One day a year isn’t much to spend honoring the folks that built everything. One day a year for the more than twenty that died from the heights and in the caissons as they built the Brooklyn …
PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi On The Tradeoffs Of Being CEO
Indra Nooyi, who will be retiring from her role as CEO of PepsiCo, has been honest about the personal sacrifices that came with the job. Now with retirement on the horizon, were the sacrifices worth it?
Warning: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Talent Planning | First Round Review
So you've heard of radical candor by now, right? That's just one of many tools you'll need to be a better boss, according to Candor, Inc. co-founder Kim Scott. You also must master the different modes of performance on your team — especially for your top people. Here's why.
You've no doubt heard it said that titles don't make leaders. That's more true than ever in this age when good ideas so often trump position and tenure. Leadership is more about setting direction than giving directions. Here's one experts take on the subject.
This Is How To Make Your Life Awesome: 6 Secrets From Research - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
The only way to really know how to make your life awesome would be to follow a lot of people for their entire lives and see what works. Luckily somebody did...
Seven years ago, I shared a secret about juggling: Throwing is more important than catching. If you’re good at throwing, the catching takes care of itself. Emergency response is overrated com…
The Simple Tool That Revives Employee Motivation | First Round Review
At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.
Humble leaders have often been overshadowed by their charismatic counterparts but research has shown that humble leadership can lead to greater collaboration and improved performance.
Twenty years ago, a few colleagues and I launched a consulting practice to help leaders build more effective organizations through practical, non-touchy-feely work around leadership, teamwork, clarity, communication and human systems. We believed then—and still do today—that far too many organizatio
Open offices are collaboration killers, why you should ditch your to-do list, and more top insights | LinkedIn
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