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There’s a Maxell cassette tape commercial from the 80s where a man’s hair is blown back by the power of the playback. That vision comes to mind when I think about the work experience so many people are having today. Except…

For decades, we’ve been caught in the busyness trap, confusing being overscheduled and highly in demand with creating value. A recent report by technology company Visier coined the term “productivity theater” to describe…

In this moment, with the incessant chaos swirling all around us, it’s natural to want to bury your head in the sand. At the individual level, keeping your head down seems like a pretty good strategy. But at the organization…

There are 1,440 minutes in a day. That’s a lot less than most of us need to sleep, exercise, eat, run errands, and do our best at work. Sadly, however, that’s what we’ve got. The Earth is not going to rotate any slower than…

Ever driven to work only to get there and have the eerie feeling that you were checked out the whole time? Like the car drove itself? Mental autopilot is a real thing. It has a tendency to kick in when we’re a) set firmly…

Tick tock. Tick tock. Every day, valuable time is leaking out of your organization. Research suggests that 25 percent of the workday is wasted on distractions and common points of collaborative friction. That two hours of…

On the list of skills, behaviors, or attributes your organization measures and rewards, is “generous collaborator” on the list? I would hazard a guess that it’s not. Most organizations measure success through hard numbers…

Research suggests that knowledge workers waste an average of two hours per day with distractions, irrelevant meetings, and other sources of collaborative friction. That means that you’re paying for 100 percent of the work…

There is never enough time. Not enough time to prepare for a meeting, so we go in cold. Not enough time to meaningfully connect with our teams, so projects travel unchecked down the wrong path, or stall altogether. Too busy…

We are living in a highly volatile world where at any moment there could be another weather disaster, outbreak of violence, mass layoff, or sky-rocketing of consumer prices. Never has compassionate, level-headed leadership…