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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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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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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?