Six questions to ask if you''re considering WFH.

You can use it to unlock your potential.

Remember that the time you spend at work doesn''t equal quality time.

Are you a director, an analyzer, a collaborator, or a promoter?

Three strategies for new managers.

Corporate training isn''t all fun and games, but maybe it should be. Most of us have (often grudgingly) used corporate learning systems. We skim through 50-slide PowerPoint decks hoping to correctly guess enough answers to pass so that we can get back to our "real work." Much of what we learn is often forgotten by the time we receive our certificate of completion. But a new study, conducted at the professional services firm KPMG, .....more

When two software engineers decided, in 2013, to launch an enterprise software-as-a-service business around GitLab-the open-source collaborative software-development application that they''d been working on-they didn''t intend to turn it into the world''s largest all-remote organization. But they lived 2,000 kilometers apart-one in Ukraine and the other in the Netherlands-and their first hire was in Serbia. None of them wanted .....more

Once upon a time, leisure was a sign of prestige. Today that idea has been turned on its head, and busyness is the new status symbol. Busy people are considered important and impressive, and employees are rewarded for showing how "hard" they''re working. Such thinking is misguided. It can cause organizations to overload their employees, base their incentives on the amount of time they put in, and excessively monitor their activities, .....more

Many of us assumed that by now, years into the pandemic, we''d have settled on new structures, practices, and processes for hybrid work. But we haven''t. Instead most companies are stuck in a transitional phase, where little is resolved. Why is it taking us so long to work this out? Because, the author writes, the new world of hybrid work isn''t simply about determining whether everybody should come back full-time to the office. .....more

The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely shift between these two seemingly opposing modes-and build teams whose members are good at switching back and forth too. Sometimes teams need divergent thinking (during idea generation, .....more