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…
How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises
An emerging collectivist movement
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…
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
We found many ways that all kinds of organisations positively encouraged intelligent people not to fully use their intelligence. There were rules and…
Icebreakers Are Terrible. They Also, Unfortunately, Work Really Well.
And the third and most important purpose is encouraging people to talk about themselves. “That’s the foundation of relationships: self-disclosure,”…
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…
How a great conversation is like a game of catch
As a radio host, Celeste Headlee has engaged in her fair share of discussions, and she’s thought a lot about how to bring out the best in a…
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic
Human beings are social animals. We spend large portions of our waking hours communicating with others, and the possibilities for conversation are…
5 Ideo Kickstarting Exercises
More and more designers are using improv games in order to get groups in the mood to collaborate. There are many of these games, taught at places…
6 Second Hand Shake and Neuroscience
You drastically underestimate the power of touch. Actually, I’m wrong…