Why Every Company Should Work as If They Were a Remote Company
A remote company is as productive as possible because no one has to rely on other people for information. You should be running your company the same way.
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Why You Should Stop Copying Google’s Employee Perks
Google's employee perks are trendy and great, but it isn't always about following a fad. Here are some companies that do the opposite and still thrive.
What I Learned From Managing an International Remote Team
Remote teams have the potential to be even more efficient than co-located ones. Here's how.
Why Google Got Over Brainteasers
Why Google got over brainteasers in favor boring (but effective) hiring approach.
Why Nature Should Be Part Of Your Working Space
Natural environments need to be part of our everyday lives. That includes the workplace.
Why Remote Companies Are Doing Employee Perks Better Than Google
Remote company perks are better than ping pong and foosball. A new kind of perk is emerging, and remote companies are leading the way.
Why Amazon Hires Good Managers, Not Great Ones
Amazon hires good managers that become great. By learning how Amazon identifies the good managers, we can undersand what it takes to find the truly great.
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.
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.