As children, many of us were counselled to treat “work before play” as a sacred mantra. While the advice was well intentioned, neuroscience makes a compelling case for rethinking the order of operations. “Happiness,” advises...
Your Brain at Work
Innovation is like a mirage, a desired state that’s seemingly always just ahead of you but never quite within reach. (Sometimes it might feel like the only place you’ll find innovation is at the top...
Creating a D&I initiative at your organisation is a bit like the chicken and the egg problem: Which comes first, diversity or inclusion? On the one hand, diversity matters because it ensures multiple viewpoints and...
Growth mindset is everywhere these days. The trouble is, as our research has found, leaders don’t always know where to start to implement an organizational growth mindset. Often, it results in simply telling people to handle more...
Do you believe talent is innate or improvable? Can people build new skills or merely improve existing ones? What’s more important: knowing it all or learning it all? So much of performance management hangs on...
Earlier this year, Microsoft surveyed its employees to find out what was and wasn’t working with the company’s performance culture. At the time, Microsoft employees were getting feedback through an online tool that used numerical...