Culture
How are employee benefits better than wages?
Compensation decisions get framed as a contest between more salary and more perks. That frame leads to shallow choices and fragile outcomes. Early...
How accountability and ownership power real performance
Accountability and ownership are more than workplace buzzwords. They are load bearing choices in how you design a company that scales. This article...
How important is being selfish at work?
The word selfish triggers a recoil in decent people. It sounds like credit hoarding, political maneuvering, and stepping on others to climb. In...
Beating time wasters and productivity killers at work with ADHD
You can be brilliant in a pitch and still lose an entire afternoon to a minor task that should have taken ten minutes....
How intrinsic motivation fuels high performance and employee retention
Creating an environment that truly performs is not about bigger bonuses or louder pep talks. I have watched teams sprint hard for a...
Does putting in long hours reduce your productivity at work?
Professionals love to say they are grinders. Some truly are. Many are simply stuck in systems that reward visibility more than value. If...
Building a productive work environment for peak performance
Founders often try to buy productivity with apps or policies. The results do not hold because tools cannot compensate for design gaps. A...
How does multitasking impact productivity and brain health?
You know the day I am talking about. Your phone lights up before breakfast. You skim a partner deck while replying to a...
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When nice culture kills innovation
Everyone warns you about toxic culture. Few warn you about the other silent killer. The one that looks pleasant in all-hands, sounds supportive...
Why does multitasking hurt productivity in actual teams?
You are reviewing candidates for a critical role. Your phone flashes with a new batch of applicants from another posting. The impulse is...
How going on a workcation can improve work-life balance
In many teams, workcation is treated like a mood. Bags are packed, laptops come along, and everyone hopes the scenery creates clarity. Hope...
The legal protections afforded to victims of abuse at work
I once advised a founder who had done many things right. She built a calm office, hired slowly, and kept meetings short. Then...
The effects of a toxic working culture on performance
A toxic workplace never looks toxic at first. It looks busy. It looks committed. It looks like people pushing hard through lunch and...
Are employees at the workplace more productive than those at home?
Are office workers more productive than those at home? The question sounds decisive, but it hides the real issue. Teams are not failing...
How job performance can be derailed by anxiety
The scene is familiar. A calendar that looks like Tetris, a camera that stays off, a cursor blinking in a message that never...
Here's what organizations can do to recruit the top people
As we begin 2025, the world of work stands at a crossroads. The pressure to solve sustainability challenges, deploy artificial intelligence at scale,...
The effects of remote work policies on workation demand
Headlines about return to office mandates often dominate the conversation, yet the broader trend tells a different story. Remote and hybrid work continue...
Benefits and drawbacks of workation from a psychological perspective
The workation, a trip where you change your surroundings while continuing your day job, is no longer a novelty for founders and lean...
Are we changing culture or keeping business as usual on workplace harassment?
Starting on 26 October 2024, employers in the United Kingdom are required to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment at work. This...
Are your workers entitled or worthy?
Entitlement has always existed at work, although in gentler times it kept a lower profile. A decade of emphasis on individuality, empowerment, and...
As team health improves, the entire organization thrives
Everyone chases star talent and still ships late. The pattern is familiar. You recruit heavy hitters, you celebrate your new cross functional lineup,...
Can a work spouse improve your mental health?
Valentine’s Day cards now include notes for work-husbands and work-wives. The label is playful. The dynamic is real. People spend most waking hours...
Job hugging overtakes job hopping
The headline is not just a vibe shift, it is a system change. The U.S. quits rate sat at 2.0 percent in July...
China moves to rein in the 996 culture of long hours
The posts were loud because the tension is real. A home appliance giant told staff to finish by 6:20 pm to cut bureaucracy....
The importance of leadership in fostering positive workplace cultures
A positive workplace culture rarely appears by accident. It is the result of thousands of small, deliberate decisions that leaders make about who...
How to manage Gen Z employees with boundaries
I used to bristle when someone said Gen Z does not want to work. Then I looked closely at my own calendar, my...
Healthy disagreement at work builds stronger teams
In most workplaces, silence feels safer than speaking up. You nod along in meetings, agree with the consensus, and swallow the objection forming...
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How Gen Z’s return to office is reshaping corporate norms
The loudest commentary frames the new crop of employees as allergic to commutes and discipline. The quiet data says something else. Younger workers...
Why teams thrive when they choose learning or performance
I once ran a sprint that was meant to do two things at once. We wanted new insight from customers and we wanted...
The hidden toxicity of a nice workplace culture
A lot of teams left toxic habits behind after the pandemic, only to swing toward something that also breaks execution. People are kind,...
Digital workplace framework for fast-growing startups
I have sat in enough late night standups to know how this story begins. A founder in Kuala Lumpur or Riyadh spins up...
What are the causes of workplace violence
Most companies treat safety like a compliance checkbox. That mindset breaks the moment stress rises. Layoffs, high churn, angry customers, a messy termination,...
Build career momentum with the networking
Connections are not a nice-to-have. They are the operating system that keeps your career running. The right people shorten learning loops, surface openings...
How to build a strong remote team culture
Remote work culture lets people do their best work without forcing a 9 to 5, obligatory overtime, or traded-away personal lives. Yet too...
Why transparency matters at work
I learned the value of transparency the hard way. Early in my second startup, our Southeast Asia sales pod kept missing targets, while...
Microsoft execs tout in-office “thriving” at leaked meeting as they tighten return-to-office policy
The loudest arguments about hybrid work keep missing the point. This is not about nostalgia for office kitchens or a moral panic about...
Is work-life balance holding you back?
The claim that balance equals mediocrity shows up most loudly in companies that depend on heroic effort to ship. The hours look impressive....
Gen Z entrepreneur claims work-life balance is holding his generation back
The internet loves a simple equation. Trade sleep, friends, and health in your twenties, collect financial freedom by age 30 in your thirties....
Why task masking is so popular among Gen Z
Gen Z did not invent performative busyness. They inherited a workplace that signals approval through presence indicators, rapid chat replies, and spotless dashboards....
How to stop your team from faking productivity
I learned the hard way that activity can eat a company from the inside. Our Slack was alive, Asana boards looked pristine, and...
Do you think it's normal to have a ‘work wife’ and a ‘work husband’
It often begins as a regular office friendship. You share lunch, trade jokes in the hallway, and bond over an oddly specific hobby...
Remote work matters, but culture matters more
I have sat in too many founder dinners where the first question is about office days and the last question is about churn....
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Is the 9-9-6 work schedule headed for your office?
The pressure is back on hours. Some executives believe that speed stalled because calendars got soft and teams got used to flexible work....
Why 996 work culture in Europe will break your startup
The recent push to normalize extreme hours inside European startups has been framed as a competitiveness problem. If others are working sixty to...
How delayed appreciation undermines worker loyalty
The viral memo from AT&T’s chief signaled a shift that many teams already feel. Loyalty, he said, is no longer the point. The...
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How to shield your team from a toxic workplace culture
The pressure shows up before the first missed deadline. Slack goes quiet after 7 p.m. because no one wants a written record. Meetings...
Why task masking keeps growing in modern workplaces
You know the scene. Calendars are packed, Slack lights up, the standup runs long, and there is a new Notion board with clean...
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3 strategies to work differently and deliver bigger results
You do not need more hustle to change your results. You need a clearer operating system. Early teams often confuse effort with impact,...
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How job seekers can steer clear of toxic workplaces
You will not outwork a bad system. Most job seekers still evaluate roles like consumers who want a good experience rather than operators...
Why good employees go quiet when bosses undermine them
It starts quietly. A strong contributor shares a draft plan in a weekly review. The boss interrupts, corrects a minor point for show,...
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