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.

The Clapback

Anywhere your senior leaders are not giving their full-throated support to a thing, you should be prepared for a clapback.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMay 18, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, power, community, connection, office perks, remote work, remote, layoffs

The donuts aren't working

We're hearing from the bosses and people and culture teams asked to implement the Bums-in-Seats directive. Even when they, themselves, are skeptical.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleApril 6, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, power, community, connection, office perks, remote work, remote

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.

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The perks are great and the work is fine

Faced with that blandness, a lot of leaders are pushing back-to-office plans. They have nostalgia for the flavour of a packed and humming office, and feel like if people would just get back in there, it would fix things.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleFebruary 23, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, office perks, remote, remote work

You only get punked when you don't expect it

If we're right about this prediction, the amount of energy coming at you is going to be intense. The question to ask is: do you have somewhere for that energy to go?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleFebruary 9, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, office perks

The cost of doing business

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.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleNovember 17, 2021Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, COVID, COVID-19, remote, remote work, uncertainty, burn out, power, office perks

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.

Why more companies don’t do remote work (and probably shouldn’t)

Remote work, done well, is great. I’ve got no quarrel with the concept. But shaming companies who don’t do it doesn’t sit right with me any more, even given the arguments above.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleAugust 29, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, psychological safety, performance, uncertainty, power, change, office perks, remote, remote work

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.

Unlimited vacation and other forms of guilt-based management

If the goal of unlimited vacation is to encourage people to take care of themselves, and to take the time they need, we should ask “does it achieve that goal?”

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleAugust 25, 2016Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, psychological safety, performance, uncertainty, power, change, vacation, office perks

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