Why Remote Companies Are Doing Employee Perks Better Than Google
Employee perks. The idea rushed into our vocabulary sometime around the year 2000. The world feared Y2K, it got foosball and laundry service. Since then perks at tech companies have covered all...
View ArticleHow Noah Kagan Taught Me The Two Simplest Things About Planning Growth
Every field has “that guy.” Everyone in the industry knows of them and their work. Many secretly try to emulate them — or flat out copy them. They are the person crushing it. They are the person your...
View Article15 Beautiful Tools For Managing Time Zone Differences
If you work on a remote team, there’s a good chance you’ve struggled with managing time zones. With coworkers spread all over the world, it can be hard to keep track of what time it is where your...
View ArticleThe 5 Daily Habits of a Terrible Boss
About half of workers at some point have left a job to get away from their manager. Not the work, not the clients or coworkers. The manager. We’ve written before about how 95 percent of managers are...
View ArticleHow Travis CI Is Fixing Company Culture By Taking On ‘Culture’
Travis CI Here’s a loaded phrase in the startup world: culture fit. It’s a term with humble early intentions that has grown weeds and sprouted out of its container. It started as a simple way of...
View ArticleHow Talko uses iDoneThis + Slack + Talko for great daily standup meetings
Building the future of communication requires a whole lot of — you guessed it — communication. Especially when the team is spread out across three cities and two time zones. Talko is a tool for holding...
View ArticleA scientific guide to creative juices [what they are and how to summon them]
Does this happen to you? It’s Friday and you’re sitting in an all-hands-on-deck staff meeting. The boss needs creative ideas for next quarter. “Concentrate!” You’re told. “Be creative!” You concentrate...
View ArticleEvernote Founder Phil Libin’s Secret To Looking Interested During Meetings
“I haven’t actually told this to anyone before.” Anytime you hear those words, pay attention to what the person says next. Anytime you hear those words from someone who’s co-founded three...
View ArticleGoogle Didn’t Get It Wrong: The Open-Office Trend Just Isn’t Right For Your...
First we had hunting, then farms, then factories. Then there were offices, with their doors and thick walls. Then cubicles, thinner and shorter walls and no doors. Today, no more walls. No more doors....
View ArticleThe Management Technique Essential To Google’s Growth
In it’s early years, as the company was experiencing astronomical growth, then-Google executive Marissa Mayer started executing a technique she picked up while teaching computer science at Stanford. At...
View Article12 Tools for Growing Your SaaS Business
Chances are, your SaaS business is built around a product that makes processes faster and more efficient. And thanks to companies like yours, many of the formerly time-consuming activities of business...
View ArticleHow to convince your boss to hold fewer meetings [a step-by-step guide]
Try stealing money from your company’s bank account and you’re behind bars for a very long time. Steal thousands of dollars from the company in another way, and you’re a forward thinking go-getter....
View ArticleHow To Dress When You Work From Home
Work remote, and this conversation comes up all the time. “You don’t even wear pants to work! Lucky!” Some version of that. Workers without an office are the pantsless winners in the occupational...
View ArticleThe 7 Best Podcasts For Entrepreneurs
Many gigabytes of text were spilled out all over the web about 2015 being the ‘year of the podcast.’ It seems like there may have been something to that. The medium is exploding. Apple last year...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Great Mission Statement
Richard Branson has a thing for mission statements. He likes them. He just thinks most of them suck. Most mission statements are full of blah truisms and are anything but inspirational. A company’s...
View ArticleHow To Start Real, Meaningful Conversations With Your Email List Subscribers
By now you’ve heard all about the benefits of building an audience over an email list. Let say you’ve even set up a Mailchimp account and built an awesome landing page for capturing emails. You’ve...
View Article12 Awesome Infographics To Help Grow Your Business
Constant learning is one of the the best habits an entrepreneur can build. Thankfully there is no shortage of information available. More than ever before, in fact. From books, essays, Ted Talks, email...
View Article5 Ways Using Daily Goals Helps You Level Up Your Productivity
This is a guest post from James Sowers. The MBA programs at Harvard and Yale are widely known as some of the most competitive in the country, if not the world. Acceptance rates have hovered between...
View ArticleWhy Nature Should Be Part Of Your Working Space
What’s difference does your physical environment have on the work you do? Quite a bit. In a 2002 study, two groups of high school students were asked to spend some time making creative collages. One...
View ArticleWant To Get More Done? Make Communication Harder
Of all the problems the country faces, very few of them make their way to Oval Office. Yes, there are many problems for the president to solve. There is a lot on his plate. But for every one problem...
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