How to Prevent Layoffs From Traumatizing Your Employees
Helping your remaining team heal is critical for your company’s future
More than 22 million Americans have lost their jobs in the past month. In recent days, we’ve seen poor decisions made by executives wh... Read more
How to Talk to Your Team During a Pandemic
It’s time for steady decision-making and lots of repetition
The coronavirus pandemic — and its economic impact — is already proving to be an intense stress test for businesses of all sizes and types. M... Read more
What Startups Can Learn From Facebook’s Reckless ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Mantra
What even smart companies get wrong about core values
In his new book Facebook: The Inside Story, journalist Steven Levy recounts a time in 2009 when employees wanted to articulate what Facebook stood for. How ... Read more
Networking Sucks — So Do This Instead
There’s no need to fake your way through awkward interactions if you focus on the opportunities you already have
No question about it: The need to “network” leaves most of us cold. The gripping and grinning, the f... Read more
My Giving List This Year
Published December 26, 2015 on Medium.com
December invariably invites a look back over the closing year, and that can quickly lead to assessing one’s life to date. I’m as susceptible as anyone to this progression, a... Read more
A Bleeding Heart Responds to TEDxSanQuentin
Published February 2, 2016 on Medium.com
Recently I was lucky to be invited to TEDxSanQuentin, one of those “independently organized” gatherings done in the TED talks style, and under the aegis of the high-end confe... Read more
And Now, For Something Different
Published March 4, 2016 on Medium.com
About four and half years ago I came to work at Twitter. I already knew a few of the founding team, and had grown to love the service through launching and running @google for a... Read more