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From One White Male Leader to Another: Anti-Racism Is a Core Leadership Competency

With my heart pounding out of my chest and feeling an urge to vomit, I raised my hand and then watched as the microphone was tossed across the cavernous room towards me. There I was, shakily holding one of those foam box microphones and standing in a room of some…

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Anti-Racism Is a Core Leadership Competency
Anti-Racism Is a Core Leadership Competency

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Mar 30, 2022

What to do about your dusty hiring process

Designing a values-centered search process. — As more and more companies are acknowledging the realities of how systemic racism has been baked into their organizational practices, they are looking at their HR structures and processes and asking themselves how they might operate differently. When it comes to hiring new employees, these questions become: How might centering…

Hiring

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What to do about your dusty hiring process
What to do about your dusty hiring process
Hiring

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Oct 20, 2021

Race-based Caucusing in the Workplace

A four-session course about the Why & the How — It was five years ago, in my work as Chief Operating Officer and then co-CEO of Fractured Atlas, that I was first introduced to race-based caucusing as part of our anti-racism, anti-oppression work. As a white man in leadership roles, I personally found participating in our monthly white caucus/affinity group…

Anti Racism

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Race-based Caucusing in the Workplace
Race-based Caucusing in the Workplace
Anti Racism

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Apr 8, 2021

The Ethical Re-Opening Summit

Tuesday, April 27 — As workplaces move to re-open, it’s not just be a matter of “un-flipping” the remote workplace switch from last March. On Tuesday, April 27, a whole host of amazing and awesome humans are convening in conversation to discuss challenging questions like: How can I maintain a sense of community, connection…

Human Resources

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The Ethical Re-Opening Summit
The Ethical Re-Opening Summit
Human Resources

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Dec 16, 2020

Getting Back Into the News Business

Extra! Extra! Work. Shouldn’t. Suck. is now producing a monthly(ish) newsletter delivered right to your inbox and filled with resources, research, and reflections on human-centered organizational design for thriving workplaces. (You don’t even need to go outside in the rain and cold to pick it up!) Subscribe Now! While you’re waiting for…

Newsletter

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Getting Back Into the News Business
Getting Back Into the News Business
Newsletter

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Oct 22, 2020

Preparing for November 4

A Company’s Duty of Care — This year I’m keenly aware of when my birthday falls. Why you ask? Because, this year, my birthday coincides with the U.S. federal Election Day: November 3. It feels like I’m getting hourly reminders of just how few days remain between now and then. …

Leadership

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Preparing for November 4
Preparing for November 4
Leadership

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Aug 13, 2020

A Different COVID Haircut

Someone recently asked me, “When do you think we can start pushing our teams to achieve pre-pandemic performance levels again, I mean, it’s been five months?” This past March in North America a giant remote work experiment began for many as an Adrenaline-fueled sprint. Organizations raced to get workers set…

Covid 19

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A Different COVID Haircut
A Different COVID Haircut
Covid 19

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Mar 15, 2020

Crafting Virtual Workplaces

Questions, Tools, and Approaches to Consider — As a companion piece to our “How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight,” we recorded a Work. Shouldn’t. Suck. podcast episode with people who work in, and manage, entirely virtual teams and organizations. We asked them: If you had to transition to this kind of workplace quickly, how would…

Work

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Crafting Virtual Workplaces
Crafting Virtual Workplaces
Work

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Mar 14, 2020

How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight

The question that I’m increasingly asked nowadays (and something the team at Fractured Atlas who helped manage our own transition have been discussing) is: now that we’re an entirely virtual organization, having evolved into it over 4–5 years, what if we had to do again, overnight? Our planning and transition…

Remote Work

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How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight
How to Transition to a Virtual Workplace Overnight
Remote Work

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Mar 6, 2020

The Behavior Dashboard

An Interview with its Designers — by Tim Cynova, Co-CEO & Chief Operating Officer at Fractured Atlas; Principal, Work. Shouldn’t. Suck. A few years ago, the Fractured Atlas People team began an ambitious project lead by Jillian Wright and Pallavi Sharma, and greatly aided by our colleague Nicola Carpenter. They set out to workshop a concept…

People Operations

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The Behavior Dashboard
The Behavior Dashboard
People Operations

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