Dec 3, 2021The Good Stuff & the Hard Stuff About People ManagementManaging for the first time is exciting…and terrifying. So if you’re wondering what to expect from leading a team, this post is for you. Below is ‘the good stuff’ and ‘the hard stuff’, as I see it, about management. This originally was a Google Doc for first-time people leaders on…Leadership7 min readLeadership7 min read
Feb 7, 2021Is Your Company Turning Up the Volume on Internal Communications? Read This First.I dare you to read this article without checking your phone, Slack, email, or Asana notifications. If that sounds near impossible, you’re not alone. In a recent survey, 73% of respondents agreed that working from home has increased their sense of digital communication overload. The feeling of being bombarded the…Communication6 min readCommunication6 min read
Dec 9, 2020A Cautionary Tale for New ManagersIt was shortly after a promotion that I had an epic #fail. I’d been managing a small (but mighty) team for about three years when I was promoted to Senior Manager in 2019. Senior. A tiny word, but big enough to carry the weight of change. …Management3 min readManagement3 min read
Feb 10, 2020The Problem with Ghostwriting at HubSpot TodayI love ghostwriting. If you’d asked me a decade ago what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said Obama’s speechwriter. In college, I even bought the book White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters. It’s 616 pages and I’ve never opened it. It’s collecting dust…3 min read3 min read
Nov 7, 2019Forget Buzz. Build a Brand People Are Proud Of First.Feedback’s a funny thing. We talk about it like it’s a scarce resource, a national treasure, a holy grail. And for some, it’s even breakfast. That’s because feedback, like real, honest, not-sandwiched feedback, can take us from good to great. …Employer Branding3 min readEmployer Branding3 min read
Jan 18, 2019One Thing You Probably Didn’t Know Engineers at HubSpot BuiltOn the surface, building software and building brand couldn’t be more different. One is about writing code, the other about writing copy. One appeals to logic, the other more to emotion. That’s why you might be surprised to learn that engineers at HubSpot are the reason we have an Employer…Employer Branding3 min readEmployer Branding3 min read
Aug 24, 2018Let’s Raise the Bar on Employer Branding: Now Hiring (Actually, Though)Employer branding is a funny thing. It’s part marketing, part recruiting. It’s what you find when you google your company. It’s how you would describe where you work to a complete stranger. It’s the ratings and reviews on your Glassdoor page. It’s the photos on your jobs website. A company’s…Employer Branding3 min readEmployer Branding3 min read
Aug 17, 2018Leadership, But Make it FashionFashion isn’t my forte. In high school, my friends clapped when I showed up to class in a striped shirt. For me, that was a bold sartorial decision. But one thing I do know is that styles go in and out of fashion. What was trendy in the ’80s, wasn’t…Leadership3 min readLeadership3 min read
Published inThinkGrowth.org·Aug 8, 2018Let’s Stop Glorifying People for Never Taking Time OffWhen did taking vacation become a guilty pleasure? Keeping Up With the Kardashians. A Snickers bar. That second glass of wine. Those are guilty pleasures. Unplugging from work, on the other hand, is your shame-free right. Not only that, it’s good for you. It’s proven that taking time off from…Business4 min readBusiness4 min read
Jun 14, 2018Dotting Your I’s and Crossing Your T’s: Grown Up EditionAnything worth doing is worth doing right. But what happens when everything is worth doing? The best people I’ve ever worked with carry a sense of urgency. They push projects forward, they hijack meetings that don’t have agendas, they don’t wait for someone else to respond first in the email…Productivity5 min readProductivity5 min read
