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Last year, a coach I deeply respect told me a story I often keep going back to whenever the topic of culture comes up. For several years, she had worked with a founding CEO whose journey is the kind that gets told at start-up conferences. She bootstrapped the company from nothing and, over a decade, …
I have heard it in townhalls, written it in culture decks, and said it to my own team more times than I can count : ‘bring your WHOLE self to work’. For the better part of a decade, though, what it actually got read as was something soft: put a plant on your desk, mention …
This is from my days working in an agency. A week after our company announced a restructuring, I sent Piyush, one of the strongest designers on my team, a message that read, “Can we talk tomorrow about the onboarding redesign? I expected more from the second half.” I typed it between meetings and sent it …
