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Workplace Culture (9)

The Best Ways to Build Trust Within Your Team

A survey from EY discovered something that should give managers at all levels pause: Fewer than half of employees...

Women in Leadership: Expanding Your Capacity for Courage and Risk Taking

The New York Times found that among Fortune 500 CEOs, there are more men named James than there are women on the list;...

Are You Truly Selling Your Point?

When I started work in the editorial department of a popular kids’ magazine, the company’s president decided to have a...

Why Autonomy Is the Key to a Happy Workplace Culture

How do you like to do your job: With the freedom to work at an efficient-but-comfortable pace, or with someone...

The 4 Enemies of Making Your Point

Even if you master all of the simple, smart, and practical tips from my book, Get to the Point!, you may still run into...

5 Tips to Create the Culture You Want

The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture. —Edgar Schein This is one of my...

Why Virtual Leaders Shouldn't Settle for "Okay"

If you manage a remote team, you might spend a lot of time wondering how things are going. In doing research for our...

3 Big Signs That You May be Micromanaging

Few people will admit to being a micromanager. But most employees—59 percent—say they’ve worked for a micromanager at...

Ask Me Anything: The Power of Being Vulnerable

President Obama surprised the world in 2012 when he logged onto Reddit and typed, “Ask me anything.” The forty-fourth...