Thought Leaders
“We are a family”: 6 Reasons Why This Dynamic Doesn’t Belong in the Workplace
Family culture dynamics and terminology can harm your employees. Here's why.
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Entrepreneurs
Career Trauma Is a Real Thing. Here’s How to Recognize and Recover From It.
Toxic workplaces are harming the health and mental well-being of many workers. In recent years, more people have spoken out about these dangers -- inspiring hope that we might finally be able to make a difference for those who suffer from workplace trauma every day.
Thought Leaders
How to Divorce Your Client and Protect Your Own Interests
Five steps to help you protect your business, your mental health and your future.
Thought Leaders
How to Recognize a Toxic Employee and the 3-Step Process for Addressing Them
The tips in this article will help you determine whether terminating or retaining a toxic employee is the right choice.
Thought Leaders
Is An Incompetent Employee Spreading a Virus Throughout Your Organization? Here’s What to Do About It.
The incompetent employee is often the "security blanket" of the seemingly all-powerful CEO.
By Sheon Karol
Thought Leaders
Do You Have a Toxic Boss? Here’s How to Tell.
There are seven types of toxic bosses, and it's important to learn how to deal with each of them.
Business News
Amazon Workers Detail Disturbing Work Conditions in Complaint Filed to the National Labor Relations Board
Former employees said they were aggressively placed under surveillance and forced to pee in bottles to meet quotas.
By Justin Chan
Thought Leaders
How to Keep Toxic Negativity from Infecting Your Team
Toxic negativity is contagious. Here's how to keep it from spreading in your workplace.
By Aytekin Tank
Thought Leaders
Here’s How You Know It’s Time to Actually Fire That Toxic Client
Sometimes, the adage that "the customer is always right" just doesn't apply anymore.
Thought Leaders
The Antidote to a Toxic Culture Is a Culture of Trust — Here’s How to Build One
Here's how to build enough trust in order to ward off toxicity at your company.
Thought Leaders
6 Signs to Look for If You’re Worried Your Workplace Environment is Toxic – Infographic
A new study found six commonalities among unhealthy workplaces.
Thought Leaders
4 Signs Your Workplace Environment is Toxic
The data-driven signs that entrepreneurs and executives should be looking for.
Thought Leaders
Entrepreneurial Power Could Contribute to Your Startup’s Demise. Here’s How to Stop It.
Entrepreneurs who let power cloud their judgment risk running their ventures into the ground.
Thought Leaders
Is Vulnerability the Solution to Toxic Coworkers?
Instead of pointing fingers, turn inwards and recognize your own wounds.
By Melissa Dawn
Thought Leaders
Does Your Company Reward Competent Jerks?
People who achieve short-term results at the long-term expense of the organization can be devastating.
Human Resources
Big Tech Can Do Good and Do Well At the Same Time
The tech sector's two big challenges, lack of diversity and worker shortages, can be made to solve one another, if the right initiatives are put in place.
Human Resources
8 Toxic Types of People You Should Keep Out of Your Life
Individuals with these qualities can sap your energy and put a strain on your business.
Human Resources
How to Transform Your Culture From Toxic to Peak Performance
Employees agree to a code of conduct. You are not the bad guy for enforcing it.
Thought Leaders
12 Ways Successful People Handle Toxic People
To deal with toxic people effectively, you need an approach that enables you to control what you can and eliminate what you can't.
Business News
8 Things You Can Do When You Have a Toxic Boss
The worst managers of all are the ones who create a toxic work environment.
By Ellevate
Building a Business
Is Your Boss Controlling You Subtly Without Your Realizing It?
HR might intervene with an overt tyrant, but you're on your own dealing with an insidious manipulator.
By Ric Kelly
Thought Leaders
6 Effective Tactics for Handling a Toxic Boss
Salvaging your dignity from an abusive boss is a job all its own.
Entrepreneurs
An NFL Player Retired During Halftime and 20 Other Crazy, Outrageous, Sad and Infamous Last Days at Work
These people went out with more than a Bankers Box filled with tchotchkes and a goodbye email.
Entrepreneurs
Team Burnout Is Real and You Might be the Cause
Bosses who make work more stressful than it has to be aren't doing anybody, including their company, any good.
By John Rampton
Building a Business
6 Ways to Keep Things From Getting Worse When Your Boss Starts Yelling at You
You might need to quit, but you probably shouldn't on the spot.
Thought Leaders
7 Ways to Outshine a Tyrannical Boss
Sure, you could look for another job but how much sweeter would it be to work you way up until you can fire that miserable person?
Business News
The Harvey Weinstein Scandal Is a Clarion Call to Men In Positions of Leadership
Men are disproportionately in positions of leadership. They have a special obligation to battle sexual harassment.