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How GitLab’s CEO Shadow Program Transmits Company Values

As part of GitLab’s commitment to transparency and collaboration, leaders are invited to attend meetings with and provide feedback to the CEO

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How Satya Nadella Led Microsoft through a Corporate Turnaround

Leading a corporate turnaround at a company as large as Microsoft is a daunting challenge, but CEO Nadella focused on culture and innovation to return it to dominance

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How Leaders Must Strategically Respond to Recessions

Our team explores historical and biological lessons to understand how organizations can adapt to scarce resources and fierce competition

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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.

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How an Extreme Offsite Led to eBay’s Turnaround

When corporate bureaucracy slows innovation, it takes unorthodox measures to break through. A secret offsite gave eBay’s team the focus they needed to develop a new solution.

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How IBM’s Performance Management Pivoted to Match Its Business Strategy

When IBM started focusing more on innovation and speed, their CHRO had to re-evaluate how employee performance was measured.

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How NASA’s Pirate Paradigm Challenged The Status Quo

When an organization enters a hibernation period where innovation slows and bureaucracy mounts, renegades can shake everyone out of complacency. Renegades, like NASA’S Pirates, can work outside of the organization’s norms to spot emerging problems and invent radically new responses.

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Patagonia’s Twist on the Exit Interview

When an employee announces their decision to leave the company, it’s imperative you learn from their experiences, both good and bad. An exit interview is often the last chance you’ll have to do so. But both parties need to be focused on learning, growing, and knowledge-sharing.

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Four Rules Slack Follows When Using Slack

How does the company who invented one of the most ubiquitous team messaging platforms in the world use its own tool?

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How REI Responded to Employee Criticisms Online

With social platforms and sites like Glassdoor, companies are receiving more feedback from their employees and that feedback is often very public. How should a company respond?

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The 5 Signs of a High Performing Team, According to Google

Google conducted 200+ interviews with their employees and examined more than 250 attributes of 180+ active Google teams to answer a simple question: what makes a great team at Google?

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How Chewse Promotes a Healthy Startup Culture

If your team doesn’t carve out time for healthy rituals, your unhealthy ones (working through lunch, etc.) will take precedence. Try one of Chewse’s ideas, or a create a ritual of your own to actively reinforce your values. Prioritize psychological safety and transparency, and you’ll create an environment where your team can do their best work.

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How Instagram Uses the RACI Model to Make Decisions and Boost Transparency

If you’re a startup with a small team, you might think it’s too soon to start focusing on solidifying your decision-making process. But by embedding these norms into your culture from the beginning, you’ll build a strong foundation of transparency that will serve you as you grow.

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How Apple’s Top 100 Meeting Rewards High Performers

You don’t need a luxury location and a security crew to host an event that your leadership team will look forward to attending. Instead, you can build excitement and anticipation by forming your own version of Apple’s Top 100 meeting. Create an occasion to recognize your leaders, to share your vision, and to foster loyalty with your top performers.

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How Google’s TGIF Meetings Empower Employees

If you’re looking for ways to show you value your employees, share important information on a regular basis. To further increase transparency, give employees access to upper management and encourage them to ask questions.

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Delegate Tasks Based on Competence Levels

Delegating tasks to encourage employee capability takes time and energy. But tailoring your delegation style to match your employee’s competence level will increase their competency in the long run.

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How GE Modernized the Annual Performance Review

The annual performance review is out of sync with markets that change overnight and company goals that evolve every quarter. GE is currently one of the largest companies trying to modernize their annual reviews to maximize employee motivation and align their goals with FastWorks, the company’s initiative for lean and nimble workflow.

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How SoundCloud’s All Hands Meetings Keep Its Four Offices Aligned

If you’re having more meetings but the message is still getting lost, try making your meetings fewer but more purposeful. Prepare for them like you would for a client or press presentation, get employee input, and allow employees to break off or sit in on other meetings to stay informed.

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How Warby Parker Created a Marketplace for Work

Creating a marketplace-driven workflow and empowering your employees can re-energize your company and increase initiative and motivation.

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How Female White House Staffers Got More Credit with Amplification

Breaking through in your organization, to have your ideas heard and concerns addressed, might require working together.