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Melissa Swift

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How to Slay the Chaos Dragon

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By Melissa Swift
| Tribune Content Agency
Melissa Swift is the founder and CEO of organizational consulting firm Anthrome Insight. She is also the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (Wiley, 2023) and the forthcoming Effective: How to do Great Work in a Fast-Changing World (Wiley, 2026). In my first job out of college, I had a frenetic boss whom we’ll call Don.
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How to Slay the Chaos Dragon

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By Melissa Swift
| MIT Sloan Management Review
Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images Summary: You can’t shield your team from chaos entirely. However, you can help your team members navigate it with less pain by taking three highly ... effective steps: improving communication with other team leaders, adding blank space to meeting agendas, and guarding against bullies who take advantage of chaos.
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Dear L&D: You’re Still Asking Too Much of Today’s Learners

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By Melissa Swift
| Training Industry
Dear L&D, It’s not you — it’s us. We had a crazy day today. We woke up to an overflowing inbox. We scrambled from meeting to meeting all day, back-to-back. We got an endless series of pings from the group chat and even more from the side chats to the group chat. We batted back messages from our kids’ schools and our parents’ caregivers. We placated our bosses and tried to cheer up our teams. We love to learn. But we didn’t find time to do it today. Listen, we know you’ve tried to make it easier for us.
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