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Motivation & Burnout

Motivation & Burnout

How to Manage 15+ Direct Reports Without Losing Your Mind

Nov 9, 2025

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7 min read

How to Manage 15+ Direct Reports Without Losing Your Mind

Big Tech gutted middle management. Now you're managing 20 people instead of 5. Here's how to scale yourself without burning out.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
Effort vs Outcomes: A Practical Guide For Measuring and Rewarding Results

Oct 26, 2025

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8 min read

Effort vs Outcomes: A Practical Guide For Measuring and Rewarding Results

Your hardest-working employee might be your biggest problem. Here's how to reward results, not just effort.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
Find Your Path: How to Quickly Exit An Existential Crisis

Oct 5, 2025

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9 min read

Find Your Path: How to Quickly Exit An Existential Crisis

Learn to help yourself (or someone else) get moving the right direction when you feel hopelessly tangled up.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
Break Through the Blizzard: How to Quickly Regain Control At Work

Aug 17, 2025

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10 min read

Break Through the Blizzard: How to Quickly Regain Control At Work

Your to-do list has a to-do list. Every email spawns three more. And somewhere in the chaos, you've lost sight of what actually matters.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
Solving The Player-Coach Conundrum

Jun 20, 2024

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7 min read

Solving The Player-Coach Conundrum

How To Manage Effectively When You're Still An Individual Contributor

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
The 2-Minute Team Demotivation Diagnostic

Jun 14, 2024

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6 min read

The 2-Minute Team Demotivation Diagnostic

Identify and correct 7 common mistakes killing your team's morale and productivity.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
How To Build The Virtuous Cycle Fueling High-Performing Teams

May 18, 2024

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6 min read

How To Build The Virtuous Cycle Fueling High-Performing Teams

We remix three of our most popular playbooks into a potent playlist

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
The 11 Causes of Burnout At Work (Plus Steps To Reignite Your Passion)

May 2, 2024

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8 min read

The 11 Causes of Burnout At Work (Plus Steps To Reignite Your Passion)

Where the hell did all of this burnout come from anyway?

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
The CEO of You: A Practical Guide To Acting Like An Owner

Feb 22, 2024

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7 min read

The CEO of You: A Practical Guide To Acting Like An Owner

5 common sense steps anyone can use to multiply their impact and demonstrate ownership

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
Pulse Check: The 9 Vital Questions You Need to Monitor Employee Engagement

Aug 9, 2023

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7 min read

Pulse Check: The 9 Vital Questions You Need to Monitor Employee Engagement

Plus a heatmap template to help you hone in on employee hotspots

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
10 Mighty One-Minute Questions You Can Use to Gain Perspective

Jul 26, 2023

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6 min read

10 Mighty One-Minute Questions You Can Use to Gain Perspective

And why doing less, not more, is the answer to so many of them.

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
How to Reignite Motivation in Your Team With 9 Simple Tactics

Jul 12, 2023

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7 min read

How to Reignite Motivation in Your Team With 9 Simple Tactics

Plus a bonus ideas to make that passion systematically sustainable

Dave Kline
Dave Kline
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