This ecard from someecards may be a bit dramatic, but it does highlight an essential point for a high-performance worker: context. It's tempting to overlook the big picture in favor of cranking out day-to-day work, but to save your sanity and preserve your productivity, you must have ample...
Many managers read all the talk about employee engagement and think that happy employees will automatically level up their productivity; unfortunately, managing performance isn't that simple. There's one more element of the equation: a manager's rapport with his or her team. As Jason Lauritsen...
An excerpt from Jim Clifton's "The Coming Jobs War" makes a fascinating assertion: engaged employees catalyze economic growth, and high-energy workplaces are thus poised to save America. Clifton cites a Gallup study in which just 28 percent of the U.S. workforce is engaged at work,...
This infographic by Brown & Company outlines the genetic structure of high-performance teams and the four phases they use to bring a product to market: Ready, Aim, Fire, Adjust. Such workgroups can't be hampered by bureaucracy; they must have "room to run, to experiment and even fail,...
