The High Cost of the Toxic Rockstar
A practical guide for business owners dealing with high-performing employees who destroy team culture, featuring coaching strategies and decision-making frameworks.
5 min
Organizational Behavior
16 posts
What is Compassionate Cutting?
An exploration of why firing a struggling employee quickly can be the most ethical and kind decision for the individual and the business.
4 min
What is the Family Metaphor in Business?
An analysis of why describing your company as a family creates dangerous emotional obligations and how shifting to a high-performing team mindset relieves management stress.
4 min
What is Face-to-Face (F2F) Interaction?
A guide for business managers on the strategic importance of Face-to-Face interaction, comparing its high-bandwidth nuances to digital communication.
4 min
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Understand cognitive dissonance in business management and how this mental discomfort impacts leadership decision making and team culture.
4 min
What is Culture Add vs Culture Fit?
An analysis for business managers on the crucial difference between hiring for comfort and hiring for growth, exploring how Culture Add fosters resilience over the stagnation of Culture Fit.
4 min
What is Cultural Fit?
An in-depth look at cultural fit for business owners, exploring how to align team values without sacrificing diversity or creating an echo chamber.
3 min
What is Authority Bias?
An exploration of Authority Bias for business leaders, explaining why teams blindly agree with management and how to cultivate genuine feedback.
5 min
The Writing on the Wall: Why Your Core Values Are Ignoring You
A practical guide to moving corporate values from motivational posters to operational realities. We explore how to discover true values, hire for alignment, and use beliefs to reduce decision fatigue.
Ben Schmidt
7 min
What is the Interest vs. Position Framework in Management?
Learn how to navigate workplace conflict by distinguishing between surface level demands and underlying needs with the interest vs. position model.
4 min