Leadership development shouldn’t just focus on leaders
More than 30 years ago, Edwards Deming said, “A bad system will beat a good person every time.” He was emphasizing the heavy influence…
Posts by Mandy Haskett
Here’s a tool to help take control of challenges
This time of year, I hear a lot of people talk about what “matters most.” This year, it’s “mattering” itself that makes the list.…
Transformation, not training, drives retention
There are millions more jobs open today than there are people to fill them. On the horizon: a global talent shortage by 2030 of…
How to best deal with ‘Debbie Downers’
Recently, leaders have been asking me what to do about the “Debbie Downers” dragging their team morale down. The phrase “Debbie Downer,” introduced and…
Want to inspire employees? Look to evolution
One hundred thousand years ago, there are believed to have been at least six human species inhabiting the earth. About 70,000 years ago, Homo…
How to use pre-hire assessment tools the right way
The Great Resignation has ignited an arms race among assessment tools. There are more than 3,000 assessments on the market today in an industry…
Strategy Season: People Strategy + Business Strategy
Four ways to make a people strategy part of your business strategy How to summarize the last two quarters of 2021 at work? I…
Moving Beyond Hustle Culture
Four-day week lets employees be ‘fully human’ I’m a recovering hustler. We held up hard work as the holy grail in my childhood home.…
Boom will force companies to reevaluate culture
Couple more than a year of pent-up demand with trillions of dollars in government support, and our economy could be positioned to grow at…
Leaders must learn how to navigate attention
Four years ago, global agency Wunderman partnered with Penn Schoen Berland to launch a study that would coin the term “wantedness.” This study clarified…
Four resolutions to become better at change
We’ve made it across the threshold of 2021, and the hindsight of 2020 is revealed. How do you feel? A few of you had…
The pitfalls and potential of being feeling creatures who think
We used to believe that humans were thinking creatures that occasionally felt, but PET scans in the last decade have confirmed that humans are…