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Strategy & Culture: How to Emerge Stronger after the COVID Crash

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

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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.

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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.