Why and How to Treat Your Employees like Your Clients (or Better!)

For a team to truly achieve its potential, bosses need to treat employees like clients. Not just the other way around.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthFebruary 23, 2022employees, management, leadershipComment

The Connection between Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

Follow me on a journey of light-bulb moments that took me through an exploration of physical flexibility, strength, and balance into their essential role in building more balanced, resilient societies.

How Companies Benefit from Distributed Work

Research shows that working in a corporate office hinders rather than helps quality work. Let’s enumerate the six top financial benefits of distributed workforces to companies.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 9, 2020distributed workforce, leadership, management, hiring, happinessComment

How to Transition to Working from Home Permanently

If you face working away from the traditional office for the long term, you’ll need patience and time for adjustment. Here are a few experience-based tips to help you make the transition.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 23, 2020happiness, culture, management, leadership, distributed workforceComment

COVID-19 Proves Nothing about Working from Home

No one can possibly imagine that what we experienced working from home during COVID-19 provided a true litmus test for working remotely on the employer, manager, or employer sides.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 16, 2020employees, management, leadership, distributed workforceComment

Will Crisis-Driven Authenticity Last?

The coronavirus crisis forced many people to drop pretense and futile attempts at perfection and simply act like real, flawed, often-awkward human beings.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 9, 2020culture, business, management, employees, leadership, coronavirus diariesComment

Why and How to Treat Your Boss as Your Client

A broader swath of the workforce should adjust their mindsets to approach the work from the same perspective.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 22, 2019employees, management, business, leadershipComment

Survey Says: Virtual Employees Have Higher Engagement

A recent international survey of employees found that virtual workers have higher engagement than corporate-office workers.

How to Manage Up

Managing up could solve a lot of workplace ills—and that few people think to do it or realize that they should do it.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 16, 2019management, business, employeesComment

How to Transition from In-Office Teams to Remote-Work Teams or a Distributed Workforce

Here’s what I learned from other CEOs and executives and through my own experience (so far) of transitioning my in-office employees to a distributed workforce structure.

Best Practices for Structuring and Managing Distributed Workforces

Considering a distributed workforce? Here’s my experience-based how-to on structuring and managing one.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthApril 3, 2019business, management, leadership, employees, distributed workforceComment

The Distributed Workforce: Benefits and Caveats

After a year of a distributed workforce, I’ve uncovered the following caveats and benefits for employers considering a distributed workforce structure for their teams.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMarch 28, 2019business, hiring, employees, management, leadership, culture, distributed workforceComment

Diary for March 24, 2019

Transition seems like the theme of the past year, and this month has shown no exception. Fortunately—as with all the transitions this past year—the shifts of March 2019 have proved good ones.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMarch 24, 2019business, employees, management, hiring, leadershipComment