Monthly Archives: December 2015

Move Your Body, Move Your Brain

Online learning

Every now and then we talk here about the importance of physical fitness for your employees. If you can, try to allow your people some time to incorporate physical activity into their work day. We are not talking about creating Olympic athletes here, but simply trying to get people out of the workplace for a […]

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Know Your Behavioral Biases

We all have a bias for or against at least one thing. I, for example, tend to discriminate against bigots (and yes, I see the irony in that). When it comes to making decisions for your firm, about business practices or personnel or whatever, it is not enough to say “don’t have a bias.” You […]

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Let Them Finish

Employees in class

When your employees start a project, you need to let them finish it. One of the most demoralizing things you can do is pull someone off a long project just before it comes to fruition. It can also set up your project to fail. For both reasons, you need to let the people who have […]

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