Hello folks,

I have been busy this week getting things ready to launch my new course, Building Successful Communities of Practice, and I can now announce that it’s live!

It’s been a lot of slide wrangling (ooooh those keynote animations are on point), recording videos, writing content, uploading content and testing, but it’s now all ready to go.

And people are already saying great things about it.

What people are saying about the course

Check it out yourself at https://tacit.pub/learnCoPs

Enjoy this week’s posts and happy Friday.

Emily

People and Culture

The Surprising Viability of the Four-Day Workweek

Researcher and author Juliet B. Schor explains how a shorter workweek can benefit employees and employers alike.

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-surprising-viability-of-the-four-day-workweek

Research: Gen AI Makes People More Productive—and Less Motivated

Yukun Liu, Suqing Wu, Mengqi Ruan, Siyu Chen and Xiao-Yun Xie

hbr.org/2025/05/research-gen-ai-makes-people-more-productive-and-less-motivated

Research: When Leaders Express Positivity Early On, Employees Perform Better

Jacob Levitt, Constantinos Coutifaris and Paul Green

hbr.org/2025/04/research-when-leaders-express-positivity-early-on-employees-perform-better

Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life

Leslie Perlow and Salvatore Affinito

sloanreview.mit.edu/article/time-well-spent-a-new-way-to-value-time-could-change-your-life

Organisations and Systems

Why Your Manager is (Probably) Incompetent

Joost Minnaar

www.corporate-rebels.com/blog/why-your-manager-is-probably-incompetent

Outcomes and Objectives

Metrics Are Easy—Impact Is Hard

Christina Wodtke

eleganthack.com/metrics-are-easy-impact-is-hard

Facilitation and Decision making

How to make the right decisions under pressure 

Dileep Kumar Pandiya

leaddev.com/technical-direction/make-right-decisions-under-pressure

Approaches for Teams

How Autonomous Teams Help Everyone Learn and Improve

Johanna Rothman

www.jrothman.com/newsletter/2025/05/how-autonomous-teams-help-everyone-learn-and-improve

Other Things

This new podcast series from CBC and Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of the internet is worth a listen.

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