November 17, 2021
Every organization has costs, but there’s a lot of power in how they’re labelled. The labels people use bake in assumptions about whether those costs are internal or external. They tell you who we think should pay those costs.
October 20, 2021
We’re in the midst of a massive renegotiation of the rules of work. And the central focus of that negotiation isn’t back to office plans, or international salary parity, or vaccine mandates. It’s power.
October 6, 2021
Today, our second book comes out. It’s an ender chest. It is a full year of these newsletters, from the first lockdown to the anniversary of those lockdowns. It is a place to put down some of what the past 18 months have felt like.
September 22, 2021
There’s an adage in business that any decision is better than no decision. Because even if you’re wrong, you can always make a different decision further down the road.
September 8, 2021
Can we get to a place where we start to reimagine the thing? Whatever the thing is that you miss, you can reinvent it without starting from zero. Pay attention to the ache of the thing that’s missing. What was important about it?
July 14, 2021
Every company is a community that needs rules. And, as bosses, making the rules of engagement clear is our job. That’s true whether your company is remote, in-office, or a mix of the two.
June 16, 2021
Right now, every company is trying to figure out their return-to-office, fully-remote, or hybrid strategy. And while those approaches have implications for the people working there today, nowhere is the conversation hotter than around what it means for prospective hires.
June 2, 2021
Look around. Where are you running an outdated plan? Do the priorities your team has right now make sense, right now? Does the composition of your team still make sense? Does your job description? Does your company?
May 5, 2021
The short answer is no. The Basecamp stuff isn’t some evil genius strategy playing out according to plan.
April 21, 2021
When people write the bumper stickers about management versus leadership, this is what they mean. The willingness to make the hard call, to do the unpopular thing, not from a place of taking big swings.
April 7, 2021
There’s a grand re-integration coming. As the normalcy of exterior life returns it’s gonna let us focus on what a mess we’ve made of the place, internally.
March 10, 2021
That we’re at the one year mark for the first lockdowns and it feels like everyone is quitting, well, we can’t say we’re surprised. But it’s our full time job to pay attention to this stuff. And what we’re hearing from a lot of you is: why now?
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