Reading Time: 4 minutes One of the biggest factors in how people reacted to the recent New York Times article and the subsequent rebuttal was their perception of Amazon as a workplace before either piece came out. In marketing, a brand is much more than a logo, a tagline,
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the early 1970s, Bing Russell (Kurt Russell’s father) decided to move on from his career as an actor in Hollywood to establish an independent baseball team in Portland, Oregon. Portland’s long-time minor league team had just moved away, leaving a void that Russell hoped
Reading Time: 2 minutes First Round Review published a great article that examines a common issue these days: the lack of loyalty among engineers to the companies they work for. The article features Tiho Bajic, the CTO of Nitro, who explained that many engineers “are acting like mercenaries. They
Reading Time: 4 minutes The business world’s reputation is still reeling from the excessive greed that drove the economy into the Great Recession of 2008. Fortunately, though, there’s some hope, and it comes in the form of companies that place their mission above profit. For these companies, it just
Reading Time: 3 minutes One day, a loan officer at a bank that serves current and former members of the military received a call from a member in the Navy who was about to be deployed overseas the next morning. He was in desperate need of a loan before he
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been years since I conducted an exit interview. Pam and Ben’s internships ended a few weeks ago, and we wanted formal feedback about their experience working at Stories. I heard from one HR exec that exit interviews are the worst time to get real
Reading Time: 4 minutes I remember so clearly as a child sitting at the kitchen table while my grandmother talked to my mother, and as she talked she kept folding and refolding a paper napkin over and over again. Afterwards, I would try to fold it as evenly and
Reading Time: 2 minutes When a Twitter staff person posted to an internal forum questioning whether the company was doing enough to prevent harassment in tweets, CEO Dick Costolo responded bluntly with a since-leaked forum post admitting that Twitter’s doing a bad job at it, that he takes full
Reading Time: 3 minutes I sat next to a high energy, charismatic leader at lunch at the Conscious Capitalism conference. When she told me she was speaking in a breakout session, I immediately switched the session I was attending to hers. Her name is Jean Pitzo, CEO at ACE
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of my takeaways from Conscious Capitalism 2015 was something that Simon Sinek said during his keynote. I’m paraphrasing, but he said something like, “To become a great leader, keep in mind that consistency is way more important than intensity.” In other words, making small
