The Human Touch: Striking a Balance Between Automating with AI and Personal Connection in Business
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When Managing High-Performance Workers, Forget Feedback
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="5zluSizkVqosg2TqtjXl2y5G0tDm6qyX"]The very idea of feedback makes most employees cringe, but it's especially injurious to high-performance workers. In a recent post for Inc., leadership expert Marshall Goldsmith recommends an approach that resounded with me: feedforward. Feedback is inherently focused on the past -- what you did,...
A Case to Replace Daily Standups With Texting
About a year ago, we had daily standups with our small team, just the four or five of us. Like most scrum meetings, we started with the same three questions. What are you working on today? What did you do yesterday? What's one problem or obstacle that you're having? And...
Announcing REBEL: The Ridiculously Efficient Big Efficiency Library is Open for Entrepreneurs' Teams
Have you ever felt frustrated because your assistant or key team members didn't get or understand how to effectively communicate with you? Have you ever let go a great employee, or maybe had a great employee voluntarily leave, because there was a mismatch between your expectations of the job and...
Why You Need an AI on Your Team
You might have read Bill Gates' recent interview in which he proclaimed that robots will steal our jobs. And he's right... but that isn't necessarily a bad thing for knowledge workers who support entrepreneurs, like me. As I was planning the 2014 Abundance 360 Summit for my client Peter Diamandis,...
A 4-Step Plan to Stop Micromanaging and Preserve Productivity
Managers, listen up: micromanagement kills your team's efficiency and will slowly drive you insane. I've prepared a simple four-step plan to help you stop micromanaging and thereby preserve your employees' productivity. 1. Reset expectations. Many managers micromanage because they don't trust their employees to do the job right. What training...