind this feel-good notion lies one of the biggest obstacles to innovation and progress in modern workplaces. Culture fit has become a euphemism for cultural cloning: selecting people who already look, think, and behave like the incumbents.
Psychology
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