Explainers Going Remote Overnight: Preparing for the Coronavirus Many companies across the globe may need to shift to remote work, and quickly, given the growing concern over the coronavirus.
Quick Studies 10x Thinking and Cross-Functional Goals: What We Can Learn From Amazon’s Planning Process
Explainers Succession Planning for Yourself: How to Find a New Leader When It’s Time to Move On It’s tempting to want to find another “you” to lead the team—instead, evaluate needed skills and adopt a growth mindset to find the right candidate
Quick Studies 10x Thinking and Cross-Functional Goals: What We Can Learn From Amazon’s Planning Process Amazon’s high-performance culture, with its focus on customers, data, and outcomes, is supported by a unique annual planning process. Leaders and teams are incentivized to think big while supporting cross-divisional goals.
Tools Hold Teams Together & Accountable with a Culture Contract To avoid misunderstandings—and address culture fails—outline what the team should expect from each other, and from the organization.
Explainers How to Actually Impact Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace Diversity programs have mixed results. To encourage real diversity, connect it to the bottom line, make meetings more inclusive, and be willing to meet one-on-one to help change mindsets.
Explainers Resilient Leadership: The Power of Presence Success at work relies on your capacity to cope and even thrive when faced with stress. The good news is that resilience is a skill, and that practice can help you manage your presence.
Explainers How to Make Your Ego Work for You as a Leader Ego is your sense of self. Everyone has one, and it’s critical to self-esteem. But when your ego gets too big, we call that narcissism. If you know you have a big ego, you can avoid the problems related to narcissism with self-development.
Tools Anticipate Problems With Scenario Planning At the start of any project, this exercise can help you predict what might go wrong as well as creating a culture where addressing new challenges is safe.
Explainers Why Behavior Beats Attitude when Introducing Cultural Change If you want people to act differently, focus on behavior, not attitude.
Tools Why a Quick “Check-In” Makes Meetings More Effective At the beginning of the meeting, we ask, “What are you bringing with you?” This simple ritual builds psychological safety and actually keeps meetings running on time.
Tools Get to “Skateboard”: How to Start Solving Complex Challenges To solve complex problems, start with the simplest solution and make it “safe to try”
