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Lionel Richie: Leading LA’s startup investing surge
Grammy-getting, Oscar-obtaining, Golden Globe-grabbing legendary singer-songwriter Lionel Richie, is adding another feather to his cap as one of LA’s most prominent celebrity startup investors.Upon backing doctor-on-demand service, Heal, Richie got bitten hard by the modern tech bug. And he’s not stopping there.
Catie McHugh
Micromanagement destroys teams — here's how to nip it in the bud
Feeling burnt out at work? If you're in a senior position, it might be because you have micromanagement tendencies and haven't made the transition to a true leader yet.
Michaud Garneau
How digital destruction will actually save your business
If you look at the Fortune 500 list from the year 2000 right now, you’d probably only recognize about half the listed companies.
Jo Foster
How to deal with burnout at work
Research shows that burnout at work is on the rise, with 42% of people saying they feel occupational burnout. This particularly affects women and workers under 30.1
Amy Rigby
Is time tracking the ultimate productivity hack for busy entrepreneurs?
You’re an entrepreneur on the rise, dedicating every skerrick of resources to realizing your business dreams. However, there’s one thing no venture capitalist or Kickstarter backer can raise for you: time.
Catie McHugh
Team management: The ultimate guide to managing calmly for happy, productive teams
Calm team management should be an all-the-time thing, not just during a crisis.On November 8, 2018, project management software Basecamp went down for almost five hours—the company’s largest outage in a decade. But instead of losing their heads, co-founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson saw it as a “stress test” of the very thing they promote in their book, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and had been practicing all along: calm work.
Amy Rigby
How to deal with toxic coworkers (and not get burned)
You settle in to work and then get that familiar draining feeling: a new day, same stuff going on! Despite loving your job, some of your colleagues drag you down, day in and day out. How to deal with toxic coworkers can seem defeating, but there are ways around it.
Bev Campling
How to prepare for the future of work
The phrase “future of work” is enough to spark fear in the hearts of employer and employee alike.
Jo Foster
How to make a performance management process that works (in the future of work)
Performance management and performance appraisals are often used interchangeably in meetings, but they couldn't be further apart. If you're trying to figure out the difference, this article will put the glaring differences into perspective for you.
Bev Campling
Employee relations impact on engagement and staff retention
With the current financial climate resulting in budget cuts, organizations can't afford to neglect employee relations. Creating a positive workplace culture can result in happy employees. And satisfied workers perform better and show more employee loyalty.
Amy Rigby
Why is team building important?
There are explicit and implicit reasons for why team building is important. Let’s start with some of the explicit, more financial ones.
Ted Bauer
Communication is key: Unlock your team’s communication style
Good communication has nothing to do with quantity. A lot of us have been told to “over communicate” as of late and the result is a lot of “zoomed out” people stressed by the overwhelming amount of internal talking that’s happening.
Michaud Garneau
What is a bias for action (and how do you build it)?
Many times throughout your career, or even your life, you might find yourself in analysis paralysis asking the question, “Should I do something about this?”
Kat Boogaard
What is a life coach? And how to know if it’s right for you
For better or worse, we’ve been taught to think about work in specific ways, usually involving productivity and innovation, and often rooted in metrics. These are what we’ve come to call “hard” concepts, i.e. they can be easily tracked and documented: earnings, revenue, growth, calls made, campaigns sent, products launched, etc.
Ted Bauer