Jen Dary

Despite all that one-on-one meetings can offer, they can be challenging to navigate, whether you’re new to management or have spent several years in a leadership role. Here some signs that your one-on-ones have gone stale, are unproductive, or are falling short of their potential.

By Julie Zhuo

The what, why, how and art of giving and receiving feedback

By Dawn Klinghoffer, Karen Kocher, and Natalie Luna

As you’re navigating hybrid work, it’s a good moment to assess how your onboarding processes enable or empower your new hires to thrive. Researchers at Microsoft have conducted and identified studies that suggest that onboarding to a new role, team, or company is a key moment for building connections with the new manager and team and doing so a few days in person provides unique benefits. But just requiring newcomers to be onsite full time doesn’t guarantee success.

By Marc-Peter Pijper

Implementing self-management is not easy. Learn why finding the balance is crucial for success and discover common pitfalls that can lead to failure.

By John Cutler

Your product transformation will fail if: You treat a transformation as a project. The track record for big projects is not good. The track record for formal transformation efforts is also not good. Is this because the companies that opt for this approach are less likely to succeed, or is it because the vehicle of a large project is somehow less likely to succeed? We can debate this later, but ultimately, if you view this as something with a beginning, middle, and end, you will likely be sorely disappointed. One way I like to think of this is that your company is transforming as we speak. It has been in a state of perpetual transformation. If you can nudge that energy in the right direction, you will continue on the journey that you are on.

By Jennifer Pahlka

Modernization shouldn't even really be a thing at all.

By Ant Murphy

Your OKRs don’t live in a vacuum. Yet this is exactly how I see many organizations treat their OKRs. They jump on the bandwagon and create OKRs void of any context. Here’s what I see all the time…

By Tracey Thompson

Discover how to identify and address discovery gaps in your product development process and learn strategic interventions to mitigate risks.

By Jackie Colburn

Most of us have attended our fair share of bad meetings — they’re memorable for all the wrong reasons. But if you’re the person in charge…