By Rachel Montañez

While recent years have seen back-to-work mandates following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, they’ve also seen a growing number of workers shift to fully or partially remote. Perhaps you’re considering making this shift, too. Many factors make hybrid work schedules appealing — including caring for young children or aging parents, or the stress of long commutes — but flexible work is new and unfamiliar territory for most employers.

By Jenny Fernandez, Kathryn Landis, and Julie Lee

Many leaders become territorial and overprotective of their teams, client relationships, and resources to preserve their ability to succeed. It’s not uncommon for talented leaders to compete internally with their peers for people, investment, and attention; in fact, it’s often that individual drive that made them successful in the first place. However, when you’re looking to scale your leadership and reach the C-suite, this “fend for yourself” mentality will stop you in your tracks. The author presents four strategies to help senior leaders redefine “winning” as a shared goal.

By Heidi Helfand

For the past 9 years as I’ve been doing talks about Dynamic Reteaming around the world, I’ve asked people a variant of the following question: “Raise your hands if your teams have changed in the past month…maybe someone joined your team or maybe they left your team.”

By Emily Rose McRae, Peter Aykens, Kaelyn Lowmaster, and Jonah Shepp

In 2023, organizations continued to face significant challenges, from inflation to geopolitical turmoil to controversy over DEI and return-to-work policies — and 2024 promises more disruption. Gartner researchers have identified nine key trends, from new and creative employee benefits to the collapse of traditional career paths, that will impact work this year. Employers who successfully navigate these will retain top talent and secure a competitive advantage for themselves.

By John Cutler

What you tend to find is one of two problems: A: Teams that ideally could work more closely together that are forced to work more transactionally, B: Situations where the relationship could be more transactional, but teams are forced to collaborate more closely

By Roman Pichler

Create the perfect product portfolio strategy to align the strategies of the products in the portfolio and maximise value creation.

By Oleg Pravdin

Failing forward: Killing your first productIn this article, Oleg Pravdin, head of product at Lumber.fi, highlights the learnings gained by sunsetting his first product, sharing the lessons learnt in the process.

By Jackie Colburn

The new year has arrived and I have no doubt that if you’re a leader you’ve got big ambitions for what’s ahead. Maybe you’re kicking off a…

By Johanna Rothman

I continue to work with people who have trouble with their agile approach. They tell me their relative estimation isn't working for them. They continue to roll over items, from sprint to sprint. They've rolled over some items for six months or longer. The people feel demoralized. And the Scrum Masters or agile project managers […]

In this article, Leslie Grandy, Founder and Principal at The Product Guild, outlines the 10 principles to follow to be a customer-centric product team.

By Giles Turnbull

I don’t have a problem with being reminded of the rules - but I do have a problem with almost all of these training modules, and it’s this: they tend to treat grown adults like children, which only helps to make them feel like more of a chore.