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How the Best Place of Work Became A State of Mind

Great Leadership By Dan

Gue st post from Jonas Altman : Matt Mullenweg’s company had a plush office at Pier 38 in San Francisco’s Embarcadero. It happens in those temporal places that cater best to the technological, creative, and intellectual needs of the individual and team. Because great work can, and will, continue to happen anywhere.

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5 Leadership Modes for Team Success

Skip Prichard

” -Jonas Altman. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science. Jonas Altman. Jonas Altman. Control styles of management yield conformity and compliance, and this worked well for a long time. Jonas Altman.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. employees (47%) experiencing it.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Technology trends. The results were telling. Maintaining a market position under intense pressure.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business Review

Among these: Downsizing firms lose valuable knowledge when employees exit; remaining employees struggle to manage increased workloads, leaving little time to learn new skills; and remaining employees lose trust in management, resulting in less engagement and loyalty.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Managing Across Cultures. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense.