What Sports Knows, and Business Gets Wrong, About Motivation
Social loafing is the phenomenon in which people put out less individual effort on larger teams. Thankfully, sports can teach up how to stop this.
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Why You Should Always Write Down Your Bad Ideas
Bad ideas lead to great ideas. Generating good ideas is hard. Many of us get stuck. The trick is having a lot of ideas. Even bad ideas.
Why You Should Hire People Who’ve Rebounded from Failure, Not Those Handcuffed by Success
How to hire innovators from Jeff Bezos: don't look for people who've only been successful, look for failures. Here's how Bezos did it with AmazonFresh.
Why Getting Personal Matters for Getting Professional
Transparency at work turns on people's willingness to share with each other — and work narration is one of the best ways to develop this open culture.
When CEOs Are Proud to Be Powerless
For CEOs and bosses who are rethinking the traditional top-down way of running a company, being a strong leader requires powerlessness.
Why You Need a Business Coach But Won’t Admit It
The paradox for entrepreneurs and other ambitious people is that they often don't have this trait to realize that they need a business coach.
Why Manage the Good, When You Can Coach the Best?
If the first rule of good management is to be a good coach, why is coaching treated like an extracurricular activity rather than part of the job?
Why Curbing Your Fear of Being Alone Leads to Better Thinking
The aversion to tuning into yourself to use the brain's default mode network has deep, human consequences for how we think, create, learn, and lead.
What You Don’t Know About Internal Motivation May Harm Your Career
Internal motivation is a powerful driver of success and happiness, but your other motivations may put your career in danger.
Why You Shouldn’t Build a Billion-Dollar Startup
It's easy to get caught up imagining your company going viral, but setting out to build a billion-dollar startup is one of the biggest mistakes.
Why Poor Leaders Are Valuable
It's counterintuitive, but poor leaders are some of the best sources of leadership lessons. That's where you learn exactly what not to do.
Why Stack Rank Doesn’t Measure Up
In this two-part guest series, Ellen Chisa shares her experience at Microsoft and how its review system affected her psyche and productivity. (Read part 1 for an overview of Ellen’s time at Microsoft.) Stack ranking is a performance review system that ranks employees against each other. Critics point out that a review
Why Foursquare, BuzzFeed, and Shopify Use Google Snippets
There’s one internal communication tool, little known outside of tech circles, that’s been the management engine behind many of tech’s biggest successes. Known as Google Snippets (having started as an internal tool at Google), this single tool has grown to become one that many of the best technology companies use to ke
Why I Decided to Move Away From My Team to Live in Downtown Vegas
Downtown Vegas is becoming a hub for tech entrepreneurs. Here's why John Todero decided to relocate over 2,000 miles with his small team still in Orlando.
Why Teams with Time Style Diversity Are Stronger
Here are the 5 time management styles. While these differences can cause conflict, a diverse mix of styles can actually bring out the best in your teams.
Why Does Your Work Matter?
Believing that your work matters is absolutely vital in keeping you engaged at work and ensuring that you're performing at your best. Here's why.
Why Work Loneliness Isn’t Just a Personal Problem, and What to Do About It
Loneliness seems like a personal problem, but it's a collective issue. At work, loneliness results from inadequate attention paid to the human side of work.
Why You Should Stop Keeping Score at Work
Stop keeping score at work because you'll underestimate your teammates’ contributions and overestimate your own. Here's the science behind why.
What I Wish I’d Known: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! Our Chief Happiness Officer Ginni Chen’s expert advice on how to make customers happy over at the Firefly blog. How to use small wins to fuel great achievements. How the brain performs better when faced with a challenge. What 25 [...]
What Happens When You Don’t Email?
Professor Mark studied what happens when you do away with work email. She found that people were less stressed, more productive, and able to focus longer.
What Helps You Work?
Another employee, a programmer, thought his online chats were eating into his work time. So he tested the theory: He looked at how long he spent chatting during certain periods, then looked at how much code he wrote during those times. But in fact, the more he talked, the more…
What Will Fast Company Write about Your Startup’s Culture?
Successful entrepreneurs like Zappos's Tony Hsieh say to write down your core values. How do you define your startup culture without resorting to cliché?
When Are You Most Happy? The Happiness Tracking App
Matt Killingsworth is interested in not just what makes people happy but when people are happy. Gathering data from a happiness-tracking app that he built, he found that people are less happy when their minds are wandering, no matter what they’re doing. So rewire yourself to stay in the moment, and watch how you’re pay
Why Logic is an Unproductive Way to Address Illogical Behavior
Overwhelm is a major cause of project slippage, demotivation and disengagement. Here's how overwhelm happens at work and how to combat it.