Leadership

Musk wants to implement a "24/7" work culture. — If remote work is the answer, why are most tech companies laying off people? Nearly all tech companies are reevaluating the size of their workforces in a slowing economy, with most imposing hiring freezes and laying off 1000s of their employees. As soon as Elon Musk took over Twitter, he…

Want to Understand How Bad Brexit Really Is? Take a Deep Breath, Because Your Jaw’s About to Drop — It’s hard to put what’s happening to Britain into words. Genuinely so. The sheer scale and scope of the disaster that’s unfolding beggars belief — and reduces even seasoned observers like me, of the mistakes societies make, to speechlessness. How, for example, do you begin to comment on stories like…

The Age of Extinction Is Dawning by the Day — And We’re Doing Too Little Too Late to Stop It — There’s a brutal truth that I think we’re all going to have to contend with. Take a look out there at the world. How do you think things are going? Europe’s on fire. The continent. Fires stretch from France, through Spain and Portugal, to Greece. The temperature’s hit 45 degrees…

Life is too short to get paid less than you’re worth. Let’s fix that. — When high-performing talent quits en masse it’s a red flag. I once worked for a tech company where this was the case. The day before I joined two of the top two salespeople quit. Seemed weird. I asked why they left… “Ohhh no reason. It was time for them to…

Become more influential by learning the language of these subtle cues — Hate it when you are not taken seriously? When I started working as a 24-year-old woman, I struggled. How to command attention? How not to be dismissed for my size, gender, and lack of wrinkles or gray hair? I’ve learned hacks to be more assertive. To be more influential…

Something’s Very Wrong When Almost Half of Young People Say They Can’t Function Anymore — There are charts, and then there are charts. Statistics, and then statistics. The kind that take your breath away. Want to see one of those? Just take a hard look above. Those numbers are the surreal combination that typifies this age — not surprising, yet still shocking. Just how stressed…

White-collar workers face a new threat — White-collar workers will have no jobs in less than five years. White-collar employees who have been boasting about their ability to work from anywhere are finding themselves in a tough place. …

To fuck up like Putin has done in less than a week requires a special kind of talent. The horror that Ukraine is going through is heartbreaking, but let me focus on Russia in this story. For one thing, Putin completely repainted Russia’s reputation in history books. Russia’s history is…