Performance Management

Here's how the ‘self-management’ system that Zappos is using actually works

Richard Feloni

An article that concretely describes how Zappos was organized according to the principles of Holacracy.

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Conversation Starter: How Intimate Are You?

Boris Groysberg, Michael Slind

Establish a relaxed environment conducive to open and sincere discussion.

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Leadership Is a Conversation

Boris Groysberg, Michael Slind

Reconsider the role of the leader and the role of conversation within the company.

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Your Company’s Secret Change Agents

Richard Tanner Pascale, Jerry Sternin

How to rely on natural change agents in your company.

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6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again

Keith Ferrazzi

Managers do not always have the time to undertake the coaching of all their staff themselves. It is better to try to develop a culture of coaching and mentoring within your teams.

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Blue Ocean Leadership

W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

How can you re-empower people at every level of the hierarchy to reinforce employee engagement and performance?

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Failing by Design

Rita Gunther McGrath

De-dramatize failure to encourage initiative taking.

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Bringing the Market Inside

Thomas W. Malone

An overview of the different type of markets-including predictive markets- used by companies.

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Pourquoi le travail passera, dans le futur, par de nouvelles formes de gouvernance

Luc Bretones

[Why work will go through new forms of governance in the future] A presentation of two “liberated” company models: holacracy and sociocracy, with short testimonials by business executives that have adopted them.

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The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams

Alison Reynolds, David Lewis

The behaviors you should encourage in your team to set up an atmosphere of psychological safety.

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