I understand the positives, for sure: there are 1.35 billion people on Facebook, so there’s a lot more familiarity with the interface and how to use it than there would be, say, if your company used Slack or something else.… Continue Reading
I’m broadly a fan of the idea of holacracy — essentially, running a company without true management titles in a way that’s supposed to foster healthier approaches to conflict and allow for more fluid movement between roles — because, to… Continue Reading
In the 12 or so years I’ve been a member of the working world, one of the things I’ve struggled with in various jobs is understanding what exactly my role is sometimes on different projects. This is likely a problem… Continue Reading
Top-level executives and managers love the word collaboration. Sometimes it feels like a prevailing attitude can be, “If our teams are just collaborating, all will be well with the world!” Collaboration seems to be a synonym for togetherness in a lot… Continue Reading
If you really distill work — or, frankly, your entire life — down to a couple of core tenets, I would say one you might arrive at is “The ability to develop ideas and present them to others.” That’s the… Continue Reading
One of the most remarkable things to me about the evolution (revolution?) of business in the modern era is this seeming dichotomy: Organizations now strive to get real-time feedback from customers (think social media, tracking tools, etc.) Organizations still basically… Continue Reading
You can define the idea of “getting things done,” as this article does, as the intersection of “motivation” and “willpower.” The idea of willpower is actually a finite resource — which scientists and researchers only really have known in the last decade… Continue Reading
Complaining — which we all do from time-to-time, if not daily — can apparently physically hurt your brain if you’re doing it too much. Beyond that depressing research, there’s this notion: when you complain, your bloodstream is flooded with cortisol (the stress hormone);… Continue Reading