Research on Remote Working
It seems that everywhere you turn, there is a post, conference topic or tweet about how remote work is the future. But what about the research on remote working? Where is the...
Category: Building Culture
How to make working remotely work
It’s true that remote working is not for everyone – some of us prefer the office environment, others find it impossible to concentrate while working at home or a co-working space, and...
Inefficient Meetings at your Startup?
According to research, 65% of managers say meetings keep them from work and deep thinking 30-40% of the hours we spend in meetings aren’t productive Are there ways to improve meetings? The...
Scaling your Startup's Culture without Ruining it
Scaling from Team of 5 to 10, to 20+ When you’re first starting out, your entire team is close to the founders and everyone has a role that’s obvious and crucial to...
Bad Manager Behavior
What constitutes bad manager behavior? It looks like over the past 5 years, there has been somewhat consistent interest in this topic (see graph below)! “People quit their managers, not their companies.”...
Toxic Beware: Bad Startup Culture
With scandalous stories about the less than stellar culture at unicorn startups like Revolut, Uber, Theranos, Zenefits, etc, it has a lot of us thinking about how bad culture can really get,...
Incivility in the Workplace
There is a great interview with Dr. Jody Foster on the knowledge@wharton podcast regarding workplace incivility. There is some focus on healthcare/Penn Medicine but the lessons can be applied to any industry....
Perks of Flexible Work
Sahil Lavingia, the founder of Gumroad gave this outstanding interview where flexible work is a central topic – pretty different to most of the Founder content we get these days. Flexible work...
Giving Feedback the Right Way
Giving feedback is hard – sometimes we don’t even know how to give positive feedback in the right way, and it becomes even harder with remote team members. In The Feedback Fallacy,...
How to Build a Startup Culture
In this post, Ozan Dagdeviren writes about how culture is just as important as product-market fit (well, 2nd most important 😉 ) The way he defines culture is simple and if you’re...