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Focused on creating better working environments, and featuring an interview series, Lead Time Chats, where top engineering leaders share learning and growth perspectives

Will Larson on the path of the senior engineer

Lead Time Chats: Season 1, Episode 1 Takeaways

What 2020 taught us about being an effective leader

3 tips and tactics that helped us find success during a tough year

Jennifer Dennard

Getting asynchronous communications right

Viewpoints from B2B SaaS leaders

Our Pulse Check Survey: insights in how the tech world is adapting to the new normal

Mental health more of a concern than productivity

Dan Pupius

Stop doom scrolling and start helping your team through this election

Ways to support your team during the upcoming news cycle

Jennifer Dennard

Talking resilience with Evan Sharp of Pinterest

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 2

Talking resilience with Gabe Kleinman of Obvious Ventures

Bite-sized insights from thought leaders | Resilience, part 1

This Week in Startups community AMA

A TWIST Q&A on building culture, navigating WFH, product development, and the evolving changes to the startup world

Michael Boykin

This Week in Startups podcast

Dan's lively chat with Jason Calacanis

Getting resilience right

How to build it into the fabric of your team

Dan Pupius

How to network inside of your organization

An interview with Karen Wickre, author of Taking the Work Out of Networking, on how to think about networking inside of your organization

Nick Walsh

Solving micromanagement when managing remote teams

Webinars: Overcoming micromanagement as a remote manager

Michael Boykin

So you want to be an engineering manager

Insights and advice from engineering leaders who have been where you are today

Jennifer Dennard

4 key takeaways from our webinar on remote employee engagement

Webinar: How leadership shapes the remote employee experience

Michael Boykin

Servant: Your role as a leader in the modern workforce

An interview with Medium’s Chief Architect Xiao Ma on putting the concept of servant leadership into practice

Michael Boykin

Learning to lead for a future of remote work

A white paper on remote work—the history, myths, benefits, and how to build and lead a team for the future

How to make cross-functional collaboration work at your company

What is cross-functional collaboration, why it matters, and how to become a team that plays well with others

The first-time manager — 5 practical tips for navigating the challenges of managing people

If you're like most first-time managers, you might be asking yourself what exactly is a new manager supposed to do?

Leadership reading list

A collection of essential books that meaningfully affected our team

Dan Pupius

How to lead a distributed team

4 tips on what to do when your team is suddenly split across two or more locations

Jennifer Dennard

6 ideas to foster stronger teamwork in the workplace

Build a stronger team with these tactical tips

6 lessons in leadership learned from Plato’s Elevate Summit

Tips and advice for building and managing high-performance product and engineering teams

Braden Kowitz

The design leadership journey

An interview with Mia Blume, CEO of Design Dept.

Braden Kowitz

Why company culture matters to leadership

An interview with Replicated CEO Grant Miller

Michael Boykin

Our world is LGBTQIA. Your workplace should be too

Ellen Pao on how leaders can build an inclusive workplace

Ellen Pao

How to build an inclusive work environment by holding space

3 tips anyone can use to build a more inclusive team

Jennifer Dennard

Why individual OKRs don’t work

Find your focus, establish context, set priorities as a team

Building bridges to overcome organizational silos

Why busting silos might not be the best approach to getting your teams well-aligned

Michael Boykin

Managing remote teams — Overcoming the 3 most common challenges

Key takeaways from Range’s mini-conference on leading remote and distributed teams

How to take action on engagement survey results

4 steps to improve employee engagement after your pulse survey

Jennifer Dennard

Building remote teams for a distributed workforce | Range

How to overcome the challenges of managing a distributed workforce

Michael Boykin

11 ways our brains trip us up at work

Understanding how cognitive biases affect us in the workplace

Dan Pupius

Scaling without losing your team's connectedness

How to keep that small-team feeling as your team scales

Michael Boykin

Understanding complexity

A short primer on why complex systems require different ways of acting and making decisions

Dan Pupius

How many direct reports should a manager have?

Balancing the desire for flat organizations with the realities of effective management

Dan Pupius

When you don’t know how to fix your product

Conquering uncertainty in product management

Braden Kowitz

Leadership is knowing when to let go

Micromanaging and tightly controlling your team will disempower them and erode initiative taking.

Dan Pupius

The importance of a good operating cadence

The power of good process and why it’s important to nail your operational cadence

Dan Pupius

Becoming a better manager

with Andrew Sandler of Grand Rounds

Braden Kowitz

5 questions a manager should ask themselves every week

Leaders, help your team succeed by asking yourself these 5 questions every week

Dan Pupius