Being the glue is a genuine strength. The most sophisticated thing you can do with it is turn it into something the company keeps after you're gone. Every scaling company has one: the person who holds up the walls and the ceiling, who makes sure the right thing
What it takes to help an early-stage company scale in one of the most regulated corners of American healthcare - and why, underneath a thousand federal requirements, the work was always about people. Picture the least romantic project you can: a small startup, more than a thousand federal requirements, a
Real inclusion isn't a form you fill out in advance; it's already there when you arrive. Picture this: you're deaf, and a friend texts you at noon - she's got an extra ticket, the headliner's on at nine, come. For most
When the environment changes, the organizations that thrive aren't the ones waiting for normal to come back - they're the ones willing to learn, adapt, and build. In early 2020, the world - and our proud local Las Vegas community - faced new challenges. Life is Beautiful existed to
How I drew Revelry and the Startup of the Year community into the same rooms in 2018–2019 - and turned that overlap into stages for our people and a whole new New Orleans conference. In 2018 I was Head of Communications and Culture at Revelry, a New Orleans software company.
What a decade of building and steadying teams taught me about trust, remote work's real limits, protecting people's time, and why the systems only matter in service of the humans using them.
The most valuable thing I do usually isn't my own work - it's getting the people around me to believe theirs is worth sharing. The apology that comes with the draft An engineer sends me a blog post and apologizes for it before I've read
Molly Graham has spoken about how important it is to “give away your job” every couple of months in growing organizations. She eventually turned this into one of the most amazing and life-changing talks I’ve ever experienced at a conference. I had an absolute Hallelujah moment when Molly
As a maker, you’re constantly working to build products and solutions that help realize other people’s ideas. It’s time to take your side project past the idea stage and into the process of validation. And you can do it, too: You don’t need a team (yet)
Published on Piktochart - nine ways to collaborate without constantly scheduling meetings. https://piktochart.com/blog/collaborate-without-meetings/
They call us “The Sandwich Generation” —the group of workforce-aged adults who are not only caring for their aging parents, but also balancing the needs of their own children. Published on Buffer's blog - https://buffer.com/resources/flexible-work-strategies/
If you know the desired outcome, there can’t possibly be a correlation between hours spent and value added. The value is there, or it is not. You can roll up all of the productivity advice from all of the masters, and I just don’t see time tracking as