Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Letting someone into an organization is like adopting a child and welcoming them into your home.

“When you have people who trust you, they’re going to do a better job for you to earn or keep that trust.” In the more than ten years since the chain-link

Integrity is not about being honest when we agree with each other; it is also about being honest when we disagree or, even more important, when we make mistakes or missteps.

Why can’t we enjoy ourselves at work like we do when we’re not at work?

people are dissatisfied with their jobs. When people don’t even want to be at work, progress comes at much greater cost and effort . . . and often doesn’t last. We don’t even bother measuring a company’s success in decades, instead we focus on successive quarters.

“Giving,” it seems, has become another area in which Millennials try to multitask. Bouncing from one cause to another, giving a little here and a little there, they feel like they can make a difference in lots of places . . . sometimes all at once. Just as the Internet, social media and their cell phones help them multitask in their social and acad

When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside.

As social animals, it is imperative for us to see the actual, tangible impact of our time and effort for our work to have meaning and for us to be motivated to do it even better.

The more abstract people become, the more capable we are of doing them harm.