Thoughts & Excerpts

This post explores the key strategies and skills for successful collaboration in a distributed work environment. This includes establishing a sense of ownership, honing your influencing skills, building authentic relationships, and resolving conflicts. Tune into our LinkedIn Live for a discussion on Shaping Collaboration in a Remote Workforce, hosted by Barbara Matthews Chief People Officer at Remote and Meredith Haberfeld (she/her) Founder & CEO of ThinkHuman to learn more and join the conversation. 

Reflections on lessons we learned this past year and actions we are taking to be better leaders in a time when the landscape of where and how we work has changed and when how we act and react in the face of social injustices is rightfully scrutinized.

How companies can support and celebrate the LGBTQA+ community beyond PRIDE month.

A core question is: how do we embed conceptual values and behavior in a culture? One answer: rituals.

If you’re like most leaders, you grapple with how to inspire your people to make lasting change. Harvard Professor Robert Kegan’s research has revealed is that when thinking about real, transformational change, we are often looking at the wrong challenge.

The accelerating pace of change means that no longer are there any experts; to be at the cutting edge necessitates that everything you are doing is new. As organizational leaders, we are all tasked with operating in this new frontier: to be successful, you have to be willing to dive, roll up your sleeves and experiment.

Thinx is providing a beautiful case study for what can happen in an organization when your brand does not match the internal culture. Leaders, take note.

Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach...

A myriad of scandals in the past few weeks has propelled Uber and its company culture into the spotlight. Many are asking how this company culture developed. Let's just say that it's no coincidence that Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick's leadership is also under scrutiny.

ThinkHuman Founder Meredith Haberfeld will be speaking at SXSW on using culture to have “Remote” Work. Come join the party in Austin in March.

"What are your top five priorities for the week?" "What are the top three objectives and key results you're using to measure how you're doing for the quarter?"

HR Happy says we should do what pleases people, High Performance Happy says I will fight for every inch. Think of an olympic athlete jumping into the pool for those 4:30 am laps.

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I have been lucky to piece together the wisdom of many who have gone before me. I save the accumulated genius of what I have learned from them, in distilled form, for the end.

No one engages with something that they are simply told or lectured. People engage when they are actually asked to voice an opinion and be part of a conversation.

This month, Google launched re:Work, a platform for the open sharing of ideas around culture and people-management.

Cultures are built on stories and heroes. We use them to orient ourselves. The stories we build — and our heroes and rituals — reflect the soul of an organization.

Argue forcefully against your most dearly held hypotheses. Only then will you know if they stand up to scrutiny.

Once you identify a superstar, do everything to make sure they continue to work in your company.

The natural tendency of all companies as they grow is to create more rules and procedures. RESIST IT AT ALL COSTS!