Explain the Meaning of Life Using Storytelling

Explain the Meaning of Life Using Storytelling

How would you explain the meaning of life? What’s the logic behind your meaning-of-life story? Throughout human history, people have come up with countless stories to explain the meaning of life. Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to matter to most people if their stories are logically sound. As long as they give their life a function and conceptualize it within a larger scope, the explanation is deemed satisfactory. Keep reading to see how people attempt to explain the meaning of life using storytelling and consider the logical flaws of these explanations.

How to Foster Team Trust in a Complex Organization

How to Foster Team Trust in a Complex Organization

How do you establish team trust in a complex organization? What can you do to get team members of specialized, self-contained units to function cooperatively? In Team of Teams, Stanley McChrystal shares his advice on how to develop team trust in an organization composed of multiple teams, drawing from his experience as a general officer in the U.S. Task Force. To this end, he established several programs aimed at fostering cooperation between task force units that didn’t normally overlap. Keep reading for McChrystal’s advice on how to build team trust in a complex organization.

The 5 Best The Hard Thing About Hard Things Quotes

The 25 Cognitive Biases: Doubt Avoidance Tendency

Looking for The Hard Thing About Hard Things quotes? What can Ben Horowitz teach you about starting and owning a company? Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is about how to get through the difficult times as a CEO or business owner. Sometimes you may feel like you don’t know what you’re doing or want to give up, but Horowitz says to keep pushing. Keep reading for The Hard Thing About Hard Things quotes.

Use Drama to Keep Employees Engaged in Meetings

Use Drama to Keep Employees Engaged in Meetings

Do you find that your employees are bored during team meetings? How can you keep employees engaged and participating during meetings? According to Patrick Lencioni’s book Death by Meeting, one of the best ways to keep your employees engaged in meetings is to add drama. Just like a good movie, meetings should have a hook to draw employees in, a conflict between characters (different employee opinions), and a resolution. Keep reading to learn how you can keep your employees engaged during meetings.

Death by Meeting: The Problematic Employee Meeting

Death by Meeting: The Problematic Employee Meeting

How bad were Casey’s employee meetings in Death by Meeting? How did Will try to salvage Casey’s meeting format? Was it good enough to impress J.T.? In Death by Meeting, Yip Software’s CEO Casey is notoriously bad at running employee meetings. His new assistant Will sits in to assess the situation and is shocked by what he sees. If they don’t improve their meetings, Casey could lose his job. Keep reading to find out why Casey’s employee meetings are so bad and what Will had to say about them.

Build a Company Process to Avoid Corporate Politics

Build a Company Process to Avoid Corporate Politics

How do you know when it’s time to start building an official process at your company? How can well-defined processes help minimize company politics? When adding new employees feels harder than adding more work to your current employees and it’s hindering growth, it’s time to build processes. Processes may seem tedious, but without processes, workplace politics develop and make it a bad place to work. Continue on to learn how to build a company process.

Cal Newport’s Tips: How To Reply to Emails Effectively

Cal Newport’s Tips: How To Reply to Emails Effectively

Is responding to emails sucking up your precious work time? How can you set up a work email policy and reply effectively? If you want to know how to reply to emails effectively, follow this guide based off of Cal Newport’s book Deep Work. Newport explains that emails are shallow work and sometimes it’s better not to respond at all. But when you do need to respond, here is advice on how. Keep reading for Cal Newport’s advice on responding to emails.

The 3 Things All Productive Team Meetings Have

The 3 Things All Productive Team Meetings Have

Do you want to know how to have productive team meetings at work? What are the top three flaws with the modern-day business meeting model? There are three significant issues with most meetings: a lack of drama, a lack of structure, and a lack of frequency. Here you will learn how to fix these issues and make your business meetings more productive and engaging with tips from Death by Meeting. Keep reading for tips on how to have more productive team meetings from Death by Meeting.

Tips on How to Fire Someone Professionally

A man in a business suit pointing and showing an adaptive leadership style

How do you fire someone professionally? What if that person is an executive or a loyal early employee? If you are a CEO, manager, or business owner, chances are that at some point in your career, you’ll need to fire somebody. Here is advice on how to fire someone professionally and how to handle different types of lay-offs. Continue on for advice on how to fire someone.

Low Employee Morale in Death by Meeting

Low Employee Morale in Death by Meeting

In the business parable Death by Meeting, why does Yip Software have such low employee morale? What does Yip’s CEO Casey do to try to improve it? In Patrick Lencioni’s parable Death by Meeting, Casey struggles to increase his employees’ morale. He learns that many employees are unhappy with their pay and decides the best course of action is to sell his company to a larger and more profitable company to increase finances. Keep reading to learn about Playsoft’s acquisition of Yip Software in the Death by Meeting parable.