In the relationship era of business, networked structure rules
In the heyday of the industrial era, business jargon had a mechanical ring to it. A flourishing organization was a “well-oiled machine,” and terms…
The decisive thing is your network. Work is interaction.
Networks provide problem-solving capability that results directly from the richness of communication and the amount of connectivity. What happens in…
How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability
The squad structure achieves autonomy without sacrificing accountability. Every squad owns its features throughout the product’s life cycle, and the…
Networked leadership
These leadership patterns can be restricting or enabling. Knowing in the brain is a set of neural connections that correspond to our patterns of…
Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies…
Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence
Companies are always looking for the best ways to assess the potential of employees. Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the…
Making data analytics work for you—instead of the other way around
The data-analytics revolution now under way has the potential to transform how companies organize, operate, manage talent, and create value. That’s…
Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
In total, then, there are 21.4 million employees in the U.S. workforce — 12.5 million managers and the equivalent of 8.9 million individual…