Tag Archive for: performance management
One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance
Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, Human Rights, Leadership
Diversity has several established benefits to team performance.
Discussions on diversity in the workplace can be heated and contentious. All too often, we see attitudes toward diversity in the workplace shift like a pendulum, as the explosion…
Getting to the Heart of Team Culture with Pete Carroll
Blog, Corporate Culture, Personality & Personnel, Podcast, TrustIn this episode of Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, Adam speaks with Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll about the ingredients for taking a team to the Super Bowl.
The Science of Performing Under Pressure
Blog, Corporate Culture, PodcastAn episode of Re:Thinking with Adam Grant featuring cognitive scientist Sian Beilock.
It’s Time to Overhaul Our Understanding of Accountability
Blog, Corporate Culture, Personality & PersonnelFew buzzwords are more cringeworthy than “accountability.”
A Better Way to Review Remote Worker Performance
Blog, Fairness, Personality & Personnel, Workplace SurveillanceFew office workers seem to like performance reviews, those annual examinations of how well workers are doing their jobs.
How a Soviet Miner Helped Create Today’s Intense Corporate Workplace Culture
Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Personality & Personnel, Workplace Surveillance
The human type created by Stakhanovism so many decades ago now seems to gaze at us from mission statements, values and commitments in meeting rooms, headquarters and cafeterias—but also through every website and every public expression of…
How to Make Lying at Your Company Normal
BlogEarlier this month at the Beacon Theater, in New York City, Daniel Kahneman, famed author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, had a conversation with neuroscientist Sam Harris. It ranged over many of the topics the Nobel Prize-winning behavioral scientist…