Workspaces design

The open office is the dominant form of workspace design for good reason: It fosters collaboration, promotes learning, and nurtures strong culture. But...

How to figure it out for yourself — and convince your boss.

Establishing a new normal will require a bit of training.

To promote accountability, productivity, and shared learning, many organizations create open work environments and gather reams of data on how individuals...

How they did it - and why.

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Step-by-step advice for arriving at an aspirational target.

Today, most multinationals have a conspicuous social conscience. They publicize their internal codes of conduct, monitor labor conditions in their global supply chains, and require suppliers to meet basic labor practice standards. But despite efforts to be better global citizens, companies by themselves are unable to eliminate abuses in their supply chains. In fact, so […]

How to keep the distractions at bay.

Is your organization's culture creating problems? If so, change it by acting in dramatic ways reflecting a new and better culture. You'll fix the problems-and...

Choose a job where the work culture fits your style. Then sell what you bring to the table to get the job you want.

What took thousands of lives and killed an industry was management’s failure to insist on its own responsibilities.

The Denver office of Clarion Co., a $30 million, full-service marketing firm, has always been a politics-free zone. Nonwork conversations revolve around...

A framework for designing a space (physical or virtual) that aligns with your strategic needs.

After a salesman jokingly asks a female colleague if her appearance is the reason for her inclusion in a leadership program, his friend, the only other...

Since the pandemic, companies have adopted the technologies of virtual work remarkably quickly--and employees are seeing the advantages of more flexibility...

While some women stand nose pressed against the glass ceiling, many working mothers never get near it. What stops them is the “maternal wall.” Where mothers are concerned, coworkers and bosses often perceive a trade-off between competence and warmth. That’s what I found when I reviewed the research on stereotyping in the workplace. Social psychology […]

Most companies don't realize how central emotions are to building the right culture. They tend to focus on cognitive culture: the shared intellectual...