Motivate those ‘average’ employees

  • May 23, 2017

The management challenge is to figure out how to keep the average employees motivated. Here are three principles managers should apply to motivate average...

10 finer points of strategy

  • May 08, 2017

Quality, innovation, profitability, and growth all depend on having strategy and execution fit together seamlessly.

At Netflix, autonomy above all else

  • April 20, 2017

Reed Hastings believes that talented people thrive when you simply leave them alone. So the co-founder and CEO of Netflix created a culture of independence.

Suffering a boss who doesn’t suffer fools

  • March 30, 2017

Q. I just accepted a midlevel manager job. Yesterday, I met with a senior vice president who I’ll have to work with regularly. He said, “I don’t suffer...

Hire SWANS and let them swim

  • March 29, 2017

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. The return on investment will be extraordinary.

Performance reviews: a two-way street

  • March 23, 2017

Performance reviews are an excel­lent time to exchange important information with employees. But to be effective, there must be a genuine exchange.