Providing feedback is a challenging part of managing a team, whether it’s critical or positive. However, feedback is a crucial part of fostering a culture of growth and motivation.
Do you offer your advice via email or face-to-face? Should y…
In workplaces across the country, many workers are discussing the topic of “personality hires.”
Essentially, personality hires are employees hired for having the “it” factor. Typically, they’re charismatic with charming personalities, hired more fo…
In today’s hyper-productive society, there’s a growing trend among leaders and influencers touting the benefits of joining the elusive early bird “4 AM Club.” According to these productivity prophets, waking up at dawn is the golden …
When Olympic athletes step onto the field, court, or arena, their years of training will get the ultimate test as the world tunes in to watch. Someone who knows exactly how hard they have worked is Megan Clarken, CEO of Criteo, an ad-tech company base…
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Earlier this month, my long-anticipated summer vacation was canceled. Not only was …
When a company makes a mistake – such as a marketing misstep or a product failure that leads to a recall – a good apology can make a big difference in how we as customers feel about them.
Things can go wrong for all kinds of reasons. On top of addr…
Performance improvement plans, or PIPs, tend to be seen as a death knell for the employees who get them. Rather than a sincere approach to helping team members succeed, they can often signal a slow farewell from the company—a three-month countdown to …
You’re working diligently at your office computer. Out of the blue, your manager appears and reprimands you for taking an extra 15 minutes for your 30-minute break the day before.
You’re confused. You rarely take more than 20 or 25 …
Businesses are often tempted to cut their marketing budgets for the short-term savings it provides – but those cuts can cause problems in the long term. A new study my colleague Tarun Kushwaha and I published in The Journal of Marketing proposes a met…
I’ve always loved the old adage: “You can tell a lot about a person by their shoes”—that people’s interests and personality come through in the small ways they present themselves. Before remote work, back when people actually worked at offices, all th…
