Daily stand-up meetings might be the quickest way to waste your time as a leader. Here's why a daily stand-up meeting doesn't work and what to do instead.
Status meetings are the scourge
Status meetings are the worst kinds of meetings. Eliminate them and you’ll actually know more, save a pile of money, and regain dozens of hours a month. A status meeting — sometimes called a s…
Why Good Leaders Fail
The risk of sudden leadership failure can be headed off by early detection of challenges and better supports.
Paging Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground? - Stack Overflow
I'm a senior staff engineer, and I’m wondering what advice you might have for a person in my role in a large company to affect priorities and the speed at which work is "expected" to be executed.
Rallly: Free Group Meeting Scheduling Tool
Rallly is the fastest and easiest scheduling and collaboration tool. Create a meeting poll in seconds, no login required.
Stop being awkward: 6 tips for better video meetings
Video conferencing etiquette is simpler than you think. Learn these tips and best practices to host (and participate in) better video meetings.
Meet
Real-time meetings by Google. Using your browser, share your video, desktop, and presentations with teammates and customers.
Why I Slack
Earlier this year, I ran a survey to get ideas about how leaders could mobilize. 1311 of you filled out the survey which mean I’m certain the results are full o
The surprising traits of good remote leaders
Strong in-person leadership skills don’t necessarily translate to being a good virtual leader. Instead, organisation and competency reign supreme.
Autonomy and Clarity in Leadership Styles
There’s no one right style of leadership. Use the right style of at the right time.
Reflector: Infrastructure for Meetings, by Greyhaven
Most organizations run on meetings. Strategy gets debated there. Decisions get made there. Context lives there. And yet...
Live asynchronously.
Last year I turned off all my notifications. I stopped booking meetings. I started living asynchronously. Now instead of being interrupted throughout the day — or rushing from one meeting to the next — I sit down and get work done. I work a lot. I co...
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People
A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL.Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them.In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally.The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.
Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
How to manage all-hands customer service
At Basecamp, we’ve been running an initiative called Everyone on Support for nearly five years now. Each person in the company, whether a designer, developer or podcast producer, spends a day every…
Thanks to everyone who came out to our first meetup - lots of great energy and ideas for future meetups! Remember: - We meet 1st Tuesdays @ 6PM, at the @codetv.dev studio - eventsdiscord.atprotocol.dev #us-pdx channel to stay connected - Updates will be posted on this account
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
