Organizational Change: Avoid ‘The Spreadsheet Mentality’

Organizational Change and The Spreadsheet Mentality

The Spreadsheet Mentality is a business concept born from “what’s measured is what matters.” And it absolutely murders productivity and efforts at organizational change, even though executives tend to deify it. Continue Reading

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Onboarding: Revolve it around stories

Onboarding

If people are truly job-hopping more than ever, then onboarding is tremendously important. But most companies still do it horribly. What if we shifted the focus ever so slightly, though? Continue Reading

Increase productivity: It starts with organizational alignment

Increase Productivity

There are approximately 7,298,413 books and speeches a year on how to increase productivity. In reality, it’s much, much simpler than we make it out to be. Continue Reading

Management Theory: Two trips to IKEA

Management Theory and IKEA

About three weeks apart, I took two different trips to IKEA. The contrast in those trips taught me a ton about management theory. Continue Reading

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Transparency in business: What’s the value?

Transparency in business

Most executives are quick to dismiss things like “transparency” and “communication” as soft or fluffy skills not relevant to revenue growth. But, ahem… they are, and majorly so. Continue Reading

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Sense of urgency is a managerial trick

Sense of urgency

It’s usually a way for managers to essentially play Hot Potato with projects that scare them or they have no time for. Continue Reading

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Change management: The 2016-2020 wave

Change Management Illustration

If you believe disruption is coming for most companies (it probably is), then change management is absolutely crucial. But most companies are flippin’ terrible at it. How can they get better? Continue Reading

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Management training: The value of context

Management training and context

We tend to focus a lot of our managerial training in America on transactional elements of the process, which often leave managers ill-equipped for dealing with real issues or human beings. It’s time we change that. Continue Reading