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Why Work Loneliness Isn’t Just a Personal Problem, and What to Do About It

Work is a social thing. It’s done with people, and at the very least, for people. At the same time, you are one person with a job to do. When those personal and social gears are out of alignment, when...

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How ShopLocket Maximizes its Progress By Celebrating Wins

When ShopLocket cofounder and CEO Katherine Hague once wanted to sell some ninja T-shirts, she found herself stuck, feeling that the cost and process of building a whole storefront to do so didn’t...

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Build Brick by Brick

John Heywood was an English playwright who lived hundreds of years ago. Today, Heywood is known for his poems, proverbs, and plays. But more than any one work, it’s his phrases that have made him...

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How to Get Your Team to Deliver

Team aimlessness is a tricky foe. It creeps in even when we have the best intentions, corroding motivation and meaningful progress, rearing its ugly head in stalled projects, avoided emails, the...

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95% of Managers Follow an Outdated Theory of Motivation

What, by a long shot, is the most important motivator for employees at work? Is it money, pressure, or praise? Typically managers believe the idea that pressure makes diamonds. The thinking is that if...

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How to Trick Yourself into Making Real Progress

Progress motivates like no other method. Thanks to rigorous research by Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the aptly titled The Progress...

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Don’t Let Your Huge Goal Distract You from Small Wins

Go big or go home. Shoot for the stars. Aim high. These types of platitudes could be holding you back, because they’re distracting you from all the small things. A kind word or a moment of honest...

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Don’t Manage Projects or Tasks, Manage People

Here’s an excerpt from our fresh-of-the-presses eBook, What You Don’t Know About Management: How to Take Back Your Work Day. If you like what you read, download the 50+ page eBook for free! One of the...

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Unlock Intrinsic Motivation to Inspire Your Salespeople

If your best tried-and-true motivational techniques don’t seem to be working on the otherwise talented members of your sales team, you might want to try appealing to their intrinsic motivations....

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Changing Your Mind Should Be a Process, Not a Reflex

Changing your mind doesn’t have to be impulsive or accidental; you can purposefully choose to put your beliefs to the test too. First, decide what your most fiercely held beliefs are. Then, throw your...

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