Quick Studies 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
Quick Studies 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
Quick Studies 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
Quick Studies 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.
Quick Studies 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.
Quick Studies 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.
Quick Studies 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.
Quick Studies 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.
Quick Studies 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?
Quick Studies 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?