by Lauren | 30 Apr 2014 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Business, Self-awareness
Last month, I sat in a dark auditorium in Austin, watching Edward Snowden in conversation with the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian, and getting pretty wound up about the implications of blanket state surveillance of the internet. And I thought to...
by Lauren | 2 Apr 2014 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Business, Technology, Values
Mozilla appointed a new CEO, Brendan Eich, last week, and a lot of good people are feeling troubled by it. They’re wrestling with wildly conflicted feelings and convictions. They’re doing the hard work of trying to reconcile their deeply-held respect for...
by Lauren | 3 Mar 2014 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Business, Self-awareness
I had occasion this week to refer to Ken Blanchard’s bestselling book, The One-Minute Manager, which is an excellent book on leading teams disguised as a corny parable. (There are a lot of good business books I’d love to rewrite for people with a sense of...
by Lauren | 29 Dec 2013 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Community, Curiosity, Self-awareness
Here’s your weekly curiosity experiment: Musician Amanda Palmer has nearly a million followers on Twitter. She told me that she sometimes gets criticized for “over-retweeting”: that is, excessively posting tweets from other people. But she sees this...
by Lauren | 19 Sep 2013 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Business
He’s a wonderful guy – he just needs a little more technical training to get him up to speed. I can see so much potential in her – if only she could develop some better habits in her phone manner when talking to our customers. I just wish I had more time to...
by Lauren | 24 Jul 2013 | Accidental Bosses & Leadership, Business, Curiosity
Like most people in the tech sector, I’ve worked for my share of young, inexperienced bosses – young turks who’d gotten ahead by being brilliant at one aspect or another of their business, but who hadn’t managed a team of people before. After a few...
