Catalysts include setting clear goals, allowing autonomy, providing sufficient resources and time, helping with the work, openly learning from problems and successes, and allowing a free exchange of ideas. Related: How…
The Power of Small Wins
It turns out that ordinary scientists, marketers, programmers, and other unsung knowledge workers, whose jobs require creative productivity every day, have more in common with famous innovators than most managers…
A Model Manager — and a Tool for Emulating Him
Our model manager is Graham, whom we observed leading a small team of chemical engineers within a multinational European firm. The mission of the team’s NewPoly project was clear and…
How Work Gets Stripped of Its Meaning
One Managers may dismiss the importance of employees’ work or ideas. Consider the case of Richard, a senior lab technician at a chemical company, who found meaning in helping his…
The Daily Progress Checklist
Near the end of each work day, use this checklist to review the day and plan your managerial actions for the next day. After a few days, you will be…