When we talk with bosses about their work today, we don't hear about commutes. We don't hear about summer hours, or four-day-work-weeks, either.

New York's hottest club is Competent Management

The massive competition for talent has every HR and Talent leader running after the same ball. And the visual effect, from up here on the hill, looks a lot like Bunch Ball.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 23, 2022Leadership, Leadership Training, Management Training, Management, melis, office perks, office snacks, flexibility, burn out, Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, power, hiring, performance

Everyone's a great manager until they start managing

It's easy to dip into "I would never talk to my team like that. If I were in charge, I would be a way better boss than that." That smug satisfaction about what you would do if you were in charge? Well, we understand the appeal.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 9, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, hiring, power

Bad advice you shouldn't take

Resignations. Competitive talent markets. The structure of the org chart. All of these things can feel bigger than you, as an individual leader trying to get things done in your organization. We get that. But be skeptical of any advice that takes them as fixed.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJanuary 12, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, business strategy, hiring, The great resignation

We didn't build *that* Better boss

People send us the links in part because, haha, you build better bosses. Here's the literal CEO of Better and seems like he could have used some management training. Hardy har har. But some of them also want to know, "Is this normal?" And if so, how often does this happen? And why?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleDecember 15, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, burn out, hiring, layoffs

Long on empathy and short on patience

We told leaders to be empathetic. We told them to be understanding. And they are doing that. They are phenomenal about understanding the conditions for underperformance in their teams. But it's not working...

They are patient to a fault.

You can't live in the airport

Now's a bad time to lean on your employee's sense of loyalty, but a good time to lean on their sense of possibility. New opportunity, high-quality networking, exposure to different ideas. That's what people in a liminal space can actually engage with.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleAugust 11, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, remote, remote work, uncertainty, The great resignation, hiring

What is full time anyway?

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.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJune 16, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, burn out, hiring, remote, remote work

Running on empty and full to bursting

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.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleApril 7, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, burn out, hiring, remote, remote work

Elijah you need to unmute

Fully remote, fully in person, or a mix of the two. This is the question that will dominate the rest of this year and into the next. The extremes are the easiest to navigate.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 24, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, burn out, hiring, remote, remote work

Can you talk about why everyone is quitting?

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?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 10, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, burn out, The great resignation, hiring, quitting

You know your product team is failing — do you know why?

Would you believe me if I told you that it’s almost always the same, fixable thing?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleJanuary 6, 2017Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, reflection, startup, uncertainty, hiring

You won’t brilliant your way out of this

On the other side of a gut wrenching dose of humility, change can be complete and permanent. You recognize that the only road to high output execution is to bring others along.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleOctober 25, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, power, change, reflection, startup, firing, performance, org chart, hiring

The tech mechitza

I was confronted with first-hand evidence that meritocracy is a myth that results in both a consolidated and homogeneous face of power.

How to be a better leader in 4 badly drawn charts

Relationship-oriented managers and results-oriented managers are looking at almost completely different pieces of the job.

Why it’s a mistake to hire superheroes

You haven’t hired someone who thrives in chaos. You’ve hired someone who sows chaos.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleSeptember 23, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, leading through uncertainty, power, change, performance, startup, hiring, accountability

How I talk to leaders about firing people

It’s hard to generalize on the subject of performance issues and firing.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleSeptember 20, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, leading through uncertainty, power, change, performance, startup, hiring, accountability, firing

How fucked up is your management?

No one who takes management seriously, and does it well, finds this stuff easy. No one who’s been at it for very long imagines that there are shortcuts.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleSeptember 7, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, leading through uncertainty, power, change, hiring, performance, flexibility, office perks

Valley Extraction — how to hire senior talent away from Silicon Valley in four easy steps

Here are four steps to loosen the Silicon Valley deathgrip on talent you’d like to recruit.

Privilege, illegal interviews, and burning curiosity

We need to start by acknowledging that many people, particularly minorities in tech, are not in a position to write a post about every sexist or illegal hiring practice they encounter.

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