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How Micromanaging Poisons Productivity and Creates a Vicious Cycle of Despair
Here’s the thing about bosses who micromanage. None of them think they’re actually doing it. It’s easy to see how this happens. Managers, typically, were once experts at the work their subordinates...
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Why I Ignored a Late-Night Email From My New Boss (And You Should Too)
It came, like most terrible and dangerous things, in the night. OK so like 9:30. But late enough. It arrived through the buzz of my phone. A new message in my inbox. A message from my new boss. And...
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What Airbnb Can Teach You About The Lost Art Of The Rejection
When Airbnb was getting started in 2008, the company’s founders met with seven top Silicon Valley investors. The founders were looking to raise $150,000 at a $1.5 million valuation. “That means for...
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The 8 Must-Have Tools For Remote Work
Working on a remote team — with colleagues spread all over the world — is a craft. It needs to be practiced and worked on. And every good craftsman needs a good set of tools. Here are the tools for...
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The 10 Things You Learn After One Month Of Remote Work
At iDoneThis, we’ve got our team spread all across the world. Germany, Italy, New York, Wisconsin. The company has been remote from Day 1 and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Working from a home...
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Asynchronous Communication Is The Future Of Work
Synchronous communication. Add this to the long list of things about working that will puzzle your grandkids. “Tell us about fax machines again, grandpa.” “And what about synchronous communication?”...
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How To Obsess Over Customers Like Jeff Bezos
What external metric is your company most proud of? Facebook likes? SEO ranking? For Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, it just might be this: each year, the company is ranked at the top of its...
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How To Solve The 8 Causes Of Workplace Conflict
The workplace is for work. You’re are here to get things done, grow the business, improve the world and get better at whatever it is that you do. It’s not a place for squabbling with coworkers,...
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A scientific guide to creative juices [what they are and how to summon them]
Does this happen to you? It’s Friday and you’re sitting in an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting. The boss needs creative ideas for next quarter. “Concentrate!” You’re told. “Be creative!” You...
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The Management Technique Essential To Google’s Growth
In it’s early years, as the company was experiencing astronomical growth, then-Google executive Marissa Mayer started executing a technique she picked up while teaching computer science at Stanford....
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How to convince your boss to hold fewer meetings [a step-by-step guide]
Try stealing money from your company’s bank account and you’re behind bars for a very long time. Steal thousands of dollars from the company in another way, and you’re a forward thinking go-getter....
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How To Dress When You Work From Home
Work remote, and this conversation comes up all the time. “You don’t even wear pants to work! Lucky!” Some version of that. Workers without an office are the pantsless winners in the occupational...
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Want To Get More Done? Make Communication Harder
Of all the problems the country faces, very few of them make their way to Oval Office. Yes, there are many problems for the president to solve. There is a lot on his plate. But for every one problem...
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The Definitive Guide to Daily Standups
When the business world seeks new productivity tools, it often turns its gaze to Silicon Valley, an industry famous for its ability to eliminate the cruft of the workday. But there’s one productivity...
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Progress, Plans, Problems: Sync Your Team with Updates
If the daily challenge of communicating with your co-workers is driving your crazy, you are not alone. Between all of the different tasks and moving pieces on your schedule, keeping your team members...
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People Management for Rookies
Most people who start their own business do it because they have a great idea. Whether they’re setting out to start a new social media site or an environmentally-friendly sock distribution company,...
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What I Learned From Managing an International Remote Team
Guest post by Nils Vinje of Glide Consulting. A version of this post appeared on the Glide blog. Let me start with the good part: when I managed a team of customer success managers in San Francisco,...
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How to Manage the Distinct Personalities of your Remote Team
So you think it’s time for your company to take the plunge and go remote. While you and your team begin to hammer out the details, new concerns bubble up—what if your staff burn out or fall through...
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Trust, But Verify: The Key Management Tool To Build Team Satisfaction
Delegation is one of the hardest management tools for leaders to learn. We all understand that micromanaging your employees isn’t good for anyone, but when you’re used to being involved in everything,...
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Why You Should Stop Copying Google’s Employee Perks
Not only is Google rated the #1 place to work year after year, but it’s one of most valuable companies on earth. And that’s by no coincidence. To get there, Google spent years perfecting their...
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