With vaccines against the novel corona virus deployed, most people in North America will probably be vaccinated by mid-2021. When workers and students who have been telecommuting since last March return, what should offices and classrooms look like? The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment in remote working and learning…

Senior staff meetings were not going well; everyone hated them. Agendas arrived too late to prepare for the meeting and many of the topics were perfunctory, with little opportunity for input. …

It was not long after I had been hired into an executive-level role that I discovered that my boss wrote the book on micromanagement. “Don’t talk to these people.” “Don’t do it that way, do it this way.” “Use your own judgment on how to address a problem staff member”…