When employees experience meaningful moments, connections form, creating a mini-culture that flows into and impacts the larger workplace community. But how and where do these connections occur? And what’s the business value of focusing on relationships? This article will guide you through research-backed tips and strategies to help you cultivate satisfaction, connections, growth, and positive …
Ann Hiatt learned about leadership, innovation and risk-taking while working alongside legendary CEOs such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer. But those heady experiences arose only because of her bedrock conviction that success requires a willingness to pivot toward opportunity and be resilient in the face of difficulties. Hiatt explains …
It’s hard to go a day on Twitter without finding another discussion about hustle culture, hard work, and the ethics of asking employees to go above and beyond. I get a lot of angry DMs saying I’m a promoter of “hustle culture,” which is not wrong. If you look at a company like Deel, you …
Unless you’ve been sequestered away in a fallout shelter for the past month or two, you’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting.” If you’re unfamiliar: Quiet quitting is a broad term used to describe the act of doing the absolute minimum at your job. Or, at least, not going above and beyond. Basically, talented people feel …
The nobler goal of life bucket integration Attempts at “Work-Life Balance” are doomed before they start. The term “balance” suggests there’s some invisible scale held aloft by Father Time on which we need to allocate grains of sand between our Work and Life buckets. Too much on one side, and the scale tips, sending us …
The Simplicity Principle (2020) proposes a simpler way of living in the twenty-first century. Drawing from nature and geometry, Julia Hobsbawm demonstrates how to simplify the complicated and learn to prioritize the things that matter most of all.