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  • How Automattic Grew Into A Startup Worth $1 Billion With No Email And No Office Workers

    Of all the cool work cultures we’ve ever heard of, none is more impressive than Automattic, the company responsible for the popular blogging platform, WordPress. Automattic is so unusual, it’s the subject of a new book “The Year Without Pants” by its employee Scott Berkun. Berkun is a former Microsoft…

  • Want to know how to quit your day job and start your own company?

    One thing is for sure – I wish Miki Agrawal’s book DO COOL SH*T was around four years ago, before I quit my day job and started my own business (I’m still working on the Live Happily Ever After part of the book’s subtitle). A masterful mix of personal stories,…

  • The Secret Ingredient for Change

    By Drew Mattison Change is not a four-letter word. But it may as well be. No one likes to change, and those who say they do, as in, “I’m looking for some change in my life,” or “we really need a change here,” are really running to or away from…

  • Visual Capture: Let it Flow

    Illustration from Xplane visual capture artist, Nitya Wakhlu, showcases what it means to build a powerful, synergistic team. The original presentation was given at the Association of Change Management Professionals conference by Orin Davis, principal investigator at Quality of Life Laboratory. [Source]

  • Being a manager doesn’t make you a leader

    It’s a myth that managers and leaders are the same thing. While every leader may not be a manager, every manager should be a leader. A manager who lacks effective leadership traits will drive a business into the ground faster than you can count to 10. Going from manager to…

  • What’s a great Chief Digital Officer? And do you need one?

    What’s a great Chief Digital Officer? And do you need one?

    By Mads-Jakob Vad Kristensen Well a great Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is not necessarily a brilliant Chief Information Officer (CIO) already on staff as some clever people would suggest. Why? Because it takes more than insight into technology matters to transform or build an organization into becoming inherently digital. It…

  • Ditching meetings will make you more successful

    Ditching meetings will make you more successful

    By Shane Snow When I left journalism school, I and half of the grad students in my class entered the job market as freelancers. (It’s a tough market for journalists, even today). And then a peculiar thing happened: all of these amazing, Columbia-educated journalists who’d written for The New York…

  • Interview with Adriana Gascoigne

    Adriana Gascoigne, the CEO and founder of both Girls in Tech and HelpLearn.Asia, initially moved from the United States to Singapore for personal reasons. When things fell through, she quickly picked up the pieces, and secured a position in startup within a couple of months. After eight months in sunny…

  • Entrepreneur of 2012: Limor Fried

    Limor Fried notes that once upon a time, it might have seemed strange for a person to spend an afternoon building something like the MintyBoost, a portable USB mobile-device charger assembled from an Altoids tin and bits of electronic hardware. But if the 50,000 MintyBoost kits sold so far by…

  • Don’t build a fast company. Build a slow one.

    Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices–such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how employees…