LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

Brief  Some ideas that find small-scale success won't scale because they have fatal flaws, rely on rare or unique human traits or cause unexpected effects that mitigate the benefits, writes Lyft Chief Economist John List. "For an enterprise to hold strong at scale,...

Brief Email can become a de facto to-do list hanging over your head, and the long-term solution is to rethink your email habits, writes Robin Copple. "Your mission moving forward: have email be a resource you parse through in the morning, and check periodically but...

Brief  "Success statements" are good ways to demonstrate your business-focused contributions to senior leadership while showing off your communication, critical thinking and team leadership, writes executive coach Joel Garfinkle. "Remember that self-promotion is key...

Brief  Employees feel disconnected from work because they lack purpose, they feel lonely and they don't believe their manager cares about them, write Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. Stallard. They offer three tactics for demonstrating this care and improving the...

Brief  A TV show that forced teams to travel hundreds of miles by biking, hiking and swimming offers lessons in teamwork, celebrating small wins and keeping a sense of humor, writes Jim Taggart. "Although they suffered from dehydration, diarrhea, trenchfoot, sprains,...

Brief  Challenging times can energize us to rise to the occasion if we can see a better future based on our own definition of success and don't give in to the temptation to blame others, writes LaRae Quy. "We need to harden up, because self-righteousness can be...

Brief  Friction between team members can be reduced by making time to build relationships, space to disagree and a shared goal of making progress, writes Adam Kahane of Reos Partners and an author on collaboration. "To the maximum extent possible, you need to enable...

Brief  People can get so focused on a project that they miss the big-picture goal they're aiming for, says University of Miami neuroscientist Amishi Jha, who says it's possible to improve your "internal situational awareness." Jha offers an exercise called "River of...

Brief  Employees who don't feel a sense of purpose, don't feel heard and don't see growth opportunities are more likely to leave, so better to regularly inquire about those areas now than at the exit interview, writes executive coach Susan Peppercorn.   Insight...