{"id":1697,"date":"2017-10-10T01:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T01:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:08:20","slug":"newsletter-issue-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canopy.is\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/newsletter-issue-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every few weeks we send a newsletter to our subscribers with the new content we have written, new episodes of our podcast, and other interesting links we\u2019ve found on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/newsletter\">Subscribe to our Newsletter here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-chat-with-patrick-collison\">From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp &amp; Creator of Ruby on Rails<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Creator of Ruby on Rails and Founder &amp; CTO of Basecamp,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dhh\">David Heinemeier Hansson<\/a>shares with me what he wishes he learned earlier as a leader. We chat about empathy, illusions of disagreement, and why best intentions are bullshit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_9VQbYY2cI\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.knowyourcompany.com\/watch-the-heartbeat-interview-%EF%B8%8F-with-david-heinemeier-hansson-with-transcript-e7eb6e2bffe3\">Transcript of the interview here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"latest-leadership-reads\">Latest leadership reads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/blog\/Put-an-End-to-Your-Feedback-Loop?gko=0bb88\">Put an End to Your Feedback Loop<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cIf you\u2019ve ever said the words \u2018I\u2019ve gotten this feedback before,\u2019 chances are you\u2019re playing with fire and undermining your own success by failing to address the issue.\u201dWritten by Jesse Sostrin, strategy + business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/10\/forming-stronger-bonds-with-people-at-work\">Forming Stronger Bonds with People at Work<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cWe define compassion as a 4-part experience of noticing someone\u2019s distress or pain, interpreting it as relevant and important, feeling concern for that person or group, and acting to alleviate their pain.\u201dWritten by Monica C. 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Hardin, Harvard Business Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/10\/05\/3-leadership-lessons-from-hootsuite-ceo-ryan-holmes.html\">From college dropout to CEO of a billion-dollar company: 3 leadership lessons from the founder of Hootsuite<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cYour communication just has to get a lot crisper, clearer, in many ways simpler.\u201dWritten by Catherine Clifford, CNBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-companies-can-guard-against-fatigue-about-gender-equality-1507608600\">How Companies Can Guard Against Fatigue About Gender Equality<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cMore than one CEO has confided to us, \u2018We\u2019re implementing all the best practices, but the numbers aren\u2019t moving fast enough, and I\u2019m worried about maintaining the energy we need to keep going.\u2019\u201dWritten by Dominic Barton and Lareina Yee, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"favorite-leadership-reads\">Favorite leadership reads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-year-of-the-looking-glass\/average-manager-vs-great-manager-cf8a2e30907d\">Average Manager vs. Great Manager<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cExplained in 10 sketches.\u201dWritten and illustrated by Julie Zhou<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itsyourturnblog.com\/lets-stop-calling-them-soft-skills-9cc27ec09ecb\">Let\u2019s stop calling them \u2018soft skills\u2019<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cThey might be skills, but they\u2019re not soft.\u201dWritten by Seth Godin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@garyvee\/5-things-every-employee-should-ask-their-ceo-179e138ab9dd\">5 Things Every Employee Should Ask Their CEO<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cI realized that knowing what to ask if you are ever presented with the opportunity is incredibly valuable.\u201dWritten by Gary Vaynerchuk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/building-the-civilized-workplace\">Building the civilized workplace<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cExecutives who are committed to building a civilized workplace don\u2019t just take haphazard action against one jerk at a time; they use a set of integrated work practices to battle the problem.\u201dWritten by Robert Sutton, McKinsey Quarterly &#8211; adapted from his book&nbsp;<em>The No Asshole Rule<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"just-for-fun\">Just for fun<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativeleadership.com\/2015\/05\/10\/i-believe-in-you\/\">I Believe In You<\/a><\/strong><br>A nice reminder that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourcompany.com\/learn\/newsletter\/2\">John Maeda<\/a>&nbsp;wrote a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of Basecamp &#038; Creator of Ruby on Rails &#8211; Average Manager vs. Great Manager &#8211; How Companies Can Guard Against Fatigue About Gender Equality &#8211; 5 Things Every Employee Should Ask Their CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[109],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.1 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - 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