Jeffrey Pfeffer,
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dear Micro-Manager, Control Yourself
To increase productivity, don’t increase working hours—give employees greater autonomy.
Kathleen Eisenhardt,
Stanford University
Simple Rules Set You Free
Use simple, clear rules to get your team into a rhythm and reduce frustration.
Henning Piezunka,
INSEAD
Sweet Rejection: Cutting Out the Noise
Don’t waste time coming up with lots of ideas you’ll never use. Save time for idea selection and implementation.
Jennifer Anastasoff,
Serial Entrepreneur
Over, Under, Through: Fixing Government Friction
Put your values front and center. How you make something is as important as what you make.
Sam Yen,
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
The Customers Made Us Scale It
Changing your culture starts with energizing your users. Customer buy-in motivates staff to take new risks.
Sheri Singer,
Just Singer Entertainment
Productive Paranoia: Lights, Camera…Anxiety!
Solve problems before they become crises. Pounce on any early signs of trouble in a project.
Michael Arena,
General Motors
Agile on the Edges: Managing Misfits
Start valuing employees who are capable of convince others to try new things. Give them time and space to spread bold new ideas.
Eric Ries,
The Lean Startup
The Spreadsheet Troll: Tales of Silos and Scaling
To encourage innovation, measure and reward employees’ productive failures.
Steve Vassallo,
Foundation Capital
Focus on Users to Solve Problems
Think of the design process not as an exercise in aesthetics, but as an inquiry to identify the most important problem to solve.
Nancy Koehn,
Harvard Business School
Tenacious Compassion: Leading Through the Storm
Know yourself. Confront your own humanity to lead through uncertainty.
Lisa Alderson,
Genome Medical
Dare to Stretch Your Boundaries
Get out of your comfort zone and learn to be adaptable. Breakthroughs don't come from doing what you've always done.
Gabriel Parisi-Amon,
Nebia Shower
A Burnout Manifesto
Allow yourself to pause work so you can reflect and decompress. The source of protection from burnout is grounded in your values.
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