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Management Muse is a leadership and management podcast for professionals who want to improve communication, increase employee engagement, and build high-performing teams.
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Ep 125 - Why Demoting an Employee Is Worse Than Firing Them (And What Leaders Should Do Instead) (opens the original)
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Most leaders don't want to fire someone. So when an employee can no longer succeed in their role, demotion can feel like the humane compromise: keep the person, lower their responsibilities, and give someone else the job. But that “compromise” can create a much bigger problem. Before you move someone down the ladder, Cindi Baldi and Geoff Tumlin argue that you need to understand what a demotion actually does to performance, motivation, fairness, and the rest of the organization. In this episode,
Ep 124 - Working Hard Won’t Get You Promoted: How to Move Your Career Forward w/ Maya Grossman (opens the original)
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Work hard, follow the rules, hope to be promoted. It sounds straightforward, but it’s rarely the reality. Organizations have limited roles, competing priorities, and complicated promotion systems that don’t always reflect merit. If you want to grow, you may have to do more than perform well. You also have to understand where you can create value and sometimes build the opportunity you want instead of waiting for it to appear. Maya Grossman learned this the hard way. From creating her own entry i
Ep 123 - The Problem With Volunteering: When Unpaid Labor Goes Too Far (opens the original)
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We have a controversial opinion: we don’t believe in volunteering. At least, not the kind that allows organizations to avoid paying people for work they genuinely depend on. In this episode of Management Muse, Cindi Baldi and Geoffrey Tumlin challenge the assumption that volunteer labor is always a win-win. We discuss how underpaying mission-driven employees can create long-term staffing problems, why critical work is difficult to build around people who aren’t formally accountable for it, and h
Ep 122 - Why Organizations Break at the Intersections: The Problem of 2 Right Answers (w/ Dr. Timothy Tiryaki) (opens the original)
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Most leadership problems are framed too narrowly. A culture problem gets handed to HR. AI becomes a technology initiative. Operations get optimized in a vacuum of spreadsheets. But organizations don’t experience strategy, culture, technology, or people separately…and that may be exactly why so many well-intended transformations fail. This week, Cindi Baldi talks with Dr. Timothy Tiryaki, systems leadership expert and author of Leading with Strategy, about what changes when leaders stop treating
Ep 121 - Can a Team Be Too Close? The Risk of Too Much Harmony at Work (opens the original)
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A team finally clicks. People trust each other. Communication flows. Performance increases. So why can that same team eventually start getting worse? In this episode of Management Muse, Cindi Baldi and Geoffrey Tumlin unpack the surprising downside of team stability. One mechanism behind this is group polarization: the tendency for a group's distinctive characteristics and beliefs to become more extreme over time. What begins as a constructive team identity can eventually become an "us versus th
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