Stacia Garr and Priyanka Mehrotra

Overemphasizing output at the expense of employees’ skill development and long-term growth is short-sighted.

Merete Wedell-Wedellsborg

The most successful executive teams can achieve outsized outcomes, but they can also be challenging to manage and be a part of. The author, a psychologist who has worked with executive teams for over 20 years, explains what sets the best teams apart — their members’ raw capacity, the scale of their aspiration and achievement, and their constant generative tension — and unpacks how to manage the latter so that teams are productive, not destructive.

Derrick P. Bransby, Michaela J. Kerrissey, and Amy C. Edmondson

Across industries, from manufacturing to health care, the luxury of waiting years to benefit from new talent is long gone. Thriving in today’s dynamic economy means bringing new hires up the learning curve faster than ever. Yet, the authors’ latest research suggests one catalyst for learning is often lacking when it’s needed most: psychological safety.

Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi

Many companies build cultures that are focused on controlling the output of low performers, rather than growing and unlocking everyone’s skills. This approach is low-ROI and ultimately problematic for high-performance cultures. Leaders spend an inordinate amount of time handholding their least productive colleagues, instead of helping their strongest contributors move faster and do more.

James Temperton

Creating a startup of small teams can help you ship stupidly fast.

Joost Minnaar

Mainfreight, a global logistics powerhouse, is known for its innovative management style that boldly rejects traditional budgeting.

In this Pendomonium+#mtpcon Amsterdam roadshow talk, Ebi Atawodi, a product director at Google, looks at creating a culture of building. 

Reham Fawad

Learn key strategies for building and nurturing high-performing product teams, fostering a strong product culture and retaining top talent

Cate Huston

Someone asked me about my management philosophy recently, and after I stopped panicking (I wrote a book, I should have a philosophy… how do you summarize 400 pages a…

Adrian Howard

TL;DR: Low risk and high cadence activities are the best fit for self-service user research — and sometimes that means you need to change your organisation's approach to research work.