The BusinessBalls Blog
Short, practical writing on leadership, management, and the messy bits of work life.
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When your best performer becomes your worst headache
What to do when a top performer turns difficult — why the usual management instinct backfires, and how to have the conversation that actually shifts things.
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Welcome to the BusinessBalls Blog
We're launching a short-form blog to sit alongside our 525+ articles — covering practical leadership, the messy bits of management, and what we're seeing in workplaces right now.
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The meeting that could have been an email — and the email that should have been a meeting
We've been told for a decade to fight meeting bloat. But the opposite mistake — pushing a real conversation into a Slack thread — is now doing more damage to teams than the meetings ever did.
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Three questions to ask before you add another OKR
OKRs are a planning tool, not a productivity tool. If you're tempted to add another, run it through these three filters first — most won't survive.