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Why Manage the Good, When You Can Coach the Best?

By Janet Choi

August 4, 2014

“Thanks for pushing me.” That’s what Kawhi Leonard — at twenty-two, the third youngest Finals MVP in NBA history — told his coach, Gregg Popovich, during ...

How To Make Small Teams Actually Work With Terrible Communication

By I Done This Support

August 1, 2014

Amazon is a mess. In the words of one former Amazon.com engineer: “their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams,” “their operations are a mess,” ...

The Extreme Productivity Philosophy that Created Facebook and PayPal

By I Done This Support

July 29, 2014

Back in 2005, long before they began approaching $10 billion in annual revenue, everyone thought that Facebook was a cool app, but no one thought ...

How to Tell When A Manager Is Really Productive

By Janet Choi

July 28, 2014

What do managers do all day? This is one of the great, constant mysteries of worklife. According to management expert Peter Drucker, what a manager ...

The 60% Rule: The Humbling Reason Why It’s Vital that You Encourage Autonomy at Work

By I Done This Support

July 24, 2014

Breakthrough products are created out of thin air by a singular product visionary — your Steve Jobsian figure in a black turtleneck and a ponderous ...

Managers Are Blind to How the Sausage Gets Made, Literally

By Janet Choi

July 23, 2014

When Toy Story broke box office records and Pixar was the biggest IPO of 1995, it seemed that company co-founder and president, Ed Catmull, had ...

How to Hire Like Jeff Bezos

By I Done This Support

July 15, 2014

It’s hard to believe now, but in the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had a tough time hiring. While he had some extreme methods, ...

The Boring Trait Google Looks For in Its Leaders

By I Done This Support

July 10, 2014

The prototypical leader is a hero: gives the rousing speech, inspires the troops, and shows up at the last minute to save the day. At ...

3 Surprising Leadership Lessons from a Navy Captain

By Anonymous Anonymous

May 15, 2014

I made the decision to join the military because of an idealized notion of what life in the military would be like. Before I shipped ...

Why Poor Leaders Are Valuable

By Anonymous Anonymous

April 7, 2014

Thomas Edison famously replied when asked whether his repeated failures (ten thousand plus) at creating a working light bulb frustrated him: “No, I just discovered ...