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A 4-Step Plan to Stop Micromanaging and Preserve Productivity

Managers, listen up: micromanagement kills your team’s efficiency and will slowly drive you insane. I’ve prepared a simple four-step plan to help you stop micromanaging and thereby preserve your employees’ productivity. [Read more...]

5 Tips for Interviewing

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Whether you are in a position to conduct interviews with potential hires or a jobseeker who wants to ask the right questions during an interview, today’s must-reads will help you feel confident while interviewing. [Read more...]

Pointless Meetings

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This ecard by someecards illustrates a cruel fact: pointless meetings are ubiquitous. [Read more...]

Monday Must-Reads: Employee Morale

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Employee morale directly influences team productivity and efficiency, and today’s must-reads focus on how to keep your office motivated. [Read more...]

5 Monday Must-Reads on Jeremy Lin and Leadership

Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks

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Former Harvard guard Jeremy Lin has lit up the New York Knicks and the NBA at large with his dynamic play over the past two weeks. [Read more...]

Can a FedEx Day Supercharge Team Productivity?

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One of the concepts described in “Drive” by Daniel Pink is that of a FedEx Day, where employees can work on anything they want for a 24-hour period. [Read more...]

6 Principles Managers Can Learn From Effective Hollywood Teams [INFOGRAPHIC]

This Socialcast infographic sheds light on six principles managers can learn from effective Hollywood teams like the Incredibles, X-Men and Ocean’s Eleven. [Read more...]