The OS Canvas How to rebuild your organization from the ground up
Niels Pflaeging offers some clarity. “Culture is like a shadow. You cannot change it, but it changes all the time. Culture is read-only.” Trying to…
When Hierarchies and Networks Collide
What happens when a hierarchy meets its match in today’s networked world? Who wins, the hierarchy or the network?
Relationship Capital: 4 (and a half) scientific studies to help you be a better networker
1. Teamwork isn’t just for the cavalry. Dynamics in the boardroom play out across levels of organizational trust and directly affect company…
Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better
In numerous studies, diversity — both inherent (e.g., race, gender) and acquired (experience, cultural background) — is associated with business…
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…
How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises
An emerging collectivist movement
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…
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…