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Your company's Slack is probably sexist — Quartz at Work
Age, experience, and hierarchical position undoubtedly influence digital behavior. Does gender influence our office’s electronic communications? Wh... (2017)
Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - The New York Times
A growing body of evidence shows that college students generally learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. That is probably tr... (2017)
In France, New Review of 35-Hour Workweek - The New York Times
The Socialist government is rethinking a law that was meant to create jobs but lately has been criticized for adding to the country’s economic woes. (2017)
Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science | Inc.com
It's impossible to think "out of the box" when you're stuck inside a box with a bunch of other people. "According to a study recently published ... (2017)
The Most Important Rule in Product Design, and Possibly Life Management
The Most Important Rule in UX Design that Everyone Breaks “The Rule: Always organize elements of information in categories no larger than 9, bu... (2017)
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. - NYTimes.com
The company’s co-founder had been under increasing pressure, and several major investors demanded that he resign from the company immediately. (2017)
Try to see things from a manager's perspective.
Leadership is hard. None of us comes to work to do a bad job, and there are always ways we can be better. So, when you have a leader who isn't mee... (2017)
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
HBS, Harvard Business School, 2017: "Every successful social movement requires three distinct leadership roles: the agitator, the innovator, and t... (2017)
A New World of Corporate Learning Arrives: And It Looks Like TV | Josh Bersin (2017)
"Over the last several years the corporate learning marketplace has been under stress. Video-based learning programs, free courses, MOOCs, and hund... (2017)
“Scaling People” is a textbook piece of management writing
Claire Hughes Johnson has gone long on tactics and pragmatism, short on guff | Business. “Scaling people” is written by Claire Hughes Johnson, a te... (2023)
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs • TechCrunch
Big money for an HR startup targeting the little guys (2022)
The Strategic Approach to Building a Board | Andreessen Horowitz
Building your board forward from product-market fit—instead of backward from an IPO date—helps you clarify the most critical challenges facing your... (2022)
Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform - Farnam Street
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how ... (2016)
Envoy raises $111 Million in Series C financing
Envoy raises $111 Million in Series C financing to help companies navigate COVID and rebuild community in the workplace. (2022)
Online whiteboarding platform Miro raises $400M to power the future of work | VentureBeat
Miro, a visual collaboration platform used by companies like Dell, Cisco, and Deloitte, has raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation. (2022)
Corporate learning platform 360Learning raises $200 million – TechCrunch
360Learning has raised a $200 million funding round from Sumeru, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and Silver Lake Waterman. And this time, the name of the ... (2021)
Medley, the coaching platform for personal and professional development, gets $3.7M led by a16z
Medley, the group coaching platform that focuses on both personal and professional development, announced the close of a $3.7 million seed round le... (2021)
Chief, the leadership network for women, raises $15 million in funding – TechCrunch
Chief, the social network dedicated exclusively to women in professional leadership positions, announced today that it has $15 million in funding f... (2021)
Hone, a human-powered platform for leadership training, nabs $16 million – TechCrunch
As the Great Resignation builds, corporations and organizations are looking for bigger and better ways to retain talent. One of the most popular wa... (2021)
Massive Raise by 360Learning Breaks Open Corporate Training: The Creator Economy Arrives – JOSH BERSIN
Collaborative, expert-authored corporate learning is exploding. New fundraising by 360Learning shows the way. (2021)
Stat of the day: 38% of remote workers work from bed
A true home office is still a luxury, and most remote workers don't have one (2021)
Do Chance Meetings at the Office Boost Innovation? There’s No Evidence of It. - The New York Times
For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like. (2021)
Silicon Valley’s ‘Mission Protocol’ Revolution Is Beginning to Attain Critical Mass – Quillette
In Silicon Valley, 17 years later, another kind of revolution is taking shape. A handful of founders and CEOs—Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, Jason Fr... (2021)
Investing in Pyn - Andreessen Horowitz
Our investment in Pyn was announced earlier today. Joris and Jon are building a key aspect of enabling a future of work that we all want to be a pa... (2021)
Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics—and failing | The Economist
As other firms become more political, some Silicon Valley companies are heading in the opposite direction | United States (2021)
Investing in Loom - Andreessen Horowitz
Many of the fastest growing and largest consumer internet platforms are video oriented: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Netflix, Snapchat, and TikTok... (2021)
HoneyBook raises $155M at $1B+ valuation to help SMBs, freelancers manage their businesses
HoneyBook, which has built out a client experience and financial management platform for service-based small businesses and freelancers, announced ... (2021)
Changes at Basecamp
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck w... (2021)
How Brex used Retool to scale 10x in three years
Brex has a killer philosophy of internal tools. Find out how Retool, on top of this strong foundation, has helped Engineering Manager Derek Stavis ... (2020)
Oracle Introduces Employee Experience Platform: War For Employee Journeys Gets Hotter – JOSH BERSIN
Oracle announces Journeys, its major entry into the Employee Experience Platform market and direct competitor with ServiceNow. (2021)
How to Outthink Your Competition -- with a Lesson from Sports | Rasmus Ankersen | TED
Does success come from luck or skill, and how do you tell the difference? One way to find an answer: think like a pro gambler does, says football e... (2022)
Figma's $20B, 10 Year Overnight Success -Garry Tan
Figma just sold to Adobe for $20 BILLION. Figma replaced Photoshop as the dominant design tool, and that’s what made this company so important Adob... (2022)
The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink - TED
The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink - TED Career analyst Dan Pink ex... (2022)
Notion for PRODUCT MANAGEMENT | How I use Notion as a PM
HEY. Yes. Notion is the key to planning new software. I assure you it's better than confluence, better than asana, better than any other planning t... (2021)
Inside Microsoft’s big bet on open design
The Verge Published on Apr 29, 2019 Microsoft is completely changing the company's approach to design. This huge shift will impact how all their ... (2019)
Learning In The Flow Of Work - Keynote Presentation - Josh Bersin 2018
Josh Bersin Published on Nov 4, 2018 This presentation walks through the concepts and details of Learning in the Flow of Work, delivered at Linke... (2018)
Open offices are overrated - Vox
If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad? Open offices have been around a su... (2018)
#253 — Corporate Courage - Making Sense with Sam Harris | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Making Sense with Sam Harris on Spotify. In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Jason Fried about the r... (2021)
Podcast: Hired by an algorithm | MIT Technology Review
If you’ve applied for a job lately, it’s all but guaranteed that your application was reviewed by software—in most cases, before a human ever laid ... (2021)
The robots are coming for your office, with NYT’s Kevin Roose - Decoder with Nilay Patel | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Decoder with Nilay Patel on Spotify. Nilay Patel sits down with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose to discuss th... (2021)
Companies & Culture: What You Do Is Who You Are - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. This podcast -- which was recorded at the Computer History Museum in a live event, before the ... (2021)
20VC: Klarna Founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski on Scaling - The Twenty Minute VC
Listen to this episode from The Twenty Minute VC: Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch on Spotify. Sebastian Siemiatkowski is the Founder... (2021)
Amazon Narratives: Memos, Working Backwards from Release, More - a16z Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. When you hear stories about Amazon's "invention machine" -- which led to a company with not ju... (2021)
On Fear and Leadership: Product to Sales CTOs & CEOs - Andreessen Horowitz | Podcast
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. There's a few ontologies for describing the phases leaders -- and their startups ... (2020)
Quora - Remote First
Greylock general partner David Thacker sat down with Quora CEO and co-founder Adam D'Angelo to discuss his decision to make the company a remote-fi... (2020)
Finding Success by Staying Optimistic with Ketan Anjaria of HireClub - The Indie Hackers Podcast
Ketan Anjaria's (@kidbombay) path to success was paved with hardship. He was flying high in the 90s dot-com boom, until he lost his job in the cras... (2019)
How Stripe's COO approaches company building
In this episode of Resources for Humans, Jack sits down with Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer, Claire Hughes Johnson, who spent over a decade at Go... (2018)
Audio Of The Week: Skin In The Game – AVC
I have been listening to Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s new book, Skin In The Game, in audiobook form while driving around LA this past week. I’ve always ... (2018)
Scaling People
From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people. Having worked... (2023)
The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way... (2023)
Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose
Futureproof book. Read 50 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century ec... (2021)
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework, are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern ... (2021)
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar
Working Backwards book. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's appr... (2021)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't - by James C. Collins
To find the keys to greatness, Collins's 21-person research team read and coded 6,000 articles, generated more than 2,000 pages of interview transc... (2019)
High Potential: How to Spot, Manage and Develop Talented People at Work: Ian MacRae: Bloomsbury Business
In today's competitive job market, can employers afford to spend large sums on recruitment, and then simply let talented people go?High (2018)
Quantum Negotiation | Executive Coaching & Business Consulting
When we consider that negotiations occur constantly as people work together to problem-solve, create new things and share resources, the impact of ... (2018)
360Learning - collaborative learning LMS
The LMS that turnsyour people into your competitive advantage with Collaborative Learning We make it easier than ever for teams to create, ship ... (2021)
GreenLight.ai - Simply Manage & Pay Your Extended Workforce.
GreenLight is the world's first AI-powered worker classification, management and payroll platform. We are the API-layer powering the Future of Work. (2021)
Gusto - Payroll and benefits
Set your business up with modern payroll, benefits, and HR. Gusto also manages third party benefits (health, dental, vision) Our plans were b... (2021)
Miro - Online Visual Collaboration Platform for Teamwork
Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 15M+ users from around the world. (2021)
Setmore | Free Online Appointment Scheduling Software
Give your clients the power to book anytime and manage your appointments Anywhere with free calendar scheduling software (2021)
The CEO Library
The books recommended by the CEOs, entrepreneurs, professionals and authors we look up to (2020)
Toggl - Simple time tracking. Powerful reporting.
Always getting distracted? Use Toggl as your productivity tool. A simple time tracker with powerful reports and it works across all your devices. ... (2020)
Flock - messaging, communication
Flock, the best team communication app and online collaboration platform, comes with team messaging, project management and other great features t... (2020)
Degreed - The Lifelong Learning Platform
Degreed is a lifelong learning platform that individuals and organizations use to discover learning content, build skills, and certify their expert... (2020)
Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects
Organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. (2020)
Torch - Leadership development through integrated coaching and software.
Leadership Development by Torch: Integrated coaching, software and behavioral science to raise high performers to the next level. Driven by data, p... (2019)
Confluence - Team Collaboration Software | Atlassian
Confluence is where you create, organize and discuss work with your team. (2019)
Harvard ManageMentor Spark
Harvard ManageMentor Spark from Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning accelerates leadership team development with personalized learning. ... (2019)
AI Transformation Playbook How to lead your company into the AI era - Landing AI
AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology is now poised to transform every industry, just as electricity did 100 years ago. Between now and 2030, it ... (2018)
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team (2018)
EdCast - AI-powered Knowledge Cloud for Personalized Learning
EdCast is an award-winning, AI-powered Knowledge Cloud for Unified Discovery, Personalized Learning and Sales Enablement (http://www.salesu.io/). (2018)