When the heat is on, Katie Breen isn’t afraid to stay in the kitchen. “Marketing project management” isn’t a mouth-watering phrase for most people, but the subject matter is hard to resist for Katie. That’s because she works at Green Chef, the only foodie-driven meal kit delivery provider. With a team of world-class chefs cooking up new products weekly, Katie […]
Meet Stephen. He’s an engineer for a large software company and works out of the organization’s San Francisco office. He’s tackling a challenging new project, and he knows the engineers in the company’s office in Sydney, Australia, have already done something similar. He schedules a video chat with some select members of the Sydney team hoping to rely on their […]
We’ve uncovered three reasons managers may have unrealistic expectations about their teams’ capabilities and discovered specific tactics they can use to get everyone in sync and moving forward. Reason 1: They’re Overconfident Everyone is inherently biased to view their own work as favorable. Psychologists call this phenomenon illusory superiority. Because we tend to view our own abilities as better than […]
We’ve all seen idyllic 8mm home movies from summer vacations of bygone eras. A swim-capped child waves at the camera before cannonballing into a lake. An apron-wearing dad sips a beer and flips burgers. A mom in horn-rimmed glasses waves sparklers in the air as the evening sky turns pink over the ocean. These were the vacations we thought we’d […]