Interview with Jason Fried, CEO of Basecamp. – How Tech Employees Really Feel About Their Bosses. – It’s 2017 and Mental Health is Still an Issue in the Workplace. – Harassment in Tech.
Author: Claire Lew
CEO of Canopy. My mission in life is to help people become happier at work. Say hi to me on Twitter at @clairejlew.
Why you should argue with your employees and embrace internal team conflict
Yes, it can feel draining and counterproductive, but here’s why arguing and dealing with team conflict can be good things… “Did I hire the wrong person?” I remember thinking that right after I’d gotten into a heated argument with one of our team members here at Canopy. This was back in 2014. We’d recently hired this…
How to handle negative feedback we don’t want to hear
Keep this one thing in mind when you’re given negative feedback in the workplace. What happens when someone tells you something you don’t want to hear? Hearing something negative about yourself is a hard thing to swallow. Especially when you disagree with it. I’ll never forget when this happened to me most vividly about four…
Fun! We’re featured in Glossier’s cover story in Domino Magazine 🎊
We’re in here! ❤️ I’m a big fan of Glossier. This beauty company’s mission is to democratize beauty, per the words of their founder + CEO Emily Weiss. I’ve always loved that ethos… not to mention their products 🙂 I wear their Haloscope highligher every day, in fact. So I was thrilled to learn that their CTO…
Kill the culture of “nice”: This is how you create a positive work environment
“Nice” can be a dangerous thing when it comes to developing company culture. Does your company suffer from a culture of “nice”? A culture of “nice” exists when people do not openly disagree with one another. Employees politely bite their tongues when they have a dissenting viewpoint. No one dares brings up a contentious topic…
How to give feedback to your boss
Giving upward feedback is one of the toughest things to do as an employee. Here are some guidelines for giving feedback to your manager or CEO. When I was an employee, I felt stuck. I had some ideas about how I thought the company could be better… but I had no clue how to give feedback…
Watch our talks on leadership
Lately, I’ve been out on the road speaking quite a bit. From Stockholm to Austin to Denver to Boston, I’ve been honored to share our techniques around how you can avoid being the last to know in your company. And, it’s been fun to pull back the curtain on how we run Canopy (formerly Know…
“What kind of company are you?”: Our biggest business mistake and why I’m glad we made it
If they say you learn from your biggest leadership mistakes, this one takes the cake. We made a huge mistake. We’d built a new feature in Canopy a while back. During that process, we’d accidentally written a bit of code that caused private responses to be revealed to new employees in a company. This means that…
The evils of anonymous employee feedback
Why anonymous employee feedback is counterproductive and should be avoided in the workplace. I recently realized that I’m in the minority of this opinion, so I wanted to write about it. Why don’t I believe in anonymous feedback? It’s because the whole point of feedback is to do something about it. If you don’t know…
The four questions to ask every single employee for feedback
Based our research, these are the essential employee engagement questions for managers that we’ve found to be most effective. Getting good feedback starts with asking a good question. Ask a good question and you’ll discover that there’s a part of the business you’re neglecting, or an issue you weren’t aware of. A specific, thoughtful question…
