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Jeff Phipps

The case for “liberated companies.”

The best-selling author of 'Start With Why' and 'Leaders Eat Last' ends the argument on what makes a great leader.

by David Marquet

Let's take a page from Carol Dweck's book Mindset and think about how we praise the people on our team. How do you extend praise to your team? To read a tra...

Apple's SVP for retail Angela Ahrendts shares the secret behind the company's 88% retention for retail workers in the U.S. A look inside one of LinkedIn's Top …

Improving employee retention starts with small words that have a big impact.

And how to motivate them to stay.

How do you know when trouble is on the horizon in your organization? What are the tell-tale signs, the canaries in the coal mine, if you will? When I was a young management consultant, conventional wisdom said that a leading indicator was something easily measurable like rising inventory or declini

Several weeks ago, I shared the above Venn diagram in a status update. With 20k+ likes and comments on LinkedIn and over 2.

Workers leave good bosses and bad bosses in equal measure, a finding that companies can use to their strategic advantage, indicates new research.

One of the biggest challenges leading a group of developers is keeping the team updated on everything that I can see. As time flies by in meeting after meeting it is easy to forget that I am the eyes and ears for those on my team. Until recently I had

Lessons from a nuclear submarine.

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It's written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don't have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content because they've either never done the work or have forgotten

Sometimes a jewel becomes more valuable when people can wear it. That is a thought I had the other day when I was permitted to play the Gershwin Steinway that resides in a workshop at the School of Music at the University of Michigan. It is a true musical jewel, even [...]