I quit my job. It was not an easy decision to make. Those of you who worked with me in the past know that I rarely do things half-heartedly, and leaving something (and the people) you care about is rarely easy. Especially the last month of my notice period was …
In today’s installment of The Books I Read, we’re taking a look at a book called “Why Nations Fail” by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. Why this book, though? After all, I am not currently head of state in any shape or form. But I figured, my current company …
They are everywhere in organizations of a certain size: managers of transformation. Be it managing the digital transformation, the transformation to a more agile way of working, or the more general business transformation (whatever that means exactly). And it does not end there. Organizations aim to “transform” their management teams …
Nothing like realizing you failed to meet your own standards to ruin your day, right? It’s one of the more painful lessons to accept: I am not 100% in control of myself 100% of the time, so I make mistakes, even and especially as a leader. Yikes. When you have …
As part of a large organization, the regular interactions people within the organization will have with their CEO and their board memberds are overwhelmingly one-directional. There’s webcasts, town halls (remember being in a room with hundreds of people? Strange times), blog posts, interviews, video messages and so on. While there …
In one of the recent episodes of the podcast 99% Invisible called “Masking for a friend”, the host Roman Mars talks about the “great manufacturing pivot of 2020”. It’s quite inspirational!
I am trying out a hopefully semi-regular (so much commitment!) format for the blog where I discuss the books I read. Let me know what you think!
If you’re wondering why math is being mean to you (although math tends to have… a reputation), rest assured it has nothing to do with you personally. Math just hates most people. Jokes aside, the model that I am about to introduce you to is about the way networks grow …
One of the interesting changes in the transition from an individual contributor to manager happened in the way I perceive my own productivity. Even when switching jobs before, I never felt such a stark difference, because whether I was managing projects, or doing batch releases, or any of the other …
As a white cis woman I’m part of the most privileged group on the planet – which means I am pretty much by definition unaware of most (of my) privilege in the world. If you only have the bandwidth for one piece of input about this topic today, there are …
