I was recently telling a story about a time in my career when I had an all out panic. When I got my first general manager job at Hewlett Packard, early … Read more
Great Companies Clearly Show: Employee Flexibility Drives Innovation
In successful organizations where employees are highly engaged and productive, producing the best work is no longer about putting in the most hours — … Read more
10 Key Principles For the Majority of Us Who Need Cultural Change
I wrote a popular TLNT article about how 96 percent of respondents from a Strategy&/Katzenbach Center survey on culture and change management … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Times Change, But People Still Find Ways to Avoid Work
Ever since the dawn of time, when humans figured out that they needed to work, people have found an untold number of ways to goof off and waste time on the … Read more
How Do You Keep “That New Job Smell” as Long as Possible?
I was on the phone with a friend of mine last week talking about his new job. He had all that passion you hear from folks who just start a job! Everything … Read more
Work-Life Balance: A Bad Concept That Ignores The Real Problem
Editor’s Note: Sometimes readers ask about past TLNT articles. That’s why we republish a Classic TLNT post every Friday. Work-life balance is one of those … Read more
Management 101: Making the Wrong Decision vs. Making No Decision
“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making … Read more
How Your Work Culture Can Get You Through the Sands Dunes of Life
“You are here,” the mat reads. You look down, mouth agape, and you think, “So where the hell is here?” You’re standing atop a great sand dune among a … Read more
The True Cost of Bad Managers – and Why You Need Really Great Ones
When bad managers are allowed to run free, everyone suffers. Employees suffer — Employees feel unsupported, undirected, bullied, confused, … Read more
Getting Outside the Box: The 5 Behaviors of Successful Leaders
“I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — … Read more