Complicated people
Complicated people
The commissioned study behind the New York Times bestseller How to Work with Complicated People, examining how today’s workforce is navigating (or not!) complicated people.
Research
Great leadership starts with curiosity and a commitment to understanding people. Everything we publish here began with a question we couldn’t answer from the sidelines. We noticed something in a team, a room, or ourselves that we couldn’t explain, and we set out to understand it. We answered some questions through our own research and others by drawing on trusted research partners and the peer-reviewed literature. Here you’ll find whitepapers, articles, and practical tools focused on topics our research shows are important to leaders today, including change, workplace culture, and more.
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Featured whitepapers
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Adaptitude
Introduces adaptitude, the combination of a person’s attitude toward change and their confidence in their ability to adapt, and explores how it influences people’s experience of work today.
Stay culture
Stayers just want to have fun
Explores the role of fun at work and how employees’ perceptions of fun influence organizational culture.
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Articles
Shorter pieces from our research on the questions leaders are asking right now, like workplace honesty and incivility. New and in-progress articles show up here first, alongside the pieces people read most.
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