Many companies struggle to figure out what they stand for, and what their core values are. It becomes design by committee based on what they think society at that time thinks so they can become popular. Those are not your core values. In this quick episode we break down how to find your true core values, both personally and as an organization.

Please welcome our special guest, Deb Mashek, PhD, who is an expert and quite literally wrote the book on collaboration between people in work environments. As a growth lever, enabling people to easily and efficiently agree and execute at scale (i.e., Collective Intelligence) creates new forms of value for businesses and represents a critical defense mechanism against competitors stealing your market share. When you move faster when a better culture, you attract more talent, customers, and capital, thereby creating a flywheel of success.

Deb is a wonderful practitioner who helps companies do exactly this based on her years of research in the area. She has one fascinating framework as it relates to trust in the workplace and how you can only move in one direction. Listen in to here more about her secrets.

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a management and alignment tool that can prove fruitful. There is room for improvement, however. In this quick episode we provide a more simplified perspective.

Incentives were cited by Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway fame as one of the greatest forces in the human world, in addition to compounding. We spent half a decade designing incentive plans for the boards, executives, sales teams and all employees for Fortune 500 companies. In this quick episode we share one of the most important principles when designing incentives, due to their power.

Why are there so many meetings? Why do other people have the power to disrupt your work by putting meetings on your calendar without your approval? Why is there so little trust in your work product? We discuss this in less than 5 minutes.